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- A Private Eye
- Rep: 77
Re: Who REALLY wrote Chinese Democracy
coma is credited to slash and axl in the uyi booklet
Coma
(Slash, Rose)
So it is, my mistake.
Re: Who REALLY wrote Chinese Democracy
I gotta say i agree with -D- here also
In the booklets they are giving credit to fewer people than in the ascap
booklet = anyone that wrote the inital base for the song or idea of the song first
ascap = anyone that contributed by writing any additional pieces like drums and solos
Axl doesn't play guitar or base and is in a hard rock band
he's not gonna write and record every note in every song by himself
This isn't a slam on him and i'm surprised that it is a surprise to anyone
another thing to consider is that lyrics with a melody and a couple chords on an acoustic guitar or piano is considered a written song. lyrics, alone, have been tantamount to proving ownership of a song in many court cases. any musician, on the other hand, can claim ownership of thier own creation even if it is within a song that they didn't solely write.
ascap has to legally consider every one that wrote a note.
Re: Who REALLY wrote Chinese Democracy
and Axl is going to say what riffs etc he wants used on his "babies"...so he doesn't play it but he picks and chooses what he wants from the multiple takes done by the guitar players. Roger Waters did that with Gilmour alot...watch the making of DSOTM.
- emcitymisfit
- Rep: 28
Re: Who REALLY wrote Chinese Democracy
So Axl told Marco Beltrami every single note to play in TiL? Axl wrote the harp solos, etc?
Re: Who REALLY wrote Chinese Democracy
So Axl told Marco Beltrami every single note to play in TiL? Axl wrote the harp solos, etc?
no, but they did what he told them to do and these people are not hired guns.
they are contracted musicians. they do not, then, get songwriting credits.
good question though
Re: Who REALLY wrote Chinese Democracy
So Axl told Marco Beltrami every single note to play in TiL? Axl wrote the harp solos, etc?
What about Slash playing Tracii Guns guitar parts in "Don't Cry"...?
