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Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, ‘Apocalyptic Love’

By Scott McLennan

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 22, 2012

Myles Kennedy plays David Coverdale to Slash’s Jimmy Page on “Apocalyptic Love,” the second studio “solo” album from the top-hatted guitar hero. Just as Coverdale-Page was a Led Zeppelin doppelganger, this pairing of Kennedy and Slash bears unmistakable resemblance to Guns N’ Roses. Kennedy, from Alter Bridge, has the sort of pinched, perturbed tone Axl Rose blended with Slash’s roguish guitar work when the two were in GN’R.

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