Slash needs a musical manager.  He has talent but bad judgement and poor taste in guitar music.  This album, Contraband with Velvet Revolver, did have a few pieces I found worth listening to, but the rest of the album is so dreary that I am discarding the album.  The performances I liked were #6 Fall to Pieces, #10 an acoustic piece called "You Got No Right,"  and #13 "Loving the Alien."  If the rest of the album was at least mediocre I might keep this album for the 3 songs I liked.  But I just cannot stand the rest of the album.  He really needs someone to pick his music for him and direct him.  He can play well, but he cannot tell a good song from a bad one.  His album It's Five O'Clock Somewhere with Slash's Snakepit&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/It-s-Five-O-Clock-Somewhere/dp/B000000OU6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">It's Five O'Clock Somewhere</a>&nbsp;was really awful.  I suggest the best way to enjoy Slash is to go to YouTube and search on "Slash solo."