Guns N' Roses Guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal talks Gear, Guitar Making, and Mus

[jarmo]

Guns N' Roses Guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal talks Gear, Guitar Making, and Music

http://localmusicgearstoreinterviews.blogspot.com/2012/04/guns-n-roses-guitarist-ron-bumblefoot.html


?It really was like such a balance of sounds where, if I was playing something I had to watch not to step on the vocals, don?t step on the lead, don?t step on this instrument?but when I did it, it gave me a chance to use the fretless guitar and add something that I felt was my own spirit to it,? Ron said of the Chinese Democracy album. ?I don?t want to just play for the sake of playing.? He added that the album pioneers the use of fretless guitar.

?One thing I think is really cool is Chinese Democracy is the first major-label release that has a fretless guitar as a major part,? Ron said. ?So I felt like, ?okay, I added something that made the album special. I did something that made me feel like my DNA was part of this child.?






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[CIAT]

Yeah, he's right. I never thought about that before. CD is pretty much the only album released on a major label that has fretless guitar on it that I can think of.

[jarmo]

The album probably has more guitars on it than most albums that are considered "guitar oriented".

Ironic...




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[Regibold]

I would love one day to dissect every track on that album to hear how it all came together.