Popular Post Blackstar Posted August 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2022 (edited) Bryan ‘Brain’ Mantia Was There for Guns N’ Roses’ Most Unpredictable Era. Here’s What It Was Really Like https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bryan-brain-mantia-guns-n-roses-tom-waits-primus-1388363/ or https://www.a-4-d.com/t7406-2022-08-04-rolling-stone-bryan-brain-mantia-was-there-for-guns-n-roses-most-unpredictable-era-heres-what-it-was-really-like or https://archive.ph/NGtf9 Edited August 4, 2022 by Blackstar 6 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakey Styley Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 The article cuts me off due to not being a member =_= could someone post it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted August 4, 2022 Author Share Posted August 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Jakey Styley said: The article cuts me off due to not being a member =_= could someone post it? https://www.a-4-d.com/t7406-2022-08-04-rolling-stone-bryan-brain-mantia-was-there-for-guns-n-roses-most-unpredictable-era-heres-what-it-was-really-like 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakey Styley Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 10 minutes ago, Blackstar said: https://www.a-4-d.com/t7406-2022-08-04-rolling-stone-bryan-brain-mantia-was-there-for-guns-n-roses-most-unpredictable-era-heres-what-it-was-really-like Thanks! Probably one of the best GNR related interviews to come out in a while. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ToonGuns Posted August 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2022 15 minutes ago, Jakey Styley said: Thanks! Probably one of the best GNR related interviews to come out in a while. Agree. Brain is a legend. And 2002 era was incredible. Any stories from that time are nice to hear. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSoftie Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 That was a great read. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gordon Comstock Posted August 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2022 Cool interview, Brain is awesome. He's the best GNR drummer after Steven, and it's nice to see him praise Steven: When I started listening to the old stuff, I started realizing, “Shit, this stuff is deeper than I thought.” Adler kind of played like Alex Van Halen. He’s playing the guitar parts on the cymbals, or he’s playing the bass part. He’s not just playing through it as a groove. There would be two bars here and a six-beat section. There were like A, B, C, D, F sections. I was like, “Shit, this is kind of complicated.” I just loved Adler’s greasiness. He brought a love to it, if that makes sense. This is his stuff. This is his music. This is him. Sorum brought more of a metronomic style. He was more into, “OK, my hair’s gotta look good. I need to make sure my chains are hanging right.” Nothing against him. I’m sure he’s a great guy. I just gravitated way more towards Adler because there was just this love screaming out of the drum set. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangoSkank Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 As a huge Guns fan and an even bigger Tom Waits fan - this interview is excellent. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweersa Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 That was a nice read, thanks! I really hope Chinese Democracy gets a proper release, even if it's a 20 year anniversary (or whatever) deal, presumably released after the next album is out (CD2 with Slash and Duff) and they can then include CD2 as it existed pre-reunion and whatever they did with CD3 and the remix album they talked about in that interview. I'd shell out good money for that shit. Imagine them selling a big deluxe package that included a flash drive with the songs as they existed in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2014 etc. I'll stop. A boy can dream! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
©GnrPersia Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Such a control freak: Axl: Brain, re-record the songs as you. Brain: OK Axl: Uh-oh. There’s too much space. I don’t think Brain doing his thing will work. Hey Brain, Why don’t you keep your feel and what you do, but do all of Josh’s parts. Brain: OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadcaplaughs Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Love Brain and love this series in Rolling Stone of interviewing famous studio/touring guys. Some really cool stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 really enjoyed reading this interview. Not just the Gn'r stuff, but when it comes to Gn'R and Axl, I like how Brain admired Axl's chaotic behavior and that he saw the cool aspect of it like he expected from a band like Gn'R and what he saw in the Zeppelin show he attended. What he said about Adler I thought described pretty well why he's such a unique drummer. There's a lot of feel there. also if you believe what Brain is saying in this interview, you can tell that perfectionism was a major part of the problem. It really was Axl who delayed Chinese Democracy with his approach imo. I previously thought that Brain played all his drum parts exactly like Josh played it, but here he said that they didn't reference the charts at some point anymore while recording Brain's drum parts. Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cineater Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 I have to admit, I love that period of the band. Always something going on. Didn't say it was good but that was an interesting band. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodoochild Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Rovim said: really enjoyed reading this interview. Not just the Gn'r stuff, but when it comes to Gn'R and Axl, I like how Brain admired Axl's chaotic behavior and that he saw the cool aspect of it like he expected from a band like Gn'R and what he saw in the Zeppelin show he attended. What he said about Adler I thought described pretty well why he's such a unique drummer. There's a lot of feel there. also if you believe what Brain is saying in this interview, you can tell that perfectionism was a major part of the problem. It really was Axl who delayed Chinese Democracy with his approach imo. I previously thought that Brain played all his drum parts exactly like Josh played it, but here he said that they didn't reference the charts at some point anymore while recording Brain's drum parts. Interesting. He also rerecorded some of that stuff later. The Village sessions had Riad with Josh and then overdubbed by Brain. The album version had different Brain drums on it (it was still mainly Josh's arrangement, though). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Stuff like this, regarding the CD sessions, especially the bucket/robin/brain line-up make me so pissed we don’t have a documentary about it all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumandraisin Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 That was a great read. It's nice now enough time has passed that he can be honest and not bullshit, agreeing fans just wanted the old band. Also I like his honesty about sitting there eating ice cream not assed if Axl shows up or not as he was getting paid either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 favorite part of the interview: "there's Tom, he's on the ground, pounding shit". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted August 5, 2022 Author Share Posted August 5, 2022 There was another great Brain interview (on a podcast) in 2018, not well known I believe, where he said more like this. https://www.thevinylguide.com/episodes/ep134-bryan-brain-mantia-guns-roses-primus-more-part-2 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside259 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 "Well, I think because it started with the original band. That was a good two or three years of chaos. And then Slash, Duff, and Matt Sorum left. They got Josh. That took a couple more years. They went through some producers."" i didn t know that, chinese start with slash n duff? matt quit firts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merryfnchristmas Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Love Brain's story about doing a full show rehearsal - the band's second for the day, with full pyro! - in a Brazilian football stadium until 7 in the morning. While Axl watched from a sofa on the field. Wild 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted August 5, 2022 Author Share Posted August 5, 2022 (edited) 24 minutes ago, darkside259 said: "Well, I think because it started with the original band. That was a good two or three years of chaos. And then Slash, Duff, and Matt Sorum left. They got Josh. That took a couple more years. They went through some producers."" i didn t know that, chinese start with slash n duff? matt quit firts? In the sense that the sessions for the "next GN'R album" after UYI and TSI started with Slash, Duff and Matt. Since no album materialized with the UYI lineup, the "next album" ended up being CD with another band, however whatever material was written with Slash was not used, only some stuff Axl had been working on that probably existed as sketches when Duff and Matt were still in the band. Edited August 5, 2022 by Blackstar 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post darkside259 Posted August 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2022 Bucket was a true musician in that he just wanted to play. He’d be like, “Why does it have to be so hard? Why can’t the album just come out?” I FEEL YOU BUCKET I FEEL YOU 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
©GnrPersia Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Blackstar said: In the sense that the sessions for the "next GN'R album" after UYI and TSI started with Slash, Duff and Matt. Since no album materialized with the UYI lineup, the "next album" ended up being CD with another band, however whatever material was written with Slash was not used, only some stuff Axl had been working on that probably existed as sketches when Duff and Matt were still in the band. Wasn't it in The Making of Estranged where there's this piano playing in the background which is an early sketch of This I Love? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted August 5, 2022 Author Share Posted August 5, 2022 8 minutes ago, ©GnrPersia said: Wasn't it in The Making of Estranged where there's this piano playing in the background which is an early sketch of This I Love? Yes, there is a little piano part, but doesn't sound like TIL at all to me. But Axl definitely had it already, he mentioned it in 1993. Based on the various info, that early version of it must have been written in Paris in 1992, probably also recorded there, in London and maybe a couple of other studios. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff_66 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Blackstar said: There was another great Brain interview (on a podcast) in 2018, not well known I believe, where he said more like this. https://www.thevinylguide.com/episodes/ep134-bryan-brain-mantia-guns-roses-primus-more-part-2 I love that interview! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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