Driving Rain (feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators)

The seeds of what would become Living The Dream were first planted back on Slash's 2014-15 World On Fire world tour, when the axeman began bringing in material for his Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators backing band to work on at soundchecks. This song originated from a riff that Slash played with his bandmates for the first time at a venue in New Hampshire. He said: "It's a cool guitar part we ran though, and from that point forward the rest of the song started to come together in my mind while on the road. We put it all together this year and Myles came up with a great melody for it."

Vocalist Myles Kennedy explained the song's meaning: "Lyrically, it's a story about somebody who works on the road - it could be a musician, and it could be a traveling salesman. What makes it interesting is this guy has an addict girlfriend or spouse who continues to relapse, and she ends up getting him to come home. She's miserable and falls back into bad old habits, and that compels him to head back to her to save the day."

The video is a lo-tech affair with no humans, only rag dolls. Most treatments that came in reflected the dark subject matter of the song, but the band thought it would be fun to keep the video light, so they went with Stoopid Buddy animation studios. "I wanted to create something that could be tongue-in-cheek and yet still be dark with live-action animation," Slash said. "No puppets were harmed during the making of this video."