During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Myles Kennedy discussed who’s in charge of his band with Slash.
“Yeah, most of what I’m doing is lyrics and melodies,” the singer said when asked if he writes music for Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators or just handles lyrics and melodies. “Occasionally if something comes in and I’m, like, ‘Hey, can we change this chord progression for the sake of the melody?'”
He went on to say, “But it’s interesting ’cause more so on [2012’s] ‘Apocalyptic Love,’ when I played guitar on that record, there was a little bit more of, ‘Hey, try this part. See what this sounds like, if we utilize this to help the arrangement somehow.'”
“But it’s funny — I was thinking about that the other day, and I was just, like… It just highlights how cool [Slash] is. I [was] coming in, it was [my] second record [with Slash] and I’ve got my guitar, and I’m, like, ‘What do you think? What if we tried this?'” Kennedy explained.
The rocker further talked about working with Slash, “And I’m, like, ‘You’re sitting there with Slash. He doesn’t need any help, man.’ But he was so cool and so accommodating. But as the years have gone on and we’ve made all these records, one thing that continues to amaze me is just how much he understands, not just the riff thing, but coming up with chord progressions that really lend themselves to coming up with compelling melodies for me.”
“It’s, like, he knows how to sequence the chords where it’s gonna really leave room for a melody, which I appreciate. And, like I said, occasionally I’d be, like, ‘Hey, can we try a G here instead of a D ’cause I hear the melody doing this?’ Or I’ll send the melody back and he’ll go, ‘I’m gonna change this chord because I feel like it suits the melody better.’ I’m, like, ‘Great.’ So yeah, he totally gets it,” Myles added.
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators started recording their fifth album last month, with plans for a 2025 release.
