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    Thal: Would you go to your ex-girlfriend's wedding?

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    Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal says that he has no interest in seeing the band perform on the "Not In This Lifetime" tour, saying that it would be like "going to your ex-girlfriend's wedding."

    Thal never officially announced his departure from the GN'R, but a source confirmed to Detroit music writer Gary Graff back in 2015 that the guitarist had been out since the end of the band's second Las Vegas residency in 2014.

    Thal later revealed that he was focusing on his solo career after spending eight years playing in GUNS.

    During an appearance on "Trunk Nation", Eddie Trunk's show on SiriusXM channel Volume (106), Thal said that he "heard things" about a possible reunion of GUNS N' ROSES' classic lineup prior to his exit but that it didn't have an affect on his decision to leave the Axl Rose-fronted outfit. "No, I was [already] done," he said. "I was burned out on it. I was. I was doing more harm than good staying at that point."

    Asked if he has seen of the shows from the partially reunited classic GUNS N' ROSES since they announced their return more than a year ago, Thal said: "No, that would be weird, man. Would you go to your ex-girlfriend's wedding? It's kind of like that. It's just kind of weird. I know too much. I've seen too much. I've been on the other side of the stage, and it's not like it ended pretty — for me. I don't have [any hard feelings] now, but at the time, there was a volatility, yeah."

    Thal joined GUNS N' ROSES in 2006 and played on 2008's "Chinese Democracy", an album which contained music that had been written before he came into the group. He has also released a number of solo CDs.

    Thal is currently involved with ART OF ANARCHY alongside CREED singer Scott Stapp and DISTURBED bassist John Moyer.

    Thal didn't publicly address his exit until last year when he told Loudwire: "All I could say is you reach a time when you just know it's time to move on and you just know that what you've seen for your life, what you see the future of your life and what that is, it's not what you pictured for yourself."

    He continued: "When I started playing music, I was six years old, and when I thought about what I wanted and what my goals were, and what makes me alive inside making music, and I just… I was looking at what I was doing, and it didn't match up. And I just needed to… I needed to go."


    Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ron-bumblefoot-thal-has-no-interest-in-seeing-reunited-guns-n-roses-in-concert/#LBXgI4o2Q3DyWBiI.99

    Bumblefoot has no regrets over Guns N’ Roses stint

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    Just now, Tom2112 said:

    Super hip comment ;)

    Sepultura are definitely hit and miss since Roots but they have definitely released a few very cool songs/albums... I don't listen to either party enough to have any further feelings on the matter. For what it's worth Soulflys later material was pretty killer (the early stuff was shite) and the first CC record was cool. I would love if the 4 classic members got back together though, because they could still make a great Sepultura record and play some good shows (even if Max can't really play guitar anymore).

    Listen "machine messiah"...before anything...

    Bumblefoot has no regrets over Guns N’ Roses stint

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    Just now, Tourettes2400 said:

    He truly is all about the fans. I was looking at my followers on twitter earlier and noticed he was following me. I was very surprised. I always liked him, but it made me really respect that he actually knows he needs the fans. He comes off as a little strange sometimes, but he seems to really be a good guy just trying to make it.

    haven't listened since Chaos AD. Might check it out.

    Give a try to "Machine Messiah"...amazing cd ?

    Bumblefoot has no regrets over Guns N’ Roses stint

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    Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal says he has no regrets about his time in Guns N’ Roses – but admits if he’d been asked the same question three years ago, he might have given a different response.

    The guitarist joined Axl Rose in 2006 and went on to play on the highly anticipated 2008 Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. But he decided to walk away in 2015 after spending much of that year fielding questions about his status in the lineup.

    And reflecting on his time in the band, Thal now says the experience was “wonderful.”

    He tells SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation (viaBlabbermouth): “You could look at anything and say, 'What if I took a different path? What if I did different things? What if I said no and did this instead? What if I just focused on my solo stuff or producing or film and TV music?'

    “But your life is your life and whatever decisions you made, they were based on who you were, who you are and what was supposed to happen.

    “So, do I regret it? No. Absolutely not. If you had asked me three years ago, I would have a different answer. But, no. I got to be part of making millions of people cheer and enjoy themselves. It's wonderful.”

    http://teamrock.com/news/2017-03-22/bumblefoot-has-no-regrets-over-guns-n-roses-stint

    Mantia talks Guns N' Roses

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    Just now, RONIN said:

    Which makes it even more bizarre because he apparently cared so much about proving to the world (and Duff/Slash) that he was the genius behind GnR's success and the nu band he had assembled was going to demolish the old one.

    Dude didn't even give that band a fighting chance to succeed. It's like he just decided to fold even before the Nu Guns train left the station. Tragic really.

    Axl: I'm GNR

    Matt: You're not

    Mantia talks Guns N' Roses

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    In his near 30-year career Bryan ‘Brain’ Mantia has had some unusual gigs - from the mad rock of Primus to scoring video games. But, surely none come close to his six-year stint behind the kit for Guns N’ Roses.

    Brain’s induction into the band coincided with the band’s return and the start of the post-Slash/Duff/Sorum era. The next six years would see them write, record, but not release Chinese Democracy, the ridiculously delayed full follow-up to the Use Your Illusion albums. Unsurprisingly Brain has some killer stories from his time backing Axl and co. And here they are…

    "We did the first show at Rock in Rio. We rehearsed for probably two or three months without Axl. Our first show’s Rock in Rio and I thought, ‘Wait, what’s it going to sound like with Axl? Where is Axl? Oh here’s his helicopter coming in.’

    "The first time I ever played a real show with him was in front of 250,000 people! I was thinking, ‘How’s this song supposed to start again?’ Because some he was supposed to cue but we never had a verbal conversation on whether he would or I would.

    "You look to your left and there was the Foo Fighters, Oasis and Sting standing side stage. We were headlining that day and everybody was anxious to see what we were going to do because Axl had put this motley group of people together"

    "They had recorded a bunch of stuff and Josh Freese had recorded a lot of stuff. I think he recorded 90% of the drumming on the 25-30 tunes that were floating around.

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    "When I came it was right when they got [producer] Roy Thomas Baker. He was coming from Queen, The Cars, Journey, more the rock thing. He said we had to go re-record the drums because they sounded very industrial.

    "We literally drove in his green Rolls Royce around LA and we picked up from every drum company probably every famous drum and tried out every drum. We had them ship it to The Village in LA where we were recording.

    "We set up all the drums and I said, ‘This is the Guns N' Roses album, we need a vibe’ and there was a temple upstairs that people used to do their speeches in. We went up there and it was a mini auditorium.

    "As soon as I put drums up there and hit them I said, ‘Oh s***, this is the vibe’. They ran cords up there and eventually [then Guns guitarist] Bucket[head] set his chicken coop up there and that’s where he recorded. Bucket and I would look at each other and he’d been in the chicken coop with the wire and he brought in hay. We were up there for three years recording."

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    "Axl is a perfectionist. Josh [Freese], who is one of my favourite drummers, had already recorded some beautiful tracks but they didn’t have the sound.

    "They were very digital sounding, there wasn’t a lot of air moving, they were electronic sounding. Axl liked some of the parts so he asked if I could play what Josh did but in my feel. He wanted me to replay it note for note.

    "So I thought if they want that somebody’s going to have to transcribe this. I made some calls and went over to Sony I went over there and dropped off a handful of CDs and they transcribed it. They set it up on a teleprompter, I learned it and recorded it note for note. After that Axl was like, ‘Now do it your way!’ I think what came out on the album was a hybrid of a little of Josh and what I did."

    "There was another room with literally 30 snare drums lined up, 15 kick drums, cymbals stacked up like a music store and it’d literally be, ‘This one looks cool, let’s try it with this’. We’d just play some beats and see how it sounded.

    "There were no time constraints, there was nothing. I don’t think anybody was keeping track of it. I was going, ‘I don’t know who’s paying for this, or what’s going on but I don’t really care because I get to come here and f*** off in one of the best studios in the world with some of the best drums and some of the best recording gear, everybody talks s*** about Axl and Guns N' Roses but this is killer for me!’

    "Towards the end we probably came up with one kit that sounded pretty solid and we’d just change out the snare. ‘I’m Sorry’ was more the Pink Floyd thing so I think I used a bigger kick, a 24" or a 26", on ‘There Was A Time’ we used a 22", we were just experimenting. We were having a ball, me and my drum tech. We would try something, record it and send the CD to Axl. He’d check it out and saying, Yeah that’s cool’, or sometimes he’d come in but his hours are pretty crazy so he’d come in at four in the morning and listen."

    http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/brain-mantia-talks-guns-n-roses-556166

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