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Re: An Old Fashioned GNR Site
http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-52838/gnfnrs1.html
I get a little nostalgic feeling whilst browsing it 
Reminds me of my days staying in college accomodation, surfing the web in the library at night, searching in vein for news on the new album.
Re: An Old Fashioned GNR Site
Guns N' Roses - "Chinese Democracy"
Interscope
June, 2001
Yay! Only seven years and some odd months left of waiting.
Re: An Old Fashioned GNR Site
From a Slash online chat in 96:
What do you think of instrumentalists like Satriani and Vai?
*Slash Says: That's a medium of music that I am not particularly interested in.
Funny that down the line, an instrumentalist guy like Buckethead would end up as his replacement in GNR 
Re: An Old Fashioned GNR Site
I like this interview with Kurt Loader, its funny how 10 years down the line what he says about Chinese Democracy is still relevant to the album we got, and to what he and Pitman said last year about the more experimental style of the follow up album.
http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-52838/Aritcl … lRose.html
Loder:
This "End of Days" track, "Oh My God," is real, real different. Have you been listening to [or] working with samples and stuff a lot? Has your whole musical approach changed?
Rose:
No, not a lot, no. Basically, [I'm] listening to everything that's out there as far as music goes. That was a big difference between myself and Slash and Duff, is that I didn't hate everything new that came out. I really liked the Seattle movement. I like White Zombie. I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop. I don't hate everything. I don't think everybody should be worshiping me 'cause I was around before them.
So once it was really understood by me that I'm really not going to be able to make the right old-style Guns N' Roses record, and if I try to take into consideration what Guns did on "Appetite," which was to kind of be a melting pot of a lot things that were going on, plus use past influences, I could make the right record if I used my influences from what I've been listening to that everybody else is listening to out there. So in that sense, I think it is like old Guns N' Roses as far as, like, the spirit and the attempt to throw all kinds of different styles together. If you get to the second guitar solo in "Oh My God," Paul's doing a very Izzy Stradlin-Aerosmith-type riff in the middle of the song, which is a completely different thing than everything else that's going on in the music, but yet it blends. There's a disco drum beat in the post-chorus, in the heaviest section of the song. We blended a lot of things.
Rose:
The record will be about, anywhere from 16 to 18 songs, but we recorded at least two albums' worth of material that is solidly recorded. But we are working on a lot more songs than that at the same time... in that way, what we're doing is exploring so, you know, you get a good idea, you save it, and then maybe you come back to it later, or maybe you get a good idea and you go, "That's really cool, but that's not what we're looking for. Okay, let's try something new." You know, basically taking the advance money for the record and actually spending it on the record.
Loder: [Laughs] Not always the case, obviously.
Rose:
No, and I don't want to be in a situation again where I have to depend on other people and have [to] start all over. So we have material that we think is too advanced for old Guns fans to hear right now and they would completely hate, because we were exploring the use of computers [along with] everybody really playing their ass off and combining that, but trying to push the envelope a bit. It's like, "Hmm, I have to push the envelope a little too far. We'll wait on that." So we got a list of things.
Loder: Are you involved in computer music yourself? Are you playing guitar now?
Rose: A little of both, a little of both.
Loder: How's your guitar playing coming along now?
Rose:
It's all right. I just wanted to be good enough to be able to contribute what was needed to this main album. It took working on the majority of these things and at least the couple albums' [worth] of material to figure out what should be on the first official Guns album. I wouldn't say it's like, you know, that we recorded a double album, or that we have all of our scraps to be the second one. There is a distinct difference in sound. The second leans probably a little more to aggressive electronica with full guitars, where the first one is definitely more guitar-based.
Loder:
People that hear "Oh My God," they might say that, "Gee, the new Guns is all this sound," but I think that what you're saying is that it's a bunch of different kinds of sounds.
Rose:
It's a lot of different sounds. There's some other really heavy songs, there's a lot of aggressive songs, but they're all in different styles and different sounds. It is truly a melting pot.
I go back to listening to Queen -- you know, we're still hoping to have Brian May come in and do some tracks, and I got a fax today that he's coming in -- Queen had all kinds of different-style songs on their records, and that's something that I like. 'Cause I do listen to a lot of things, and I really don't like being pigeonholed to that degree, and it's something that Guns N' Roses seem to share [with Queen] a bit. With "Appetite," even though it seems to have the same sound, if you really go back, you can pull all the little parts from different influences. That's not really the case by the time we're on "Use Your Illusion." People are kind of set in their ways. ["Chinese Democracy"] is coming from all over the place.
That last line is so true.
Re: An Old Fashioned GNR Site
From a Slash online chat in 96:
What do you think of instrumentalists like Satriani and Vai?
*Slash Says: That's a medium of music that I am not particularly interested in.Funny that down the line, an instrumentalist guy like Buckethead would end up as his replacement in GNR
We know Slash... because they smoke your ass on guitar.
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Re: An Old Fashioned GNR Site
They'd smoke Jimmy Page's, Jimi Hendrix's and Ray Charles' ass, too. Doesn't mean shit. Different animals. I myself love Nick Cave, although he's not a skilled and trained singer. But he's good enough to perform and his shows are pure magic. Same goes for Slash. Since I play guitar I like Vai and Satriani on a certain level, but it's more about 'let's try to play it, so I'll be technically better' than enjoying the music. Slash's songs aren't very difficult, but nobody can play it like him, with that emotion - yet he plays good enough. Same with Jimmy Page. Art is not about technics and speed, if the product is good enough. You know other people can paint faster than Michelangelo and maybe know more colours, but it was that old guy who painted The Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
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