Duff McKagan Talks About Axl's Current Guns N' Ros

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Duff McKagan Talks About Axl's Current Guns N' Roses Lineup

Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has rejoined with guitarist Slash, drummer Matt Sorum, and guitarist Izzy Stradlin to form a band that's basically back together except for singer Axl Rose.

The enigmatic frontman continues on with a current Guns N' Roses lineup consisting of guitarist Robin Finck, bassist Tommy Stinson, guitarist Richard Fortus, guitarist Buckethead, and drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia. The only current member that was around playing with the old band is keyboardist Dizzy Reed.

McKagan was asked his thoughts on the current Guns N' Roses--and Sorum added his two cents. "It's not Guns N' Roses, you know? [Axl] should have probably done his own solo record," said McKagan. "In saying that, also, I do wish him the best. We went through a lot together and I still have a lot of love for the guy. It's a shame that there's a...he's doing a lot to...there's a lot of bitterness..."

"Does Paul McCartney go around calling himself 'the Beatles'?" interjected Sorum. When McKagan answered no, Sorum retorted, "There you go."

"But he's doing what he thinks is the right thing," McKagan continued. "You can't fault a guy for that, but it's not Guns N' Roses."

Guns N' Roses are currently completing their forthcoming album, Chinese Democracy, which the band attempted to tour on late last year. Meanwhile, the rest of the former members--whose band name is under wraps--are looking for a singer. The band has more than 50 songs written and is planning to release an album and then tour.

-- Darren Davis, New York


Source(s): launch.yahoo.com

Thanks to: Eeebs



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[Badapple]

Hes right,it aint gnr

[svetlana]

If the band was great they should continue their nice job!

[Restless]

I think Duff is right, but i've seen GnR last year and i have to say that they were very very good! They only started 75 minutes later than planned, but well, it is Guns n' Roses :').

The only thing that i didn't like at all, where those boring guitar and piano solo's in between the songs.

[Chris Axl]

Duff is not right............. Its Guns N' Roses alright.

[doclovett]

chrisaxl said:

Duff is not right............. Its Guns N' Roses alright.

No. It. Isn't. Guns N Roses ceased to exist a looong time ago.

[melanie]

i love the news members... It's just bad there are no cd

[doclovett]

melanie said:

i love the news members... It's just bad there are no cd

I'm not saying they suck, I'm just saying they're NOT Guns N Roses...If Mick Jagger hired a bunch of guys and tried to call it the Rolling Stones would you go for it? How about Steven Tyler and 4 new guys, yet they use the name Aerosmith? Axl Rose is a well known enough name to just move forward on his own, he'd probably regain alot of the respect he's lost over the last ten plus years. Until then it's nothing but a big joke.

[XmasBaby]

Aerosmith is a good example. When Brad and Joe left in the early 80's neither one of their new bands did well, and Aerosmith (still with Steve) didn't fair well either. They had to get back together to be sucessful.Sometimes a band is the sum of its parts. I just saw Aerosmith in Sept, thank God, together, and awesome! I mean with GNR we arent talking one guy, this is just about a whole entire new band. Chinese Democracy will have to be absolutley revelutionary to pull off being what GNR was. But of course we are talking about a guy who could also pull off singing Welcome to the Jungle in a plaid skirt and combat boots. It is Axl afterall.