BBA Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 As Guns N’ Roses prepped for Thursday’s night UAE show, keyboardist Dizzy Reed shared with us some of his jovial wisdomGiven that heisn’t a lyricist, Dizzy Reed certainly has a way with words.“It’s like leaving out peanuts for the squirrels, but a lot more fun for everyone and a little more complex, logistically.”The question we’ve asked is why his band, Guns N’ Roses, are back at Du Arena on Thursday night just two years after they last performed at the venue. Thankfully, the keyboardist quickly provides a less cryptic addendum: “Because it rocks. They asked us to come back, we have returned.”The Illinois-born musician, born Darren Reed, is the hard rock act’s second-longest serving member behind founder and frontman Axl Rose.He joined in 1990, three years after the band’s debut album Appetite for Destruction had turned them into international stars (as well as poster boys for rock and roll excess). Though not an original member, Dizzy was the group’s first keyboardist - helping to shape their sound for 1991’s epic double album Use Your Illusion I and II, which boasted songs such as Yesterdays and November Rain.Dizzy admits to growing frustrated with the lingering perceptions about Guns N’ Roses, whose line-up has proven famously changeable over the years.“Although the band got its start in the ‘80s, I don’t consider us to be an ‘80s hair or metal band, says Dizzy,“I don’t feel we ever were, even though it would seem that way to the fans, due to the categorisations that the industry has decided to assign to everything and everyone.” HOW SOON IS NOW?It has already been four-and-a-half years since the band’s sixth studio album Chinese Democracy was released - becoming the most expensive and arguably the most delayed record in history (costing $13 million and taking 15 years respectively to finish).Unsurprisingly then, Dizzy is reticent to put a date on the group’s next release.“A new album will be on the way soon, since ‘soon’ isn’t really an exact given or assigned amount of time,” he replies with the rehearsed inexactness of a politician.“When I‘m not touring, I spend the majority of my time writing and refining songs and song ideas.“And when I have the courage, I bounce them off the other guys in the band. Somehow, amazingly, I still find time to do other enjoyable things with my wife and kids (daughters Skye and Shade).”After 23 years in one of rock music’s biggest bands, we ask Dizzy how life has changed.“It’s harder to get up and start moving in the morning. My bones ache,” he replies. “Actually, the main difference there would be that I actually get up in the morning!”But as he approaches his 50th birthday in June, the keyboardist hasn’t lost his laid-back sense of humour - closing our interview with this monologue about his typical pre-show ritual in 2013:“I like to start show night off by reading the stock market quotes in the local paper, having a drink, realising that I own no stock of any kind, putting the paper down, looking at my keyboard, cursing at it, having another drink, warming up by playing some songs and trying not to touch any of the white keys, having a drink, reversing the process so I don’t touch any of the black keys, peeing, having a drink and a smoke, then taking to the stage. I’m not sure what the other guys do...” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Drama Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 As much as I love hopeful news, we'll need a source to keep this open. I'll give you a half hour to post it before I lock it. Thanks, BBA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlrosefan1 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) source: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/citytimes/inside.asp?xfile=/data/citytimes/2013/March/citytimes_March429.xml§ion=citytimes& Edited March 31, 2013 by axlrosefan1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Great, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 lol dizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomase Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 i will only believe this when it on the guns n' roses website and i'm tired of the word soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR123GNR456 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 If this is true than it looks like 2013 could be the year we get new music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesecake Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'm beginning to hate reading all the hopes Dizzy and Dj have been feeding the public with. I'm more inclined to go with BBF's version, for now, at least until I REALLY get to see the real album out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashbalove Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 what dizzy says about writing contradicts what BBF says Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManetsBR Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'll believe when I hear it from no one else rather than Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBA Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 If this is true than it looks like 2013 could be the year we get new music. I think it's highly probable that we will see an album this year. In fact, I would be genuinely surprised if we didn't.To some degree, I can understand one's skepticism considering past hurdles, but based on comments made recently by Beta, Axl, DJ, and now DJ , I'd think most would realize that there seems to be something to this.If there wasn't something in the works for 2013, we wouldn't have all this chatter alluding that there is. I'm confident about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhazUp Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 You just can't take what anyone in the band says seriously - especially regarding anything remotely exiting happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trqster Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Truth is no one has a fucking idea of what's going on other than Axl and team Brazil... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Ever get the feeling you've woken up in one of those alternate realities like in Back to the Future, when Marty travels back to 1988, only its the wrong 1988 and though similar in many ways it is also totally fucked up. Yeah, soon is the word. Any minute now we'll hear Mountain Dew is going to give away a free can of soda if the album comes out this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Marty weve got to go back Silkworms wasnt released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlsalinger Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 This is a historic day. For the first time in the history of Guns n' Roses, SOON IS THE WORD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I won't believe a word any of these fuckers say, including Axl, until I see an album on the shelves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TombRaider Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Soon? As in before 2015? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Things are looking good for a 2020 release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Ivdoubt theyll get in a studio bfore 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) I think we'll get a prequel after CD II. Edited March 31, 2013 by Randy Lahey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Roses Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'll believe when I hear it from no one else rather than Ron.this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Go back to just after UYI. Thats a self titled album sits sonically between Uyi and CD. Take CD and dial it back, take uyi and tune it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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