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I've been making my way through it over the last few weeks and now on Season 3. Tremendous viewing. I met Brian Cox some years back, a total gent.

Amazing, was looking forward to you getting him on again. Will throw this in shortly. Cheers!

Tina enriched our lives with music that will forever stand the test of time. An absolute juggernaut that rose through hardships that would have made many buckle. One of the GOATs. God bless, Tina,

Your diction when you sing really adds a whole other layer to the tunes themselves. The emotion is evident and makes this a tremendous listen, as all your tunes are. Great work as always man and thank you for sharing your talent with us. What a voice.

Fret not.

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House of Blues, 01/01/01. Best show I’ve been in attendance for is probably Glasgow 2012. Gdańsk in 2017 was also fucking nuts. Something special in the air that night, the band got a massive kick out of the crowd.

I expected to dislike this immensely but it isn't bad, not bad at all.

The Dunblane Massacre resulted in mass restrictions across the UK. To think something like that at such scale is common in America and the lives lost are nothing more than a statistic is terribly sad from an outsider looking in. Change needs to happen but will cause mass divide throughout.

I think the biggest issue regarding Chinese was the lack of promotion. It still sold well despite all the shenanigans surrounding it's release, but it fell below the industry's expectations on the impact that it could have had. No promotional videos and no touring til over a year of it's release. It deserved a lot more effort from all parties, as the quality of material was incredibly high IMO. Going Down is a great tune and I hope it rears it's head at some point in an official capacity, whether it be from Tommy or GNR.

Pre-Order's for the album now live on multiple sites. Tommy's official store: Cowboys In The Campfire's Wronger - CD Cowboys In The Campfire's Wronger - Vinyl Amazon: Wronger: Amazon.co.uk: CDs & Vinyl

Image that was posted on the forum and sent to TB also. It wasn’t any forum staff that done it, but an attempt was made to reach out to them for Axl to answer a few questions around 2013/14.

That was confirmed when that god awful image of two hands shaking, one representing the forum, the other Team Brazil, was aired publicly 😂😂😂

I think it was someone on here that told a story about getting the band to sign his copy of Chinese, only for DJ to take it out his hand and sign it too without being asked. Hilarious! Live Era eluded me for the longest time. Estrangedtwat picked it up for me at a fraction of the price it goes for these days and shipped it over to Scotland from Japan. Forever grateful. I’ve a few copies of Chinese. 3 EU pressings and one US that I’ve never played. I picked up a sealed copy of Chinese on vinyl for £6 in Newcastle a few year back. Incredible find! As far as albums goes, I’m all set, though not really fussed about variants. I do have a few copies of each album though 😂😂😂

The guy's other channel took off and probably just focuses on that - he took down a lot of the GNR related interviews he done sadly, some of them were pretty informative.

Yeah man, more the video that is lost to the ether!

Are you maybe thinking of this? A lot of interviews have been lost through the passage of time, particularly Richard’s Guitar Forum Q&A late December 2014/15 where he said Axl spent the last few weeks laying down vocals.

That may also explain the lack of promotion for Hard Skool!

Good call to ditch the watermark! Wouldn't mind a lot more of these clips being shared on a regular basis.

Copper Top with Acca Dacca in 2016. Two juggernauts colliding. Once in a lifetime. Phenomenal. I should’ve been seeing Tommy play in Glasgow back in 2017, but I was put on a flight to Ibiza. I’ve pre-ordered his upcoming record Wronger and hoping he comes back over here soon.

Version 2 on RM04 I think it was. That said, I do lean more towards the drums up version with Brain on the kit

I had Atlas on in the car yesterday. First time I’d listened to it in so long. To think Axl has been sat on a song of that quality for well over 20 years is mental.

The new Cowboys in the Campfire album has been in the works for years. Tommy dropped this single on his socials. It sounds tremendous. Tommy hasn't put out a bad record so it'll be essential listening. Former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson’s latest venture is called Cowboys in the Campfire — a duo with good pal Chip Roberts — and its debut album, WRONGER, (due out June 2) is perhaps the most American album the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer has ever made. WRONGER’s 10 tracks ride a giddy trail of twang and grit, melody and (mostly lyrical) mayhem. The very first song, “Here We Go Again,” sets the tone; Stinson on ukulele, singing about the ardors of creativity, while horns swell and there’s not a hint of percussion other than the perceptible tapping of feet by the musicians in the room. It’s stark and immediate, like sitting right in the middle of the maelstrom. From there we encounter a broad and passionate range of feels, from the rough ‘n’ tumble rockabilly of “That’s It” to “We Ain’t,” a shuffle straight out of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Stinson and Roberts take us from Nashville to Bakersfield on songs such as “Mr. Wrong” and “Fall Apart Together,” while “Schemes,” “Souls” and “Dream” are showcases of an ace pop songwriter. “I’m not one to be pigeonholed — but I’m not putting a lot of thought into it that I DON’T want to be pigeonholed,” Stinson, who now resides in the out-of-the-way environs of Hudson, N.Y., says with a laugh. “For me it’s always been that the songs pretty much tell you what they’re going to do. I can sit there and work a song into the ground, forcing my will on it, or you can listen to the song and go, ‘What does this want?’ and do that. I’ve always done it that way. Ultimately it’s more about, ‘Let’s try and get the best 10 and take what we’ve got and make them the best they can be.'” Cowboys in the Campfire was “a joke at first,” according to Stinson, dating back more than a decade. Roberts is the uncle of Stinson’s second ex-wife; he hails from the Philadelphia rock scene, where he was a gun-for-hire guitar slinger for visiting musicians who needed accompaniment. “We’ve been really good friends and writing partners pretty much since we met each other,” Stinson says. “We were writing rock tunes to ballads or country or Americana, but we’ve both come from that sort of singer-songwriter thing.” Neither man expected their association to become an ongoing musical concern, especially as Stinson had plenty on his plate. But the collaboration had legs, and about seven years ago, during a Guns N' Roses hiatus and before Stinson ventured into Replacements and Bash & Pop reunions, he and Roberts got a little more serious. "It was spring, and neither one of us had something to do that summer," Stinson recalls. "So we said, 'Let's go play some shows. Let's f*** around.' That's what we did. I took some songs he and I had written together, some of my solo stuff, some covers, some other stuff of mine he plays. We'd ad lib on stuff. We started playing shows in the South and stuff." One of the duo's songs, "Anything Could Happen," became the title track of Bash & Pop's 2017 release, which Roberts also played on. But they still felt that Cowboys in the Campfire -- which takes its name from a couple of Roberts' paintings -- might have its own trail. "The running joke was, 'That's what our band would be called if we had one," Stinson recalls. "Finally we were like, 'We've got 10 songs here. Let's make a record'. It was almost as off the cuff as that. Almost." WRONGER began life five or six years ago, when Stinson and Roberts were on tour in Texas. They went into a studio there with a friend, Christine Smith, producing and recording five songs; X's John Doe was around, too, and played bass and sang backup on four of the tracks. The rest of the album was made at Stinson's home studio in Hudson, adding occasional contributions from friends where needed -- including a string quartet on the track "Hey Man." Drums, meanwhile, were considered optional and are only used on a few of WRONGER's tracks, hearkening back to Stinson's philosophy to give the tunes what they called for. The songs themselves came from a variety of inspirations. "Karma's Bitch," for instance, is a real-life story from a Maryland beach community where a friend pointed out a man who divorced his alcoholic wife to start dating her equally addled daughter -- both of whom ultimately died. "It became the basis of that song, as grim as it is," Stinson acknowledges. A couple of WRONGER's songs, particularly "Hey Man," touch lightly on socio-political topics "without getting too far into it," Stinson says -- just enough to be provocative and open to interpretation. And he cheerfully fesses up to "somewhat channeling" an assortment of influences, including Conway Twitty and Tanya Tucker, whose music was favored by Stinson's mother. "It's an experimental record in a lot of ways," says Stinson, who turned to Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperon and his son Autry to help with the sequencing and overall encouragement. "I don't know that Chip's ever made a record as experimental as this one. There's always been a country/folky element to what I've done, even early on, but this takes it into a whole other direction. In the grand scheme of things it all kind of goes together in kind of a blur." The goal now for Stinson and Roberts is to keep Cowboys in the Campfire on the road and playing as much as possible. Stinson still has other endeavors in mind, but the duo is undeniably an active concern and one he's confident we'll be hearing from on a regular basis. "Chip and I are going to make a real run for it with this record," Stinson says. "And I'm feeling like I'm probably about to head back in the studio. I've got some ideas; they're just in my head at the moment and in my fingers. I don't know what they'll be yet, but I'm in a place now where I can do that and make music on my own terms. It's a nice place to be." Tracklisting: Here We Go Again That’s It Mr. Wrong Schemes Fall Apart Together Hey Man We Ain’t Karma’s Bitch Souls Dream https://www.antimusic.com/news/tommy_stinsons_cowboys_in_the_campfire_share_dream_video-032223/

Tommy is going on tour in Spain and recently done an interview with Rockzone, a Spanish Media Outlet. This is a rough translation courtesy of Google so there will no doubt be errors. Here are a few tidbits on Guns and Chinese. https://www.rockzonemag.com/entrevista-a-tommy-stinson-cerca-de-las-estrellas/ One of the songs you sang on the tour with the Guns N' Roses was 'Motivation', from the album Village Gorilla Head. "It was great to be able to sing that song with the band. It wasn't my idea, precisely. They asked me if I could sing one or two songs, for production reasons. I showed them a list of my songs, we tried several and I really felt comfortable singing that song, so they added it to the set list. It was great to be able to do that with a band like Guns N' Roses." Let's talk about Guns N' Roses. What is your current opinion of Chinese Democracy? "I haven't heard it recently, but I think it's a great album at different levels. There was a lot of dedication on everyone's part and it was also an extraordinary learning experience. I have never had to record with people of totally distant musical styles before. The best of all was that, the experience. I've learned a lot by recording that album." How would you describe Axl as a composer? He has always stretched more to Queen or Elton John than not just prototypical rock. "He's someone very interesting. For me, he doesn't get enough credit in what he does. He is a very diplomatic person, he wants us all to be part of the process, for us all to participate in the recordings. He is very good at the role of producer and there is not much talk about that. He's really very good at his business. As a composer he is unique, he always tries to get everyone involved in the process of a song, that no one is left out." Now they are back, and I would like to know your opinion of Duff McKagan as a musician. "Oh, I think he's a great bassist. I love his style and we also come from similar places. I'm glad Guns N' Roses are together again. I only have good memories of when I was with them, so I'm happy to know that they are on tour and playing for their audience." What can you tell me about the songs 'Catcher In The Rye' and 'Hard Skool'? "Mmm... not much. 'Catcher In The Rye' is a very interesting song, Axl was inspired by the book. He felt very identified. The recording process was very interesting too, we all contributed different ideas. It's one of my favorite songs from that album. And I don't remember much about 'Hard Skool'. I think it's an old song by the band but I can be wrong." You agreed with Robin Finck. For me, it is one of the best of the last three decades. "Yes, I agree. I always thought he was a better guitarist than DJ Ashba... Of course. (I laugh and he gets laughed) "Ssshh, don't make me laugh. Robin is a very interesting guy, like a Renaissance. He is also a very good person, I love Robin." What do you remember about Brian May's collaboration on Chinese Democracy? "Oh, I remember it very well. When we were recording that album, Brian appeared to play some guitar parts. It started with one of my songs, 'Riad N' the Bedouins'. And it was really great to see Brian May of Queen playing one of my songs. We both had a good time together because at that time I lived in Burbank and his house was in Hancock Park in Hollywood. So I used to pick me up. It was great. Sometimes we were going to have a few beers. He also tried to approach one of my friends (laughs). I remember a particular moment, he was recording one of my songs and suddenly he stopped everything, took the microphone and said, 'Tommy, what are these damn jazz chords?' (laughs).And I had to show him the jazz chords that were part of the song." Full Interview: