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#951 Guns N' Roses » Album updates from Fortus & Dizzy » 650 weeks ago
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Fortus and Dizzy are currently in Australia, touring with a local supergroup called The Dead Daisies. Paul Cashmere, one of the better journalists in getting info on Guns, interviewed them both, separately, on the tour as well as the follow-up to CD. Below is my transcription of the relevant bits, with links to the original videos (published Nov 18th).
PC: The call to join an Australian supergroup, tell me how that came about?
DR: I heard about this group when Guns N' Roses were here the last time. Richard was, on our off-days, playing with this band called The Dead Daisies, and I was like, 'Hmm... The Dead Daisies?' They were opening for ZZ Top, who were opening for Guns N' Roses... and then he told me he was in the band. With Jon Stevens, whom I've known for a while, and Marco Mendoza was playing bass at the time, who I've known for a while. It sounded very, very enticing.
Just with Richard and Marco and Jon alone, it sounded like something I might be interested in, so I said, 'You guys need a keyboard player?' They said, 'Well, we have one', but when they got the States, Richard gave me a call and said, 'Hey, they want to have you play', and I said, 'Absolutely, I'm in! Count me in!' And I haven't even really heard the music yet, and then I heard it, and it was great. The music is great, it's just straight-up rock n' roll, so I jumped in.
PC: And how are you juggling your time for 2014, what's it looking like? Richard's been talking about a potential new Guns N' Roses record, you've been working on that?
DR: Yes, it's in the works. Right now, things are a bit on hold as far as playing... Well, I think they're getting tracks together. And so, I'm out here doing this.
PC: I guess Dead Daisies is a very active band going in 2014. Guns N' Roses are still active and did the shows this year in Australia. What's the status on that?
RF: We're working on new stuff now. So, I'm trying to balance all this out now, y'know. But, so far, it's worked out alright.
PC: For a 2014 release?
RF: So far, everything is good. Actually, Guns wanted to be touring right now, in South America. And... I'd already committed to this [Dead Daisies Australian tour], so we needed to postpone that. Next year. But I'm hoping that we get an album out very soon.
PC: Yeah. Well, it's been an exciting year. There's been the Jane's Addiction / Alice in Chains [& The Dead Daisies] tour, which, I imagine, must have been a great time with all of those bands, traveling about six weeks across North America.
RF: Yeah. That was great fun, really great. Great bands, and Duff's band, Walking Papers, was on right after us and that was great. They're really good, really cool band. And I'd go on and sit in with them occassionally, so it's fun.
#952 Re: Guns N' Roses » Ultimate Classic Rock's Chinese Democracy Songs You Need to Hear Again » 650 weeks ago
Haven't listened to the studio version in a good while. The video was great and I found myself liking the song a whole lot more now. It's a solid, no-nonsense fistpumping rocker with a classic Axl wail and a great gtr solo. It works.
I think IRS was just one of the casualties of CD with the hardcores. Too much premature exposure killed the excitement on it, much like Maddy and The Blues; people were instead bitching (either justly or not) about the additional production Axl had put in.
Olorin, I too remember the original leak - a very scraggy recording from the Trunk show which I initially heard through a very bad speaker 
#953 Re: Guns N' Roses » Happy birthday Chinese Democracy! » 651 weeks ago
With the release (and aftermath) of CD, Axl's wings were cut off. The story along the grapevines goes that while Azoff had his sights ultimately on an old Guns reunion, he was set to accommodate Axl in return, with two follow-up albums on around two-year cycles, leading up to a reunion at RRHOF. This would've given Axl a break to do his own thing with the new lineup, with the new music finally out in the open. After that, he would've reverted to the nostalgia thing for a while. The audiences would've been happy, Uni would've cashed in on the new additions to the back catalogue, and Azoff would've personally seen a lucrative income, using his position at Ticketmaster to facilitate Guns' touring stateside.
It was to be a great, great pipe and slippers deal for Axl, and much better than anyone in the industry would've guessed he'd be entitled with after the clusterfuck which bore CD. His career would've been rebuilt from scratch in the public eye; going from a hugely profilic lone gun to a full-blown reunion in a matter of years, parading past rows of former naysayers and collectively smacking them across their faces. An ongoing victory march, if there ever was one. That is said to be the deal Axl walked away from. If he'd be friends with Slash, one could say it was all about integrity. But his personal obsession proved too tough a nut to crack, even for an industry ballbuster like Azoff.
With Azoff out of the picture, Guns lost their rejuvenated life-line with Uni, and have had to resort to touring to keep money coming in. During the non-eventful year following CD, during which Ax only seemed to pop up to berate Jimmy Iovine and Slash, he gained weight - no longer the lean and mean middle-aged rock star pro (in figure, at least), but more akin to someone boozing and eating to tolerate depression.
Axl's always been reactionary on his looks; people called him fat while he openly displayed a paunch next to some serious muscle in RIR3. The next year, he showed up covered in those oversized jerseys. The braids he put on were snickered at as having to do with hair loss; this may well be the case, but again, make no mistake, the reactions he got were a blow to his self-esteem. Only in 2006 did he regain that trademark vigor again, looking proudly ablebodied, with the braids much diminished. This went on for over a year, he was ready to reconquer the world and felt dedicated to maintain his physical health in the meantime.
After CD, he gave up. One year after another, he gave up more. The 06/07 Axl would scare the living daylights out of the current Vince Neil. Not so much now. Personally, I'm less fazed by Axl's fashion sense (or lack thereof - kilts!) than his physical condition, as it directly correlates with his performance on stage and his longevity as a touring musician. That line of work is hard, and he tends to put more into it than many of his peers. Without a health regimen, it's painfully obvious that touring becomes all the more strenuous to him as time goes on.
In early 2010, just as the band had started out their post-Azoff phase (and the NeverEnding Tour), some signs of things to come were there.
Rose’s recent high jinks are legendary even where rockers are concerned. For the last three weeks, the singer has been on an epic bender in New York, tearing through the city’s nightclubs and bars like he’s still the stick-thin 25-year-old who became a worldwide phenomenon after the release of his album “Appetite for Destruction.” Since he arrived in the city for his Fashion Week concert on Feb. 11, he’s gone out nearly every night (and continued on till the morning), usually crashing afterward at his $1,550-a-night suite in the Essex House Hotel.
... author Ray LeMoine who’s partied with the rocker in the past three weeks... thinks Rose lets the negative press get to him more that he should. “The interesting thing about the guy is that he’ll tell stories and you’ll say, ‘Dude, you’re Axl Rose, you’ve got to not worry about that s – - t,’ “ LeMoine says. “You’ve put out so many great records and you’re the man, but he won’t hear it … there’s a nuanced psychological thing about the guy where he’s not trying to be Axl Rose.”
So far, no one knows when the party — or his existential crisis — will end. As Rose prepared to leave one club, The Post cornered him and asked how late he generally stays out. Rose just smirked. “As long as it takes,” he said. - NY Post"
Alas, Happy Birthday to Chinese Democracy. We're still checking the program listings on that same Bat Channel to see if we get anything but reruns. One day...
Another person who’s partied with Rose says he’s working on a new album after last year’s disappointing “Chinese Democracy” — the first Guns N’ Roses studio album in 15 years — and has something to prove.
#954 Re: Guns N' Roses » 11-21-2012 The Joint, Las Vegas (Being filmed in 3D) » 651 weeks ago
An update from MSL, no less.
Heard another thing the other day that I thought was interesting. We already knew that publishing issues had been holding up the Vegas DVD. That info came directly from somebody in Rock Fuel. We'd speculated that the problems may have been with some of the cover songs played during the show.
However, now I'm hearing that the publishing issue actually had to do with getting Slash and Duff to sign off on the release. So that was the big hold up. You can't sync the classic songs to video without their permission. It just sucks all around for GNR fans because the GNR songs were cut from the Velvet Revolver DVD, the second Velvet Revolver DVD wasn't even released in the US, Slash's DVD couldn't be released in the US, the GNR songs were cut from Slash's bonus DVD, and now GNR's Vegas DVD has been delayed repeatedly.
Hopefully we still get it at some point. I thought the trailer looked awesome.
AFAIK, the publishing rights on older Guns songs are divided between Slash, Duff and Uni (who bought out Sanctuary, to whom Axl licensed his rights to years back). If true, karma has been biting Axl in the ass big time as of late.
#955 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba @ GunsNRoses.com Nightrain (Live Video Stream Announcement) » 651 weeks ago
Here are the CliffsNotes of the chat, courtesy of MyGNR.
- Dj said he designed Axl and Dizzy's piano artwork and other stuff on the stage.
- "You know me. I don't talk about shit until it's actually fucking happening."
- "Axl couldn't have put together a better lineup of more talented musicians".
- Dj wants to answer the unapproved questions. He assumes that Fernando was the one who approved them.
- He also said that Riad was the hardest song to master and that the part Richard and BBF gave him was difficult.
- He's talking about his version of Better. He said the one that leaked was a super rough cut that took a couple hours. It wasn't mixed or mastered or anything.
- Asked if there is anywhere he has not played but would like to? His response was South Africa
- When asked about his 2014 plans he said he's pretty sure GNR will be touring. No mention of new music.
- He wants to write a new solo piece for the next tour.
- Asked to give mygnrforum a shout out, ground(ctrl) responds: we love mygnrforum.
#956 Re: Guns N' Roses » Erin Everly Auctioning Off Numerous Personal Items From Axl Rose » 651 weeks ago
Imagine what would've happened if she would've hooked up with MSL...
Hoarders would've come out of the woodwork all over the place 
Maybe they had a late 90's reconciliation?
In the grand scheme of events, it's really a non-issue, but I've always been perplexed on the first thing Tom Zutaut said Axl asked him when coming aboard CD; "the truth about Erin Everly". This was in 2001, a decade after their divorce, and several years after they'd met in court. I always felt it was a bit odd of Axl to keep the Zoot/Every conundrum in his head for so long - heck, if it bothered him for a decade, he could've had Beta track Zoot down way earlier. But if the man can spend close to two decades hating Slash in his personal bubble, such things shouldn't come as a surprise.
#957 Re: Guns N' Roses » Erin Everly Auctioning Off Numerous Personal Items From Axl Rose » 651 weeks ago
Amy Bailey comments the auction.
Lady, did you fail at maths or did you just blurt out something you shouldn't have?
Either the nebulous sense of time runs in the family or...
#958 Re: Guns N' Roses » Erin Everly Auctioning Off Numerous Personal Items From Axl Rose » 651 weeks ago
#959 Re: Guns N' Roses » Erin Everly Auctioning Off Numerous Personal Items From Axl Rose » 651 weeks ago
A group of 12 notebook pages handwritten by Axl Rose with notes, lyrics and signed draft letters. One letter, dated August 17, 1984, addresses the topic of a Guns N' Roses album cover and the controversy created. The date is inconsistent with Guns N' Roses album release. Another lists Rose's goals, including "B-1 Establish financial freedom...pay all debts - literal & cerebral...B-3 Find Home - establish bi-coastal dwellings B-4 Get a fucking car!!!...B-5 Servants (secretaries & assistants) Female and Male... ." - linky
Not bad. Paying off all debt is not the first thing many blooming rock stars care to think about, but it's one of the smarter things you can do if you get rich all of a sudden.
Wouldn't be surprised if Axl doesn't buy all this himself. I wouldn't want some stranger having it, certainly not the personal stuff.
I'm counting on Team Brazil to scurry and shell Everly some Xmas money. Those personal notes can be quite revealing ("The name William proves too much to bear... I don't know what to sign this with") and when you have a batshit-crazy, hair-trigger character like Ax, I can guarantee he raised the roof the minute he heard what's going on. That is, if anyone's mentioned him what's going on...
#960 Re: Guns N' Roses » Leaked GN'R Songs Thread » 652 weeks ago
I just wish 'hurry up we want to get this finished and released' was another of his favourites.
That's actually something Slash would say (and has oft said). The reason for the endless delays, then?
