The new album by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators will be released next week, on February 4th. While 4 , the band has launched the first episode of a mini-documentary about the behind-the-scenes creation of the project.
The fourth album from the collaboration between Slash, Kennedy, and the "conspirators" Todd Kerns , Brent Fitz, and Frank Sidoris brought several new elements to the group's dynamic: it was the first time they all recorded together live in the studio, and they had the participation of producer Dave Cobb in the process.
“This album is probably the best we’ve done so far, it was all done, with live sessions right from the start,” Slash says in the episode. “I spoke to Dave on the phone and he said the right words, I was convinced right away on the call. When we showed up [to record], it was exactly what we wanted to do. We had the amps in the studio with the drums, something no producer ever let me do (laughs), and we also did the vocals live.”
The producer explained the band's desire to "make an album with the sound of all the classic rock records" we love, seeking an atmosphere to reproduce the way the album would be recorded by a teenage band in a garage – with the difference of having high-level musicians on the project. "You can't get more real than that, [the album] has all the blemishes and scars and everything that rock n' roll should have," Cobb concluded.
Watch the episode below.
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