2023.10.01 - Dr. Music - Interview with Bumblefoot

Excerpts from Blabbermouth:
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Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal has once again reflected on the experience of playing on the band's much-maligned 2008 album "Chinese Democracy". [...]

Thal looked back on the making of "Chinese Democracy" during a brand new interview with Scott Itter of Dr. Music. Regarding his contributions to the effort, Bumblefoot said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net): "The music was so close to finished and it was so full and there was so much going on there, I was just trying to find the thing that would fit best. And that's where [producer] Caram Costanzo, he was there and he would guide me and he really made it happen so that I was able to contribute something to it. So it was the two of us in the studio, just going at it. And then he and Axl would just go through the stuff and decide what works, what doesn't and what they wanna keep and what will be in the background and what will be in the front."

He continued: "I'm glad I could be part of that history. [It was] a deep album with a lot of layers. You can listen to it a few times and hear more even things you didn't notice. Like [a great] movie, when you watch it a third time, it's, like, 'Oh, I didn't even notice that.'"

https://blabbermouth.net/news/ex-guns-n-roses-guitarist-bumblefoot-on-chinese-democracy-it-was-a-deep-album-with-a-lot-of-layers