During a recent appearance on “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk,” Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash was asked about the possibility of a Sphere residency in Las Vegas, NV. However, the musician says he is “trepidatious about playing there.”
Slash said the following:
“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.”
He also commented on the rumors of Metallica performing at the Sphere next year:
“I’d be interested to see [the first hard rock/metal show there] 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 percent 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 getting to that mindset, and I think that’s hard for us to go that far into it. But we’ll see. Maybe down the road.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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