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Slash Recruits Iggy Pop, Steven Tyler & More For ‘Orgy of the Damned’: ‘I’m a Blues Guy’
Slash returns to his youthful roots on the all-star blues album.
The 12-track set takes the guitarist back to his youthful roots, touching on standards by Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf and others and also branching out into the psychedelic blues of Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher” and Motown favorites such as the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” and Stevie Wonder’s “Living For the City.” “I never wanted it to be taken too seriously and have it be this serious blues record like people are putting out these days,” explains Slash, whose sole original on Orgy of the Damned is the closing instrumental “Metal Chestnut.” “Most good musicians have a certain amount of integrity, so you take it seriously in that context but at the same time it was really just fun. It’s not the first time Slash has taken the all-star approach, of course; his self-titled 2010 effort also featured a diverse roster of guest vocalists (Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl and the Cult’s Ian Asbury to Fergie and Maroon 5’s Adam Levin).
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