GRAMMY PREVIEW AND REVIEW: SLASH LOOKS BACK ON ALL-STAR TSUNAMI AID

Slash looks back at Velvet Revolvers All Star Grammy performance with Bono, Mary J, Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson and a jaw dropping list of musicians.

With The Grammys Awards once again upon us one can’t help but recollect on all the Amazing Grammy Awards performances through the years. One of the most amazing of all the performances was in 2005 when Velvet Revolver was joined on stage by a star studded list of musicians for a rendition of The Beatles song ‘Across the Universe.’ Coming together to benefit UNICEF’s Tsunami Relief Efforts was none other than Bono, Billy Joe of Green Day, Stevie Wonder, Slash, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Steven Tyler, Tim McGraw and Brian Wilson all performing with Velvet Revolver as the backing band.

We caught up with Slash during his induction into Hollywood’s Rockwalk to discuss what that Grammy performance meant to his distinguished career.

“Yeah, well that’s another thing sort of like getting your hands in the cement here. Going up there and working with Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder and Steve Tyler and Brian Wilson. That was major, and we all got together in a dressing room and went through the song and all got up there and basically just winged it. That’s something you can look back and go, ‘I did that.’ You build up a bit of a relationship with people that you respect in the business. It’s sort of working up the ladder as a musician sort of a status place where you can actually rub elbows with people that you admire and that you respect and that you grew up listening to. Things like that are priceless.”

Slash and Velvet Revolver are finished recording their second album ‘Libertad.’ The band is eyeing a spring release and the group recorded the album in Los Angeles with producer Brendan O’Brien, who stepped in for the band’s original choice, Rick Rubin.