Lucky for us American Idol fans, Slash, the Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist, loves his social networking!
Ever since Slash let it slip last Sunday via twitter that “American Idol has asked me to do the mentor bit for Rock Week.” he’s been messaging little tidbits to the fans.
Ryan Seacrest announced on Wednesday’s result’s show that Slash would mentor the four remaining Idols, Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Kris Allen and Danny Gokey for “rock and roll week”.
Earlier that day, Slash twittered, “I’m going to attempt to make “Rock Week” on American Idol exactly that.”
On Thursday, Slash wrote on his Myspace that he was reluctant to take the mentoring job at first, but was convinced when the producers “offered me the freedom to do it however I wanted.”
“More importantly, ” he said, “there are a few singers this year who are really impressive. Its the 1st time any AI line-up has really caught my attention.”
Slash promised some surprises, “The approach I’m taking is different than usual on the show, and I’m going to make this as Rock & Roll an American Idol as possible, wish me luck!”
After Slash got a look at the contestant’s song selections on Friday he twittered, “The contestants from AI picked some really cool songs for next week, thank god!”
More tweets on Saturday: “I had rehearsal for AI late last night, I mentor the kids this afternoon.” and then later, after his session, “Those AI kids can sing their asses off, especially Adam.”
According to the well-sourced, Top Idol, the song list is made up of classic rock hits from the 70’s and 80′. And because the judges can’t STFU, in a new twist, the kids will be singing solos and duets, rather than the typical two solos apiece.
Blabbermouth.net reports Alice Cooper guitarist Keri Kelli will join Slash for his mentoring role, whatever that means No other details are available about his appearance.
“Next week should prove to be very interesting, ” tweets Slash.
Yep. Next week could be awesome. Or a trainwreck. Or an awesome trainwreck. Heh. Either way, can’t wait.
