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Slash has hand signed the front cover of his debut CD in black ink. This is the version that was only available with the Classic Rock fan pack.
Slash is the eponymous debut solo album by former Guns N’ Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash. The album was produced by Eric Valentine and features multiple musicians including four of the five members of the Appetite for Destruction era Guns N’ Roses lineup: Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler.
Upon release, Slash entered the Billboard 200 charts at number 3 (also at number one on the Rock, Hard Rock, Digital and the Independent Albums Chart) with 61,000 copies sold during the first week. The album also debuted at number one in Canada, Austria, New Zealand and Sweden while it also broke into the top 20 in Germany, Finland, Australia, France, Norway, Poland and Switzerland.
The album’s first single, “By the Sword” (feat. Andrew Stockdale) peaked at number 41 on the Rock Songs Chart and number 78 on the Canadian Hot 100. “Beautiful Dangerous” (feat. Fergie) charted at number 11 and number 58 on the Heatseekers Songs and Canadian Hot 100. The cover of “Paradise City” (feat. Fergie & Cypress Hill) also charted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 75.
The album has received generally mixed-to-positive reviews, scoring a 56 out of 100 (“mixed or average reviews”) on Metacritic. MTV News Writer Kyle Anderson called the album “a tremendous collection of hard rock songs that center around the axe man’s signature chunky, swirling riffs…. On balance, it’s an excellent album, and it feels good to have that classic Slash sound back.”Writer Shelby Powell took note of Slash’s precision on guitar, rating the album 3.5/5 thumbs, but took off points for “a little too much reverence paid to the 90’s and some of the feature selections may have old head purists poking their bottom lips out and putting their lighters down,” but concludes that “the assortment of genres blends well.”
As of the summer of 2010, the tour has been promoted as “Slash featuring Myles Kennedy”.