lash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators are back on the road in support of their new album, titled, 4, which drops tommorow (February 11th). Slash spoke about the band’s setlist, which unlike the early Conspirators gigs, features no dips into the Guns N’ Roses or Velvet Revolver catalogues.
In a new chat with Ultimate Classic Rock, Slash talked about keeping the set focused on Conspirators material: “I have to admit, I really missed playing the Guns material when this thing first started, so it was a great outlet for me. But having gotten back with all my buddies in Guns, after a while I was like, ‘I don’t really need to do it with Myles and Company,’ so we don’t have any Guns songs in the set. That said, I sort of miss the occasional Velvet Revolver song. So I haven’t put any Velvet songs in the set as of yet, but I might at some point put one, at least, just for the fun of doing it.”
Slash went on to talk about the vibe behind his setup with Kennedy and the Conspirators: “We don’t have any kind of illusions of grandeur. We’re not trying to be the biggest band in the world. We just like to go and play. And so that’s how this has been functioning all this time. But we’ve actually sort of built up a sizable fan base, and we’ve got our own thing going at this point that’s sort of established, but it doesn’t really change the way that we do things. So it’s a very easy, sort of simple group.”
Even when he’s supposed to be relaxing, Slash told us not long ago that he prefers to spend his downtime doing something else: [“Work (laughs). Really, downtime, y’know — unfortunately for most people around me, I don’t relax well. So I have to be busy and I have to be focused on something. For me, it’s fine. It keeps me out of trouble, but for everybody else, it’s sort of like, ‘Can’t you just sort of chill, y’know?’ But it doesn’t work.”] SOUNDCUE (:18 OC: . . . it doesn’t work)
- Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators tour dates (subject to change):
February 11 – Brooks, CA – Cache Creek Casino Resort
February 12 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
February 15 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Federal Theatre
February 16 – Fenner, CA – The Events Center at Harrah’s Resort SoCal
February 18 – Los Angeles, CA – YouTube Theatre
February 19 – Las Vegas, NV – Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
February 22 – Salt Lake City, UT – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater
February 23 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
February 25 – Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre At the Midland
February 26 – Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
February 28 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theatre
March 2 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
March 4 – Windsor, ON – The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
March 5 – Waterloo, NY – The Vine Theater at Del Lago Resort & Casino
March 7 – Boston, MA – House of Blues Boston
March 9 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
March 11 – Atlantic City, NJ – Tropicana Showroom
March 12 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
March 14 – Richmond, VA – Dominion Arts Center
March 16 – Nashville, TN – Grand Ole Opry House
March 18 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
March 19 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
March 21 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
March 23 – North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Performing Arts Center
March 25 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall
March 26 – Orlando – Hard Rock Live Orlando
TL; DR
- Slash told Ultimate Classic Rock that he’s since reuniting with Axl Rose and Duff McKagan, he staying away from Guns N’ Roses material in his setlists with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators.