Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Right! We've talked guitars, now let's talk ivory keys....

Let's dedicate this thread to Chris. What's he done?

And its Pittman.. Not Pitman

Alot!

Replicants
Lusk
Toured with Tool, played on Third Eye on ?nima
Zaum, with Danny Carey from Tool

The Lusk record is fantastic by the way!

I just spelt it the way Nico did!

See! There, I just learnt that Chris' last name is spelt with two t's. Nico! pay heed!!

Keep it coming.......






And, could a nice mod change the thread title please!

I like Pit...
He is like the Liam (prodigy) of GunsN'Roses and thats a big reason I'm intrested in listening to the new music :peace:

Yeah, but I'm confused about Pit(t)man's name as it is spelled sometimes with one or two "t's" ;)



You can edit your first post since you started the thread :P

What exactly does Pittman do during a concert when the band plays songs like WTTJ, etc. that don't need his, er, expertise. What does Izzy do for that matter. I'm not making fun of either of them by any means, but I am curious. I think I saw Izzy banging on the tamborines one time.

You mean Dizzy ;) he plays bongos during WTTJ.

At least some of the old songs have new elements in them that you might not always notice unless you listen very carefully.





/jarmo

Pittman rocks  :hihi:

I know a lot of people make fun of Chris saying stuff like he works at Denny's or Arby's when GNR isn't on tour and that his keyboard isn't even plugged in when they perform live...BUT i really think Chris is going to have a HUGE impact on CD. By creating textures and samples to songs he will add a new element to GNR that never existed before.

According to HTGTH.com and GNR.com, Pitman is spelled with only one "t".

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/bios/chris.html

Name: Chris Pitman

http://web.gunsnroses.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060928&content_id=a1&vkey=news&fext=.jsp

Rose will tickle the ivories on the piano from time to time, and GN'R has retained the services of keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and "sound designer" Chris Pitman, who used to play in Lusk.



HOW FUCKIN COOL IS THIS!!!? I'm pretty sure it means that Chris is a Synth Scientist/Inventor!!!?:headbanger:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pitman

Pitman has also done sound designand Electronic work for Arturia software synthesizers,? A Designs Audio [Peter Montessi], Waves plug ins, Waldorf Synthesizers, Apple's Logic Audio, Digidesign Plug Ins, Moog Synthesizers, Celemony's Melodyne, Ableton Live, Roland USA , Korg Music, and many other Audio Endorsements, Serge Synthesis [SMS], PlanB Synthesis [Peter Grenader}, [Axel Hartmann] Neuron Synthesis, and Symbolic Sounds Kyma.

I think his work in the band is absolutly unimportant, at least live performances...

And you base this clueless opinion on what?

Fucking troll.



/jarmo

And thankz "nice mod" for changing the title of the tread back again.

Hey, What's your problem?

I said " At least live performances", It's my opinion, in base the several audios and videos that I have heard and watched of current GNR.

Don't be histerical for a opinion different yours.

I 'd like take off the insult, thanks...

They couldnt play stuff like madagascar and better without pitman, so I think he is very important live!

Oh what! I didn't realize that the Madagascar sound thingy that I heard at the concert was Chris on keyboard(s)!
That is going to rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!





 :rofl: Bruno Martelli!

I like Chris. I wish there was more information about him over the internet. A lot of people say he's a genius and he has made a lot of collaborations, Tool for example. He's the youngest member of Guns N' Roses if I'm not wrong.

I've read he is the founder of the Grammy nominated band in 1997 ''Lusk'' where he played all instruments.

Hey Stolat, what about a Dizzy Reed topic?  :love:


dont take this guy too seriously... he never saw the band live and he doesnt download bootlegs. He's posting here because he's banned from the message board where he usually posts for making these kind of stupid and negative comments all the fucking time but without any kind of justifications.

He has talked bullshit about the RIR3 performance for YEARS... then we discovered he had never listened to the bootleg

He's just spreading his cheap negativity everywhere he can.

My problem is "fans" who come here only to post shit about the band.



And how the fuck do you come to that conclusion?

You don't even know what he adds to the show.




Your posts are insulting the rest of the board's intelligence.




/jarmo

That's reminds me of another bit in the concert.

Tommy was kept mainly in the shadows because I guess that his contribution to the sound is still underwraps.....

However, for a brief moment he was all lit up and we could see the keyboard set up, it was too brief? to see how many were there.......

And then............

He shook his head in a teasing manner and the spot went out!

 :o :o Another light sign!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :P

Intelligence?, Guau, if there are guys so inteligent in this board or you are so inteligent, Jarmo, don't should have that reaction. Anyone should.
I just said an personal comment, a logical opinion, the Pittman 's work in live performances is not relevant, because there is another Keyborad in the band already, there are many song from AFP that don't need Keyboards, etc.. ; works of Finck is relevant, Frank and Axl 's work as well, do you notice the different?, It's not hard to understand...

estebanf, whatever you say I don't care, but I would like to state I like current Guns n' Roses, I like their shows, I like their musicians, (Except Tommy and Finck)etc..but I know this band is too far to be "brilliant" (as old GNR) and I like talk about positive and negative things about this band ( like Velvet Revolver) . that's all, take it or leave it.

you dont like the two guys in this band who have been in this the longest and arguably have the most influence in the new material outside of Axl and Dizzy.  :-\

But you're a Pitman fan?

It's very hard to understand for a person who uses logic how a band would just add members on stage for fun.

It's also very hard to understand for somebody who's seen the band live and heard the new tracks live how anybody could be left out.


And don't bring that crappy band with former members who left ten years ago into this section again.




/jarmo

this topic has nothing to do with the old lineup. who cares if you like them more, this isn't about them.

you mean you actually have positive things to say about the band?  bull fucking shit.  :smoking:

Ha Ha! I love the way he was presented to us aussies at the concerts! How relevant!

Chris is and Absolute champ. Whoever said they dont know why he is on stage with Guns is nuts. His shit sounds awesome in alot of the old songs and is fuckin fantastic in the new stuff. He is also a very funny person and alot of fun on and off stage.

And this thread is only 2 pages long and there is already blewing. Its gettin real fuckin old.


 :peace:

I can do with or without Chris right now. Time will tell how important he is IF and when CD comes out.  I seen them live 3 times in 06, and once in 02, and didnt really hear too much outta him on the older songs. SO I guess thats cool. Although sometime during 06, AOL televised a GNR show from somewhere...(maybe RIO?), and thier mix was off a bit. I heard more of Chris than I wanted. During 'jungle' his playing was really prominent and just made that particular song worse in my opinion. I played it back for a few of my friends....casual GnR fans, and they agreed that he had no place in some older songs.  Ill save my final judgement for when I hear CD.

The Source of Uncertainty is one of the projects.

Every single old song has been changed in some way and it makes them all better...much better.....whether it be a faster rhythm (go watch rio 01') or adding cooler intros (see rocket queen) or better solos (see nightrain)...the fan that has been there since the beginning can easily hear this. the newer fan may not hear it....

yes, you're talking about the Rock In Rio-Lisbon. AOL, Sic Radical and XM broadcasted it. And the AOL broadcast had a vey fucked up mix where you almost are unable to hear Robin at some points, and Pitman's SFX are extremely loud. LALD was awesome, but a lot of other songs were disastrous. I think it has to do with the horrible mix, not with Pitman.

Pitman does an AMAZING job in some songs. IRS for example. But I dont like some of his ''things'' in the AFD songs.

My opinion is that we will see Pitman in his complete potential in the album. He's a very skilled musician, muti-instrumentalist and he also writes songs! (Silkworms, with Dizzy, for example)

I heard a rumor once on this board that Pitman wrote and or performed the music at the very beginning of all GNR concerts (When the lights go out and before Robin starts playing Welcome to the Jungle).

wow, is jarmo pms-ing again or what?  :P

I would do without chris pittman on the old songs ..I guess he is needed on the new songs though

Question: what does pittman do on the old songs?

Answer: he rocks... HARD

I don't know how the hell he plays his keyboard when its flopping around like that.? That alone is brilliant enough for me.?

And this isn't the first time Guns has had a second keyboard player...they used Teddy Andreades(sp?) during the Illusion tour...and his contribution was far less spectacular than Chris'. Let me rephrase that, Teddy's style is very much a Rock orientated balls out attitude while Chris...well, he's just from another dimension!!  :rofl:

exactly!

Chris is fuckin fun to watch on stage :)  sippin on his beer and hittin his keys.

the second night in vegas last year he was playing Mr. Brownstone with his arse.

That is Andreadis!  Don't Knock Zig Zag, he was the heart and soul of the Use Your Illusion Tour  :peace:

Is there some inherent reason why every topic on this board has to end in arguments and name calling?

Because people like to argue.

Its Pittman In the Live Era Booklet! And Pitman in the Lusk booklet.. It dosent matter.. What matters is that he is really talented.
I know there is alot of people out there who cant see that. But you got to have som knowlege about music to understand that.

It's also Pittman on the t-shirts from the 2002 tour (or was that the 2000 tour?). Doesn't mean anything though, just that they didn't pay a lot of attention to details.
Maybe they didn't have enough time to check things back then? I'm sure they had plenty of time to make sure his name will be printed correctly in the Chinese Democracy booklet.

the T is for Thomas

Ok, God of Justification, What is the """AMAZING""" job of Pittman in IRS?, man, you are the most exaggerated and dreamy man I have known...
But, I insist dear Argentinean, I don't say Pittman being a bad musician, I just say that Pittman is not so important as a lot of you think, due to there is another one Keyboard more leading in the band...obviously, I mean is not so relevant for people hears, because, Axl Rose is current "the Chief" and if he thinks is necessary another Keyboard it is ok...
I agree we will see the complete potencial of Pittman in the album, but so far he doesn' show anything special...(although if he writes songs, don't help him at all the example about "Silkworms"... :hihi:)...

silkworms is a dizzy song..
turbboy

At RIR III, Axl said that Silkworms was written by Dizzy and Chris.

put together by them
written by dizzy or mainly dizzy..
dizzy's tech said it

thanks for the input pt666

Chris's keyboard is different from dizzys. He's more of a synth guy i believe.
yep the amazing job is prominent on irs, madagascar and better.

I think today's Afd songs don't sound the same as those in 1987 which also differ from 86 ones or 92 ones or as those in 2002. the songs have evolved with the band. Or they would get irrelevant to the band and sound dated live.
I guess I always like the latest the best.

dizzy plays the organ a lot.. most of the times in the AFD songs..
the same organ he used in the uyi tour.. a hammond XB-2
also he plays the piano, a roland JB-8000
chris doesnt play piano or organ.. he plays synths. in AFD songs most oif the time you cant hear him, cuz he is doing a similar synth riff of the guitars..
obviously axl didnt bring pitman to play in AFD songs..

i really dont know, but the official gnr tour shirts from 2002 spell it "Pitman."

it is pitman

I do like some of the stuff he does on the AFD songs. I really like the stuff he's doing during You Could Be Mine the most though.

I'm not a fan of Silkworms.

Silk Worms is the BEST new song LIVE by far....

I personally like "Better",  well better. :P

I don't mean too be an ass, but sense your doing it! LOL! Its   (A LOT)

I have met Chris and he a great guy. This guy has the tech to bring a lot into the studio. And he has brought a lot to the live show. You may not always get to hear the stuff he adds, but its there.
peace out
amy

"he IS a great guy" haha.. Im just beeing a dick.. My english is not good enough to have the right to correct others..
Anyway! You can hear on almost every old songs, that they more filled with synth now. And on the new songs, it seams that the
synth play an very important role.

Go buy the Lusk record! It is really really good!  : ok:

 :hihi: Its all good! lol

is Pitt going to be featured as much on the next album as he was on Chinese Democracy?

I guess you're spamming the board so I'll help you.

Bye!



/jarmo

In one hand, he def do some good sound fx on the songs live... But there's A LOT of synths that is actually Dizzy playing (the Better intro, CD intro, IRS..). Seems like with this Pitman shit going on, people forgot about the main keyboard man in the band.

But I do like Pitman's work. I think the Madagascar speech is absolutely brilliant.

i'm very interested to hear what Chris' contribution was to this new record, just the thought of him working with Robin to produce a unique sound, and (earlier on) with Bucket, to produce compositions is simply mouth watering.....i hope we get a solid showcase of the man's abilities....

Speaking of which... how do they do they live? Is the whole thing pre-linked together or does he have to trigger each one every time? Anyone know?

I guess it's the whole thing pre-linked. At least, I never noticed any changes in the tempo from the live versions I heard.

I'm surprised that HRS or whatever he calls himself nowadays isn't flipping a lid over this thread.

But yeah Pitman is an awesome guy, I can't wait to hear him on 'Chinese'.

Pitman is cool,

but speaking of madagascar,
I really wish that that song had more versus/LYRICS in it,
cause I love the song and everything,
I just think it could go alot further i.e in radio play, song status etc,

Cause when the spoken word solo comes on, it does kinda interupt the flow of the song, (judging by the demo/live)
I just wish that their were some more lyrics then "i wont be told anymore"
but Its still a cool song, and I think pitman does as good of a job as he can on the song :beer: