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    Steven Adler interview - Blabbermouth

    in THE JUNGLE

    Posted · Edited by Klay

    http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/original-guns-n-roses-drummer-steven-adler-explains-his-timing-issues-on-appetite-for-destruction-album/

    Original GUNS N' ROSES Drummer STEVEN ADLER Explains His 'Timing' Issues On 'Appetite For Destruction' Album
    Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/original-guns-n-roses-drummer-steven-adler-explains-his-timing-issues-on-appetite-for-destruction-album/#Ox8x1weGKcHTsyrU.99

    The latest episode of the "Inside Metal" TV show on TradioV features an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler. You can now watch it below.

    Speaking about GUNS N' ROSES' classic debut album, 1987's "Appetite For Destruction", Adler said: "I have a new outlook on recording that record. I practice it all the time. I have new house [with] a studio, so I have a P.A. and I can play [along] to songs. And I play the 'Appetite' stuff. And I realize that ['Appetite For Destruction' producer] Mike Clink, who is a wonderful guy — I'm not putting him down — but I really feel that he just wanted to get that record over with, and he didn't think… he didn't believe it was gonna be… This is how I feel; I don't know what he was thinking. But when I listen to it now and play to it, I go, he didn't really care… I don't think he thought the record was gonna be big or do anything. He wanted to just get it over with and get on. But now that I have a better understanding of timing and recording… 'Cause that, like, the first time we went into a real studio and recorded. Actually, we did 'Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide' [EP in 1986] at Spencer Proffer's [studio], but that was like making a demo tape; we just played and that was it. But we did the same thing with 'Appetite'; it literally took six days. And nobody goes in the studio and does it just for six days. I mean, like, 'Sweet Child O' Mine', that was played one time — once! You're supposed to go in a studio and, when you come out of the recording studio, you're supposed to be a better player… There's no timing. Not that I wanted it to be like a metronome, like all those other '80s records."

    Adler also talked about his 2010 autobiography, "My Appetite For Destruction: Sex, And Drugs, And Guns N' Roses", in which he told all, fearlessly addressing his struggles with heroin and crack addiction; his financial ruin after being kicked out of GN'R; his shattered marriage; and the severe health problems that nearly claimed his life on several occasions.

    "It was such a great release to get all those things and emotions out," he said. "It really helped me to move on with my life. That's one thing I did learn in AA. Just being able to get your feelings out is very therapeutic. And plus there's thing that happened when we were younger; we think we're the only ones [that went through it]. I was talking about the sexual-abuse thing; I was thirteen years old. Obviously, that bothered me my whole life. Once I worked with Dr. Drew and I talked about it with people that understood and weren't gonna judge me… Which, nobody judges you anyway, but you think [they will]. I was able to get off the heroin and the crack, working with Dr. Drew. And then I still resentments toward my old band. And once I was able to work through that…"

    He continued: "I live by four agreements: be impeccable with my word; don't take things personally; and always do my best — no more, no less. And it's helped me so much to be able to move on with my life. Now I'm not worried about getting high or drinking, because I just don't want to. I'm having too much fun and feel too good not drinking. It's so funny… I would drink because I was depressed. Well, I was depressed because I was drinking. Because, I mean, alcohol is a depressor. It works at first when you're young; it makes you be able to talk to girls, be comfortable around other teenagers. But teenagers are idiots. Who gives a crap what they think? But that's how alcohol fools you."

    Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/original-guns-n-roses-drummer-steven-adler-explains-his-timing-issues-on-appetite-for-destruction-album/#Ox8x1weGKcHTsyrU.99

    Video:

    http://livestream.com/accounts/5644803/events/2458640/videos/88385347

    !!!!! New songs !!!!!

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

    Posted

    I have all the isolated tracks from the version you hear it since I recorded it track by track.

    The drums were done with software and are also on a separated track.

    Which mix do you want exactly (all guitars, all guitars + bass, just rhythm guitars, just lead guitars,... ) and what for?

    "Sweet Child O 'Mine" is plagiarized?

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted

    Another Aussie Crawl 'Similar Riff' This Time With Nirvana After the recent Gunners claim another 'similar riff' has cropped up between Aussie Crawl and Nirvana.

    http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/music/news/2015/5/another-aussie-crawl-similar-riff-this-time-with-nirvana/

    Ridiculous, just like the SCOM claims. I'm pretty sure GN'R didn't ripped anyone off and probably they never even heard of that Australian band just like nobody else ever heard of them before these claims

    As for the Nirvana claims it's the same story. If anything that "Daughters Of The Northern Coast" song ripped off Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=111&v=DT3kLBCMxxE

    !!!!! New songs !!!!!

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

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    Hello,

    thanks for your interest.

    I've pictured it like this:

    0 ->12s : Opening riff (instrumental only)

    12s -> 35s: Verses

    35s -> 52s : Chorus

    52s -> 1m14s : Verses

    1m14s -> 1m32: Chorus

    1m32s -> 2m12s: Bridge

    2m12s -> 2m22s: Repeat of the opening riff (instrumental)

    2m22s -> 2min33s: Verses

    2m33s -> 2m50s: Chorus

    2m50s -> 3m54s : Solo and instrumental break

    3min54s -> 4m34s: This part is sung and goes like this: https://soundcloud.com/klay1923/vocals-test/s-6PRaH

    4m34s -> 4m45s : Repeat of the opening riff (instrumental)

    The rest is easy as follows the previous structure (Verses -> Chorus -> Bridge).

    The Gear Thread

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

    Posted

    Sounds great and very valuable/colectable!

    I know about Cameron amps, Metro, Fortin, Friedman,... all these moders and builders (who base most of their models on plexi's and 800's anyway); I also check the amp fest videos regularly, it's nice to hear how all these amps sound compared!

    I'm a Marshall guy, that classic Marshall tone is everything to me and I'm not very picky, any DSL/TSL/800/Plexi/VM will do it for me!

    The dude plays Thin Lizzy's Cold Sweat on the video you posted, a great tune with a great solo by John Sykes!

    Doug Aldrich loves the Vintage Modern too:

    Doug could make even a toaster sound great.

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    The Gear Thread

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

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    The 800 are very expensive new (reissue) here in Europe and old/original with vertical inputs are rare and expensive as well, you only find them at Ebay rsiking buying from other countries.

    What amps do you own currently?

    Amplitube is ok to record quickly some demos; sometimes I spend several weeks just trying to get a good recorded sound out of my amps, with Amplitube it's instant and the sound is ok (my demo Deception was all done with it) but it does lacks some frequencies.

    The Gear Thread

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

    Posted

    Let us hear your band!

    You should invest in an usb audio interface where you can connect your guitar directly to use with software like Amplitube or a mic to do your real amp recordings - they're pretty cheap and you can get real good results!

    To bad you let the 800 go; the JCM/JMP 2204/2204 and a Plexi 1987/1959 are such stapples in rock history and sound, one day I'll add them to my collection...

    The Gear Thread

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

    Posted

    Omar, I've been quite busy at work during week so no much time to play guitar and enjoy the VM.

    On weekends I'm trying to start the writing/recording of a new song (I always do the writting while recording certain parts I already have in my head); I'm yet to check how the amp sounds recorded because I've got some amps that sound great live but record pretty bad with my setup (Shure SM57 only) and I've got other amps that record really easy.

    Live in the room the VM is pretty much the best sounding amp I have, on pair with the Silver Jubilee 2555; actually they both sound a lot like each other with the VM having a fuller sound spectrum (more "meat") and the 2555 having a more distinct/recognizable voicing!

    On my next hit ( :lol:) I'll sure use the VM as much as possible!

    And you Omar, when will we enjoy your songs??

    Bad gigs?

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

    Posted

    Don't worry, things don't go as planned everytime.

    Sometimes gigs go greeat, other times you just wish that it ends as fast as possible.

    I've been through that - soundchecking everything well and when it comes to the gig you can't even hear yourself because the soundboard technician changed everything and get's you pissed off, wanting real badly to play a tune and having your lead singer tell you to skip it because he's voice is gone or he's not feeling it or braking string by string along the gig... well, that's what happens when you're not in a professional band and have +180 roadies working for you like GN'R had on the UYI tour :lol:

    But don't worry, on the times when it's great it makes it worth for all the other times where it wasn't as good!

    Btw, any average singer who knows his voice will have a setlist that suits him - songs not to hard on the begining neither on the end; it's not wise to leave Sweet Child O'Mine for the end of the set if you're not Axl Rose...

    Guitar neck-bending

    in NICE BOYS DON'T PLAY ROCK N' ROLL

    Posted

    Bending the neck is the best way to break it overtime.


    It has happened to Slash sometimes and he even cut himself. His famous main Les Paul Standard cherry sunburst that he used live for most of the 90s and 2000s (and that even Gibson replicated with a VOS model) was broken and glued on; what a shame. But he can get away with it because he doesn't has to worry about guitars, they're free.



    When I don't have a whammy bar I just detune the low string on it's tuning machine head and then retune it while it's still ringing - you get the same effect, sounds good and you don't ruin your guitar.


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