You are not logged in. Please register or login.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
Re: Bumblefoot on new GN'R album
+1 Karma for Otto.
So, now he admits Going Down IS a new song and it isn't a Freddy King cover. Nice. I wonder what he means by "eathry."
He mentioned it as "Earthy as more organic, not industrial"
Perhaps a more blues-based or stripped down song?
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Bumblefoot on new GN'R album
I could forgive izzy for forgetting how to play patience if he's not played it in years anyway, I know when I play songs if you don't play them too long it's easy for the structure to get a little lost in the memory. But if he's doing it for laughs that's funny too.
Re: Bumblefoot on new GN'R album
misterID wrote:+1 Karma for Otto.
So, now he admits Going Down IS a new song and it isn't a Freddy King cover. Nice. I wonder what he means by "eathry."
He mentioned it as "Earthy as more organic, not industrial"
Perhaps a more blues-based or stripped down song?
Maybe it's the song Axl talked about that Robin did an SRV type guitar solo.
Re: Bumblefoot on new GN'R album
Thought I would add this in here since he does talk about new music in the interview. It's an interview with Ron done by GNR Paraguay.
Bumblefoot, your debut with GNR was the May 12, 2006, how you felt as a musician debut with one of the biggest bands in the world?
I had been chatting with GNR and throwing around plans, on and off for almost two years, and it all came together in the last moment, with 7 quick rehearsals. Stepping on stage for the first time, I was fine with it all - people are people, I didn't see them as a big band or little band, we were guys makin' music together, anything else was external and other people's perception.
In a old interview you mentioned that your favorite song is Don't Cry, You learned that song before enter In GN’R or later?
I knew Don't Cry from when it first came out, 15 years before I joined. In the first weeks I joined, fans wrote to me a lot asking if we could play the song - we didn't, so I did. Give the people what they want.
As a guitarist, who’s your greatest influence and what are your favorite bands?
Eddie Van Halen had the biggest guitar playing influence on me. Inspired me to start building my own guitars, and to experiment with different playing techniques. My first two musical loves were the Beatles and Kiss as a kid. The Beatles made me love music, Kiss made me want to get on stage....
How did you feel when you play here in Paraguay? What’s your feeling of play in new countrys, not only in “the big ones”? GN’R maked History here in Paraguay!
There's something exciting about playing places I've never been, especially where the band has never been. Had a great time in Paraguay, people were loving. I was heavily drugged to get through the tour (spine injury from recent car accident) and sometimes the combinations of drugs didn't work so well. After we left Paraguay I found out I was 'growling' at people in the airport, and had stopped breathing a few times on the plane.
You always followed the GNR even before entering the world of music?
Ahh, I've been in the world of music since before there was a GNR My first band, demos, gigs, merch, all of that was in the late 1970's when I was 7 years old. I was into Guns from the first time I heard them 25 years ago, randomly flipping channels on the TV at 3 in the morning and seeing the Jungle video for the first time, telling a friend the next day about an interesting band I saw on MTV the night before.....
What's your opinion about Axl and GN'R? Do you feel comfortable about playing songs that you didn't compose?
I'm very happy to play music the audience wants to hear, doesn't matter who wrote it. Could be written by me, by the guy next to me on stage, or someone that's no longer on the stage, it's all fine, I enjoy playing music. I release my own music and produce other bands, I've written so many songs outside of GNR, between songs I wrote and co-wrote, there's been about 200 songs in the last 20 years that were commercially released and have been played live, been on albums, on radio, TV/film, videogames, other people covering my songs... if I write songs with GNR in the future, even better. I'd like to. This line-up really should be releasing music. For years I've been vocal about my 'wish list', to have the band write one song before every leg of a tour - we hit the studio and bang out a song, we play that song live during that tour, then we do the same for the next leg of the tour. If we did that there would be a full album of music by now. In my own world that's what I would have liked to see happen, but in reality it's more complicated than that, there's a lot of business involved before music can be released. Just my thinking aloud, wishful thinking.
It's amazing the status, recognition, and sales that have reached the current band. You are in a group which, fortunately, does not sound commercial singles in the FM's, and adapts to any type. Your success are achieving on your own right. How is the level of happiness that has the band to see how this massive success and recognition? How do you feel you individually, and feels the group in general?
I don't overthink it. I try my best, and hope people enjoy it.That simple.
The Band played Estranged, Civil War, Mama Kin, Death Flowers, did they played that songs for fan's preassure?
We play songs because fans like them, we like them, they're fun to play, all for good reasons
Chinese Democracy is the disc of a new band, with new persons. Why the band's playing covers having such a great album? When we're gonna hear There was a Time ,Prostitute or a new song?
On stage I'm ready to play any song off Chinese... or make up any new song on the spot. Say the word, I'm ready.
Re: Bumblefoot on new GN'R album
Ahh if only they would listen to Ron and do something like this:
This line-up really should be releasing music. For years I've been vocal about my 'wish list', to have the band write one song before every leg of a tour - we hit the studio and bang out a song, we play that song live during that tour, then we do the same for the next leg of the tour. If we did that there would be a full album of music by now.
Let them create their own legacy!
This bit scares me:
if I write songs with GNR in the future, even better. I'd like to
These poor guys haven't even started writing new songs together???? I assume Axl has them reworking old Chinese songs if anything. Damn these musicians are being so underutilized.
The Bucket and Finck era stuff - just release it now and get the new guys to start with a clean slate. This sort of strategy should result in a shitload of new stuff being out there (chinese 2 plus brand new stuff) to really cement them as a new band in their own right.
- elevendayempire
- Rep: 96
Re: Bumblefoot on new GN'R album
That line about Axl chopping and changing parts from guitar solos is interesting. I wonder if the guitarist then goes in and lays down a version of Axl's solo from scratch. Hell, I wonder if Axl's ever cut together a solo that's actually physically impossible to play.
