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

'Call Off the Dogs' is about surrender.

KENNEDY: It has that up-tempo vibe that really helps elevate a record in a lot of ways, especially for rock fans. They want those songs. We needed a chorus section for it, so I messed with it a bit and sent it to Slash, he took it and made it his own, and took it to the next level. Lyrically, it’s about that point where you wave the white flag and give in to someone after being pursued relentlessly. It’s pretty self-explanatory there in the "call off the dogs" line.

SLASH: This one was written pretty much on the fly, and in the spirit of the energy of the whole project. You can’t overthink something like this because it kills the spirit. When we got into pre-production it came together fairly quickly – just jam it and that's basically it. And I think it was probably the last thing that we recorded in the studio.

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