Lenny Kravitz recently recalled witnessing Slash after a long time and how their reunion eventually led to their collaboration on the song, ‘Always On The Run’ during a new interview with Classic Rock.
Lenny Kravitz opens up on Slash
Kravitz recently recalled Slash’s words where he stated that he had some ‘great’ times to his records. “Axl was wearing a ‘Let Love Rule’ button on his leather jacket. Slash came up to me and said: [drawls] ‘Man, I got laid to your records so much, man.’ Then as we were talking, I said: ‘Dude, didn’t we go to high school together?’ It wasn’t that many years before, but we looked different. We said: ‘Man, we should do something together.’”
Kravitz then recalled working with the guitarist after a Guns N’ Roses European tour.
“[He] arrived at eight in the morning, and went right to my loft. I had to go to that same upstairs neighbor that I bumped into this week, and wake them up to borrow a bottle of vodka. And then we went straight to the recording studio – at nine in the morning. He thought I was out of my f*cking mind. And we did ‘Always On The Run’ right there.”
The plan was for Slash to play a guitar solo on ‘Fields of Joy,’ the opening track of Kravitz’s second album, ‘Mama Said.’
During an interview in 2019, Kravitz had explained that the recording session went very quickly.
“It was a one-take solo,” he explained. “He wanted to play it over again, but I wouldn’t let him. I always love first takes.” That’s when they decided to write a new song. “We started to jam and that riff to ‘Always On The Run’ ended up coming out.”
“I actually think he had been honing it before he got there. The song just wrote itself. To cut the track, he played the riff, I was on the drums,” he continued. “It was a great session. Really fluid, it was very quick and spontaneous.”
‘Mama Said’ tasted massive success and the track earned platinum certifications in five countries, including the US, UK, and Canada.
