iPod Roulette with Ron Thal

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Just a brief interview from the new Classic Rock magazine (August 2009). Every issue, they have a musician put their iPod on shuffle and comment on the songs. This month it was Ron.



The songs were:

One For The Road - Judas Priest

"I've got every Priest album. This is off their first album Rocka Rolla. They were a progressive classic blues rock band. And Halford - what a voice."


Ozone Baby - Led Zeppelin

"Got every Zep album on the iPod too. A song off of Coda - and what a skanky bass sound. Niiiiiice."


Dash, instrumental - Bumblefoot

"From the instrumental-mix version of the Abnormal CD. Listening to this, I'm hearing all the little mix changes I wanna make. This stuff is gonna haunt me."


Summer Nights - Van Halen

"Got every Halen album too. This one's off 5150, with Hagar. Regardless of what era and line-up you prefer, Eddie kicked ass throughout on every album."


Great King Rat - Queen

"I've got every Queen album on my iPod. This early stuff on this first album was so raw - you can hear the greatness, everything they were destined to be."


With These Hands - Tom Jones

"That stuff was just pure love laid out there, with courage you rarely come across. Man, I'm totally into it. I'd love to do a song with Tom Jones some day."

[cineater]

Is there some other Tom Jones besides the What's New Pussy Cat Tom Jones?

[GypsySoul]

Is there some other Tom Jones besides the What's New Pussy Cat Tom Jones?

I'm sure there are other Tom Jones' out there in the world ... but the "What's New Pussy Cat" Tom Jones IS the one BBF is referring to in this case.

If I remember correctly, someone had posted that at one of the parties after the Osaka show, Ron somehow got Axl to sing the Tom Jones song "It's Not Unusual"



Scary shit ... very very scary   

[AdZ]

The tracklisting from the album Uncool kind of says it all:

    * BBF takes the mic
    * go
    * t-jonez
    * my world is you
    * dominated
    * kiss the ring
    * what's new, pussycat?
    * i hate me more than i love you
    * delilah
    * ronald's comin' back now
    * BBF says goodnight
    * can't take my eyes off of you
    * (hidden track)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncool_(Bumblefoot_album)

I guess he really likes Tom Jones!

[LIGuns]

I always find these types of inqueries interesting....Funny if he would have mentioned some Beutiful Creatures!!

[cineater]

It's okay if he likes Tom Jones.  I mean we all know the man and the words to his songs.  I can say that out loud right?   

I like this what are you listening to also.  I was wondering if I should try Kings of Leon and I saw Richard had it in his cd player so I bought the cd.  Thank you Richard, love them!

[Rockin' Rose]

The tracklisting from the album Uncool kind of says it all:

    * BBF takes the mic
    * go
    * t-jonez
    * my world is you
    * dominated
    * kiss the ring
    * what's new, pussycat?
    * i hate me more than i love you
    * delilah
    * ronald's comin' back now
    * BBF says goodnight
    * can't take my eyes off of you
    * (hidden track)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncool_(Bumblefoot_album)

I guess he really likes Tom Jones!

Couple of years ago I changed some messages with Ron, I asked him to recommend an album..
 
"Maybe check out Uncool? Sounds like a metal band with Tom Jones singing - lol."

And his description is kinda accurate, one hell of a album!

[Jim Bob]

Yea Uncool is my fav Ron Thal album and has been ever since I started getting into his music.

[The Glow Inc.]

If you like Uncool, make sure you check out the french version : it has five or six additionnal tracks and a bit different drumming. 
One of the tracks isn't even on Forgotten Anthology.

[H76]

Is there some other Tom Jones besides the What's New Pussy Cat Tom Jones?

I'm sure there are other Tom Jones' out there in the world ... but the "What's New Pussy Cat" Tom Jones IS the one BBF is referring to in this case.

If I remember correctly, someone had posted that at one of the parties after the Osaka show, Ron somehow got Axl to sing the Tom Jones song "It's Not Unusual"



Scary shit ... very very scary   

Why that should be scary ? It's a nice song. And Axl has a way of breathing fresh air to cover songs. I actually hope he'd perform that on tour..

[Rainfox]

Summer Nights! 

[GypsySoul]

Why that should be scary ? It's a nice song. And Axl has a way of breathing fresh air to cover songs. I actually hope he'd perform that on tour..

seriously ... NO!!!  If GNR covers a Tom Jones' song then Tom Jones will want to cover a GNR song!!!!   


    GET IN THE RING 

[H76]

Really..  has he done that with other people covering his songs ? At least Robbie Williams has sang 'It's not Unusual' on tour.  Yet I haven't heard that Mr Jones would have been doing covers of Robbies songs.

What I meant that in overall Axl is good at doing covers..so I'm not insisting that he'd do Tom Jones song. Just something he feels comfortable performing.

It could be something from David Hasselhoff as well..  After all, Axl seems to be familiar with his material as well..

[ppbebe]

i never thought with unusual ron was referring to that grandma's sex symbol tom jones. 

[cineater]

Why that should be scary ? It's a nice song. And Axl has a way of breathing fresh air to cover songs. I actually hope he'd perform that on tour..

seriously ... NO!!!  If GNR covers a Tom Jones' song then Tom Jones will want to cover a GNR song!!!!   


    GET IN THE RING 

My eyes, my eyes!

[cineater]

You know if the spin had to land on a Tom it should have been one of Tommy's songs, love this cd!

[ppbebe]

My eyes, my eyes!

word but i hear ladies still throw their knickers to his stage.

[TomFriend]

My eyes, my eyes!

word but i hear ladies still throw their knickers to his stage.

I hear its more likely to be support stockings these days.

[cineater]

And with that,

it's now time to get back on topic. 

See what happens when you stray.