LP REVIEW: SLASH-ORGY OF THE DAMNED
G'N'R guitarist Slash has ventured into the blues for his sixth solo effort 'Orgy Of the Damned' which was released last Friday ( May 17th) via Gibson Records. This may surprise many fans of the fuzzy-haired musician with the big hat. He has roped in fellow musicians and friends to record 11 covers of some blues classics by T Bone Walker, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, as a tribute to his favourite music. Slash or Saul Hudson to his parents was born in Stoke, England and was introduced to the Blues by his American Grandmother, and subsequently onto his guitar hero B.B King. He now wants to pay homage to some of those greats with his old Blues Ball bandmates Johnny Griparic and keyboardist Teddy Andreadis, joined by drummer Michael Jerome and fellow guitarist and vocalist Tash Neal to lend some rhythm and blues to some notable tracks sung by guests, which include AC/DC Frontman, Brian Johnson , ZZ TOP guitarist Billy Gibbons , Punk icon I ggy Pop and pop star Dem...