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22 minutes ago, Gambit83 said:

So scheduled interview with Sean for me on 2/6

Questions?

A few ideas coming to my mind:

Vocals for how many songs were recorded (more or less) before he left?

More about Paul Huge... if he enjoyed working with him, any memories/anecdotes he feels like sharing.

Some more info about the sessions with Brian May.

Were any songs originating from the 94-96 sessions considered/worked on?

Not sure you want to mention the leaks, but any additional info like who wrote/brought this or that song to the table would be interesting to know. (I'd really love to know about State Of Grace, Thyme and Dummy).

More about the re-recorded Appetite. Did the songs have vocals? Was it seriously considered as a project at some point or was it just for the band to learn the songs and for Axl to do live era overdubs? And was a reworked knockin' on heaven's door ever considered?

Might add more later. That's the period in gnr history that fascinates me the most. Of course I don't expect you to consider all the requests (by me or everyone else) but I really hope you can get some interesting unheard info from him ☺️

Oh, so many. I'll go with the clean guitars in the Think About You chorus too and a kinda sorta unpopular choice: the half a second of silence with the snare drum hit kickstarting the final chorus in Hardskool after the break.

Also, I always found the kazoo at the end of Human Being hilarious in a nice way.

And a mention for the sort of flanger effect on Izzy's voice in Double Talkin' Jive.

EDIT: forgot to mention the snare drum hits in the Shackler's Revenge intro. They sound like gunshots and I always wanted to think it's been done on purpose, as a subtle node to the theme of the lyrics.

My lovely girlfriend surprised me today with this very cool photo book by British photographer Justin Thomas.

I didn't know this had been released so I literally flipped out in happiness when I saw it. Thomas happened to take pictures of GNR 4 times between 87 and 92 and this is a black and white collection of the best pics from then.

Specifically, the shows are Marquee 1987 (one of the first two shows, it's not specified which one), Hammersmith 1987, the Freddie Mercury Tribute, and Wembley 1992.

Some of the pics, especially the ones from 1992, are quite famous, while some others are definitely less seen around. Personally, I had never seen many of the Marquee ones before.

There's no text in it except for one page with Justin Thomas sharing memories about the four shows he took pics at. 

The size is more or less A5 and it's 36 pages printed on thick glossy paper.

I need to marry this girl. 

I don't know if this was already seen/posted here, but it was completely new to me and I couldn't find any mentions when I tried to search in the forum, so hopefully this thread is not a double.

Anyway, there's this YouTube channel called Wasting Time with Jason Green, with the host interviewing a lot of 80s hard rock musicians. One of the interviews, uploaded last July, is with Gary Sunshine from Circus Of Power who, as most of you probably remember, played additional guitar on Oh My God and at the time had been hired by Axl for guitar lessons. I'm not sure if the link can be posted here, I assume it's safe, but you can easily find it on YT with the info I've given. 

The part about GNR starts around the 54 min mark and it reveals very interesting info from those years, some of them I hadn't heard before. This is what I recall on top of my mind:

- He was hired through someone from a musical instruments store who mentioned Gary's name to Axl when he was looking for lessons.

- Gary says Axl had a very good ear and was a good player, but he didn't know what he was playing, so that's why he wanted to take lessons.

- When Axl was playing a sort of blues lick and Gary pointed it out, Axl mentioned he didn't want to learn blues guitar but some different approaches. Gary remembers they "studied" songs by Beatles and Radiohead, but didn't mention any specific songtitles.

- When Axl asked him to play additional guitar on GNR songs, he played on two: one was Oh My God, the other he believes it to be IRS but he's not 100% sure. He was given a cassette with instrumental versions of both songs back then to work with. When he recorded his guitars for Oh My God, Dave Navarro's solo hadn't been added yet.

- During his time working with Axl, Buckethead was in the fold at some point and when Axl gave Gary a tour of the studio they were recording at, he actually saw Buckethead's chicken coop.

- This I had absolutely no idea, but Gary says he had auditioned to replace Paul Huge in 2002. After rehearsing for two days with the band, he was told their final choice was Fortus, but they asked him to be always ready because he was their backup plan in case anything didn't work as expected. So he spent like 6 months "waiting" for a last minute call that never arrived.

- He sort of lost contact with Axl not long after 2002.

- He loves Frank, who he knew from NY.