SLASH Says All Is Fine With VELVET REVOLVER; Video Available

January 19, 2007

Legendary guitarist Slash was inducted inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk in Los Angeles Wednesday night (Jan. 17). The former GUNS N' ROSES axeman, who is in the middle of working on the next VELVET REVOLVER album, was rumored to have had a falling out with the band at one point. Backstage at the event, Ultimate-Guitar.com asked Slash about how the members of VELVET REVOLVER were getting along. "Oh, everything's great," he replied. "We went through a lot of stuff from, we toured for 19 months on the last record. We had a lot of business issues that we had to deal with. We had a lot of personal issues we had to deal with. We had people come out of the woodwork trying to sort of wreck the band, and issues that were sort of...we hadn't predicted. We didn't things to happen. There was some old GUNS N' ROSES things that came up, that reared its head, that was really ugly. But we hung in there and that makes us stronger as a group. Basically everybody survived it, and we're that much stronger for it, and we've made an amazing record, so it's all good."

On the subject of VELVET REVOLVER's forthcoming record, titled "Libertad", Slash said, "I think we tried a lot of different ways of doing things, and there was a couple of songs that stuck from every sort of different attempt at this environment or that environment or if we had some stuff recorded at home. Everything that we did, there was always one to three songs that came out of that session. The record is basically done, so..."

Watch video footage of Slash talking backstage at the Hollywood's RockWalk at Ultimate-Guitar.com.

Slash recently made a guest appearance in Latin pop star Paulina Rubio's new video for her single "Nada Puede Cambiarme". The song itself, the second single from the Mexican singer's 2006 Spanish-language album "Ananda", also features guitar work from Slash. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles on January 9 and a premiere date has yet to be announced.

VELVET REVOLVER hopes to release "Libertad" in late April or early May and hit the road shortly after that.

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