SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS kicked off their 2022 North American tour last night (Tuesday, February 8) at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon.
The band’s 21-song set included material from all four SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS albums, including four songs from the upcoming “4”: “The River Is Rising”, “Fill My World”, “Call Off The Dogs” and “Whatever Gets You By”. Also aired during the show were the SLASH’S SNAKEPIT song “Speed Parade” as well as covers of Lenny Kravitz‘s “Always On The Run” and Elton John‘s “Rocket Man”.
The setlist was as follows:
01. Driving Rain
02. Shots Fired
03. My Antidote
04. Serve You Right
05. The River Is Rising
06. Bad Rain
07. Back From Cali
08. Withered Delilah
09. Always On The Run (Lenny Kravitz cover)
10. No More Heroes
11. Whatever Gets You By
12. Speed Parade (SLASH’S SNAKEPIT Cover)
13. Fill My World
14. The One You Loved Is Gone
15. Call Off The Dogs
16. Doctor Alibi
17. Rocket Man (Elton John Cover)
18. Nothing To Say
19. You’re A Lie
20. World On Fire
Encore
21. Anastasia
Slash explained his decision to avoid performing material from GUNS N’ ROSES on this tour, telling Ultimate Classic Rock: “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 FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS‘ tour will hit 27 other major cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Dallas, Austin, Houston, and more, before wrapping up March 26 in Orlando, Florida.
Due on February 11 via Gibson Records in partnership with BMG, “4” is Slash‘s fifth solo album and fourth overall with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass, vocals) and Frank Sidoris (guitar, vocals).
In October, SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS released the official music video for the LP’s first single, “The River Is Rising”, shot on location in downtown Los Angeles with Gibson TV director Todd Harapiak.
For “4”, Slash and the band traveled across the country together to Nashville, Tennessee and recorded the new album at the historic RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, John Prine, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile), revealing a stunning new sound and style all captured live in the studio. Cobb shared the band’s desire to lay down the tracks live, in the studio including guitar solos and vocals — a first for the group.
The new album “4” has the added history-making distinction of being the first-ever album to be released on the new Gibson Records label, which is headquartered in the iconic American instrument brand Gibson‘s hometown of Music City, Nashville. In light of the 30-year partnership between Gibson and the Grammy Award-winning Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Slash, it makes sense the new SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS‘ album “4” will be released via Gibson Records.
