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    Bumblefoot the musician ..

    in 2006

    Posted

    Ok, short and sweet topic.

    I've waited to the end of the tour before casting my opinion, but Bumblefoot......I'm just not a fan. Don't get me wrong, I've tried, and I know the guy is an amazing musician - but nothing he has contributed has blown me away (with the exception of Don't Cry)and his presence on the live shows is total overkill.

    One thing this tour has certianly cemented is just how good the combo of Finck and Forus are, amazing team and super stage presence (my opinion of Finck has shot straight up after hearing him live, the 'sloppy' criticism's are seriously unwarranted when you hear the guy in front of you - he brings something pretty unique to GNR). But Bumble, ....I dunno.....

    Maybe Axl and Bumble will prove me wrong when the album comes out, but I doub't it.

    It's not even the fact there are 3 guitarists, it's just sometimes his playing really blows..... His playing sounds imprecise, rushed, and really OTT (at least he's good for a showboat - we've all seen his cabaret 'right hand up the neck' trick. Oh, and at least he's a nice guy). I'm not against virtuoso guitarists, far from it, but at least Bucket hit us with some memorable solos and was remotely melodic. Bumble's style is just pure guitar wank........ JMO

    LA

    I disagree - strongly.

    I think Axl's decision to bring Ron onboard was the smartest move he's made in years - both musically and from a PR perspective. I think Ron is talented and versatile as a guitarist, has good stage presence (which he didn't have when he first joined the band), and offers a great connection between the band and fans from a PR perspective. jmo.

    I agree, bringing him onboard is the best thing AXL could have done. He is truly a nice guy that is good with the fans, signs autographs, and even answers email. The guy is talented and not a head case like Buckethead. Look closer you might see see why it is a good thing he is here.

    Thanks,

    Rainman rock3

    instrumental jams between songs

    in 2006

    Posted

    i think that is such a sweet idea. little 30 second jams that go wherever they want... what a great idea. i'd love to get a hold of footage that contain these miniature songs. i remember not being able to identify what song they were going into with them during the worcester show... each time thinking it was down on the farm- then it finally was!

    these things are awesome. anyone on board with that?

    Agreed, the jams in between are really cool and they should keep them!!! I seen GN'R in Detroit and loved the jams.

    rock3 Rainman

    Sebastian Bach Interview

    in 2006

    Posted · Edited by Rainman

    SEBASTIAN BACH INTERVIEW

    “I THANK GOD FOR AXL ROSE FOR BRINGING ME ON TOUR!”

    If glam metal has a Renaissance man, there's no doubt it's Sebastian Bach. As the frontman for the '90s hair-metal act Skid Row, he sold over twenty million records (and probably went through just as many cans of hairspray). However, when his peers cut their hair short and bought flannel shirts to try to remain relevant, Bach reinvented himself as a Broadway performer, television personality and, most recently, honorary Gilmore Girl. We caught up with Bach in Toronto while he was on tour with Guns N' Roses — although his St. Louis date is a solo show — and talked with him about his past, his future and what he's most thankful for this Turkey day. (Hint: It has cornrows.)

    Jonah Bayer: First off, I wanted to tell you that my first show ever was seeing Skid Row open for Guns N' Roses on the "Use Your Illusion" tour.

    Sebastian Bach: Yeah! [Laughs] Now we're coming again to rock you, dude.

    Do you remember that tour pretty well?

    Yup, I sure do. I just can't believe that I'm on the road with Axl again fifteen years later. That's really crazy.

    How is it different this time around?

    It actually feels a lot more the same. There's a lot more similarities to talk about than differences, because there's nothing like music that transports you to where you were when you first heard it. So when I'm in a big arena like I was last night in Baltimore, and there's thousands of people in front of me, and I'm singing "18 & Life," the only difference is that in 1991 people held up lighters and in 2006 they hold up cell phones.

    How do you think the music industry has changed in the past fifteen years?

    Well, the Internet has obviously been the biggest change. Back in '91 the first Skid Row album sold over ten million copies worldwide, and with Slave to the Grind we sold over seven million worldwide — and nobody now sells that many records. How people get their music now is completely different; people don't go into a store and buy CDs anymore. I've got a brand-new song called "Body Inside" that I started doing when we started playing with GNR in Europe, and it's got over 40,000 plays and it's not even out on any record. So people already know my new songs that are on my forthcoming album because of the Internet.

    I heard you're also doing "My Michelle" with GNR on this tour. Is that fun for you?

    It is fun, but it's also challenging vocally to do my whole set and then wait through Papa Roach and then come out at the end and scream at the top of my lungs again. [Laughs. ]

    Obviously, you've been very involved in theater in the past decade. What's the biggest difference between performing at a rock show and a Broadway show?

    Well, in rock & roll I am in control of my stage, and in Broadway the director or the producer have control. Like when I'm doing Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber's thing, it's not Sebastian Bach's thing, you know? So that got kind of old for me, because I'm used to being in control. I love rock & roll. I love theater, too, but I've just had my fill of that for right now.

    What's starring on Gilmore Girls like? I'd imagine that a lot of the younger viewers probably have never heard of Skid Row.

    Yeah, well, I get noticed a lot for the Gilmore Girls. Walking down the street, little girls will say, "Are you that guy?" And I'm thinking they're saying, "Are you the guy from Skid Row?" and they're not — they're saying, "Are you that guy from the Gilmore Girls?" I think I get noticed more now because of that show.

    Honestly, between Supergroup and all your other appearances, it's really difficult to keep track of everything you've been up to in the past few years.

    [Laughs] Yeah, that's good. I like that. Well, dude, all that TV and acting stuff I do enjoy, but rock & roll is my first love by far, so right now I'm concentrating on that. I'll definitely do more TV in the future — I'm doing another episode of the Gilmore Girls next week, actually — but rock & roll is where my heart is.

    You have a solo record coming out next year. Was it hard to find the time to record that will your schedule?

    Yeah, we actually recorded it when we were on the European Guns N' Roses tour, and then we went to LA for three weeks and recorded, and then we went right back on tour. It's not totally finished yet, musically it is and vocally it's probably at about 95 percent. I just have a little more work to do on it.

    How would you describe the way it sounds?

    It sounds new. I always try to make something that sounds different, but I also want you to be able to put it in your iPod and have it make sense with all the other stuff I've put out — except for the Last Hard Men [bach's supergroup featuring members of the Breeders, Smashing Pumpkins and the Frogs], because that doesn't make sense at all. [Laughs.]

    Is your set on this tour mostly hits from Skid Row, or are you doing a lot of solo stuff?

    Yes and yes. [it's weird] when people ask me if I'm doing Skid Row songs, because it's almost like people are saying you're the first person to do your own songs. Ozzy Osbourne plays "Paranoid" every night and nobody ever says, "Are you going to do 'Paranoid?'" Yeah, he is. Well, Sebastian Bach does "Youth Gone Wild"; that's how he works.

    Do you still like playing those old Skid Row songs live?

    Yeah, I sold twenty million records; I'm not going to not do those songs. [Laughs] What the fuck would that be? That would suck.

    I guess it just seems a little strange because the other members of Skid Row are out there playing those songs right now, too.

    But you're acting like this is the first time this has happened in music. Every single band you can think of has gone through this. David Lee Roth plays "Running with the Devil" and so does Eddie Van Halen; Tony Iommi plays Black Sabbath songs and so does Ozzy. I'm not the first guy in rock to have a solo career.

    Understood. Well, Thanksgiving's right around the corner: What is Sebastian Bach most thankful for this year?

    I thank God for Axl Rose for bringing me on tour. Welcome to the jungle of the youth gone wild; we're gonna tear it up. Rock & roll is back, mother trucker — that's what I want to say.

    Article at: http://music.riverfronttimes.com/issues/20...ic/music_1.html

    Another Sebastian interview: VELVET REVOLVER Can't Do 'Welcome To The Jungle' Because WEILAND Can't Sing It

    Ross Raihala of TwinCities.com recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A few excerpts from the chat follows:

    On what it's like to be back playing arenas:

    "It was the most amazing thing for Axl to ask my band to join the tour. It's something I've waited for for a long time. I get offers to do those package tours, the nostalgia-oriented ones, but I always say no. But GUNS N' ROSES, that one I'll do. I'm very, very lucky. There's a lot of firsts on this tour for me. We got to play a sold-out Madison Square Garden. There have been a lot of places I've never played before, and for an old guy like me, it's great."

    On what Axl's like behind the scenes:

    "He likes to laugh. He likes to joke around, like, a lot. And he's got the most unique voice I've ever heard. His speaking voice is this low baritone, Clint Eastwood kind of a voice. And then when he laughs, it's like a boy soprano's highest note that comes out. You know, he's singing better than ever now, and that's a fact. That's one thing about Axl people forget. He is one of the best rock 'n' roll singers that ever lived."

    On the sometimes long wait from his solo set to "My Michelle":

    "Well, I've been on the road since June. And, you know, that whole 'My Michelle' thing is great. I sing my own stuff, then wait two or three hours and jump up there and scream even harder. I've been doing that every day. It's good work if you can get it. The one thing I've learned about myself — and I learned this when I did 'Jesus Christ Superstar' — is that my voice is probably the strongest part about me. It's the rest of me that gets tired. My legs and my eyeballs and my arms and my brain. But my pipes are fine."

    On his appearance on "SuperGroup":

    "My favorite part of it was when I tell the powers that be to f— off. I just love that. And when they brought that stylist in, I'm, like, 'No, I'm not cutting my hair.' They tell me she cut Jennifer Lopez's hair. Dude, Sebastian Bach has cooler hair than Jennifer Lopez. I look at music as a form of self-expression. I don't need a stylist. Why doesn't she have her own band if she's such an expert? Whatever. My father was a famous painter, and as a little boy, I watched him wake up every day, get his paintbrush and paint all day. He did that 'til the day he died. My microphone is my paintbrush. That's what I do."

    On getting the call to star in "Jekyll and Hyde" on Broadway:

    "I was, like, 'Do you have the right phone number? Why are you calling me?' They sent the script, and I was on the road with my solo band playing some f——— dump. I was looking around at this club and thinking, hmmm, Broadway or this place? Honestly, though, I didn't think I could do it. The script is so thick, it's like 300 pages or some s—. It's all in old English, and there were these words I'd never heard before in my life. There's 17 songs, and I'm in every scene. But I had a lot of encouragement from people. And I loved doing it. It really was the highlight of my life."

    On those who say the 2006 version of GUNS N' ROSES isn't the real thing:

    "You know, you've got Slash and Duff doing STONE TEMPLE PILOTS songs with Weiland (in VELVET REVOLVER). They can't do 'Welcome to the Jungle' because he can't sing it. Let's be honest. Then, you've got Axl doing 'Sweet Child o' Mine' and 'Rocket Queen' with some other dudes. I'd rather see Axl singing GUNS N' ROSES songs than Slash doing STONE TEMPLE PILOTS songs. Nobody can sing 'Paradise City' like Axl Rose."

    Story at: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/16123665.htm

    Axl stayed at my ex's hotel

    in 2006

    Posted

    If anyone cares, i know people were saying that he wasn't sick and all.. But, she said when he ordered room service he only ordered green tea. birk

    What is the name of the hotel? I am staying at a nice hotel in Chicago this weekend?

    Thanks,

    Rainman rock3

    GNR SHOULD HAVE DONE SOME KIND OF MONSTER

    in 2006

    Posted

    Face it..As lame as Metallica looked everyone would have KILLED to see Axl and Slash with that shrink....And who knows maybe they would be still a band today...People can bash Metallica all they want but at least they did what they felt they needed to do in order to NOT BREAK UP.......Every other band today just breaks up when the going gets tough...GNR anyone? Faith No More? Soundgarden? ETC............GNR should have done this type of movie, maybe it would have been better then punking out and breaking up and taking 20 years to put out a record

    How many original member are now in Metallica? Just 2 if I remember right????

    Rainman rock3

    How does nu GNR stack up against other live acts?

    in 2006

    Posted

    My son will soon be 15 years old and he likes GN'R music, but not a die hard fan by any means. When he was mad at me he would call GN'R and AXL a 'has been' and old and no good compared to bands such as A7X or MCR. I disagreed and told him once he sees them live he will change his mind. After the Detroit show last week, he said and I quote, "I will NOT be forgetting this concert any time soon." He loved it and now any other concert he sees we NEVER be as good, perod.... I saw a die hard in the making, first hand at the Palace of Auburn Hills !!!!!

    Thanks AXL, Dizzy, Tommy, Robin, Brain, Richard, Chris, Ron, & Frank.

    Rainman rock3

    Promises?

    in 2006

    Posted

    I see it more over at HTGTH and other forums but, it should be noted that Axl never made any direct promises that the album would come out this year. He simply stated "you will hear music this year." And boy did we ever!!! We had a full Euro Tour, and now a full US Tour, and plenty of leaks and demos that nearly everyone downloaded. Personally, i think this is a banner year for GNR, ive heard more music from GNR this year than i have in the past 15!

    I think we should be quite happy. If only we could have warned those poor suckers back in 94 to fast forward to 2006.

    See the VMA's interview. :question:

    get well soon Axl

    in 2006

    Posted

    hope you are feeling better Axl! get some well deserved rest. you've been kicking ass all year! rock3

    Get well soon ! Loved the Auburn Hills-Detroit show !!!

    Thanks,

    Rainman

    Toledo, OH rock3

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