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Re: Duff Interview
Courtesy of Loudwire. Most interesting stuff:
Duff McKagan sat down with Chris Jericho for his ‘Talk Is Jericho’ podcast this week to discuss a variety of topics, including frontman Axl Rose trying out for AC/DC, difficult songs to play and learning Chinese Democracy songs upon his return to Guns N’ Roses.
“It’s great,” McKagan says of playing tracks from the album, which neither he nor guitarist Slash were a part of recording. “Axl, he put a lot into that record. I think Slash and I were challenged with a thing, like, ‘How do we make these kinda ours now?’ Cause we’re gonna play these; we’re gonna take ownership of these. And we went in and learned them and started playing them with [drummer] Frank [Ferrer] and then [guitarist] Rich [Fortus]. Let’s tear these songs down and really know them and then build it up from there.”
McKagan says they know “a bunch” of the songs from Chinese Democracy, but it depends on the set list during a particular show which ones will get played.
Jericho asked the bassist what song is hardest for him to play each night, and he says it’s the little parts are the most challenging, like when the bass comes in on “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” He says, “You can’t f–k that up. Everybody there is listening at that point. You gotta be on.”
Talking about the current ‘Not in This Lifetime…’ world tour and how the set is devised each night, McKagan revealed that Rose is constantly cracking jokes that only the other band members can hear.
“We wear in-ears, right?” he begins. “So most of the time [Axl] is telling amazing jokes. He crushes everybody. You know, I fancy myself a humorist, a jokester, but he crushes me.”
Asked about the frontman trying out for the lead spot in AC/DC, McKagan says Rose was nervous about it, but that, “He killed it.”
“It’s AC/DC and Bon [Scott] is his guy,” he reveals. “He left to go try out and [afterwards] he was like, ‘I don’t know…’ Like, dude – you have it. ‘Oh, I don’t know man, I don’t know.’ We knew he had it.’
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- dalethirsty
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i'm glad folks took the time to listen to this and transcribe the interesting bits.
jericho is one of my all time favorite wrestlers and personalities, but holy fuck is he annoying on his podcast.
*makes the list*
“We wear in-ears, right?” he begins. “So most of the time [Axl] is telling amazing jokes. He crushes everybody. You know, I fancy myself a humorist, a jokester, but he crushes me.”
i wish we could get an in-ear recording from another band member that included axl's jokes on them. the guy is legit hilarious; it's a shame we don't really get to see that side of him too often. his drunken post about rhcp miming their way through the super bowl performance still kills me.
Re: Duff Interview
I first advocated a CD re-release as a joke but once they started playing CD and Better, realized they should do it. That album faded so damn fast that they could unload better and casual fans would eat it up. It would actually chart this time.
Re-record the best CD songs he's got(even if it includes most of the album tracks) and release that. Axl wouldn't even have to do any work. Just use his vocal takes from 2001.
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had this happened years ago its not a bad idea.
At this point....anything released will either get the Not In this Lifetime label attached(its the new Hell Freezes Over, why waste it?) or simply Guns N' Roses.
We're long past the point of creative or humorous album titles.
- dalethirsty
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actually, the album being called "not in this lifetime" is actually pretty cool.
it would complete the band's entire story through album titles.
appetite for desctruction - buncha hungry wild fuckers ready to fuck shit up and play loud ass rock n roll
use your illusion - the band literally used their illusions about life, each other and the band's musical direction to make the albums
chinese democracy - axl trying to do the impossible and crate a record with him as the figurehead and a supposed "democracy" of band members
not in this lifetime - the unthinkable finally happens and the band gets back together to make music
