Slash, Andrew Watt trade solos, channel their inner punk onstage with Iggy Pop in revved-up take on The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Pet

When people go over age-defying frontmen, normally the initially title to arrive up (deservedly so) is Mick Jagger.

Shout out to Iggy Pop, even though, who – at the ripe age of seventy six – is nevertheless prancing shirtless on stages across the environment, bringing the lots of ne’er-do-nicely anthems he’s recorded on his individual and with proto-punk legends the Stooges to rapturous audiences.

Throughout a single this sort of demonstrate – held previous Thursday (April 27) at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles – Pop invited Guns N’ Roses electrical guitar legend Slash and bass guitar player Duff McKagan to the stage to support him with a supercharged edition of I Wanna Be Your Puppy, the proto-punk typical Pop recorded with the Stooges in 1969.

You can see supporter-filmed footage of the efficiency down below.

Also onstage with Pop that evening was Andrew Watt, the tremendous-producer who manned the boards on Ozzy Osbourne’s 2020 LP, Normal Person, and its Grammy-successful 2022 abide by-up, Patient Range 9.

Watt also manufactured and played guitar on Pop’s 2023 album, Each and every Loser, and has performed with the legendary frontman as portion of his most-modern all-star backing band, The Losers.

With that in intellect, Slash humbly allows Watt just take the to start with solo – which Watt, Gibson Les Paul in hand, does with aplomb – right before burning one particular of his very own a several minutes afterwards.

Brain you, this was much from Slash and Watt’s to start with meeting. Watt’s band, California Breed, opened for Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators on the latter’s 2014 Uk tour, and the two achieved once again in the course of the sessions for Standard Person, on which Slash guested.

“Working with Andrew[on[onEveryday Man]was good,” Slash advised Guitar Entire world in a 2020 interview. “He has a truly youthful solution and terrific strength. And as a guitar participant he’s not trying to be a Zakk [Wylde] or a Gus [G] or any of people guys. He has his possess thing. He’s absolutely somebody to observe out for.”

This was not Slash’s initially new onstage visitor solo, both. Just a thirty day period ago, the leading-hatted guitar god bought his Jimmy Web page on in a fiery onstage visitor place with tough-rockers Dorothy at LA’s Troubadour.

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