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Tommy Stinson on WTF with Marc Maron


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I really like this part where Tommy talks about Axl:

The fucking most amazing thing about this guy, about playing with him, is that, he gets up there and fucking does a fucking 1000 % of what he's got every time he shows up, and fucking people come out in their fucking thousands all over the fucking world to see that. I think we put on a good show for him, but when you really think about it, I think it is all about Axl. I am going to be honest about that and it just still amazes me, just how rabid they are to see him up there doing his thing. He puts on a fucking great show. [...] I think he's probably a better singer now than he probably was back in the days, he's got more used to working with his voice and stuff like that. He's a lot stronger, in a lot of ways. [...] He is not as erratic as people think. [...] He does his thing the way he does it. [A.V.'s Podmass Central, June 2013]

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Well at least tommy can admit they're nothing more than a touring backing bAnd.

Err, what he is saying is that all focus is on Axl when touring. As we both know, Tommy and the rest of the guys are also (or at least, were) creating musicians in GN'R with contributing credits at the band's last record.

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He is not as erratic as people think. [...] He does his thing the way he does it.

I take that to mean what I keep saying: he chooses how he sings.

If you listen to the podcast you will see that these two comments came later in the interview (hence the [...]'s) and had little to do with the part about his singing voice. It was more a general comment on the public perception of Axl, him being erratic when it comes to behaviour, not singing. Tommy explained this by saying that this rumour is exaggerated and that Axl is unique in just doing things the way he wants to do them. It really wasn't a comment on the singing.

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Did he do a full-length interview with Maron? I'll have to check that out.

For anyone who isn't a subscriber, Maron has one of the best podcasts out there. He asks some of the best questions and has some of the best conversations I've ever heard with a range of celebrities, who are usually very open and candid with him. It'd actually be awesome if he ever got Axl on there, but I have a feeling his 'open talk' policy might not suit Axl so much. Ha.

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Did he do a full-length interview with Maron? I'll have to check that out.

For anyone who isn't a subscriber, Maron has one of the best podcasts out there. He asks some of the best questions and has some of the best conversations I've ever heard with a range of celebrities, who are usually very open and candid with him. It'd actually be awesome if he ever got Axl on there, but I have a feeling his 'open talk' policy might not suit Axl so much. Ha.

He did, you can listen to it here: http://www.avclub.com/articles/episode-395-tommy-stinson,98681/

Great interview, and funny when Tommy talks about pain-in-the-ass...guitar players.

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if you sign up for stitcher.com you can listen to all the podcasts and many others. it's free.

Tommy has it about right, whatever Axl does, he's doing something right as people turn out to see him.

It's a shame they can't write some songs that are as big as Love in an Elevator, Janie's Got a Gun, Crazy. Maybe Chi Dem, Better, TIL are on that level it's just a weird time in rock. It just seems on the back 9 they aren't going to have another hit because rock bands don't have hits anymore.

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if you sign up for stitcher.com you can listen to all the podcasts and many others. it's free.

Tommy has it about right, whatever Axl does, he's doing something right as people turn out to see him.

It's a shame they can't write some songs that are as big as Love in an Elevator, Janie's Got a Gun, Crazy. Maybe Chi Dem, Better, TIL are on that level it's just a weird time in rock. It just seems on the back 9 they aren't going to have another hit because rock bands don't have hits anymore.

If they don't try no.

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Sorry to bump this guys, it's a few weeks old now, but I finally listened to it the other day.

I have to say, it actually bummed me out. Stinson basically presents himself as a guy from The Replacements, and that's all they talk about for the entire 70-plus minutes. I'm a big Replacements fan, so that part was cool. And I get that the Replacements will always be a bigger deal for Stinson because of the impact they had on his life at an early age.

But Stinson has been in GN'R for almost two decades now. Halfway through the interview I was wondering why he hadn't mentioned the band a single time. Even in the description of the podcast, it gives an overview of who Stinson is, and it doesn't mention GN'R anywhere.

Maron finally mentions GN'R toward the end, basically just to bait Stinson into talking shit on Axl (he doesn't, but he defends him kind of generically, saying "he gives 100 percent" or whatever). Stinson's attitude about discussing GN'R really disappointed me, because he basically acted like he couldn't give two shits, and openly admitted that "people are there to see Axl, I don't kid myself about that." Which really discredits those of us who try to perceive the current lineup as its own entity, as a new band. He glosses over GN'R very quickly, doesn't delve into his activity with the band for the past 15 + years at all really, and I got the impression that it wasn't an important aspect of his life.

Now, I'm aware Tommy has been one of the more blunt members of the band in terms of seeing his position in the band as that of a replacement (no pun intended), and has said things in the past indicating he wasn't a GN'R fan prior to joining, and is just in it for the money, basically. But I still found it kind of disheartening the way he passed over the whole GN'R topic quickly, basically wrote it off (in my opinion) as something he does to make ends meet. In almost two decades worth of touring, working for Axl, writing material, he couldn't have gotten into that a little bit and shared some cool stories?

I dunno. Not the best indication of where the band is at right now. I didn't expect him to dish on GN'R secrets for a half hour, but the fact that the guy who was a bassist for GN'R for almost two decades of his life, glossed over his experience with the band in a minute or two and devoted the entire rest of the conversation to Replacements, a band he hadn't been a part of for years and years, says a lot for me, and I was kind of disappointed. :(

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I felt the same way when I listened, I didn't feel like I was listening to the bassist of GNR in that respect. I know that the Replacements announced shows recently but the interview barely focused on anything GNR at all and like what ER said what Tommy did say just didn't seem very involved or enthusiastic about it

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Sorry to bump this guys, it's a few weeks old now, but I finally listened to it the other day.

I have to say, it actually bummed me out. Stinson basically presents himself as a guy from The Replacements, and that's all they talk about for the entire 70-plus minutes. I'm a big Replacements fan, so that part was cool. And I get that the Replacements will always be a bigger deal for Stinson because of the impact they had on his life at an early age.

But Stinson has been in GN'R for almost two decades now. Halfway through the interview I was wondering why he hadn't mentioned the band a single time. Even in the description of the podcast, it gives an overview of who Stinson is, and it doesn't mention GN'R anywhere.

Maron finally mentions GN'R toward the end, basically just to bait Stinson into talking shit on Axl (he doesn't, but he defends him kind of generically, saying "he gives 100 percent" or whatever). Stinson's attitude about discussing GN'R really disappointed me, because he basically acted like he couldn't give two shits, and openly admitted that "people are there to see Axl, I don't kid myself about that." Which really discredits those of us who try to perceive the current lineup as its own entity, as a new band. He glosses over GN'R very quickly, doesn't delve into his activity with the band for the past 15 + years at all really, and I got the impression that it wasn't an important aspect of his life.

Now, I'm aware Tommy has been one of the more blunt members of the band in terms of seeing his position in the band as that of a replacement (no pun intended), and has said things in the past indicating he wasn't a GN'R fan prior to joining, and is just in it for the money, basically. But I still found it kind of disheartening the way he passed over the whole GN'R topic quickly, basically wrote it off (in my opinion) as something he does to make ends meet. In almost two decades worth of touring, working for Axl, writing material, he couldn't have gotten into that a little bit and shared some cool stories?

I dunno. Not the best indication of where the band is at right now. I didn't expect him to dish on GN'R secrets for a half hour, but the fact that the guy who was a bassist for GN'R for almost two decades of his life, glossed over his experience with the band in a minute or two and devoted the entire rest of the conversation to Replacements, a band he hadn't been a part of for years and years, says a lot for me, and I was kind of disappointed. :(

He is obviously smart. If he goes on pretending to be a legit GNR member he will get a lot of shit. Just look at youtube videos and interviews of nu GNR members sans Axl. He doesn't need that and he stays away from that. He knows what his position is and he knows that basically his whole carreer in GNR doesn't mean much to GNR fans. So he just talks about the band that matters to him and he is important for.

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