Slash: in de komende maanden nieuw werk GnR, dan volgende zomer op tour en daarna werken aan nieuw album?
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SLASH Wants To Record New Full-Length Album With GUNS N' ROSES
During an appearance earlier today (Wednesday, October 19) on
SiriusXM's
"Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" show,
Slash was asked about
GUNS N' ROSES' plans for new music in the coming months. He said: "I wanna go in and cut a whole brand new record at some point, probably sooner than later.
But other than that, we have stuff that we've still got to come out. So that's gonna be coming out piecemeal over the next — I don't know — over the next few months or something like that. So that's basically it. We have one more tour left to do next summer, and then that'll free us up to be able to go in and work on a new record."
GUNS N' ROSES' most recent release was a four-song EP,
"Hard Skool", which came out in February. The effort, which was exclusive to the
GUNS N' ROSES' official store, contained the two new songs the band released last year — the title track and
"Absurd" (stylized as
"ABSUЯD") — as well as live versions of
"Don't Cry" and
"You're Crazy".
In September 2021, the guitarist and his bandmates dropped
"Hard Skool", which came more than a month after their performance and subsequent official release of
"Absurd", a reworking of
GUNS N' ROSES previously unreleased
"Silkworms".
According to
Slash, several other older
GUNS N' ROSES tracks have also been reworked during the pandemic. "There's a handful of those songs that we actually fixed up and did when we were in lockdown," he explained to
"Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". "So those have yet to be released. So those are gonna come out. They're really good, too. So I'm excited for those. We're just gonna put out like one or two songs, and another one or two songs. And I think that's gonna be pretty much all of 'em. I'm not sure exactly how many we did in total."
When host
Eddie Trunk noted that
"Hard Skool" in particular was a strong cut,
Slash said: "These other ones, they don't have the same kind of amount of history, 'cause I know
'Hard Skool' seriously has… [it] goes way back. But there's a couple of epic ones coming out, so I'm excited about that."
If and when it happens, the new
GUNS N' ROSES studio album will be the first under the
GUNS banner since
"Chinese Democracy" and the first to feature
Slash, singer
Axl Rose and bassist
Duff McKagan since 1993.
Slash previously spoke about
"Hard Skool", one of the first two songs he recorded with
GUNS N' ROSES in more than 25 years, this past February in an interview with
Rolling Stone. At the time he said: "
'Hard Skool', in essence, was a completed song when I was first introduced to it. And
Duff and I went in and redid the bass and the guitars. It's a simple song, so it didn't take a hell of a lot of thought and analysis. I think it was a lot of fun just because it was part and parcel of a bunch of stuff that we were working on that was all sort of new — at least to
Duff and I — so we had a good time."
In October 2021,
Slash told
Audacy Check In host
Remy Maxwell that
GUNS N' ROSES had yet to begin writing new material after releasing the two reworked songs from the
"Chinese Democracy"-era sessions.
"As far as new
GUNS is concerned, we haven't even gotten to that point of really in earnest sitting down and writing,"
Slash said. "We've been doing a lot of material that's been sort of sitting around for a while. So that will be a whole focused endeavor unto itself."
As for how
"Hard Skool" and
"Absurd" came about,
Slash said: "They both have a lot of history. What happened was
Axl has all these songs that he recorded at some point along the way. And so
Duff and I went in and re-did them, basically… Like, I wrote my own kind of parts to what else is going on, and [we] just sort of took the drums and re-did everything else."
Written by
Rose and co-produced by
Rose and
Caram Costanzo,
"Hard Skool", which had the working title
"Jackie Chan", was originally recorded during
GN'R's
"Chinese Democracy" era but was eventually omitted from that album. Short clips of the song were later posted online and a full version was leaked in August 2019.
On
"Hard Skool",
Axl sings: "But you had to play it cool, had to do it your way/Had to be a fool, had to throw it all away/Too hard school and you thought you were here to stay/ If that were true, it wouldn't matter anyway."
"Absurd" came out on August 6, 2021, three days after
GUNS N' ROSES performed the tune live for the first time during its concert at Boston's Fenway Park.
GUNS N' ROSES last performed
"Silkworms", which was also reportedly written during the
"Chinese Democracy" sessions, in 2001.