Slash Bassist Talks New Album

In a new interview with GlideMagazine.com (via Blabbermouth) working with producer Eric Valentine on Slash's new album:

"He's a very, very talented man. We went through an entire phase where the three of us — myself, Brent Fitz, drums and Slash — were sitting around arranging and rearranging and tearing songs apart and putting them back together. Then Myles Kennedy, vocals came in and we started that whole process again cause he's sort of putting in his two cents and then Eric comes in and we start doing that process again (laughs) ... But it all came together really fantastic; like it's huge and aggressive and it's multi-colored at the same time. It's not sort of one vein or one flavor; it's sort of an array, a rainbow of rock (laughs)."

And on working with Slash he said

"Slash has been nothing but awesome to me. He's been very good to me. I didn't expect us to have our photos in the live album, 'Made In Stoke'. I didn't expect us to have our photos in the DVD. I kind of thought, this is Slash's band, it's Slash featuring Myles Kennedy; that's just the way it is. Over the duration of that I've watched my own profile get raised a giant percentage. So to me, it's whatever Slash wants to do. If he decides tomorrow he's going to get Paul McCartney to play bass, that's just the way it goes (laughs). Initially, the whole thing about recording an album with Myles didn't have to be that 'we're going to record an album with Myles and Brent and Todd; we're going to use some session guys in L.A. and it's going to be Myles and Slash.' But he was awesome about it and let us be on the record."

The new Slash album is due to be released in the spring.

(Blabbermouth)