Latest / Booked On Rock with Eric Senich / If You Could Ask Axl Rose One Thing About 'Chinese Democracy' [Highlight From Episode 363]
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here's just a part of a recent episode of book
- 0:02Speaker 1: Don Rock. James Green Junior, the author of magnum Opus,
- 0:05Speaker 1: the unbelievable fifteen year saga of Guns n' Roses Chinese Democracy.
- 0:09Speaker 1: If you could sit across from Axel Rose today and
- 0:11Speaker 1: ask him one question about this album, what would it be?
- 0:17Speaker 2: That's an excellent question on your behalf.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Why why so long? Why so many people that came
- 0:28Speaker 3: and went?
- 0:30Speaker 2: I guess I would ask him what he would if
- 0:33Speaker 2: he would do anything differently, because there's a lot of
- 0:37Speaker 2: stuff where it's like, Okay, Josh Freeze, who everybody agrees
- 0:41Speaker 2: is one of the greatest drummers of all time. He
- 0:44Speaker 2: records pretty much the entirety of the album, as I understand,
- 0:48Speaker 2: Then he leaves the group and Brain comes in as
- 0:51Speaker 2: the drummer. Brain, very underrated percussionist, very underrated musician, has
- 0:57Speaker 2: a great a great style, great approach everything, and they
- 1:01Speaker 2: make him re record the drums in Josh Reese's style.
- 1:07Speaker 2: You know, just tons of stuff like that. You know
- 1:09Speaker 2: what I might ask him, like, Okay, can you make
- 1:11Speaker 2: me a chart of who is playing every single guitar
- 1:14Speaker 2: part on this album? So I know for sure? You know,
- 1:18Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I can tell when it's buckinghead,
- 1:20Speaker 2: but it's like, well, okay, no, but who which which?
- 1:23Speaker 1: What I was gonna ask, Yeah, what am.
- 1:25Speaker 2: I hearing Robin think? What am I hearing Paul Hugy?
- 1:29Speaker 2: When am I hearing you playing guitar? Because apparently, you
- 1:32Speaker 2: know makes.
- 1:33Speaker 1: A guitar part on better? I love that intro.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of great there's a
- 1:39Speaker 2: lot of great playing on it. It would be nice
- 1:42Speaker 2: to know exactly who is doing what.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.