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Re: Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb
Did I ever tell you guys I heard Padmasana at a Golden Corral a few months ago?
Funniest thing. I saw all these old people sitting around for the early bird and I thought "none of these people have a clue who, and what, they're listening to".
Re: Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb
bigbri wrote:russtcb wrote:Speaking of which, I heard a Bucket song on my Roger Waters Pandora station today. I think it was called "Too Many Humans". Sound right? Good tune...
Yeah, that's from Population Override. Perhaps his best.
Oh cool. I really, really need to get around to investigating a full album of his. Is that one a good one to start with?
Definitely.
Re: Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb
More from Duff on Tommy....
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2 … ements.php
About a week and a half ago, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Tommy Stinson. For those of you who don't know, he is the guy who replaced me in Guns N' Roses. But also for those of you who don't know, Tommy is known to a lot of us music fans for his work in his first band, The Replacements.
Our meeting last week was by no means the first time we have hung out. No, back in 1983, my band 10 Minute Warning opened for The Replacements right here in Seattle, at the long-defunct punk club Metropolis.
Tommy is a great fucking guy, and I always come away glad when our paths have crossed over the years.
So here is a nod to you my friend. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present, The Replacements:
"Kick Your Door Down" (Sorry Ma! Forgot To Take Out The Trash, 1981): This is the year that American punk rock really started to come into its own. This was also the year that The Replacements put Minneapolis on the map as far as the young rock mind went.
"Left Of The Dial" (Tim, 1985): "Left Of the Dial" is an old term used to inform listeners where college radio was located on the FM number dial read-out. The 'alternative' to everything else was located down there. The Replacements were of course, an alternative to everything else before that term was used simply as a hip marketing term.
"I'll Be You" (Don't Tell A Soul, 1989): This decade was remembered for Prince, Madonna, U2, and Duran Duran. What many of us knew then though was that The Replacements were just plain heroes to the rest of us.
Re: Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/
DUFF MCKAGAN Says It Was 'Really Great' To See AXL ROSE Again - Nov. 7, 2010
Jim Wilkie of ESPN.com recently conducted an interview with Duff McKagan (DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED, VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES). An excerpt from the chat follow below.
ESPN.com: I wasn't going to ask any GUNS 'N' ROSES questions, but then I read where you played that show in London. Did you just play the encore?
McKagan: I played a few songs in the encore. It was really fun for me. It just happened out of nowhere. Literally, I was in the elevator going up to my room and the manager of the hotel — it's a hotel I stay at all the time — said, "Hey, you're playing tonight, right?" "No, I'm not playing at all this trip." Usually I played when I go there. It's an honest mistake. "You're not playing tonight?" Oh, will there be an issue? You're in a room next to Axl's [Rose, GUNS N' ROSES singer]."
ESPN.com: Right next to his room? Not just same hotel, but right next door?
McKagan: Right next, the chance of all the hotels in London, all the days of the year, all the years, all the floors in the hotel, you know. Yeah, but it was a great serendipitous thing because I was being thrown into "OK, how's it going?" You didn't have like three days to prepare. … And I don't have any resentments. It was a huge, great, amazing thing that happened in all of our lives. Killer. My life's totally enhanced in a whole different way because of that thing, for sure. So I just don't carry it around. I've gone through a lot of things to work through some of this shit. It happened. So it was great. I had no resentment. It was really great to see him. I don't think he had any resentment and we had a good time. We laughed. That's what you want to do with an old friend.
ESPN.com: What was it like to end up on stage playing GUNS 'N' ROSES. What was that feeling?
McKagan: I played a lot of GUNS 'N' ROSES songs with VELVET REVOLVER. It's part of my makeup. We wrote the songs [together], so they're like my songs. I don't compartmentalize what songs are what, so it was easy. Great, he's got a really good band. Nice guys, it's all good. I had to get right back after the gig, I had a meeting at 8 a.m. the next morning. "I gotta go."
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