Gibsonfender2323 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Mods feel free to merge or lock! https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/guns-n-roses-melissa-reese-interview-1003943/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 I guess the question about her age has finally been answered then. "A couple of weeks before Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2016 reunion tour, keyboardist Melissa Reese got a call from Chinese Democracy producer Caram Costanzo. “We may be looking for a keyboard player,” she remembers him saying. “I didn’t even realize he was talking about me. Then he said, ‘What are you doing for the next few years?’” Many thoughts flooded her head at once. First off, Reese was just 25 and didn’t really know the Guns N’ Roses catalog outside of mega-hits like “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Welcome to the Jungle” (both released before she was born)..." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gibsonfender2323 Posted June 10, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said: I guess the question about her age has finally been answered then. "A couple of weeks before Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2016 reunion tour, keyboardist Melissa Reese got a call from Chinese Democracy producer Caram Costanzo. “We may be looking for a keyboard player,” she remembers him saying. “I didn’t even realize he was talking about me. Then he said, ‘What are you doing for the next few years?’” Many thoughts flooded her head at once. First off, Reese was just 25 and didn’t really know the Guns N’ Roses catalog outside of mega-hits like “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Welcome to the Jungle” (both released before she was born)..." The biggest mystery of Guns N' Roses is finally answered! I can die happy now. Edited June 10, 2020 by Gibsonfender2323 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonfender2323 Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) I wish Bucket was in. I would have payed to see this. He probably would have needed a new one lol. I just puked in my mouth and I looked like a chipmunk for a second, but then I fucking swallowed it. I told the technicians and they were like, ‘Someone get Blue a bucket!’ So now there’s always a blue bucket in case something like that happens to me.” Edited June 10, 2020 by Gibsonfender2323 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedYourIllusion Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 12 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said: I guess the question about her age has finally been answered then. "A couple of weeks before Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2016 reunion tour, keyboardist Melissa Reese got a call from Chinese Democracy producer Caram Costanzo. “We may be looking for a keyboard player,” she remembers him saying. “I didn’t even realize he was talking about me. Then he said, ‘What are you doing for the next few years?’” Many thoughts flooded her head at once. First off, Reese was just 25 and didn’t really know the Guns N’ Roses catalog outside of mega-hits like “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Welcome to the Jungle” (both released before she was born)..." That's one of the craziest moments of happenstance in music. Just random call and boom you're in GN'R. Obviously the Brain connection is there, but still. Kinda wacky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildStar Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 11 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said: I guess the question about her age has finally been answered then. "A couple of weeks before Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2016 reunion tour, keyboardist Melissa Reese got a call from Chinese Democracy producer Caram Costanzo. “We may be looking for a keyboard player,” she remembers him saying. “I didn’t even realize he was talking about me. Then he said, ‘What are you doing for the next few years?’” Many thoughts flooded her head at once. First off, Reese was just 25 and didn’t really know the Guns N’ Roses catalog outside of mega-hits like “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Welcome to the Jungle” (both released before she was born)..." So GNR have a member still in their 20's. I wonder if she really thinks GNR are a bunch of old farts. She obviously wasn't a fan if she just knew the mega-hits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gibsonfender2323 Posted June 10, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, WildStar said: So GNR have a member still in their 20's. I wonder if she really thinks GNR are a bunch of old farts. She obviously wasn't a fan if she just knew the mega-hits She says they are like big brothers. Axl did this During a 2018 show at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, she felt a tug on her hair midway through a song. She looks back and sees Axl Rose standing there with a big chunk of blue hair in one hand and a large pair of scissors in the other. “I’m like, ‘What the fuck is going on?'” she says. “I stopped playing and started screaming. He runs away and I don’t know if he’s taken off a huge chunk or what.” It turns out the hair wasn’t hers — it was all a practical joke that Axl spent weeks meticulously plotting out. He even had a tour assistant bring him different wigs with all sorts of shades of blue so he could find the perfect match for her hair. “They went through all the possibilities of what might happen,” says Reese. “Someone even said she might grab the scissors and stab you. But he was so pleased with himself and it was pretty fucking rad.” 1 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Great interview, thanks for posting ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, WildStar said: So GNR have a member still in their 20's. I wonder if she really thinks GNR are a bunch of old farts. She obviously wasn't a fan if she just knew the mega-hits It says later in the article that she's now 30, so she would've got the gig shortly before turning 26. Pretty impressive... and lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 So the article confirms (quoting Brain) that Pitman was fired and didn't quit. --------- This is funny: In early 2016, Mantia looked down at his phone and saw a bunch of missed calls from an unknown number. “Any time I get an unknown call, it’s either the IRS, Buckethead or the Guns N’ Roses camp,” he says. “And I never answer, because if I wind up talking to Bucket, that’ll be a five-hour conversation. If it’s the IRS, fuck that. If it’s the Guns camp, I’d just usually…any unknown I’d just let go to voicemail.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamillos Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Don't run with scissors, Axl! 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Jaro- Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 The interview with most infirmations since reunion... And now, after age info, we can understand her IG posts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EricA Posted June 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2020 when she met Slash for the first time, and he'd be asked what he expects from her ‘I don’t know, man. Just play your parts right.’ at his purest 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosso Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, -Jaro- said: The interview with most infirmations since reunion... And now, after age info, we can understand her IG posts... That's the biggest revelation since the egyptian hieroglyphs. Edited June 10, 2020 by Sosso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildStar Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 48 minutes ago, Gibsonfender2323 said: She says they are like big brothers. Axl did this During a 2018 show at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, she felt a tug on her hair midway through a song. She looks back and sees Axl Rose standing there with a big chunk of blue hair in one hand and a large pair of scissors in the other. “I’m like, ‘What the fuck is going on?'” she says. “I stopped playing and started screaming. He runs away and I don’t know if he’s taken off a huge chunk or what.” It turns out the hair wasn’t hers — it was all a practical joke that Axl spent weeks meticulously plotting out. He even had a tour assistant bring him different wigs with all sorts of shades of blue so he could find the perfect match for her hair. “They went through all the possibilities of what might happen,” says Reese. “Someone even said she might grab the scissors and stab you. But he was so pleased with himself and it was pretty fucking rad.” Yeah I know. I wonder what she thinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allwaystired Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Just now, WildStar said: Yeah I know. I wonder what she thinks Probably something along the lines of "this care in the community project sure does pay well"...... 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 51 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said: It says later in the article that she's now 30, so she would've got the gig shortly before turning 26. Pretty impressive... and lucky I know Wikipedia had her birth year slashed for a while which caused great debate and confusion, but it was based on a article that talked about her age but didn't specify at which point in the year. This would seem to confirm that 1990 is correct! Who needs new pro-shot videos when information like this is coming out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian girl Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 I wanna be Melissa reese 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosso Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 49 minutes ago, jamillos said: Don't run with scissors, Axl! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweersa Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 So she's 30, I wonder how she feels about younger men? I'm 29. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Didn’t Pitman claim that he quit on his own accord? This article makes it sound like he was fired! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratam Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 47 minutes ago, Italian girl said: I wanna be Melissa reese Lucky girl Melissa! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powderfinger Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Cool that she’s so into her music. Not my type of music, but at least she loves what she does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaskingApathy Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Italian girl said: I wanna be Melissa reese Do you have blue hair? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lame ass security Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 She seems very cool. It was cool when Axl sat her down and said he had her back and she had his. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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