And I think we were in Poland or somewhere, in an empty arena, and started jamming the riff, and so it's fun to see how that's come together over the years. It's funny because a lotta times, when I hear the songs, I remember the genesis of the moment that we started playing it together. I remember we were working on that in a venue. Myles: "It's one of the first songs that we had from 'The Living the Dream' Tour. And then, during the pandemic, when I started putting demos together, that was one of the things I definitely wanted to revisit, and I put the voice box on it and it just sorta came together." And that particular riff came up in some hotel room, I can't remember what city or what country, and then it started to develop over the course of sound checks from that point on. That's been pretty much the nature of how we do things. I think I first started working on that riff on the 'Living the Dream' tour, and a lot of stuff gets written in hotel rooms and then we work on it at sound checks. Slash: "'C'est La Vie' has been around for a little bit. Beause you see how people are so addicted to their phones and to their apps, and I thought, 'Well, what if you made it kinda fall in line with that?' But instead of it being obvious about a sexual relationship or something, it was more just your obsession with Robinhood." Track 3: "C'est La Vie" I know that sounds crazy, but I thought it would be really interesting to try and tell a story.
'Cause what the lyric is actually about is, is all these day traders on Robinhood.
And the overall vibe of the song might not be as congruent with the lyric. It's got kinda this nasty vibe, right? And it definitely has the groove. Myles: "This track, it's funny when you listen to the lyrics, you probably think it's about maybe some sort of. But once I figured it all out, it's a real simple arrangement and it's really just focused on that riff." I love the riff and the grind, and it was something that I definitely heard in my head, and it took me a while to figure out exactly what it was that I was hearing 'cause it has this sort of, more of a stomp nature to it than it actually had notes. Slash: " is one of my favorite songs on the record. And, just that you've seen throughout history, that's kind of a timeless theme that always rears its ugly head." It's basically, from a theme standpoint, about kind of that cult of personality and how that affects people. It's like, when you're trying to figure out what the first 10 were gonna be that I don't know if that was on the list, so I'm glad it made it. It's like a real proclamation because it, at actually one point, wasn't even considered as a contender, believe it or not. Myles: "This track was interesting in the sense that when I got it from Slash, the basic demo, it just grabs you right outta the gate. 'The River Is Rising' song is I'm excited to get in front of an audience and play that." But, it rocks, and I thought it would be a good track for the opening of the record. I can't even remember how it all came together, it came together really quickly. And it's something that came together in my little studio in LA, and it was just very spontaneous. Right before we went into pre-production I just made up this riff, and it turned into 'Rivers Rising,' and so it's the most written song on the record. Most of the material was written around 20. Slash: "'The River Is Rising' is the newest song that I wrote on the record.
To celebrate their new album, Slash and Myles recently sat down and broke down each song on 4, including how the songs came about, and the meanings and stories behind them. Produced by Dave Cobb in Nashville, 4 follows Slash and Myles' 2018 album Living the Dream, and the new project showcases ten new songs, including previously-released tracks like "The River Is Rising," "Fill My World" and "Call off the Dogs." Slash has reunited with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators once again as they have officially released their fourth full-length studio album, appropriately titled 4.
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