Here Today... Gone To Hell!

http://www.studentinfor.bizland.com/interviewfive.chtml

26/Jul/2003

BH - Hows the tour going?
TS - It's going great thanks. The British people are very friendly and seem quite eager to buy me drinks (laughs)

Tommy then walks off to speak to a fan for a few minutes
BH - So you are in the UK at the moment promoting some new material. Is that right?
TS - Are you not wanting to know about Guns n'Roses? (laughs) Yeah, I got a whole bunch of songs that I've written and recorded over the past few months and I'm hoping to put out a record very soon. Did you like the song by the way? (laughs) Tommy then walks away again for a few minutes

BH - How do you know Jesse Malin?
TS - Oh we did some work together a little while back. We're just old friends, that's all

BH - Inevitably, I've been asked to ask you what the latest is with Guns n'roses. I hope you don't mind
TS - Aaaah, I thought you'd mention them at some point *laughs* Well, the new record is currently being mixed, so I've been told, and we are currently planning to get something out in mid-fall or so. Will that do? (laughs)

BH - What's your been the highlight of working with Guns n'roses so far?
TS - I think, for me at least, the best parts are still to come. But I have enjoyed everything so far, being part of the process of putting the new album together. It's been fun. And I can tell you that there is some really good stuff to come out in the future from us. Axl's worked with alot of people over the years. . But for me, like I said, the best parts are definitely still to come. I really do enjoy being part of the Guns n'roses line-up and when I am not there I do actually miss it believe it or not.

BH - You say Axl has worked with many people over the years. Give me a few names
TS - Oooh, he's worked with Queen and Brian May, Elton John, Rivers Cuomo, Lionel Richie, NAS. The list goes on

BH - Lionel Richie? Didn't he sing 'Hello'?
TS - Yeah, that's right. (laughs) Axl got him in to do some vocals and stuff and they have also done a cover of a very famous song. But you will have to wait and see what that is.

BH - So, what are your plans for the future?
TS - World domination by next Spring

Curious ;D

Very Curious ;D

I never really believed that interview was legit.  It came out around the time of the NAS and Lionel Ritchie rumours and I always figured it was a bogus attempt to make the rumours look legit.

does anyone know what lyonel ritchie said about this?? im sure he has fans that gather on the net also and may know about this.....

Hello , is it AXL you're looking for?

lmao

We know Brian May commented that he was happy that his guitar was still on Catcher in the Rye...  Maybe some of the "big guns" are tracks featuring guest artists?  I actually hope not, just because the fans need to hear the playing of the actual band members and not have the new GNR be overshadowed by too many guest musicians.

Not only that, but I'm not looking forward to hearing Shaq on any album ever again, ever!

I wonder what axl did with nas... NAS was quite good with his battles against JZ :hihi:

I am down on my knees right now praying to God that it isn't true that Lionel Richie is on the album. Same goes for NAS...that'd be awfull

so much for world domination.

maybe he got that guy blunt on the album too :peace:

I like Lionel Ritchie.  His stuff with The Commodores is badass.




What?  Am I the only one that likes him? :P

axl and weezer?  :confused: *hiphip*

Nah man, axl n him are going to be doing a duet about beta, she's a brick house baby ;D

Don't even joke about that! ?:rant: :rant: :rant:

Amen to that. :yes:

And a COVER of a very famous song with Lionel Richie? No no. :no:   I'm curious tho. What famous song it could be....

Leave them for a side project.

I've heard of the name but I don't know what the Commodores is like.
Is it like Diana Ross and Supremes? ???

More like the Temptations, I guess

Buckethead? Paul Tobias? Josh Freese?

It's alot of funk. ?They do the song "Brick House" as well as "Easy".

the article is one hundred percent fake. some guy from leeds made it up.

Yeah Lionel Richie and female rapper Trina guested on Rob Zombie's version of Brick House and it was actually pretty good.

A Lionel Richie interiew I read a couple years ago said that he and Axl did a vocal duet of "Ebony and Ivory". ?He said Axl also was open to Lionel's ideas for vocal technique on a couple songs including "Seven" I think. ?Lionel said that Axl thought their duet was good enough for the album, but Lionel laughed when he answered the interviewers question and said: "You know Axl, so we'll see..." ? ?This was around the same time Marco Beltrami said he orchestrated on four tracks.

So the famous song was "Ebony and Ivory" :-\ I like some of Rob Zombie songs.

Thanks Backslash and Thorazine Shuffle.

That's why GNFNR was easy (ahhhh ahhhh ahhh ahhhh) like sunday morning (ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh). :yes:

I guess I must check those songs myself.  Funk like Chic?

Excerpt of interview from Liberator magazine (US)

Interviewer - ...have you been working on any other projects?

LR - Yes, as a matter of fact, last month I did some work with none other than Axl Rose of Guns n'Roses fame which was quite (pause) interesting and stimulating

Interviewer - Tell me more.

LR - Well, Axl called me up out of the blue, as you do, said he had a couple of tracks that he wanted me to look at. So I said, yeah come round and I'll have a listen. So he came round, played these two tracks to me, and played a whole bunch of other ones which he had recorded and asked me what I thought. And there really was some great tracks there, some really great, powerful rock tracks. And some great melodies too

Interviewer - So, anything come of this

LR - Yeah, I did a whole load of things with him. I had a look at a whole load of tracks, two in particular. I think one them was called Seven, a really powerful orchestrated number He said he wanted some help with the vocals on that one. Then there was this other song, 'Down by the sea' , I think it was called. I did some experimenting on that song too. Quite a bluesy feel to that one. And, on top of that, we also recorded a cover of 'Ebony and Ivory' which Axl said he loved so much, that he was gonna put it on his new album, or so he said anyway (laughs) So yeah, there was some exciting stuff there

Interviewer - Were you suprised that he contacted you of all people?

LR - Yeah (laughs), you wouldn't normally associate my style of music with Axl's genre of music (laughs again) but Axl said he'd been a big fan of mine in the 1980's and he wanted to get that kind of feel to a couple of his songs. It's been a good experience for me too though as I have been able to explore other areas of music and expand my own musical vocabulary, so to speak, which I think.......blah blah

When was this taken?  I haven't seen this.

june 2003

I never believed any of this. I'm suprised LR's website hasn't been flooded with e-mails. GNR fans can usually smoke out the truth :hihi:

Yea I know what you mean.  I think I would of remembered this.  Especially since in 03 we had hardly any news.  The GNR community would of gone ape-shit over this article and harassed Lionel and everyone else to try to get to the bottom of this.  The article seems so...precise. :no:

down by the sea?!  ???

 :rofl:

I dunno , sounds , lol , "fishy" ...

mysteron?.....

does anyone know if this is legit??

i don`t know what to think of it.....

The way people call for Mysteron makes me laugh.  He needs his own version of the Bat signal. :hihi:

i think a "report to mysteron" function would be nice :hihi: : ok:

I hope nothing,absoluteley nothing will come out of this collobaration, ever :nervous: If it's true :confused:

That a pretty good idea. ?But somehow I have the feeling we'll get the "there is no truth to this rumor" reply.

I remember there was a big rumour going around at that time (2003) that Lionel Richie had recorded a cover of "Ebony and Ivory" with Axl.

To my knowledge, this was confirmed to be a FAKE rumour. These "articles" along with a couple of others were fabricated by people who are still laughing at you TO THIS DAY for believing they are real.

Until someone comes up with an actual link to actual real information, DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.

Lol, they should be crying, because they have no life... Poor Poor souls. :rofl:

Nah I don't believe this.. Can't remember this article from 03 and I think we would if it was real.
It seems to good (Bad!  :hihi: )  to be true!

I don't believe any of it to tell the truth. The thought of have guests on the album,or even a cover is something that doesn't sit well with me. It would be great to have this band playing all the instruments,and their material.

but it is fuckin sure that "seven" will be on cd :smoking: and i don't think lionel is a liar :peace:

who here actually believes this is legit?

Read the interview people. It is so blatantly pieced together from information already on the circuit and all the questions asked are leading questions.

I hope whoever wrote this is having a chuckle.

Are you replying to the Lionel Richie article or the Tommy Stinson article?  Both?

Why this old thread got bumped? Isn't already know it's a fake story?

actually that's a real name, and we know a lot more about it!!!!
Back in 2001, izzy gave an interview and he was asked about Axl. he said that he used to write songs with him and that one of the songs that he did was called under the sea or something like that.(I found that on lostrose.com but the site is down since 2003)

Ah, a song with Izzy lyrics  :drool:

I looked the backnumber of June 2003 issue up at the Liberator magazine site to find that there was no mention of that lionel article on the cover. Did you see the magazine yourself?

I know. I'm a 99 posts newbie. But I'm not making this up. There was a izzy interview, and he said that he helped write a few songs with Axl, and that he remembers "one of them called Deep is the sea, or something like that" (I'm not sure if he said "deep is the sea", but it was something along those lines.-I read it 5 years ago so I forgot the egzact name he used).

I can't say if this Lionel interview is real, but I'm not bs-ing you.

If you doubt me, I'm Lucky from chinesedemocracy.com and if u ask anyone there they'd confirm that I never start bullshit.

i'm a mod at cd.com. even though i can't remember this interview, i've never known lucky to bullshit.

izzy writing songs with axl is way cooler than lionel ritchie writing songs with axl anyway.....

Hi Tornica, I was not implying you were bullshitting, just drooling over the idea of another song with Izzy lyrics. I really like those. Hope that clears it up  : ok: Are we okay?

we are cool,  ;)
but I was making sure that people don't get me wrong.
if this lionel ritchie thing is for real that would mean that Axl proceeded to work on a Izzy song, and if so this would make a lot of fans really happy-me included.

thanks 2naFish for backing me up. : ok:
2 bad lost rose went down. that site was runing since 98?. they had a great achive, with a whole bunch of interviews. I remember the izzy interview really well because it was quite important for me to know that this guy worked on it(back then I was really into izzy stuff).


I'll see if htgth has anything from that period in it's archive...

I love to read comments from interviews three years ago and how he says they were mixing the album, and should be out in fall, 2003.?

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

and people wonder why I may be a little skepticle about this tour or upcoming album release happening

:hihi:
laugh.....but seven and down by the sea with richie will be awesome :peace:

hopefully they are able to finish mixing it

 Topic: Look at this Tommy Stinson old interview (Lionel Ritchie??) (Read 1337 times)

Sorry couldn't resist.

Interest

Somehow I don't think mixing is the biggest problem for us to worry about.

what is? other than this thing ever seeing record stores?

^ I mean that the album not being released is not just because of mixing concerns.

what are the other problems you're alluding to?  making it to concert dates?  this CD appearing in stores before the 22nd century?