Slash is 'real trepidatious' about Guns N' Roses playing Las Vegas Sphere
Slash is not sure Guns N' Roses' rock 'n' roll show is the right fit for Las Vegas Sphere.
Slash is "real trepidatious" about Guns N' Roses playing Las Vegas Sphere because he's heard it's "not rock 'n' roll friendly".
The legendary guitarist is yet to attend a show at the state-of-the-art venue in Sin City - which boasts immersive video and audio capabilities, including a giant wraparound LED screen - but he's heard from The Eagles' Joe Walsh that it's not the right setting for a "proper rock 'n' roll show".
Speaking on Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM, he said: "I haven't been [to the Sphere] yet, but just everything that I've seen, or most everything that I've seen of it, looks amazing. I'm real trepidatious about playing there, because… It's a great visual show. I think that in almost every case for a band, it becomes a visual show as opposed to seeing a rock and roll show. So there's that. And also, from talking to Joe Walsh about it, 'cause obviously The Eagles have been doing a residency there since forever, is that it's not really sort of rock and roll friendly, the way that it's set up. So it's just one of those things where it seems like a really cool thing, and conceptually there's probably a lot of cool things that you could do, but I don't think it would be the right environment for a proper rock and roll show."
As well The Eagles, the likes of Backstreet Boys, U2, Phis and Dead and Company have all played Sphere.
Slash said he'd like to see Metallica play the first-of-its-kind venue, and while he admitted it would be "hard" for the Welcome to the Jungle rockers to "get into" the mindset to play such a visual-led show, he hasn't completely ruled it out.
He said: "I'd be interested to see that too. And I heard about Metallica doing it. I could see them doing it because I can imagine them… Because you have to prepare your mind to put on not just a band performance, but 50 per cent of what you're doing is going to be the projection, or whatever you call that — the outer wall [laughs], what you're putting on as content. And so that is something that's gonna be the main focus of your show and the main focus of what everybody's gonna be looking at. And so you have to sort of get into that mindset, and I think that's hard for us to go that far into it. But we'll see. Maybe down the road."
