I don't know how but those guys from Polish Rock Magazine really have great contact with Ron and made new interview about his acoustic album, Chinese Democracy, tour and Axl Rose. I want be able to translate everything at once but I'll give some part a day ( I have fuckin' exams at the first place).

Q: Acoustic EP "Barefoot" showcases your interesting side. Like connecting to Guns N' Roses ballads like "Patience"...
Ron: Oh, I don't think so it's as good as acoustic Gn'R songs(laugh). I am not even able to catch it, because I don't see my music as others do. I hear what I thought, felt during composing. I don't hear final result. So, if you say that it's something similiar to Guns N' Roses songs it's interesting for me. And it makes me happy. For sure I've taken the same path to strip songs to make them feel more intimately, clear , to have direct impact on listener.

Q: Or maybe it was your purpouse to show your bandmates your possibilities - "Look how cool I'm composing, maybe we will use in on the next record" ?
Ron : No, I didn't even think about it. If I take part in recording another Gn'R album I will compose anyway. But maybe if I work on another acoustic album I'd invite Axl to sing, if it makes you happy.

Q: I take your word on it. I talk about stripping down songs. The most re-aranged song is "Abnormal". Punk piece was changed into something calm. It was easy to go so far away from orginal ?
Ron : I didn't look into arrangements of the song, it's tyle, energy. I was stripping it down thinking how to make it interesting again for me. I was looking into particular parts, thinking about theirs destination. For example : how I made that crazy guitar part, being totally opposite to something 3 seconds later. I asked myself where to make next step, to make that song shocking again, to make it feel like something new. I came to conclusion that the best way will be to go into totally different direction. In stead of crazy, technical guitar showcases something more melodic. Basically I just turned that song upside down, it was almost bi-polar.

Q: But there are songs very close to orginals, for example "Shadows"
Ron : You know what is the most interesting? That some songs I thought that would be great in acoustic versions turned out not that great. For example "Overloaded" form the "Normal" album. It turned out that drums are a must here, beacuse they create its vibe. When I did it only with acoustic guitar it lost a lot. Choosing setlist was very suprising : some songs turned out to be better in acoustic versions, and others not. I thought that it's all about core melody. If it was strong enough , acoustic version was great. It was great exam for me which songs were really good and which ones were only fillers.

Q : You talk about melodies, also guitar melodies. Does it mean that you don't want to be considered as shredder, guitar wizard?
Ron : When I think about me I see someone who is producing other bands, is teaching music in college, is composing for TV shows, is taking part in recording as a bandmate. It's all important not only part that I play fast. I don't fit "shred" style, because it's usually something without vocals, almsot background music, and it exist to showcase technical abilities. It's not my goal, not my natural work. I create songs. That acoustic album shows, that my songs are real songs, not ground for guitar tricks. If you listen to some solos closely, for example that solo at the end of "Abnormal", you will hear that it is not me showing skills off but something with melodies - they are there, even if people care only about technical skills.

Q : Having this in mind. I want to know how you share guitar duties in Guns N' Roses. In the past it was simple : there was guy who played solos, and there was guy who played rythm. Now there are three guitar players...
Ron : You're right, in the post there was rythm and solo player. Now you got three solo players, and every with totally different style. DJ is someone like Slash, he plays melodic parts, but also can play very fast. He is very talented guy. Richard Fortus can play everything on awesome level. I'm also very flexible considering style, but I play usually all weird stuff - tapping, untypical sounds etc. So I think that I am responsible in GN'R for all the crazy, weird, new parts, DJ is for melodies and Richard has a share in everything. We share it that way, but it is also why I don't play as much melodic parts as I am able to. But that is how it works in Gn'R.

Q: Does the proportions changed when DJ joined the band ?
Ron : Not really. We tried to keep it as it worked in the past. By the way some songs have as much as three solos so everyone plays one in that case.

Q: And how it looked like on "Chinese Democracy"
Ron : I played a lot of things. Many rythm parts, many solos. In some songs, solos had been recorded for years. And after such time it seemed that playing anythind different in that place wouldn't be a good idea. We simply left it as it was. Live I play all the parts, orginally written and recorded by Buckethead and those, which I recorded myself. DJ will take Robin parts along with Richard. Richard of course plays his parts as well. Guitar wise there is a lot of interesting things on "Chinese Democracy"

Q : On which song on "Chinese Democracy" you contributed the most ?

EDIT : I add few more, tommorow ill post the 2nd part about : his style on Chinese Democracy, histories about band, is the band Axl playground, rehearsals, new material, and runours about "trilogy"