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#511 Re: Guns N' Roses » TOMMY STINSON: Classic GN'R Reunion 'Will BeHealing Thing' For Them" » 538 weeks ago
those set-lists in 09-10 where the point when the set lists started getting a bit more varied and longer compared to previous tours. They didn't always play the same tracks from Chinese Democracy and they started adding in the UYI epics. So it was progression to an extent, even if it was too late.
After that, mainstays like this disappeared.
I think post the era that started after Rock in Rio 2011 is probably a better argument.
I agree. That lineup above still sounds wholesome for what it is. Axl's certainly into it.
The 2009-10 tour is what 2002 should've been. Axl was fighting back by renewing his credit as a live act.
#512 Re: Guns N' Roses » TOMMY STINSON: Classic GN'R Reunion 'Will BeHealing Thing' For Them" » 538 weeks ago
Cocaine is a hell of a drug when the guitarist gets the idea of trying to stone wall Axl Rose. He should have known better if what he really wanted was to be the lead guitarist in GN'R.
That's a great point.
Slash knew exactly what kind of a person Axl was and how he'd respond to something like that. I find it hard to recall a distinct incident where Slash would've called out Axl on the spot. During the UYI tour, it was Matt who confronted Axl about being late into the stage. You can image how that ended up. In his book, Duff recalls having nightmares about confronting Axl during the tour.
That's gall, alright. Axl Rose at the peak of his powers was a worthy adversary to just about anyone.
#513 Re: Guns N' Roses » TOMMY STINSON: Classic GN'R Reunion 'Will BeHealing Thing' For Them" » 538 weeks ago
Taking those GNR demos to Snakepit was fucked up but even worse than that was touring the damn thing as Guns was falling apart. Unreal. Including Gilby in that did him no favors either. Massive tension in the band because of the empty guitarist slot and his answer to that is to bring the just fired GNR member into his side project?
Anyone have the colossal gall to deny he was on drugs at that point?
Aside that, the berating of Paul Huge in public. Imagine Axl, sitting at home, working on his lawsuits - and reading Slash's press.
"We had this friend of Axl's, Paul, who really couldn't play that well. He played on 'Sympathy for the Devil.' " (Slash, The Michigan Daily, 04/95)
"It really took me off guard. It's not like it was lousy guitar playing or anything; I think it's how it went down." (Slash, Kerrang, 01/95)
"I will probably never forgive Axl for that. But we talked about it." (Slash, Kerrang, 01/95)
"I got really angry, 'cause the main thing is the band, getting the band together. So, it's not like you hire a bunch of session people and make Guns N' Roses, it doesn't work that way." (Slash, Metal Express, 1995)
"Fuckin' asshole. I hate that guy. He didn't work out, so I am not really sure where the fuck that shit's headed. I'll deal with it when I get off the road. (Slash, The Michigan Daily, 04/95)
"We made a deal that if Paul ever plays on anything, then I should at least be told first." (Slash, Kerrang, 01/95)
Axl, in his mind, was working on the betterment of Guns. His childhood friend was willing to help out on song writing and in the studio. Touring, maybe, but Guns was still Axl, Slash and others. Slash goes on and on about the bad calls Axl's made in his perspective, annihilating him. Axl just sits there, fuming. And this is the pre-release press tour, mere months after the Sympathy for the Devil recordings.
Then, Slash goes on tour, IFOCS actually sells about a million copies over time, his solo career starts to warm up... Axl, at home, is likely feeling a ton of anxiety. This when the idea hits him; he responds by dissolving the Guns partnership and starting a new band in his name. That'll show Slash; it'll keep the band together with Axl in the legal helm. They would still do music together, with Paul, they'd work out the kinks. But the Snakepit conundrum would be avoidable.
The irony in this is, both Slash and Axl felt the Snakepit material was a case-example of solid material in jeopardy.
"I said, 'OK,' and took it all back. We've had that happen too many times in Guns, when certain songs just didn't make it, and they would have been killer. I didn't want to lose any more material." (Slash, Rolling Stone, 04/95)
#514 Re: Guns N' Roses » TOMMY STINSON: Classic GN'R Reunion 'Will BeHealing Thing' For Them" » 538 weeks ago
Do you think you and Duff will do more work together?
It's possible. I don't know yet. It depends on scheduling, or what shows Tommy [Stinson] wants to do with the Replacements and stuff like that. And you know, almost everybody in the band has some kind of issue going on, personally. There's people who have lost family members. Other people are dealing with separations. Sometimes court gets in the way. Real life!
That was Axl in April 2014, coming off an SA tour with Duff. Ron had announced his would-be exit. Tommy had his own issues brewing. Duff was there. The curious thing is, there may be a happy coincidence factoring into all this, like incumbent band members opting out of a contract extension.
I've always said that for Axl, the return of Slash and Duff is a new chapter in Guns history instead of a reunion per se. Tommy's lean into that direction as well. Amazing how the new guys get all the press. Where was the buzz when DJ joined? 
#515 Re: Guns N' Roses » TOMMY STINSON: Classic GN'R Reunion 'Will BeHealing Thing' For Them" » 538 weeks ago
I actually had to just start turning down tours because I was unable to tour; I got into a position, personally, where my personal life was going to prevent me from doing, I don't know — it must have been about five tours that they called me to do, and I just said I can't do 'em.
Tommy refers again to personal reasons as he did in September.
17 years. Ya know, I, the back story on that I don't really want to talk about on air.
What happened with it, it has nothing to do with Axl or any of that stuff. It had more to do with my personal situation. Basically, I played my last gig in Las Vegas with them and had to come home and tend to that the best I could. While Replacement's things were kinda being offered up....
I think that my guess is...that at some point someone is going to call me and tell me what's up with that. Cause we've all left, we've left on friendly terms it not like a bad thing. Another guitar player DJ Ashba I think he "officially" quit to do something but ya know I just, ya know, I had to walk away and take care of my stuff so. Taking care of my stuff, whatever my stuff is.
17 years later, boom. It was a very good gig for me I nothing bad to say.
It's heavy stuff, whatever it is, since Tommy keeps it private. Sounds like a sick family member or something of the sort.
#516 Re: Guns N' Roses » Reunited GUNS N' ROSES To Play New T-Mobile Arena In Las Vegas » 538 weeks ago
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#517 Re: Guns N' Roses » So whose back » 538 weeks ago
Monkey and I are good mates with Bono, and chat with him regularly these days, so we'd appreciate no one having a go at him or slandering him here.
You reap what you sow. I think most of us have mates that divide opinions.
But you're right. It's a waste of time to talk about it.
#518 Re: Guns N' Roses » Nightrain Official Site » 538 weeks ago
This whole money thing is all Axl & Slash.
Ding, ding.
Duff is the reliable wingman, an affable familiar face contributing to the reunion 'feel'.
He's a good foil to both Slash and Axl, with his print writing and sense of responsibility.
Izzy is a throwback to the 'classic' era - mind you, he left early into the UYI tour.
He's 'the one that got away', the elusive, care-free troubadour. He'll be loved more than missed.
The drummer... wait, who was that again? Adler played on Appetite, but there've been others...
Oh, well. We can probably manage without a Matt Sorum drum solo.
#519 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Story Of Guns N' Roses' To Air On BBC FOUR In U.K. » 538 weeks ago
This film was commissioned for BBC Four by Jan Younghusband, head of commissioning, music TV.
I bet his family weddings are a barrel of laughs.
#520 Re: Guns N' Roses » Looks like rehearsals have started! » 538 weeks ago
This joint interview from 2001 with Freese and Brain goes into depth on their transition. Recommended if you're privy about how the CD drumming was done.
Sorum: Has the chops to contribute creatively but is often limited on UYI by song structures already in place.
Brain had that problem. By 2001, he was re-recording Freese's drum parts for about 30 songs.
Freese: a methodic session drummer. Talented but also limited by what the client wants to hear. Doesn't have a particular individual style like either Matt or Adler but can be merged into any song. Is generic but good if you know what I mean.
Those were the drums on the get-go. Axl had more likely than not familiarized himself with Brain's style after Bucket recommended him.
Brain: probably the most technically proficient drummer GnR ever had. Has the skills and feeling to not overblow his participation both on the rhythm (listen to the isolated drum track of Shacklers) or on the fills. Knows how to play to the song and also make it full, with style.
The Freese drums were serviceable, but Brain's style opened up an opportunity, albeit a costly and time-consuming one - take full advantage of that Bucket / Brain chemistry and migrate it into CD.
At hindsight, this appears as a crossroads moment in making of the album. Had Axl said, 'fuck it', and done the same superfluous re-recording with B&B on the '99 album as he would eventually do with Ron & Frank, they would've gotten the album out in 2001. A follow-up album could've been a funkier version of the EDM nonsense, with more elastic song structures.
Oh, well.
