Słash Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I havent listened to the Interview, But I found it so Im sharing it over here, I guess they Discuss many things so it should be interestinghttp://bravewords.com/news/former-guns-n-roses-manager-doug-goldstein-clearly-there-were-difficulties-between-the-manager-and-axl-rose-they-were-having-problems-with-slash-one-on-one-with-mitch-lafon-interview-streaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Black Star Riders’ Damon Johnson and former Guns N’ Roses manager Doug Goldstein join Mitch Lafon in celebrating 100 episodes of One On One With Mitch Lafon. The episode is co-hosted by Talking Metal's Mark Strigl.“Our first interview is with guitarist extraordinaire, Damon Johnson who discusses Black Star Riders, the decision to not use the well established Thin Lizzy brand name, their fantastic second album The Killer Instinct, their upcoming UK tour opening for Whitesnake and Def Leppard, the Damon Johnson Trio, his upcoming solo dates, working with Alice Cooper, his work on the the unreleased third Damn Yankees album called Bravo (he replaced Tommy Shaw to work alongside Jack Blades and Ted Nugent), and more.“In our second interview with sit down with former Guns N’ Roses manager Doug Goldstein (current CEO When Pigs Fly) for an epic two hour chat discussing the entire history of the band including the feuds, lawsuits and riots. More specifically we talk about Axl Rose becoming the sole owner of the GNR name, the firing of Steve Adler, working with KISS' Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin, the Montreal Riot and why it was Metallica's Lars Ulrich's fault, the 2 1/2 years of documented yet unreleased Use Your Illusion Tour film, Yoda aka Sharon Maynard, Iron Maiden's manager Rod Smallwood (and his potential involvement in a GNR reunion tour), controversial songs One In A Million and Look At Your Game Girl, working with Black Sabbath featuring Glenn Hughes and current KISS drummer Eric Singer, the Rose Festival featuring Van Halen and Guns N Roses, his letter to Axl, the 'Denver Incident', John Reese, are there 100 unreleased songs sitting in a vault , Slash, Duff and much, much more.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsguy Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 gonna have to hear this. I want to hear Dougs take on Montreal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyrobot Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intercourse Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 this is an aural orgy for the diehards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 this is an aural orgy for the diehards. No, not treallyi bet this is the same old shit we have heard from him in various interviewsalso 100 unreleased songs, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlsalinger Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Sounds like an epic interview, if it's no-holds-barred and covers all the topics listed in that description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tinyrobot Posted March 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) - Doug says the Yoda crap is all true.- Mitch says he's heard Axl has fired the entire new line-up.... Doug says he's heard Fernando Lebeis released a DVD without Axl's authorization and Axl got pissed off and let everybody go (?).- Mitch says he communicates with some of the current members and it looks like they are not working with Axl at the time.- Doug says Axl has an incredible fear of not being able to pull it off live. That explains the necessity of having lots of people on stage, choir girls and parafernalia, in order to deviate the attention from the smallest mistake in his singing/voice.- Doug says Axl has damaged his voice a lot and he had constant issues with his voice. This combined with his fear of failing live is the explanation to why it took 4 hours to go onstage every night.- Doug says Axl LOVES Slash, Duff, Izzy and the rest of the guys but he never knew how to communicate his feelings to them. It was frustrating that Axl refuses to stick up for himself in any situation. He's never interested in telling his side of the story.- Axl made it clear Paul Tobias was a temporary guitar player until Slash, Duff and Matt could find someone else. They never got the message, apparently, and did nothing but complain about him.- Axl was in tears when Slash went to play with Michael Jackson. Doug and Axl had absolute knowledge of the allegations and Axl could not comprehend how come Slash, knowing Axl's story of being molested as a child, could do that to him particularly over a big screen tv.- Doug makes clear this is not the reason why Slash and Duff left but this Michael Jackson thing was like the ultimate "traitor" thing Axl could stand, and that's exactly the moment when he disengaged from Slash as his partner.- Alleged letter circulating on the Internet from Doug to Axl is real. He gave it to Beta but it was not meant to go public.- Axl loved Kurt Cobain and got really hurt when Kurt and Courtney attacked him backstage during the VMA's in '92.- Doug thinks Axl is completely misunderstood and that most people didn't know how to deal with his manic depression disease.- Slash got brokenhearted from finding out about the idea of making Guns N' Roses a three-guitar band. Axl wanted him to give up his solos and share them with guys like Dave Navarro or Zakk Wylde.- Doug says he would love to sit down with Axl, Slash and Duff to clarify and dispell all the misunderstandings between them.- Doug says he has no knowledge of a vault with 100 unreleased songs. Edited March 31, 2015 by tinyrobot 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 RIP NuGNR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChineseIRS Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Axl has the title Stay of Execution tradmarked as of last year or the year before, maybe a new project ha? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I want to hear the Damon interview. The guy is a badass and founding member of the great hard rock band Brother Cane (local hero for me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Found this article about rock & roll bodyguards from the late 80s. Did he sound like a macho jock though? http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/stand-by-me-19890406"A security person that parties loses a lot of credibility," says teetotaler Doug Goldstein, a former guard for numerous hard-rock acts, including Black Sabbath. "People who get caught up in those vices don't last very long." Goldstein, the cocky, twenty-seven-year-old son of a San Diego cop, left the bodyguard business recently to comanage Guns n' Roses, but he still holds fond memories of his knockabout days in the trade. A macho jock in high school who looks more like a soap-opera hunk than an incredible hulk, Goldstein landed his first major job with the schmaltzy pop group Air Supply, telling grandmotherly types to "pull the thorns off the roses before throwing them onstage." Goldstein, however, has less-than-fond memories of a brief stint with the Rolling Stones. "That [1981] Stones tour was a son of a bitch," Goldstein says, fiddling with a silver ring shaped like a great white shark. He recalls one girl who stuck a metal hook through his shoulder, leading him to grab her head and twist it "in kind of an Exorcist position" until the police arrested her. "Women will fuck with you," he says. "If you're trying to throw their boyfriend out, they'll bite you in the back. Shit like that goes on all the time." Doug Goldstein once successfully kept Black Sabbath's Glenn Hughes away from nasty influences and, more recently, helped deter drug dealers from hanging around Guns n' Roses. Goldstein now hires security to safeguard the Gunners from overzealous fans, but he points out that often it's the public that needs to be rescued from the artists. "We have to protect people from the band. Abso-fucking-lutely," he says. "You get situations, particularly with Slash, when he's intoxicated. He likes to have fun, and he'll go after people. He'll get in their face, and he's a strong person." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceres Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Yummy content for a change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLegend Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) Doug/Mitch speculate that Fortus has left GNR because of a Dead Dasies tour. That's the kind of insight they provide into the current line-up."I just read on some website"-edit-The other stuff is interesting though, but it's difficult to know what's fact and which parts are just Doug's ego talking.They do mention MYGNR though at the end. Edited March 31, 2015 by AtariLegend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I really enjoyed listening to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER PT Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 When is he talking about the big screen television? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManetsBR Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 -- Mitch says he's heard Axl has fired the entire new line-up.... Doug says he's heard Fernando Lebeis released a DVD without Axl's authorization and Axl got pissed off and let everybody go (?).Not the first time this has been mentioned. I agree that they don't know how to handle the fans very well, but they do keep the wheel turning, inside Axl's terms, it seems. Makes me wonder if Ron was full of shit when he said TB is the problem with GNR and not Axl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlsalinger Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Listened to the interview, extremely interesting throughout. Kudos to Goldstein, the interview is two hours long and he answered every question. I thought he was pretty fair, in that he was able to criticize Axl for certain things, but defended him for a lot of different stuff, trying to explain where Axl was coming from, etc.Took a lot of shots at Alan Niven - guess Axl and Niven never got along but Slash wanted him out as well.Not a lot of mind-blowing new info, but some interesting stories and generally candid answers. Worth checking out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) Doug said in this interview that Izzy and Alan did black magic, and in the Rolling Stone interview he said Slash did black magic? Edited April 1, 2015 by dalsh327 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I think they'd need someone like Douglas to do a reunion tour. It would be a huge deal with a lot of riot potential. He's gotta be crazy to really want jump back into to this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncitingChaos Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Could you imagine Axl so mad that he fires everyone! That is insane. I just see Axl hearing about a dvd, finding out who authorized it and going off on Fernando. Fernando probably left went to Beta and said "Axl got mad at me. Will you go talk to him?" In which she does and he gets more mad and tells everyone to leave. Sends out a group text to everyone saying "Thanks for F'ing up. Since nobody wants to tell me anything n my own band, you can all leave. I'm done with every1! YoU ALL HAD ONE JOB N'D U F'D UP!" a day later everything is likely back to normal. but in that brief moment of Axl losing it...that would be some scary stuff. I will be shocked if Axl does not respond to these recent stories about Micheal Jackson and stuff. There has to be something said on his end. The story has gotten alot of print lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 The Fernando DVD disaster is pure rumor. It's very much something Doug heard. But believable. Niven seems too confrontational with Axl. I guess he knew Axl was going next level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 The thought of straight men " loving" each other makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubbaBubba Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Great listen. Ah the sweet sweet oxygen of new information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 It really did she'd some light on the whole situation. The main thing seems to be people who take the manic depressive behaviour as just being an asshole. But it's also funny how uninvolved Axl was. He was just protecting himself from the sharks. Once the friendships break down its every pirate for himself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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