DVD & CD REVIEW: SLASH – Live At The Roxy

Shane | 5 June 2015 | Reply

DVD & CD REVIEW: SLASH – Live At The Roxy
Shock Entertainment
19 June, 2015
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
9/10

Fans of Slash (and if you’re not, then you’re overdue a long, hard look at yourself) will be ecstatic about this new live DVD/Double CD/Triple vinyl set, released in Australia by Shock Entertainment.

Singer Myles Kennedy – himself a fan magnet thanks to his work with AlterBridge and his distinctive vocals – and The Conspirators (Bassist Todd Kerns, drummer Brent Fitz and touring guitarist Frank Sidoris) are red hot on the tiny Roxy stage smack bang in the middle of Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip, recorded just after the release of Slash’s third solo album World On Fire.

They tear through a selection taken mainly from the iconic Guns n’ Roses debut album Appetite For Destruction (Nightrain, an extended Rocket Queen featuring some sweet and restrained soloing from Slash, Sweet Child O’ Mine, a climactic Paradise City) and Slash’s albums since going out alone (Ghost, Back From Cali, Bent To Fly, Starlight – one of the best on his first solo album and delivered here brilliantly, a stormtrooping World On Fire, Anastasia) and a couple from his other work (Velvet Revolver’s Slither, full of punk energy and mayhem, You Could Be Mine from Gn’R’s Use Your Illusion).

The DVD and BluRay boast four bonus tracks including Gunners’ You’re Crazy and three tracks from World On Fire, whereas the CD and LP versions add on Doctor Alibi from Slash’s debut solo record, and Halo from it’s follow-up, Apocalyptic Love – presumably in an attempt to make completists buy both variations.

The main man draws all eyes towards him with his unique playing style and perhaps the simple fact that he survived Guns n’ Roses in one piece and with his mojo intact, and he has all the room he needs to shine with such a shit-hot band holding up the rear.