NASHVILLE |FROM: TODD BRODGINSKI/LATHUM NELSON/MITCH SCHNEIDER
DAVID BOWIE, ROBERT SMITH AND JOE ELLIOTT
TALK ABOUT WORKING ON EARL SLICK’S NEW ALBUM ‘ZIG ZAG’
OUT NOW ON SANCTUARY RECORDS
EARL SLICK is celebrating the New Year with his newly released album ZIG ZAG (out now on Sanctuary Records) and U.S. tour dates through February 7 as part of the global “A Reality Tour” with David Bowie. ZIG ZAG is the acclaimed guitarist’s first album of new material in 12 years and features collaborations with vocalists Bowie, the Cure’s Robert Smith, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Spacehog’s Royston Langdon and Martha Davis, each of whom wrote their own melody and lyrics.
David Bowie, who worked with SLICK on the song “Isn’t It Evening (The Revolutionary)” declared: “Earl is a legendary guitar star and a musician of great feeling…His playing is earthy, timeless and never less than stellar.”
The cool melodic breeze on the current single “Believe” came courtesy of Robert Smith, who says: “Ever since hearing him on Bowie’s Station To Station album and seeing him onstage in London 1976, Earl Slick has been one of my guitar heroes…Collaborating and singing with Earl on ‘Believe,’ and having him play on ‘A Forest’ with The Cure are the stuff of dreams come true!”
Joe Elliott joined forces with SLICK on the dark rocker “Psycho Twang.” The famed singer says he came up with the lyrics and melody in a plane at 30,000 feet: “I started in Spain and wrote the thing as I traveled over Portugal, France and all the way back to Ireland…It’s a little bit of a story of a guy that was institutionalized who basically is climbing the walls to get out.” Elliott confesses to first meeting the guitarist when SLICK’s band Overnight Angels “played a festival in England on the second of June, 1977. Me and a couple of friends snuck backstage and knocked on the dressing room door, and who opened it but Slick. I said, ‘Can we come in, man?’ and he said ‘Yeah, man, come in.’ So Earl Slick was the first person in a band I’d ever really met.”
Finally, Martha Davis of The Motels, who painted a trippy picture of New York City’s east village on the spiraling “St. Mark’s Place,” said “Earl Slick is a timeless guitarist, and a great guy with a wonderful new album…I am honored to be a part of it.”
For more EARL SLICK information, visit: www.earlslick.com.
Here are the dates to catch EARL SLICK with David Bowie on “A Reality Tour”:
DATE CITY VENUE
Tue 1/13 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
Wed 1/14 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
Fri 1/16 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
Mon 1/19 Denver, CO The Fillmore
Wed 1/21 Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
Sat 1/24 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
Sun 1/25 Seattle, WA The Paramount Theatre
Tue 1/27 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose
Fri 1/30 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
Sat 1/31 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Auditorium
Mon 2/2 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Auditorium
Tues 2/3 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
Thu 2/5 Phoenix, AZ The Dodge Theatre
Fri 2/6 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
Sat 2/7 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
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