2021.05.19 - Appetite For Distortion/Blabbermouth - Hear Slash's Previously Unreleased Collaboration With Chester Bennington

Hear Slash's Previously Unreleased Collaboration With Chester Bennington

A one-minute snippet of a never-before-heard collaboration between Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash and late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington can be streamed below. The track, called "Crazy", was intended for Slash's first solo album, although he ended up recording it for the LP under the title "Captain Alibi" with late Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister on vocals.

The "Crazy" snippet was made available by music producer Big Chris Flores, who worked on Slash's aforementioned album more than a decade ago. Around 2019, Flores went back to the studio and reprogrammed the drums as well as played the bass on the track, which will reportedly be released in the not-too-distant future to benefit 320 Changes Direction, the mental health awareness organization launched by Chester's widow Talinda Bennington.

During an appearance on the Guns N' Roses-centric podcast "Appetite For Distortion", Flores stated about working with Bennington: "We sent him the demo and set up a session. Chester came in for literally probably a few hours, recorded it and was, like, 'Hey, can I hang out for a little bit?' and that was the last of it. It was one or two takes when he got here. There was nothing really to it."

As for why the recording never ended up seeing the light of day, Flores explained: "I think part of the reason it got shelved for so long was out of respect, just waiting for Linkin Park to release whatever they were going to release with Chester and then give Talinda and his mom time to figure out if they wanted to do anything with it. Slash hadn't heard anything from them and it just was forgotten about I feel like, so it was just perfect timing [to release a snippet]."

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