Slash says he’s gotten to work with everyone he wanted to on his forthcoming solo album (which he wrapped this week), except Jack White. And it’s not for lack of trying. Slash requested that White sing on his album Slash & Friends but White turned him down.
“I wanted to get Jack White to sing on something, but he didn’t want to sing,” Slash recently told MusicRadar.com. “He said ‘I’ll play drums, I’ll play guitar, but I don’t wanna sing.’”
White, who is in The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, has been concentrating most of his efforts lately on The Dead Weather, for whom he drums but rarely sings. The band is currently working on its second album.
Not to worry, Slash’s album will still be jam-packed with recognizable names like Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Flea and an assortment of former Guns N’ Roses bandmates. The album is expected out in early 2010.