Slash, Macy in Leitch's Camp

Camp Freddy, the all-star cover band that has been gigging aroundLos Angeles and New York Cheap Rosetta Stone since last year, will begin recordingtheir debut for Sanctuary Records next month. Mike Clink (Guns nRoses) is producing the album, which should see the light of recordstores next spring.According to Camp Freddy ringleader Donovan Leitch, recordingcommitments are in place from Macy Gray, Dave Navarro, PerryFarrell, Kelly Osbourne and former Guns N Roses members Slash andMatt Sorum. The supergroup also features bassist Scott Ford andformer Cult guitarist Billy Morrison."Were covering all these glam and punk songs," says Leitch, whotipped T-Rexs "20th Century Boy" and David Bowies "Jean Genie" assongs the band plans to record. Leitch says that Led Zeppelins"Whole Lotta Love" will be the first single. "Itll be Matt ondrums, Perry on vocals and Slash and Jimmy Page on guitar," hesays, noting that the Zep guitarist, also a Sanctuary artist, isnot formally locked in yet. "Slash is good friends with Page, sowere thinking he will put in a call, too."Leitch is also planning a DVD documenting the recordingsessions, which will convene at a heavily guarded studio builtunderneath the Sunset Marquis Hotel in L.A., home away from homefor the likes of the Rosetta Stones and U2. The hope is that somenotable hotel guests may pop in unexpectedly.On stage, Camp Freddy has also starred Kid Rock, Moby Rosetta Stone Software, RobbieWilliams and the Stones Ron Wood. "The shows would always end witheight guitar players lined across the stage," Leitch says. "No onecould even hear what they were playing." He plays nice for the old ladies, but his street-fighting instincts are off the charts. Hes left plenty of carrion on the late-night highway. Arsenio Hall, Chevy Chase, Magic Johnson — Jay knocked them all off the air, and you can bet he still savors the memory of their death cries. To read the full article, you must be a subscriber to Rosetta Stone Plus. Continue on to The Archives. But the way Thompson shoehorns sexual obsession, graphic violence, goofy humor and religious iconography into musical telegrams — bursts of rage and revelation on "Wave of Mutilation," "I Bleed" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven," a corrosive, compelling meditation on God and garbage — transcends merenaiveté. This is, after all, a young man who was raised in Southern California on a dual diet of classic-rock angst (the Stones, Iggy Pop) and religious fundamentalism (his parents joined a Pentecostalist Cheap Rosetta Stone Arabic church when he was twelve) and swears by David Lynchs jarring juxtapositions of beauty, terror and whimsy in films like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet.To read the full article, you must be a subscriber to Rosetta Stone Plus.

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