It's time to get in the ring once again with Slash of Guns N' Roses, as the band preps for another World Tour, this time with new music, and hopes for a full project in the studio. The guitar god recently joined Abe Kanan for an Audacy Check In, where he talked about the upcoming trek, and the possibility of a new Guns N' Roses album coming together.
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Late last year, Guns N' Roses debuted a pair of new songs, "Nothin'" and "Atlas," right on the heels of sharing the itinerary for a World Tour. Now armed with their first new tracks since 2023, this March the band is back on the road as fans anxiously await to hears what's next.
"We've already written a ton of s***, so we just have to get together and actually get into the process of going through all the material and figuring out what the songs are gonna be and recording them and all that kind of s***," shares Slash on the prospect of a new album. "That's something that's pending, is probably going to happen sooner than later, because we've gotten all this other stuff out and we've been touring for pretty much the better part of the decade."
"We've been wanting to do this. It's just a matter of buckling down," he adds. "Anyway, but it's coming."
Unbelievably the reunited Guns N' Roses have almost been back together as long as they were together for their first record-breaking run. "I can't believe it's been 10 years since that April Fool's gig that we did at the Troubadour. It's unbelievable to me. It went by so quick."
"I really joined up with Guns in 1985 and I left in 1996, so it's one year short of as long as I've ever been in the band."
What was going to be a few warm-up shows and then a set at Coachella, has turned into another decade of Rock for GN'R, still as ferocious as always with marathon sets lasting long into the night. "The way that we do it is we have just a lot of material, so we put together a set list of all the possible songs that we want to do, and then we have another setlist of songs that we'd like to do that's called the 'alternative set,' and we mix pulling from both."
"We end up playing for 3+ hours just because we are enjoying playing all this material. It's not designed, we didn't set out to go, 'OK, we're going to do 3, 3.5 hour sets.' They just sort of evolved that way, and it's been happening even in the nineties, we used to do that. But it's where we feel comfortable, we want to play this, we want to play this, and we want to play that, and we just keep doing that until all of a sudden it's like, 'OK, we should do 'Paradise City' now and get the f*** out of here."
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