Shortly after completing 'Usual Suspect' in 2011, Leslie West was to undergo a major surgery operation. Those events are life changing yet at the same time they can be life confirming. When the future is uncertain the mind can be focused on something like never before.
Maybe that's how Leslie West produced one of his finest recordings in 45 years.
With guests Slash, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Zakk Wylde, and Steve Lukather, West's fat tone guitar never sounded better. His voice matching every bit himself as a young man.
Here's a short film of him and Joe Bonamassa working hand in glove in the studio. The tune is the Willie Dixon classic, Third Degree.
If you're only as good as your last recording then Leslie West will be standing 10 feet tall regardless of what life throws at him. Legend.
Friday, 1 March 2013
leslie west - joe bonamassa
