ALTER BRIDGE Frontman MYLES KENNEDY Completes Recording Solo Album

Myles Kennedy (SLASH, ALTER BRIDGE) has completed recording his long-awaited solo album with Brian Sperber (ALTER BRIDGE) at Tiny Pocket Studio in Yorktown Heights, upstate New York. The CD’s release date, title and artwork have yet to be revealed.

In a 2012 interview with Metalshrine, Myles said that his upcoming solo effort would feature guest appearances by “a lot of friends,” including Slash, who “was kind enough to offer his guitar prowess on a track which turned out really cool.”

Regarding how the musical direction of his solo album compares to that of ALTER BRIDGE and Slash, Myles said: “People who have heard it say it’s closer to my previous band back in the late ’90s, THE MAYFIELD FOUR. It kinda has that vibe to it. It’s definitely different from both SLASH AND THE CONSPIRATORS and ALTER BRIDGE stuff.” He described the CD to Music Radar as “probably a little more singer-songwriter oriented than what people have heard from me before. There’s piano on it, and it’s a little more intimate sounding.”

Slash told Rocksverige.se that he was blown away with Kennedy the first time he ever heard his voice, saying, “I had never met him before, I had just heard about him. I didn’t even know what he sang like. I asked him to sing a song on my (first) solo record with all the different singers, and he was fucking great. Then we met, he came to L.A. and we recorded the studio version of ‘Starlight’.”

Slash added, “I just really liked him, he’s very laid back and cool. At that point I asked him if he wanted to do a tour with me to support that album. I guess it was obvious to me somehow that he could sing the bulk of the material from that solo record and it was just a gut feeling he could sing all the GUNS N’ ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER and SNAKEPIT stuff.”

Slash told The Pulse Of Radio that his singer is one of the most dedicated musicians he’s ever worked with: “You know, Myles is pretty interesting. I mean, he sings great, he’s a great lyricist, all he does is work, he loves to tour. He works constantly, but when he’s not working onstage, he’s working in his room, writing stuff and, you know, in the studio he’s always there. So he’s sort of odd. [laughs]”

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net