Eddie Trunk on TMS Axl interview

[LIGuns]

Although TMS interview was cool I feel it pailed in comparison to the radio drop in interview of 2006..

Joe Daly of The Weeklings spoke to our very own Eddie Trunk. Portions of the interview appear below.

Q: Musicians, even the metal guys, can be colorful personalities to manage sometimes. Looking back over the past eleven seasons [of That Metal Show], are there any interviews or situations that you wish you might have handled differently?
ET: The one interview that I wish I had back was the Axl Rose interview, when we went to Miami and interviewed him. I only say that because people who don?t know the backstory behind that interview don?t realize all that went into getting it. It was a lot. It was waiting around, literally, for fifteen hours for that interview. And we never knew if we were ever going to get it. There was no promise made to us that we were going to get an interview, so we were prepared to some degree, but we weren?t prepared to wait until five in the morning to do an interview, and that?s exactly what it ended up being. We got to the arena at three o?clock the day before, and we walked out of the arena at around eight a.m. the next day. We got our interview, but as important as it was to have been the first?and all respect to Jimmy Kimmel, who I know got one?we were first to have gotten an interview with Axl on TV in God knows how long.
Q: I remember running into you in L.A. a few weeks after that and you still looked exhausted.
ET: We really put a lot into that and it took a hell of a long time to get it. To that end, by the time Axl came out and the interview happened, we were so sleep deprived, we were literally dozing off before he walked in. We had flights to catch. We thought we were going to do the interview at eight, get back to our rooms around eleven, sleep, wake up, get on the plane and go. We literally went from the venue to the airport, got on a plane and came home without sleeping.
So I?m not making excuses, but when you?re standing around that long in limbo, you have a completely different mindset going into that interview. You?re like, ?OK, let?s get some time with this guy, and then we?ve gotta go.? There are much tougher questions that I could have asked. I think that the bigger part of that whole thing is that people just wanted to see the guy and hear him speak, because he?s so reclusive.
The whole thing was a weird thing. He didn?t know he was supposed to do an interview. His manager, he claims, didn?t tell him. We were there forever, so really it was a whole gray area going into it. Again, the most important thing was that we got it; people saw it, people heard it, most people liked it. That was the goal, to get him on the show, but we could have certainly done more with it if things had been different.

[One.In.A.Million]

Seems like at the time Eddie was just glad to get an interview at all. You can't really blame the guy for not asking better questions, when you realise how much went into getting it together. He must of felt pretty angry at Kimmel for getting THE video interview everyone was waiting for in a controlled environment and officially... But that's how it goes sometimes I guess.

[Annie]

I met Eddie In las Vegas in the beginning of November. I told him that I liked his interview and he told me that he liked my Hello Axl tattoo.

[LIGuns]

No need to bring up the Slash/Reunion question..I'd like to know how many if any songs are fully completed from the CD sessions and if there are any plans for them..Or perhaps a question about new material in general..

[One.In.A.Million]

You know what?, the 2006 Eddie Trunk interview, and the more recent Jimmy Kimmel interview was fantastic. BUT it's about time that Axl sat down with someone who means business, someone who is not scared about asking THE questions people have wanted to know for years. I'm not talking about Slash either, I'm talking about why has the band only released 1 album in 2 decades, why Axl never promoted Chinese Democracy with any sort of conviction at all. I think it would be great if he sat down with someone who is "in the know" about GN'R of the last 10 years, someone like those Talking Metal guys Mark and John.

[LIGuns]

You know what?, the 2006 Eddie Trunk interview, and the more recent Jimmy Kimmel interview was fantastic. BUT it's about time that Axl sat down with someone who means business, someone who is not scared about asking THE questions people have wanted to know for years. I'm not talking about Slash either, I'm talking about why has the band only released 1 album in 2 decades, why Axl never promoted Chinese Democracy with any sort of conviction at all. I think it would be great if he sat down with someone who is "in the know" about GN'R of the last 10 years, someone like those Talking Metal guys Mark and John.

TMS is a blatant rip off of Talking Metal..As far as not promoting CD GN'R have been touring it for nearly 5 years..But your righ there was a lack of press from Axl at the beginning..

[raindogs70]

Neil Strauss should do the big interview with Axl.

[jarmo]

The problem with interviews is often the fact that the person doing the interview is either poorly informed, not educated about what (s)he's supposed to be talking about or trying to make a lighthearted fun interview which might make the guest uncomfortable...

And then you have those who try to make jokes on other people's expense and that might just make the interview awkward...


For example, if you don't know what the guest is about, asking follow up questions might be more difficult.




/jarmo

[LIGuns]

The radio interview was classic..More casual and off the cuff with no real agenda from either side..it was in depth and interesting  just hearing Axl's take on bands...

[russkwtx]

I wonder if GNR has a communication problem. Axl seems to refer to the fact "I was not told" a lot. I remember at the Vegas 12.31.11 show he was talking about the show on the previous night, 12.30, and he said that no one told him he was doing The Joint until about 2 hours beforehand. I wonder why Axl is not told stuff, or maybe he is and he forgets? Who knows. But it really seems odd to me.