Yes, Dizzy has said pretty much that.  In fact yesterday Blabbermouth reported an interview, with the headline "GUNS N' ROSES Keyboardist DIZZY REED: AXL ROSE's 'Work Ethic Has Really Rubbed Off On Me' - gotta love Blabbermouth's headlines, you know they'll pick the most contentious words from an interview and use it as the headline!

Anyway, Dizzy said this below, and this is exactly why I posted Ron's interview up, its awesome he will just say it how it is compared to what Dizzy always says.

The Maitland Mercury recently conducted an interview with GUNS N' ROSES keyboardist Dizzy Reed. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Maitland Mercury: When GUNS N' ROSES released "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" simultaneously in 1991, you became the biggest rock band on the planet. What are your strongest memories of that time?

Reed: It was definitely a pinch-myself-every-once-in-a-while situation to see if I was dreaming. But it I had known them before they even got signed and Axl [Rose, GUNS N' ROSES lead singer] had talked about having me in the band from very early on and then to watch them become so gigantic, I was always wondering if it was really going to happen. But he's a man of his word and when they were ready to start tracking those songs and those albums he called me and I got a phone call a couple of days later from Del James who was putting together the press release and said, "Congratulations, you're in GUNS N' ROSES." When I joined the band, they were chartering this jet that we used to fly around on everywhere for those three years. So I toured with a major band for three years and one day I was sitting around with some of the guys in the crew and they were all telling bus stories — stories about things that happened on the [tour] bus. It got to me and they said, "C'mon, Dizzy, what are some of your bus stories?" and I said, "I've never been on a bus." But, you know what? I've been on a shitload of buses since then. I prefer it these days — I like being on the bus and rolling down the highway.

The Maitland Mercury: It has been reported that Axl has written a lot of new material. When might we be able to hear some?

Reed: There's a lot of material that is in the can and there's a lot of ideas that we've been throwing around. Everyone's been sending stuff back and forth, and there's a lot of stuff ready to go. When we're ready to make that step, it will happen. It will happen quicker than the last album, let's put it that way.

The Maitland Mercury: What's it like to work with Axl on writing songs?

Reed: You know, I can't really imagine what it would be like to not make music the way he does it. Working with him has taught me a lot. He's a bit of a perfectionist, I guess. Because of that it always brings out the best in everyone that's working there [in the studio], and also out of me. You need some tension to make the best recordings you can make. It's easy to get something that sounds kick-ass and just roll with it and say, "Hey, there it is. We're done." But everything should have a second go around — or three — to make sure it's right. I think Axl's work ethic has really rubbed off on me.

The Maitland Mercury: Are there a lot of misconceptions out there about what Axl is like as a person?

Reed: Absolutely. Of course. Unfortunately, in the world we're living in — especially today — negativity sells. That's all people want to know about. When you make it to the top of the heap, everybody wants to knock you off. Things have always been like that. The more a person fights that, then the more it gets thrown back at them. If you took anybody and just presented all the negative things about them — a lot of them untrue or exaggerated — then you're not going to think too highly of that person. So there's misconceptions, definitely.

The whole interview can be found here: http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story … oom/?cs=12

You'd think someone along the line would QA this and go, "hang on, this mix is bad, where's that guitar?" and it would get sorted.  Unless they are all out to get Ashballs, which I dont think is the case. 

Its just another lame thing, like the CD cover being wrong too. If I were Axl, I'd have given someone a right ear bashing over this, its inexcusable for a bRand of this size really.

Wow - Adrian Belew !  I never knew he and Trent were working together, tbh I know very little indeed about NiN.

But I love Adrian's work with King Crimson, quirky and cool.....

Indeed.  Lombardo has quit twice before, once for a very short period in 86, during the Reign In Blood tour, over financials, and again in 92 because of band friction, which was probably KK. I didnt know about the short 86 breakup.

"Slayer" (either lawyers, or KK himself) has released a statement on this, denouncing Dave's claims.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?m … um=twitter

I was watching an interview with KK last night, where he admitted he has recorded all guitars (apart from JH's solos's) and bass on all the albums since the early 90's because he's "quick and productive".   I was pretty shocked by that.  Didnt know that was the case.

I love Slayer's albums up to decade of aggression, and never paid attention to how much of a cock KK appears to be.  Tom and Dave though, they always come across well in interviews, mellow cool guys. KK comes off as an ego prick.

I then watched some drum cam footage of Lombardo playing Angel of Death and Post Mortem, very good indeed!

With JH out of the picture, and seemingly unlikely to return, and now Dave gone too the future doesnt look too good. I didnt realise how screwed up and dis-functional they are as a band with KK running almost everything and Tom just recording vocals, and JH just doing solo's.