Slash was out to reclaim his Guns N Roses past with a full-on show starting with the Gunners `Night Train` and featuring amazing versions of `Civil War` and `Sweet Child O Mine` last night in Melbourne.
The legendary guitarist is in Australia for the launch of MTV’s new channel MTV Classic.While Axl Rose has done a great job bringing in a Slash impersonator in his current Guns N Roses line-up, Slash fought back by recruiting former Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy who could belt out a Gunners tune will all the full force of an Axl vocal.
What you don’t hear in a Gunners show anymore is that Slash signature guitar sound. When those first few notes of ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ started, this was Guns n Roses.
Slash brought out Angry Anderson to sing ‘Nice Boys’, the Rose Tattoo cover Guns n Roses had on their first record.
Wolfmother’s Andrew Stockdale was a much publicised guest brought on to perform ‘By The Sword’, the song they did together on the new Slash record but the highlight was the next song, Slash’s band with Andrew on vocals performing Wolfmother’s ‘Woman’.
MTV Classic will do on air across Australia this weekend.
Slash's setlist for April 28, 2010 at The Palace, Melbourne:
Setlist
Nightrain (from Guns n Roses, Appetite For Destruction, 1987)
Back From Cali (from Slash, 2010)
Beggars & Hangers-on (from Slash’s Snakepit, 1995)
Nice Boy (with Angry Anderson) (from G’n’R Lies, 1988)
Civil War (from Use Your Illusion, 1991)
Sucker Train Blues (from Velvet Revolver, Contraband, 2004)
Nothing To Say (from Slash, 2010)
Starlight (from Slash, 2010)
Slash guitar solo/Godfather theme
Sweet Child O Mine (from Guns n Roses, Appetite For Destruction, 1987)
By The Sword (with Andrew Stockdale) (from Slash, 2010)
Woman (with Andrew Stockdale)
Slither (from Velvet Revolver, Contraband, 2004)
Paradise City (from Guns n Roses, Appetite For Destruction, 1987)
