GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist SLASH On The Current State Of Rock Music - "Not Everybody's Really Hip To The Fact That There Is This Massive Movement Going On, But It's Definitely There"

Slash joins Travis Mills on Apple Music 1 to discuss the release of 4 (Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators), his experience working with Spatial Audio, the current state of rock, embracing TikTok, being the first ever release on the new Gibson record label, and more.

Read an excerpt below (courtesy of Travis Mills on Apple Music 1), and listen to the full episode on Apple Music here.

On the current state of rock music, Slash says, "I don't know about the whole rock star bit. I've never really... I mean, I totally get it because as a kid growing up, I mean that was during the period when rock stars were rock stars and it's changed a lot over the years. So I couldn't say anything about the actual term rockstar. But as far as music is concerned, there's definitely a ground swell of young bands that are doing it for all the right reason. It's very raw. It's very much influenced by the old style of doing things, believe it or not, because technology ring king for so long in that everybody was using a lot of the new sort of technological breakthroughs as major crushes. But now I think kids have discovered sort of the old school way of just getting together and playing and having a good time doing it. And there's a lot of bands out there, and they're not in the mainstream so not everybody's really hip to the fact that there is this massive movement going on but it's definitely there. So that's exciting."

In regards to what's next, Slash reveals, "Well, there's a lot going on. I mean, there's a lot of making up for 2020 right now because we're able to go out and play. So I'm out with the Conspirators in the States through March and then I'm out with Guns N' Roses from, I guess end of May or early June all the way through the end of the year doing a European tour in Australia and South America. And then doing the international tour with the Conspirators at the top of next year, so that's Europe and Australia and Asia and South America. There'll be a lot more stuff written for both bands during that long trek, so sometime, I would say probably new music would be coming around 2023, 2024."