At the side of Guns N' Roses has Slash put together an own orchestra called Slash's Snakepit. They have just released their first album, called "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere," and in the end of last week Slash visited Stockholm together with the singer of the new band, Eric Dover.
The first night was devoted to a visit at the illegal strip-club Queens. The second day Slash bought sensual videos for at least 6000 crowns [about 730 USD]. And the third day the pair played some songs at Gino in front of an audience where at least some of the ladies looked like they would fit both at Queens and in Slash's movies, so they probably got what they could bare that evening.
A number of interviews were also done, but work isn't something that is going to stop a real party guy so the booze was flowing all the time, no matter what he was doing.
Svenska Dagbladet was booked together with another happy reporter at eleven, Friday morning. Slash comes in and looks like he deserves. A hald a cup of coffee soon gets filled up with Jack Daniels. Eric Dover enters the room and the guys agree that they will call each other when they can't sleep.
We start to talk about the new band and the album. A lot of people seem to think that Snakepit is Slash's solo project, but the others; Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) Matt Sorum and Gilby Clarke (Guns) and Eric
(formerly in Jellyfish) have all contributed to the song writing.
- Yes, this is a band, no doubt about that. Right now it is my main project, but that doesn't mean that Guns is over, Slash establishes.
The reason that Snakepit exists seems to be that Slash wants to play all the time. He simply likes to tour and write songs.
The 14 tracks on "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere," a phrase he heard in a bar once, were written without any special thought behind it, but when Axl didn't like them he decided to do something with his other friends instead. When Eric Dover test-sang everything was pretty much done, except for the lyrics and the vocals.
"It's Five O' Clock Somewhere" wont chock anyone, because Slash and his friends move mostly in well-known terrain. Some of the songs sound a lot like Guns N' Roses. The album starts good, but flattens towards the middle. A harder sieving and ten songs instead of 14 would have made this to a better album. Snakepit starts slowly.
- It is a good first song. Everyone expects something harder, but we decided to do something less predictable, Slash explains.
Another track, "Lower," is about the suicide of Kurt Cobain, but also about Slash's ex-girlfriend, the porn-star Savannah, who also killed herself last year.
- The reason why "Lower" is about that is because what was in the air at the time. Both Savanna's death and Kurt's affected us strongly, and it happened with just a few days in between.
Now is a five months tour waiting for Slash's Snakepit. The members will be pretty much be the same as on the album. The only question is if Mike Inez will participate.
- We do not know what Alice In Chains are up to and if they will do something Mike has to prioritize that.
Slash maintains that his Guns-pals think he is a bit crazy who can not relax when he has got the chance, but he will not listen to stuff like that.
- Hey, why be home when you can be out playing. Besides there is a whole new groupie-generation out there, Slash finishes.
