rocco Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 First of all: if this is the wrong Subform, please move this thread I just read an interview with Slash in a 1992 issue of Guitar World (screenshot attached), does anyone know that song "Burnout" he's talking about? I can't find any "tribute to Les Paul" album from that time period, but I'd love to hear that song, especially because it was intended to be a GN'R song, and it seems to feature a killer lineup of musicians. Probably the whole project was scrapped anyway, Slash mentions that it was very disorganized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocco Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Turns out this album was released in 2005. Haha, so this is Slash's Chinese Democracy Kenny Aronoff plays Drums but it does not feature Duff, Lenny Kravitz or Iggy (Pop, I guess), and it only features one song with Slash, which is called "Vocalise". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralphelmo Posted June 19, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2016 Great song. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 1 minute ago, Ralphelmo said: Great song. I never heard this before, this is amazing man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphelmo Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) And about "Burn Out": Ain’t Life Grand is the 10th track off the album of the same name, released in 2000. It’s the first song Slash wrote with Rod Jackson during a trip to New Orleans, and is based on a song that was originally going to be on the Les Paul tribute album, “Burn Out”, which was never released. Slash bought back the rights to his song, and it became Ain’t Life Grand. So "Ain't Life fucking Grand" was made for GNR? DAMN! How come Axl refused such beautiful piece of music? Or Steven was just too high to play that slow? o_O Edited June 19, 2016 by Ralphelmo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocco Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) Yeah, it really is a nice song. Sucks that we won't get to hear "Burnout", though... EDIT: Ahaha awesome, that's nice to know, thanks for your research! Edited June 19, 2016 by rocco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerInThisTown Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) Wow holy crap. I hope that version with Lenny Kravitz and Duff gets released someday, I love ALG and would love to hear the early version of it Edited June 19, 2016 by StrangerInThisTown 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 These stories always kinda reinforce that Steven was obviously in a bad place back in those days. I mean when Slash said that Steven couldn't play Always On The Run? What sorta drummer can't play that song? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babooshka Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 So Burn Out became Vocalise and ALG? I've also never heard Vocalise before. I would love something like that for a new Guns song, and I'm now curious about Burn Out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocco Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Nope, just ALG. And in the case of ALG, it's not about playing the drums fast/slow/whatever, it's about "feel" and groove, the shuffle rhythm might be kinda hard to play if you're only used to straight rock n roll drumming. Being on whatever kind of drugs Steven was obviously didn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOSSY78 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) 6 hours ago, Johnny Drama said: These stories always kinda reinforce that Steven was obviously in a bad place back in those days. I mean when Slash said that Steven couldn't play Always On The Run? What sorta drummer can't play that song? Exactly my point. I know many keep saying It's not the same with Steven not there but as I have said before Steven couldn't evolve. Steven was a good drummer for Appetite but as this interview shows many great songs didn't come to be back then because he couldn't do them. Sadly it's the truth. Edited June 20, 2016 by BOSSY78 edited 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOSSY78 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 10 hours ago, Ralphelmo said: And about "Burn Out": Ain’t Life Grand is the 10th track off the album of the same name, released in 2000. It’s the first song Slash wrote with Rod Jackson during a trip to New Orleans, and is based on a song that was originally going to be on the Les Paul tribute album, “Burn Out”, which was never released. Slash bought back the rights to his song, and it became Ain’t Life Grand. So "Ain't Life fucking Grand" was made for GNR? DAMN! How come Axl refused such beautiful piece of music? Or Steven was just too high to play that slow? o_O Not sure why Axl refusing is brought into this? But believe it was as Slash said a song Steven couldn't play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I think you're missing the point. It's more about Steven being so strung out on whatever junk he was on that he couldn't play these songs or rather that he took 9999 takes off Civil War when Slash, Izzy, Duff and himself had songs done in 2-3 takes maximum as opposed to not having technical ability. Always on the Run and ALG are pretty standard songs behind the kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 10 hours ago, rocco said: First of all: if this is the wrong Subform, please move this thread I just read an interview with Slash in a 1992 issue of Guitar World (screenshot attached), does anyone know that song "Burnout" he's talking about? I can't find any "tribute to Les Paul" album from that time period, but I'd love to hear that song, especially because it was intended to be a GN'R song, and it seems to feature a killer lineup of musicians. Probably the whole project was scrapped anyway, Slash mentions that it was very disorganized. great to know these things i had no idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 10 hours ago, Ralphelmo said: And about "Burn Out": Ain’t Life Grand is the 10th track off the album of the same name, released in 2000. It’s the first song Slash wrote with Rod Jackson during a trip to New Orleans, and is based on a song that was originally going to be on the Les Paul tribute album, “Burn Out”, which was never released. Slash bought back the rights to his song, and it became Ain’t Life Grand. So "Ain't Life fucking Grand" was made for GNR? DAMN! How come Axl refused such beautiful piece of music? Or Steven was just too high to play that slow? o_O steven should be really fucked up then but the slash claim that they didnt record it because steven couldnt play is probably bullshit because if that was the case they wouldnt have recorded anything steven can play this song with closed eyes today 8 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said: Wow holy crap. I hope that version with Lenny Kravitz and Duff gets released someday, I love ALG and would love to hear the early version of it there is so much GNR leftovers that we had never heard of someone should release this stuff someday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ge_n_roses Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 You can see/hear Slash playing the initial Riff of 'Ain't Life Grand' on Guns N' Roses at the BBC Documentary released this year! It starts on 56:30. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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