Posts tagged as Guns N' Roses
'Mat Finds Place
"I lived in L.A. for 15 years, had great friends, but I never felt at home. It's a constant feeling of 'I have to keep moving or I'm going to get stuck.' And here I want to stop moving so I can get stuck." READ MORE
Why Former Guns N' Roses Bassist Duff McKagan Is Such A Likeable Dude
Duff McKagan was 15 when he met Kim Warnick of Seattle punk band the Fastbacks. While giving him a ride home from school, she mentioned that her band might need a drummer. "Guitar, drums, bass, whatever, I'll join!" writes McKagan with the kind of tractable enthusiasm that makes his new memoir, It’s So Easy (And Other Lies) (out today), a fun and heartening read. After dropping out of the local alternative high school (where to show up for half an hour every two weeks "proved too great an obligation") and drifting in and out of trouble with drugs and the police, Duff moved to Los Angeles in 1983 with little in the way of a plan but the vaguest outline of a life in music—but not a career, as he points out, saying it was never his intention to make a living. Yet that's what he did, somewhat miraculously becoming one of the founding members of Guns N' Roses (he played bass). READ MORE
What Do Raekwon, Kobe, Ghostface Killah And Jim Jones Think Of When They Think Of "Rock N' Roll"?
The great Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon releases his next solo album next month. Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang, it's called, the follow-up to 2009's terrific Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2. Some of the new music sounds good. The latest song to leak, "Rock n' Roll," which features Rae's frequent collaborator Ghostface Killah, the singer Kobe, and Jim Jones of the Diplomats, sounds less so, to my curmudgeonly autotune-averse ears. But it's interesting to look at which rock n' rollers get namechecked in the lyrics. Not necessarily ones you might expect. For instance, Raekwon's first shout goes out to Willie Nelson. READ MORE
It's Unfortunately November Now
Hey, it's November. That sucks, though. Because November is the worst month of the year. READ MORE
See, Those Vuvuzelas Do Sound Just Like The Intro To "Welcome to the Jungle"
Yes! The other day, the whole time I was watching the England-U.S.A. match, hearing the drone of the famous vuvuzelas, I couldn't think of anything except the intro to "Welcome to the Jungle." (Admittedly, it's kind of rare that I'm ever thinking of anything except the intro to "Welcome to the Jungle." But still.) READ MORE
Axl Rose To Get In The Ring, Courtroom With His Former Manager
Curmudgeonly Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has sued his former manager Irving Azoff for $5 million, saying that Azoff sabotaged sales of 2008's forever-in-the-making Chinese Democracy and tried to screw up the band's live itinerary around the release of that album in hopes that Rose would begrudgingly reunite with the probably more lucrative Appetite For Destruction-era lineup of the group, despite there being many bygones to be bygoned on that front. The release of Chinese Democracy was certainly one that raised a lot more questions than it answered, and it would appear that this particular piece of litigation is something of an attempt to answer at least a few of them. Would Chinese Democracy have sold better had it not been sold only at Best Buy outlets, which didn't really go the distance as far as promoting the thing? Did it need Slash's guitar lines as a selling point? Or would it have sold better if it didn't sound like it had been labored over for 14 years? READ MORE
It's Gonna Bring You Down. Waah.
Worried that the music of Dan Zanes is too wussified for your kids? Good news! "Is a sweet child o' yours trying your patience at bedtime? Do you have an appetite for noise reduction? Don't you cry tonight. Fire up these gentle renditions of GNR's metal classics to rock your little devil to a peaceful sleep. Welcome to the nursery, baby. It's paradise city." Indeed. Sound samples here.
