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#191 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash talks new GNR music in Rolling Stone » 176 weeks ago
Why are you guys mentioning label issues? I quickly read the article and saw no mention from Slash about label issues.
Positive to hear that something is coming "soon". At the least got confirmation that there are two songs in the pipeline to be released and he seems to know which they are.
Also, with each interview he's done recently he's been slightly more and more open about new music. Only a good sign.
#192 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba: Buckethead Took the Coolness Out of the Band » 177 weeks ago
Pretty sure Doug Goldstein said that at some point in the mid to late 90s he had to go round and talk Axl out of killing himself and found the guy with a gun in his mouth and had to talk him out of it. As you said Monkey, it's a wonder Axl is alive today.
As much as we as a fanbase shit on his adopted family for their handling of the business side, by what few accounts there are, that support structure basically has saved the man's life.
#193 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 178 weeks ago
AgesOfTheIce wrote:I fully expect Atlas/reworked OMG.
I would’ve said no way to OMG being redone, due to Axl saying back when it came out that Duff and Slash weren’t interested in working on the song.
But after we’ve gotten Slash playing Silkworms with Absurd, I’d say anything is on the table now.
It was also still being soundchecked in 2011, was on the setlist as an alt in 2018 and lyrics for it were flashing on screen during YCBM on this last tour. Definitely seems like it's still kicking around and could come back.
#194 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba: Buckethead Took the Coolness Out of the Band » 178 weeks ago
Keep that 02 tour on the road and get a single out with it and maybe we get an album in 03.
As for 06, they could have just stuck to two guitarists. As we've seen with Fortus taking more of the Bucket/Bumble parts post reunion, he has the chops as he's a highly skilled session player. May not be the most creative guy but he could play their parts for touring purposes. Bumble's introduction, and then later Frank when he joined, slowed the process down even further.
#195 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 178 weeks ago
elevendayempire wrote:I'm not sure that's entirely fair. I mean, with Hard Skool they clearly stripped out the extended intro and rejigged the structure, and I'm prepared to bet that was all Duff ("Why is there a minute of guitar noodling at the start? Drum crash, bass line, off we go.").
Fair enough, I'm just saying I think the next batch really needs that kinda reworking all the more.
Like to me Atlas is the basis for a really good song - but it needs that something else that slash tends to bring - it feels to me like estranged without the guitars would be - still cool as fuck - but unfinished feeling even if these were due for release once upon a time. So i just hope Slash and co get in there and add stuff and move stuff around and complete them the way they always would have if the band had remained together all along.
Like I think about how Atlas would have evolved if it had been given to 1990 slash, back before all the trouble....that's kinda what I wanna see done to these.
State of Grace is another example...to me this song sounds insanely kickass...but it doesn't really have much in the way of guitars from memory....so I hope they do more than have slash play chorus chords over the ending etc.
I guess the example that bothers me is that middle layla section of hardschool - maybe it's just not to my taste - but it seemed to not have a point on the original or the remake to me. But then i do like the more zep style absurd we got. So there's hope.
Thing is we've only heard cirva 99-01 versions of Atlas. We have no idea what state it's in when/if Slash and Duff took a pass at it. Same with Hardskool... we heard a 00 version and nothing since. For all we know a lot of that rework we are crediting them for had already been done in the same way Absurd is pretty close to the BBF demo in terms of rearrangement.
#196 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba: Buckethead Took the Coolness Out of the Band » 178 weeks ago
The irony of him saying this...
#197 Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba: Buckethead Took the Coolness Out of the Band » 178 weeks ago
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DJ ASHBA Says BUCKETHEAD 'Didn't Really Fit' GUNS N' ROSES: He 'Took The Coolness Out Of The Band' - January 24, 2022
DJ Ashba, who joined GUNS N' ROSES in March 2009 following the departure of Robin Finck, spoke about his time with the Axl Rose-fronted outfit in a new interview with Mark Dean of Antihero Magazine. The guitarist said: "I didn't know what to expect. I was hoping that one day Slash would come back, and the reason I took the gig is that, honestly, I was — no disrespect to Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Brian Carroll, who was in the band between 2000 and 2004] or anybody — but seeing a guy run around with a chicken bucket on his head, it's, like, to me, that took the coolness out of the band that I grew up loving, and that's one of the main reasons I wanted to get in there and try to do whatever I could do to get justice, bring back that reckless rock and roll vibe of what Slash was all about and GUNS N' ROSES was all about. To me, it was in a sense losing that thing that I loved about the band. And I love Buckethead as a guitarist. No disrespect at all — it's just, in my opinion, he didn't really fit the band."
Asked if he was disappointed when he found out that Slash was returning to GUNS N' ROSES and his time with the band was over, Ashba said: "Absolutely not. Actually, Axl wanted me to stay on board, and it's one of those things where I was playing most of the Slash parts, and if he was coming back, that was great news for me as a fan and even better news for me as a musician, because it was never my band. I was just basically filling in till the big guy came back. But it allowed me to really experience a band on a level like no other, and I learned a lot of stuff about performing live on that magnitude. To me, it was great news, because I was going to go off and do what I'm doing now and that was to create and carve my own path.
"I've always been a big, big believer in not following in people's footsteps, and I get more pride and joy [out of doing my own thing]," he continued. "Even if this thing never gets to that level, at least I'm cutting my own path and doing something really unique and, to me, as an artist, that's awesome."
Read the entire interview at Antihero Magazine.
A year ago, GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus talked about what it was like to work with Buckethead for a couple of years in the early 2000s. The eccentric musician, who wears a fried-chicken bucket on his noggin and talks only through a hand puppet, quit GUNS N' ROSES in 2004 after becoming fed up with GUNS' inability to complete an album or tour, his manager told MTV at the time.
"Bucket is very musical, but I think a lot of guys like that — phenomenal, prodigious talent — they're not necessarily… I think Bucket's music is great," Fortus said. "What he does on his own, he's out there, but he did understand how to make three guitars work, and that's a very difficult thing. And he would lay out and just stand there and be weird and Bucket-y, and then he would come in on the choruses, and it would be huge. He got that; he understood that. [He's] a phenomenal talent. But the thing is, socially, guys like Bucket spend so much time in their bedroom practicing that they don't really — it's just different for them socially.
"Being in a band, you've gotta relate to people," Fortus continued. "And I think Bucket struggled with that. I always got along with him, but I think he really had a tough time with that."
Ashba issued a statement in July 2015 saying that he was leaving GUNS N' ROSES "to dedicate myself to my band SIXX:A.M., my adoring wife and family, and to the many new adventures that the future holds for me." He later claimed that he was approached about being part of GN'R's "Not In This Lifetime" tour, but that he declined, citing his desire to pursue SIXX:A.M. full time.
Only Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan from GN'R's "Appetite For Destruction"-era lineup are taking part in the band's current reunion. They are being joined by keyboardist Dizzy Reed, guitarist Richard Fortus and drummer Frank Ferrer. Also appearing with them is second keyboardist Melissa Reese.
Ashba recently launched a dance/rock hybrid called GDM (Guitar Dance Music) with his ASHBA project. His latest release is a single called "Bella Ciao", a modern-day EDM-driven makeover of the Italian folk classic. The song marked Ashba's first release of 2021 and followed a series of tracks that were released in late 2020 through Edgeout Records/UMG/UMe, including "Hypnotic", "Let's Dance" and "A Christmas Storm".
Source: https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/dj-as … -the-band/
#198 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 179 weeks ago
I'll take it.
This is my approach to anything we get. We heard for years he had one album, then two albums, then three. If he truly does have another album of songs in the can and this is how we get them then so be it. And if he has more than that even better.
I see many fans annoyed that it's not new material... hate to break it to those fans but you're following a band where you can't be choosy about what you get because it's been almost nothing for the longest time.
Get these songs out the door and that opens the door one day for a CD boxset of some description with these songs as they originally sounded. Either Axl can sanction it whilst he's alive or his estate can deal with it when he's gone.
In the meantime, lets just take what we get.
#199 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 179 weeks ago
Can't say I ever cared about the M&M portrayals of gender stereotypes but don't see why folk are so incensed about this.
Just sounds like they made the two women M&Ms (didn't even know they existed) less sexualised and less stereotypically bitchy, the orange one more confident and the red one less of an asshole. Don't necessarily get why that's bad or worth being upset about but at the same time don't think anyone was actually upset about.
I can just picture the woke hipster who wrote that shit.
I imagine this was probably written by a multi person corporate PR team who wrote a bunch of stuff that they think young, socially aware people care about. I'd also guess that actually no one actually gave two shits about the M&M characters to begin with.
#200 Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba says he submitted “8 to 10” new Guns N' Roses songs to Axl » 180 weeks ago
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DJ Ashba says he submitted “8 to 10” new Guns N' Roses songs to Axl Rose during his tenure, but they never materialized
“A lot of them were too Appetite-sounding,” the guitarist says, adding, “as a fan, that's what I'd want to hear”
DJ Ashba says he attempted to submit “eight to 10” new Guns N' Roses songs to Axl Rose during his tenure with the band.
In a new conversation on SiriusXM's Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk, the guitarist – who served six years with GNR from 2009 until 2015 – says that his nature is that of a “songwriter/producer, so, of course, I'm going to keep writing”.
He explains that he wrote “eight to 10 [songs] with Guns in mind, but a lot of them were too Appetite [For Destruction]-sounding.”
“To me, as a fan, I'm like, that's what I'd want to hear,” he continues. “And so I was like, ‘I want to write something that sounds like it came right off of Appetite. I think they hit a little too close to home, but there [were] a couple where [Rose] absolutely... He was like, ‘This song is dope.’
“For whatever reason – we were touring a lot – we never got a chance to get him in the studio. But they didn't go anywhere further than just me sending him some tracks and him going, ‘Ah, this one's dope,’ and ‘This one's cool.’”
Ashba departed the legendary rock outfit in 2015 upon Slash's return. He says that around “85 or 90 percent” of the guitar parts he was responsible for live were originally Slash's, so while he could have remained a full-time member, he says that relearning a three-hour show would have been too difficult. “It's muscle memory”, he says.
Elsewhere in the interview, the guitarist – who is also a prolific session musician – recalls recording “all the rhythm” guitar parts on Mötley Crüe's 2008 album, Saints of Los Angeles.
When questioned on albums he's performed on as a “ghost” musician over the years, Ashba mentions Saints of Los Angeles, saying: “I played all the rhythms on it. But Mick [Mars, guitarist] was awesome. [He] was actually in the hospital at the time.”
Ashba is credited as a songwriter on 11 of the albums 13 songs, with the exception of The Animal in Me and This Ain't a Love Song.
Back in November, the former GNR man gave Italian folk classic Bella Ciao an EDM-inspired, guitar-heavy makeover.
Source: https://www.guitarworld.com/news/dj-ash … oses-songs
