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Live Chat with Bumblefoot
May 18 @ 8pm ET

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"What's Hot" on Ustream.tv............... (streaming Q&A tomorrow at FanTimeLive.com)

Nice  :D

I won't be able to make it so anyone who is attending please report! ;-)

Starting soon...


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/jarmo

The interview started, Ron is in a good mood. Too many questions asked though.  :hihi:

YES, Ron answered my question about Robin Finck...

I asked what was it like to play with him?... And he said that Robin is doing very well and is a fantastic player, and that him and his family are really cool.  :love:

Thanks Ron.  ;D

I just asked Ron if his beard was Robins' beards evil twin brother?. And he said, "No it's not Robins' beards twin brother.......it's his beards evil first cousin".  :hihi:

hahaha, Rons a good sport.  : ok:

Thanks Again.  ;D

He's still going...





/jarmo

Ron's a pro for doing this...  :love:

I've stayed  up all night watching and asking questions, must have asked him about 20 and got replies back. It's now 7.00am UK time, and he started this late last night. Can't believe how cool he is, and he is still going.

I've asked him some really involved questions, and he's answered them all promptly and in a funny but serious manner.  8)

It was so cool

Yeah. Cool. He played Jenny B from "Abnormal" for me  ;D

Any chance of getting the copy of the whole Q&A thing out? I was zzzleeping. Catched some of the looong jam-session though  : ok:

The man is a jukebox...

Someone recorded it?

I recorded just Can't Stop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIiKkLTJa4

So how long did he end up going for? I went to bed after 5 hours, and he was showing no signs of slowing down.  :hihi:

This is just a guess, but I think he started around 11pm UK time, and I stayed up all night, haven't had no sleep since the chat still. And he finished at 7am UK time, so that's 8+ hours, of Ron sitting on a chair talking to fans and taking requests.  :love:

The guys a legend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Might be a world record as well.  ;D

TO RON....

 :beer:

He started around 1am UK time.




/jarmo

Cheers, I was trying to work it out....

But that's still 6 whole hours, of sitting on a chair more or less for the whole time. Q Ball was there at the start, then he went to bed, but Ron stayed all damn night, what a guy. 8)

(I asked Ron about the Q BALL song John hughes, and Q BALL got a dig out of that.)

It was chaos. As usual.  :nervous:

Most people posting the same things over and over and over.


Like the person who was constantly asking Ron if he would be her boyfriend in Brazil......




/jarmo

Yeah and the guy who typed 4 lines worth of phrases like "Ron, how can I get you to come to my country and do a guitar clinic". And as if that wasn't enough, he posted it in CAPS.....

Ron seemed to get used to ignoring the crap, and to answer genuine questions. I really enjoyed it, and I can't believe how many questions Ron answered of mine, he even said my username which was One-In-A-Million on the chat.  :hihi:

He was there for 7 hours. Hope someone recorded it...

I was gonna make a account on that site and greet him or ask something but when I saw what was going on I lost the will to do it.

But still, it was fun to watch! :)

One of the questions I asked Ron was about why he started to play GN'R solo's almost note for note in 2009/10, than compared to 2006...

He said that he wanted to remain respectful to the original idea that was present during the song, and he wants the songs to sound like they should sound. He went on to say that on some songs he still improvises alot, for example the nightrain outro, because that's what the whole band is going for in those type of (long solo) songs. But he wanted everything else (even the Chinese Democracy stuff), to sound as close as it could be, to the sound on the record.


Nice Answer, I totally get what he's trying to get across here.  :)

Fucking awesome night!!!
Def. one of the highlights was his Estranged and TWAT snippet  ;D

And thank you Beard for playing my request: "Cantina Band" Star Wars theme song  :hihi: :hihi: 

Thanks!!  Any other highlights for the poor working souls that couldn't attend?   :P

I asked him if it was really important in music to learn all of the theory and scales. To which he said, "not really as long as your enjoying what your doing, it's fine. But it does help you to understand why things sound good and other things don't". He said that he was "someone who enjoyed the theory side of music", but he said "whatever works for you is the most important thing."

I also told him that I met him in Las Vegas, and he remembered me from the memorabilia store. That made me over the moon, I did actually also tell him about that when I met him again in 2008, in London, and again he remembered.  :love:

I also asked him if his own Bumblefoot songs where tuned down a full step, 1/2 step or standard tuning. To which he replied that "alot of his earlier stuff was standard tuning", but lately he said he's been using 1/2 step down, tuning for his songs.

If I remember more, I'll post it for sure.... :)

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Thank you to everyone who participated in @fantimelive event with @bumblefoot last Wednesday. We had 37,000 viewers!!!

2 hours ago

I too would like to thank Ron for doing this chat, and for going the extra mile and staying on all night...

I enjoyed every bit of it, and I'll never forget it. Ron was chatting to everyone, and having lots of laughs with everyone. And then his guitar skills, absolutely amazing, Ron can actually play anything you ask him too.

So on behalf of everyone who participated last wednesday, a big thank you to you Ron for an amazing night.  :)

Thank You Ron !!!!!!!!

 :beer:  :love:  :beer:  :love: