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Bach: Yeah, yeah!


Axl: It depends on the quality of the sound.


Bach: But it's like one of my favorite vocal moments is like...


Axl: But like, the whole auto tuning kinda thing...


Bach: It makes me sick!


Axl:...house music. Hey I got a good - Wait. House music. So I was talking with Jimmy Iovine and he says - I love this story. He says he was with Bono back, you know, way back on...I think it's Joshua Tree or whatever. With Or Without You was on it, ok? So, Bono plays him some music and goes: "This is house music." Jimmy listens to it, and then he plays With Or Without You, and Jimmy goes (impersonating Jimmy Iovine): "No, this is house music! If you put that out, you can buy a house!"


(everyone laughs)


Bach: That's funny.


Trunk: Axl, let me ask you something real quick, and we're gonna put a song. I wanted to ask you this: Tommy Stinson's still in the band right?


Axl: Absolutely.


Trunk: And I had read, cuz I'm a huge Soul Asylum fan, and I had heard that Dave Pirner, is he on the record too? Or did he do something on the record? On the GN'R record?


Axl: (embarrassed) Not that I'm aware of. (everyone laughs) Not that would be a bad thing, but I don't know anything about that...


Trunk: Cuz I knew that Pirner, I mean that Stinson also did some stuff with Soul Asylum, so, and like I said, there's all rumors...


Axl: No, but we haven't crossed any path with them, other than that.


Trunk: Oh ok. Cuz again, I heard Brian May, Dave Pirner, I hear about all these guests that were on this record...


Axl: Well, we just have...We worked with different people over time, on different ideas here and there, and then you've ended up keeping some of the same songs. But maybe you don't work with the person that you did something with a long time ago. We did a lot of different things with, a lot of different guitar players so...


Trunk: Yeah. How many songs? It's been, you've been working on the record for, what has it been now? 10 years? Is it that long? Or longer?


Axl: I don't know...


Trunk: (laughs) On and off...


Axl: It's definitely on and off. So...


Trunk: So, how many songs total exist? Like, how much of a body material did you have to ultimately pull from this record? Was it like, 50 songs? You had to come up with the 10 that are going to make the record? I mean, that's part of the process, you just...


Axl: That's kinda like everybody's thing, isn't it? But, there's a lot what we've kept. I mean, there is, there's 2 records that the majority of the music's done, and the majority of the vocals are done. And there's another half of a record that's being worked on. We were actually working on a song a little bit tonight that's not, even on the first two records.


Bach: Cool! I can remember when they were doing Use Your Illusion...and the...


Axl: Well Use Your Illusion has got...You know, there's a much longer...I won't, there's a much longer story that...Use Your Illusion is...(sigh) basically Slash wanting to take over the band, Izzy being in his drug world, and the only way that we were able to even survive as a band was to make this double thing you know, like Slash's solo record, Izzy's solo record, and then I wrote stuff, but I mean, I had the phone calls of calling these guys going: "I'm not doing yours, if you don't do his!", and then calling Izzy and saying: "I'm not doing yours, if you don't do his! And I'm not doing either of yours, unless we do mine, and we'll do mine last!" But, it was that kinda fight for years. You know...


Trunk: How about the videos from those records man, for the Illusion records, I mean, those...


Bach: I got the best Guns N' Roses video, and you never seen it...It's...


Axl: I don't know...


Bach: ...It's So Easy


Axl: No, I just think it's corny, so...I don't know, I just, I like the filming of it, that whole aspect, but...


Trunk: Is there a favorite video that you've done? Like Welcome To The Jungle? Like that first...


Axl: Look, all I know is all I really wanted to do, this is dead serious. Sweet Child. Huh, what I really wanted to do for that and...that was having about this woman from the Orient bringing her baby and getting it you know through customs and stuff, and carrying this baby and everything, but at the end, some guy splits it in half cuz it's dead and filled with heroin...


Bach: (disgusted) Ooooh...


Axl: ...but the record company wouldn't let me do it. That's what Sweet Child was supposed to be about.


Bach: Dude, I gotta mention, Del James gave me a copy, maybe he shouldn't have...of the It's So Easy video.


Axl: Oh, that's fine.


Bach: That's a good one. That's my favorite Guns N' Roses video.


Trunk: What's going on in there?


Bach: It's...


Axl: That's where I'm spanking Erin (Everly)...I'm spanking Sweet Child so...


Bach: There's an S&M, very quick shot at the end, oh man! But it's all like, you know...


Axl: Yeah, but the messed up part of that is: you remember Earl, you know the security guy I had?


Bach: Yeah, yeah.


Axl: So, Earl is this big huge black guy you know, and we went to the Pleasure Chest to buy the bondage gear for the video. But the guys behind the counter just seen me with this huge giant black guy and they think that...(everyone laughs)...they're looking at me like: "Yeaah! You're one of us, it's cool! Thumbs up man! Right!" And I'm like...(laughs) that was messed up. They were like just..."Alright man. You rock dude!"


Bach: You're taking one for the team!


(everyone laughs)


Trunk: You know what's amazing too, I remember, I worked for a label in the 80's, and I remember back when they had the WEA conventions. The very first time I heard Guns N' Roses. Because, they had all these sweets, and all the WEA labels got together and showcased their new music, and I'll never forget, walking into the room, and the guy from Geffen bringing me over and saying: "This is a new band I want you to check out. They're called Guns N' Roses. I want to show you the video." And he put the video on for Welcome To The Jungle, and cranked the hell out of it, and I remember everyone just jaws on the floor like: "Oh my god, everything is about to change..."


Axl: But it didn't, it didn't. We released that thing 3 times.


(untelligible)


Jericho: ...I remember seeing the Ritz in New York the first time.


Axl: They were shoving it down. I tried to get you to do that with Slave To The Grind, with the song.


Bach: To what?


Axl: I tried to get you to push Slave To The Grind. I told you to keep releasing it until people finally go like: "Ok, we give up!"


(everyone laughs)


Bach: I actually...


Axl: Yeah, but I wanted him to release it again, and again.


Bach: I like the way you're thinking! Can I say something? The first time I ever saw or knew Guns N' Roses, I was in a band called Madame X. So anyways we were on tour, I was about 17 years old, or 18 years old, and I was in a supermarket in like, I don't know, Maryland or something, and I bought a Hit Parader magazine and I saw, I never heard of Guns N' Roses, just one picture, and your hair was completely teased, but on your pants you wrote: "Glam sucks!!" And I literally got mad in the supermarket! I go: "Who? Why does this guy have teased hair but he has Glam sucks! on his pants?"


Axl: I think that was wide out too. (laughs)


Bach: But you were making a statement right there! And in the supermarket you were messing with my head.


Axl: I think it's like Kurt Cobain on the cover of Rolling Stone and like "Corporate mags suck" or whatever, too.


Bach: But you did it first.


Ian: The first time I saw Guns N' Roses was in Winnipeg, Canada, that's where I grew up. Yeah, you guys were touring with The Cult. And no one really knew Guns N' Roses by the summer of '87 and these like bums walked onstage, and this guy walked up to the microphone and said: "You wanted the best? Well they ain't here, this is Guns N' Roses!" (everyone laughs) And Duff plugged in and it was like "eeeeeee" and started It's So Easy and within about 3 seconds it was like: "These guys are the greatest ever!"


Axl: It's So Easy...was originally a hippie ya-ya song. And Duff and West wrote this song like on acoustic, and it literally went like: (singing country-like) "I see your sister in a sunday dress..." Oh absolutely, and we were rehearsing in L.A and Slash basically just starts raping the song and I ran up and started like, doing like the evil Iggy Pop over it, while West is standing there and his face is like Droopy, like: "My song :("


Bach: "Look what they done to my song?"


Axl: Yeah. We just destroyed his song right there.


Bach: How's West doing?


Axl: Huh, he's not.


Bach: No?


Axl: West is no longer with us.


Bach: Oh my lord...


Axl: So, maybe he's doing better. (laughs) He appreciates that you cared...

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