Album '4', interview with Slash and Miles Kennedy: 'That point where you wave the white flag'

4 is the new album of Slash, Miles Kennedy and the Conspirators

The song ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Words’ has a political theme.

KENNEDY: That’s another one I remember jamming in a soundcheck environment. And what’s interesting about the lyric is it was put together right around the time the presidential election was happening. You had all these people making all these promises, and we've seen that over and over – it’s just what happens during campaigns. People are always promising things. But a lot of times those promises are inevitably broken. And so, the song is calling for action: “Let's see you follow through with some of these promises.”

SLASH: It's a pretty simple, straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll song, but the bridge is totally left field. The song is something that was written at soundcheck, with all of us just sort of jamming and me coming up with stuff by playing off the other guys. On the record, it’s one of two songs I didn't play on a Les Paul – I used a Gibson ‘69 Reissue Flying V that I got for Christmas one year. I also used that guitar with the talk box on “C’est La Vie.” The guitar sounds really, really, good, and it's a little bit cleaner than my regular Les Pauls. I love the way it sounds on the solo on this one.

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