Slash live in London, 2011.
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At a Slash concert, fans could look forward to a visit from Duff McKagan. Together, the musicians played a cover of the Guns N’ Roses song “Nightrain”.
Slash and his band Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators performed the show in Seattle, McKagan’s hometown. The joint performance was recorded on video.
Slash with Duff McKagan and Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators – “Nightrain”:
Slash also covered Elton John’s “Rocket Man” and Lenny Kravitz’s “Always on the Run” during the evening. The guitarist co-wrote the latter with Kravitz in 1991. The remainder of the set consisted of songs from Slash’s solo career, including three songs from his new album 4.
In the other shows of Slash’s current solo tour, the joint appearance with McKagan will probably not be repeated so quickly. Because the joint albums with the Conspirators now offer more than enough full-length material, no Guns N’ Roses songs were actually planned for the set. It was a different story in Slash’s previous solo shows, especially in the years when Guns N’ Roses stopped performing together.
As the guitarist said just before his current tour, “I have to admit I really missed playing the Guns stuff when this thing started. So it was a great opportunity for me. But after I got back on Guns with all my buddies, after a while I was like, ‘I don’t really have to do this with Myles and Company,’ so we don’t have Guns songs in the set.”