When he’s not on the road with Guns ‘n’ Roses, Slash has that other band, right? Yeah, and they’re now five albums in and going strong. Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators have just released their new single and official music video, “Flying Blind,” which is the title track from the album they plan to release February 26th, 2027 on Gibson Records. Watch the video below.
Recorded largely live with longtime producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette at Studio Barbarosa in Florida, the 12-track album captures Slash on guitar and pedal steel, Myles Kennedy on vocals, Todd Kerns on bass, Brent Fitz on drums, and Frank Sidoris on rhythm guitar at their most immediate, instinctive, and tightly connected. The band completed the bulk of the record in approximately one week, often recording two songs a day with the musicians performing together in the same room.
“It’s a really fun, kind of spontaneous rock ’n’ roll record,” says Slash of Flying Blind. “It’s very straightforward and down-to-earth and raw.” Slash says the title track came to him spontaneously in the studio and the band quickly built it into a song.
“(It was) Created in the studio while we were standing there in pre-production,” Slash recounts. “A riff came to me and started developing. I had nothing of that song prior to those guys coming in, and then we started up a night of rehearsal and played that riff. It came together really quickly. As for it being the first single, you never know what the first single is going to be until you’ve recorded it. When I started thinking about it, ‘Flying Blind’ just seemed to have the right kind of melodic sensibilities and a hook to make it single material.”
For vocalist Kennedy, the title track’s lyric speaks of people attempting to shortcut their way to their ambitions. “I really enjoyed putting a melody to this song,” he says. “The way the chord progression starts in the beginning had a nice flow to it. The lyric is about how sometimes people try to take shortcuts and try to find the easy way to achieve happiness or enlightenment.”
The band has also announced tour dates — a lot of them, worldwide — beginning April 2, 2027, in Santiago, Chile. U.S. shows begin April 23, 2027, in Reno, Nevada. European shows begin June 7, 2027, in Munich, Germany.
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