Any particular favourite recordings?

S: With Jimi, his first two recordings are my favourites. Axis: Bold as Love is my favourite Hendrix album. I’m a ‘Little Wing’ fan. ‘Voodoo Chile’ is great, and his live version of ‘Machine Gun’

Hendrix obviously was American born but first achieved very significant success in the UK. To an extent you’re kind of the opposite, although you didn’t live in England long before moving to the States � do you feel any kind of empathy with Hendrix because of that?

S: For me specifically if it weren’t for the� I’m trying to think of a more subtle way of putting it. I can’t. The crossbreeding thing, if I wasn’t born in the UK and my parents hadn’t come together the way that they had, I wouldn’t be who I am.

I think it’s very important I had that influence growing up in England when I did, and mixing it up and moving over to the States with everything that was going on over here when I did, and it had a huge impact on who I turned out to be.

The thing about Jimi is that he was American born and with a talent from on high, but was discovered by an English crew that brought him over to London where everything was really happening and they appreciated him for what he was.

It’s sort of funny, because you think of all the really amazing rock guitarists that were coming out at that time� basically the English rock guitarists were all a bunch of white kids who wanted to be black and play that kind of guitar, and then there’s this black kid coming from America who kind of brings it part and parcel from over there and everybody just stands back and says ‘wow!’ Everyone was tripping out on Jimi, who’s really the sort of embodiment of that young lead guitar player, using a lot of distortion, a lot of feedback� it must have been interesting being, say, Jeff Beck at the time.

http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/slash-talks-liberating-solo-effort-acting-as-producer-and-velvet-revolver-s-singer-search/8442069

It�s coherent, it flows, every song could be a single� it�s an instant classic as good as anything Slash has done in twenty years. And the Fergie track is awesome. Bring on album number two.

Runners Up:
2) Iron Maiden � Final Frontier
3) Black Country Communion � Black Country Communion
4) Joe Bonamassa � Black Rock
5) Robert Plant � Band Of Joy
6) Airbourne � No Guts No Glory
7) Voodoo Six � Fluke?
Bruce Springsteen � The Promise
9) The Union � The Union
10) Ozzy Osbourne � Scream

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barkerwill release his debut solo album on February 22. 

Barker announced via his Twitterpage, Twitter.com/travisbarker, that the album, ’Give The Drummer Some’, is out in February.

[...] The album sees Barker collaborating with a host of guest vocalists. Among those who appear are Slipknot singerCorey Taylor, rapper B.O.B, Slash,Rage Against The Machine guitaristTom Morello, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and Linkin Park frontmanChester Bennington. The album has been produced by The Neptunes, DJ Khalil and Barker. 

http://www.nme.com/news/blink-182/54430

Check out this Slash video interview

I don’t think Gibson has a great track record with these types of lists � at all! Here’s what they said about Slash’s album at #10:

1. Back from Cali
2. Communication Breakdown
3. Fall to Pieces
4. Rocket Queen
5. Starlight
6. Sucker Train Blues