2000.MM.DD - Creative Worx Motion Media - Interview with Gilby and Tracii
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2000.MM.DD - Creative Worx Motion Media - Interview with Gilby and Tracii
Transcript:
Someone: Tape is rolling.
Gilby: Roll tape.
Interviewer: So we want to ask you guys…
Gilby: We, ah, we only talk in Italian. So please [laughter]
Interviewer: Early influences? Guitar? Music?
Tracii: Gilby Clarke had the biggest impact on my early years guitar playing. You know when I was in England in the late sixties…
Gilby: Yeah well, you know, when I was touring about that time, you know. Of course I was minus six years old at the time.
Tracii: Of course.
Gilby: We don't want to give away our age you know.
Tracii: That's my earliest influences and then of course lately guys like that Rod Stewart.
Gilby: Right, he's a great guitar player.
Tracii: Robert Plant was always fantastic.
Gilby: And Sid Vicious.
Tracii: Ah, the best. He really was.
Gilby: He was the one who made me buy my first guitar, Sid.
Tracii: Really?
Gilby: Yeah.
Tracii: The Mercedes one?
Gilby: Yeah. 1957.
Tracii: Oh man. It's very important to have these influences. I mean, because it's not the typical ones. Because the typical ones in...
Gilby: One should always hone your songwriting, you know, and it's very important when you take from people, like, you know, Sid and stuff like that...
Tracii: Rod Stewart.
Gilby: Yeah, right, very good.
Interviewer: Barry Manilow?
Tracii: Barry Manilow! Wow. He's not only style but class.
Gilby: You should never interview two guitar players together cause we have no idea what we're doing.
[laughter]
Gilby: It's like when we play live we have no idea what the hell's going on. [cut] Okay, I'll tell you Traci's... your biggest influences is definitely Jimmy Page.
Tracii: [mock voice] No, it's not!
[laughter]
Gilby: Anybody ever see Tracy on his first tour when he wore his Jimmy Page outfit?
Tracii: [mock voice] I did not!
Gilby: Yeah, you did.
Tracii: I don't have a theremin! Or a bow or a Les Paul.
Gilby: A theremin, a Les Paul, a bow, Marshalls, and echoplex.
Tracii: I don't have any of those things.
Gilby: Who else besides Jimmy Page?
Tracii: Well, I think, especially when I was younger, yeah I think Joe Perry was pretty big, Ted Nugent. My guitar playing years were like 1975 through like 77-78 impact, so like all those guys, Nugent, Tommy Iommi, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhodes, [?] but I know him [pointing at Gilby].
Gilby: I'm easy.
Tracii: [mock British accent] Keef and Ronnie! And George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
Gilby: I like the Beatles and I like the Stones.
Tracii: And Rick Nielson?
Gilby: And Rick Nielsen and I like Cheap Trick. But I also like a lot of the glam stuff like Mick Ronson. Like when I first, you know, started playing stuff I learned a lot from those guys.
Tracii: Yeah, that's thing. Together we're a great guitar player.
[laughter]
takes two to make one good one anything
with a tube yeah to those 70s guitar
players were great it's like they
started with the blues and stuff and
took it to the next level yeah everybody
else really after that is either doing
what they're doing maybe a little better
because it's more refined or guys are
just making noise you know I don't think
anybody really since Eddie Van Halen's
really done anything you know what about
that guy that invented the Chapman Stick
what about that that was pretty creative
musical you know and that's the problem
is you know writing a good song on the
guitar and being great you know man sir
that's a tall order it's you got guys
like Tom Morello and dime bag from
Pantera and stuff like that but I mean
it's just not it's not traditional you
know I mean any man Halen was still
traditional
you know what I mean you just expanded
the boundaries and stuff like that you
know I mean I would love to hear Tom
Morello play a guitar solo I bet it
would be phenomenal yeah but I think
guys are so scared these days
my first guitar let me see what was my
first guitar my first real guitar I mean
some of us started out having to buy
like a copy Les Paul or something
my first real at guitar was a 76 bc rich
Mockingbird and I saw Rick Derringer
play one and I gotta have one of those
that's a cool time and I got that and it
got stolen and then I bought after that
I bought my first real lizbo I haven't
gone back since
yeah oh you're good tell me I love
Telly's and yes funny I actually worked
at a music store when I first started
and so I used to like whenever somebody
was selling a guitar if the store didn't
want it you know I would buy it and I
used to get like Les Paul's for at that
time like to $300 in Telecasters like
$85 you know and of course at this point
now they're all worth a fortune
well you know when they came out and
knew like that in 59 and you know maybe
my first check this out might may
actually one of my main Les Paul's is
still played to this day I bought when I
worked at a gas station
some guy pulled in and goes hey you play
guitar and yeah he goes want to buy a
guitar and he's showing my black busboy
yeah he hasn't changed the strings of
course he broke three strings on it's
all about the tone Wow so what was your
first I think my first guitar was uh I
know it was it was a 57 harmony it a
little solid body I look like a Fender
Mustang I guess kind of looking thing I
had that I got that when I was six
played that so I was 12 or I saved up
and got a Les Paul I buy and they ripped
me off and West LA Music Man still mad
about that I was 12 years old I went in
I bought a Les Paul Custom seven hundred
twenty dollars plus tax got it home and
that's it second on it I didn't know
what I mean I thought it was like cooler
it said second I don't years later that
second means done bad pretty much stuck
the Les Paul yeah yeah that's it yeah I
don't have my first guitar Tracy has
owned more guitars than any guitar
player in the history of guitar yeah you
could go on my website I started taking
yeah pictures from day one and I'm
trying to show a picture of every guitar
that I've owned you know and some people
probably actually think that I still
it's kind of you know magic that doesn't
mean that you have all these rock bars
but oh nice I have owned I have owned
you pretty much go through about a
guitar a week if not to be far as a
weekend that's not an exaggeration
that's true it's true I get bored I
haven't fallen in love with do you get
to trade up trade down yeah well we have
we have lots of things going on but I've
been doing a lot of producing over the
last couple years and one of the things
that brought us together is I just
produced a new la gun trucker that's
coming out 2001 and we it's a great
record I personally believe it's the
best record that they've ever made it's
feel the sound everything's great songs
are awesome and I produced a band called
ball that's coming out in 2001 - that's
a very very hard hard rock record and
besides that we have a Thursday night
blues band
we called the star fuckers and we play
every Thursday nights it's it's a jam
band and the band's gonna go on to make
a record next year so that's something
that's new that's going on I won't
because it won't be called star-fuckers
though so they told me they're not
allowed to use that name Tracy said he
owns the name by I mean you know if he
quits LA Guns joins the Blues bandits
okay so he took his bass player and stud
I mean you know we we do everything
together
anyways I mean yeah we'd known each
other since early eighties when he moved
out to LA and we didn't really hook up
though after we do each other from back
there until a few years a couple years
ago and now we've done a lot of projects
together
you know playing a lot of shows together
you know I mean how we actually hooked
up is it says BAM came on toward la
drugs and for the end of the tour we
started jamming you know we could have
done it at the beginning exactly so at
the end and then it's a good team you
know it's a good guitar team you know
it's hard to find guitar players that
like to play together a lot of guitar
players like to be on their own and
stuff and we actually we enjoy it we
have fun it's like you know watch each
other play and and it's fun it's a lot a
lot of fun
yeah there's no weird hey you know I
mean and that's always a problem even
you know I played with guys that are are
terrible or great I don't want to play
just like shut up over there you're
making a racket you know and but when we
play together it's just like it's really
two different instruments playing and
it's great and you know I think that
that's a an important musical fine and
both of our lives because you know it's
how many other you know people play
together like that and you can do it
every week or go on tour together play
every night have a great time and not
get in each other's way and you know
it's kind of like violin players you
know you know and I'm really glad that
you know I think it's awesome yeah
that's pretty key for us it's it's in a
goo probably for cc - it's like we're LA
guys you know we started on the Sunset
Strip we started playing so it's kind of
cool to drive down Sunset Strip and see
your picture up there and a guitar
sooner well that's that's cool it means
a lot of times I mean it's not just like
so many other things you know that
glorify you know what you do or be on
MTV things like that but like you said
you won't be in your home yeah it's just
here as his ass besides that then
everybody can tell me yeah I saw your
picture on Sunset yeah yeah it's a good
thing it makes you feel you know because
it's so hard to get appreciation at home
and it's hard
get appreciation in LA you know so you
got a double whammy against you and and
it's nice you know I got finally
somebody like yeah oh you guys are
pretty cool you know like thanks Olivia
lithographer I mean literally there's an
alley and there used to be a little room
there this is our rectangle yeah so
familiar streets it's kind of like they
tore my house now my picture now we're
just gonna keep going keep going man
it's fun yeah have a good time well I
stuck burying around we'll be okay
Thursday night every Thursday that's
where we'll be
Kat Klub on the other side of Sunset
Strip the sandwich board exactly come
see us play Thursday Ron hey we don't
need any more people to come to
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