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#1051 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff McKagan on His Sensual, Sinister New Band, Walking Papers » 677 weeks ago
#1053 Re: Guns N' Roses » When's Album? » 678 weeks ago
You can see he's a fan of GNR on some level.
And it's notable how when he worked with others like motley - what he wrote sounded like those bands - and sixx am has some great licks and stuff in it.....I can really see him writing some classic Gnr-esque tracks.
Not sure if axl likes to make songs like that anymore mind you....
Axl's spectrum goes all the way to Silk Worms. He definitely always wanted a musical palette beyond the AFD Guns.
The good direction could be an Axl/Izzy version of The Stones; the style would be distinguishable enough as GNR territory and would give them some space to open things up.
Axl could just do the ballsy move already and finally claim Mick's throne, even for a day 
#1054 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Myles replaces Bach in Kings of Chaos » 678 weeks ago
VR is trying out new vocalist candidates as King of Chaos 
#1055 Re: Guns N' Roses » anyone wanna summarize the last couple of months? » 678 weeks ago
Fixed them eyelines for you. 
#1056 Re: Guns N' Roses » MSL podcast and question » 678 weeks ago
#1057 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl/Slash Picture on Paradise City » 678 weeks ago
Or Axl joining Kings of Chaos
That would be so fun, a reunion as GNR outside the GNR name.
Flipping the bird to the moneymen of the industry, for sure 
#1058 Re: Guns N' Roses » When's Album? » 679 weeks ago
Guns ‘N Roses Chinese Democracy Follow-Up Is Well Down The Track
by Paul Cashmere on May 5, 2013
Guns ‘N Roses is well down the track of recording a follow-up to their 2008 album ‘Chinese Democracy’.
Guitarist Richard Fortus has confirmed to Noise11.com news that the band was spent a lot of time in the studio working on the next album and that many of the songs have been completed.
Fortus, who is also the guitarist for Australia’s The Dead Daisies, told Noise11 that while the album has mostly been completed it won’t be released this year but maybe in 2014.
‘Chinese Democracy’ was released in November 2008 after more than 10 years in the making. While Axl Rose was the only original member featured on the album, it was the first album of new and original material released under the Guns ‘N Roses name since the 1991 ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums.
Guns ‘N Roses also released the covers record ‘The Spaghetti Incident?’ in 1993. It was the last album to feature Rose with Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, and Gilby Clarke. Dizzy Reed played on ‘Chinese Democracy’ and is still also currently a permanent member of Guns ‘N Roses touring band.
What makes this bit interesting is the writer; Paul Cashmere has had good info on GNR many times over the years.
#1059 Re: Guns N' Roses » Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese » 679 weeks ago
Ezrin got some balls. He's a producer, not a partner. Seems his primary intention was to become an integral part of the big gnr comeback, cause just having a 10 million dollar Guns N' Roses album on your CV isn't enough apparently.
One does have to ask, why couldn't Ezrin just go along with Axl, complete the album with some touching up like he did with NIN's Fragile and be done with it? Iovine and Interscope would get their album, Axl would get his comeback, Ezrin would likely collect a nice check for a limited amount of labour.
Greed comes to play. Ezrin would've been experienced enough to see what Baker and some others had picked up early. The whole process was an unequaled melting pot of various audial experiments, that sort of obscure methology prominent with various 70's bands. Only now, Axl was guiding his "biggest band in the world" advance to fund such experimenting on a bigger scale. Epic Rock, enough to bury AFD, UYIs and all of his past career.
If Axl would've pulled it off, CD would've been huge on every level; only everything fell apart.
#1060 Re: Guns N' Roses » Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese » 679 weeks ago
Oh yeah. This killed the Big Comeback at RIR3.
According to press reports, Ezrin was officially signed on as A&R Man by late October, 2000. He was since relieved from his duties.
It started off when Jimmy Iovine (ed: producer, chairman of Interscope/ Geffen) asked me for a big favour. They were stuck, they were stuck in a studio in North Hollywood for years with Roy Thomas Baker (ed: Queen’s producer), and nothing was happening. They were paying enormous rental bills and they were paying people to sit around the studio waiting for Axl to show up and it was just a disaster.
Tom Zutaut, who came around as the A&R Man some six months later, ran into the exact same issues. That is to say, nothing much of consequence happened during Ezrin's tenure aside...
I came, I listened, I said to him I will listen and will give you notes we will see together. I spent a lot of time listening. ... what I heard was something that he had painted over too many times. So, by the time I heard it, the original content was lost and it was just a highly produced piece of something…
Anyway, I agreed to help out if Axl would agree to work with me, which he did. He had the idea that the only person who could finish the album with him was me, based on what I don’t know.
Yoda may have given Axl a good reading on Bob, there.
Bob's timeline is a bit fuzzy, but it seems his next step - before seeing Axl about the material - was to move the band away from Rumbo (the original AFD studio) in favor of Village, a move often credited to Roy Thomas Baker.
I went to see Jimmy Iovine and I gave him my perception of the situation, including the fact that they had to get out of Rumbo Studios immediately – not because Rumbo is a bad studio, it’s a wonderful studio – but because they needed to be closer to the scrutiny of the record company and Jimmy’s team, so there could be at least some measure of control. And I recommended we move them to the Village Recorder in West Hollywood.
Not that the control side of things would work any wonders on Axl.
I had to wait to talk to Axl because he avoided me. He was nervous about hearing what I had to say. ... I told him basically what you’ve heard. I didn’t tell him “you have 2 ½ songs” and when he sat down, he started saying me that he has finished the record. And I said “Axl, we are not ready to mix this record. This record isn’t ready to be mixed”.
Axl felt he had an album he could mix and release; the Sean Beavan -era album with some new stuff from Brain, Bucket and Roy Thomas Baker.
I said “there are two great songs on it and I know that you’re capable of more, that’s the reason why I’m here. You’re such a great talent and I would do you a disservice if I didn’t tell you the truth, which is that most of the songs aren’t great. But I‘m very happy to help you get there and I believe that it’s possible, if you would like to continue to work on the record, to make it better”. He said “I don’t agree with that. We are ready to mix”. And I told him “you have my number, if you change your mind let me know, but I have a dinner party at home now and I had to go”. I left and I haven’t heard from him since. It was years later when it came out.
In February 2001, around six months after Bob Ezrin had come aboard, Axl called Tom Zutaut.
"I need you here to move forward, 'cos I've been spinning my wheels for at least six months!"
Funny how the world turns.
