Rare Izzy Stradlin Interview 1992
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2012
- A post-GNR interview with Izzy Stradlin' in 1992. Izzy talks(!) about his leaving GNR and his then-current project, Izzy Stradlin' and the Ju Ju Hounds. Also some rare performances of the JJH in the studio. A must for Izzy and GNR fans!
Izzy is what every band dream of: a guy who bring good compositions, good musician, he had no ego, good look, down on earth
He also had serious ambition, sharp instincts, was savvy and shrewd in his approach to the business, aesthetic sensibilities. He added so much to the mix.
Couldn’t have said it better
How many bands have you been in?
MALCOLM YOUNG???
And maybe most importantly of all he got sober, stayed sober, and made really good common sense decisions that PRESERVED his mental health when all the odds were stacked against him. That is a strong spirit there and a wise one. He listened to intuition and it served him well. Long may he run!
Izzy is just a down to earth dude. He needed the music but didn't need the fame. Not many people understand that.
Izzy was The George Harrison of GNR
Pretty accurate
same
@@goldenorchid833 What the fuck do you mean by "same"!?
10,000% true
@@democracydaily9149 😂
Slash and Izzy were such a classic guitar duo.
Not really.....izzy was the great sound guitar for gnr....slash was and is the clown jackal on front stage jumping and missing notes like crazy.....slash is a over rated guitar player
@@ericrojasvelez8891
Nah. Slash’s solos are iconic for a reason, he’s a great lead guitarist. Plus, his playing live has gotten only better with the years, since he got sober
@@shalashaska6658 couldn’t of said it better, not sure what he’s saying tho
Slash recently admitted that he kinda felt 'resentful' after Izzy left
Ok Eric, but just go and listen Nirvana and Green Day!
-.-
He never got the credit he deserved
+Edward Fox IZZY GOT TOO MUCH CREDIT. That's why his solo stuff is so pitiful, it isn't even available anymore! AXL ROSE = GNR, PERIOD.
@@dannitru4762 no❤️
@@dannitru4762 His solo work is just for fun. GN'R was his creation too, he was the biggest songwriter on the first two albums and a very important one on the next two.
@@dannitru4762 GUNS ISN’T EVEN THE SAME BECAUSE OF AXL💀
Well he does from many huge fans like me. When you hear the albums with headphones in stereo, Izzy is on one side rocking, Slash is on the other. And they’re both so good at doing kick ass riffs. Plus I know that he wrote a lot for the band.
he just didn't want to be that famous,that "big"...he didn't care about the money,he just loved playing music and wanted to live a normal life at the same time....long live Izzy!!!
Dabucean Denis if he doesn’t care about the money then why did he state that the reason he’s not on the reunion tour is because he wasn’t getting paid enough?
just like Cobain
It always bugs me when people perpetuate this narrative. I don't think that's something that's been definitivelt established at all. Izzy has said plainly that the rush of playing for the size of crowds they were playing for was a thrill and something he was into. My read on the situation was how their band and its camp operated at that level of fame, not the fame itself, that was the problem. Axl's issues meant they were losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties. They were splurging on nonsense. They couldn't get it together to make an album in a way that didn't blow through vast sums of money. The walk-offs devolving into riots put people's safety at risk. The level of addiction in the band, which was out of control and on a collision course for disaster, was exacerbated by these delays and all the other shit. If not for all that shit, I don't think Izzy had a problem with the fame itself.
AGS 15 Well that exactly shows he didn't care for money. I don't get how you can interpret it the other way. Izzy hasn't been making any tours or live shows for more than 20 years. He was chillin', living a normal life. So anything a band as big as GN'R would offer would be a lot of money for him. If he was greedy he would argue for more but in the end would accept it. But he didn't. He said F U! Since after Illusions everytime Izzy played with GN'R you couldn't hear his guitar, he was a co-founder and wrote a lot of their hits, and GN'R haven't put out that many new remarkable stuff after Izzy's departure, and don't forget that this money thing; how Axl wanted more money, paid less to others, making them sign contracts etc. was a big problem in GN'R when Izzy left. So after all this time, all these years passed, there is supposed to be a Reunion and you come and tell me that you want to pay me less than these guys and start to argue? Hell nah. Like I said F U! I'll keep chillin'.
Adam, bcuz he is Izzy!
Right ?
🤘😎🤘
Izzy rules!
Kudos to this guy for clearing up his act and getting the shit together after years of substance abuse, then walking away from one of the biggest rock bands of the time at its peak, and putting out his own material that sounded so him and so cool; and be totally low key about the whole thing! takes some balls and real cool attitude to do this
Stayed true to himself
Legend.
Brilliant songwriter
Rythem guitar genius.
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
"Well I had a bus and they had a plane; and I beat 'em to the gigs." Great line.
+TJ Anderson Yeah. And later Izzy ditched the bus until it was only him, his girlfriend, his dog & his motorcycle & he still beat 'em to the gigs. lol.
It also shows a financial mindset - keeping that money for later instead of blowing it all on 'the lifestyle'.
@@terrylandess6072 no it shows how messed up the band was on drugs that’s the point of the line
@@terrylandess6072 If you think that a plane wouldve blown guns n roses' money then you clearly have no idea, how much money they made. They couldve gotten a jet for a lifetime just from the appetite for destruction money.
Izzy is a free spirit though I wish he'd join the reunion
Say what?
In 2014, Izzy is the most good looking member of the original GN'R.
well he kept it low with that bad ass rock n' roll star lifestyle...that means no more drugs and not so much alcohol....just take a look at how the other bandmates endet up...slash ended up addicted to heroin,he almost died in a hotel.....duff ended up addicted to alcohol,just imagine how much he was drinking if he wanted to slow it down by drinking "just" 10 bottles of wine per day....steven just couldn't play drums because of drug addiction so he ended up leaving the band and having a stroke caused by his addiction,thankfully he survived but half of his face was paralized....and axl rose got overwelmed by his BIG ego,had big justice problems and..GOT FAT:))...(just wanted to cheer it up a bit in the end ;p )...howerver,izzy deserves a lot of respect:D
Was all and Adler
He got clean before it ravaged his looks!
Yeah
His eyes are beautiful
Except for slash (no homo)
Izzy seems like a great guy and he's one hell of a great song writer. He seems to be very humble and down to earth man. Good on you Izzy. Guns just isn't the same band you.
I love his voice....To bad he doesn't talk much.
the best songwriter in guns n' roses...very underrated
All round songwriter? Yes. But without Axl's lyrical and melodic contribution, Guns would not have got anywhere substantial. After all, Axl did write the lyrics to Jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child, November Rain, Don't Cry x2, Estranged, You Coud Be Mine, Civil War, Rocket Queen, Coma, and much more... you get the picture. And as Slash said, Axl turned Izzy's 'Patience' into a hit... Izzy was fucking great, but I believe him and Axl needed and still do 'need' eachother to be truly great.
axl would have been a crappy "all-around" songwriter for guns because the songs that he normally wrote by himself were ballads such as november rain. and estranged. granted, they're great stand-alone songs. however, axl alone would not have been able to get the GNR sound and neither would izzy. izzy's songs were generally the most rock-n-roll sounding. then slash would add on technical bits and the rest of the band would contribute to the song's feel. all five of them were a team.
onepinkrose x you don't know shit...Izzy was the brains behind the operation...Axl gave a bit of variety to the hard rock genius of Izzy but even izzy wrote patience...do the research.
blk stone''You don't know shit... do the research?''.... Lay off the acid, mate. ... You're asking me to ''do the research''... when it's obvious you clearly know fuck all... Yeah, we know Izzy wrote 'Patience', and it's a fucking excellent tune, but as Slash said in his book 'Axl turned it into a hit'... They needed each other. But you're not having any of it. Why? Because you're allowing your hatred and aversion for Axl to steer your opinions. Why not be mature and neutral, and even though you hate Axl, just say, yeah, the bloke was a prick, but he was a talented prick that wrote some great stuff... I fucking love Izzy, he was the soul of Guns, and a great songwriter, but ask him who wrote Sweet Child, and November Rain... Peace.
+onepinkrose x Well said gunner! AXL WROTE ALL OF GNR'S BEST, AND TRADEMARK SONGS! Also don't forget Axl's trade mark voice that made GNR what it is!
izzy was beautiful Boy.....i love him ....the best
Notice that since Izzy left the band (GNR), they did not produce any original song... I think that more than half of GNR's originals were wrote by him... Izzy was the true brain of that band!
@@provisionalhypothesis I’m not sure a lot of people see that album (or that phase actually) as being GNR, but ok…
Bullshit...
I know this has anything to do with the interview but i'm hypnotized with this guy's eyes, I've never noticed they were so beautiful o.o
YA, me too, he is like my fantasy vision of the perfect man
this guy is a true f*ckin genius. Genius performer, guitarist, vocalist..etc. BUT most of all a genius songwriter. He WAS the main songwriter of GN'R. The moment he left the band was not the same. It was downhill from then.
Izzy has such an old soul... Love him❤
Most talented, Sexiest and my all time favorite xo love you Izzy thanks for going solo... I Love this album
Just once. Just one single concert. Hell, one single song would do. Just anything to have all of the classics on stage again. Duff, Axl, Slash, Izzy, and Stevie. That's literally all I want in life.
Izzy has recorded 10 solo albums. He was the real talent in Gn'R
And no one bought any of them. Izzy needed the rest of the band to work up a lot of his songs in GNR. Slash and Duff had just as much to do with creating the sound of GNR. It was the five guys together that made the band.
agreed the 5 of them was what made GnR special. The moment Adler left, it wasn't the same and even less so when Izzy left. That being said Izzy was probably the mosr down to earth one of them who cared the least about success at any price, he could have stayed and put up with Axl a bit longer and milk the last out of the money making machine, but he didn't
+kyle smith finally a common sense comment
Frank Discussion quantity doesn’t equal quality
Real talent? They were all very talented. It was very much a collaborative effort between them, not a one man show like some other bands such as CCR.
GNR died when Izzy quit the band. Slash probably went 'gulp' when he heard the news
Izzy never quit the band in terms of songwriting, he just refused to tour, and be in the big budget videos like NR....Izzy plays on every original GNR album released.... GNR died the second they signed their record deal... Only a matter of time before 5 totally different personlities, with 5 totally different musical tastes, in the same band, start squabbling and fighting... but those differences is what made them sound so fucking great...
onepinkrose x
Izzy is not on Spaghetti......That was all Gilby and Slash.......They had to put out a album of cover songs after Izzy left.Enough said.
@@RONVK "The Spaghetti Incident" Cover Album was an Izzy's Idea...I said it All ✌
@@SimonMls LOL Okay... You do realize that Izzy had been gone for a few years when the cover album came out, right? LOL Izzy was not on that album.
I said that "The Spaghetti Incident" Cover Album was an Izzy's Idea not that Izzy played Guitar on the Album!!!! So..the first Album after The Illusions came out from the Head of Izzy as easy as always...He was the Heart and the Mind behind Gn'R...😉
Izzy was cool. Beautiful and talented. xxx
Izzy is still cool, beautiful and talented.
I remember the headline in Metal Hammer magazine "Izzy quits"
He was my fave member of the band.
Izzy wanted to be low key, Guns N' Roses got too big with too many egos. When Izzy sobered up and took a look around, he realized he didn't want that. Plus dealing with fucked up Slash. Duff & Matt on one hand and Axl's antics on the other. Plus he was not to happy about the way Steven to Sorum change stating that the original sound of the band has changed because of it. IMO as much as I love Slash, the band was finished the day Izzy handed in his resignation.
Direct me to the magazine or television interview where Izzy expresses his unhappiness at how the original sound of the band had changed for the worse with Matt. You're full of shit on that count and there's a million of people just like you that buy that shit. Especially by people who weren't around to watch GNR progress as musicians following the release of Appetite and the two years of touring - everybody except Steven. The people who know Guns N' Rose history by way of Steven's book.
There is one person and one person alone that had shit to say about Matt once he started touring and recording with GNR and that was Steven.
The only thing that made Izzy any different than than Axl, Duff, and Slash was he actually brought Steven up in an interview to say he had some merit as a drummer i.e. his chops and a few compliments in regards to his character.
His best friend was the guy who was the angriest at him. Slash said "Steven is scared of me". This was when he filed the lawsuit. What sort of fondness and respect did Slash have for Steven even in the mid 90's? None.
His best friend was the guy that decided that Matt was the type of drummer that he wanted along with Duff. They both maintain that they became better musicians as soon as they started playing with Matt. Izzy was happy with how Matt was working with the band. He said Steven and Matt had different styles but were both good drummers. Axl was overwhelmed at the fact that they had a drummer that could play, period. The band spent months trying to help Steven and it all went to waist.
I can throw videos at you right now that back up what I'm maintaining.
You're an idiot if you think the first Ritz concert was GNR at their peak. They couldn't play. Duff said they were more towards a punk band than a band like Rush at that point. They had big or huge technical holes to fill.
Did you even see GNR when they were going? The shortcomings of the Illusions had nothing to do with Matt.
Did you see The Cult with Matt touring for Sonic Temple? I did and I was stoked on Matt from that point.
Do you know the story of how Matt ended up as the replacement for Steven in detail?
Izzy splitting was very complicated and he's been misrepresented. You have to read the magazine and television interviews to get a clear picture.
Watch the concert that I went to an especially the drum solo and tell all about how it pales in comparison to GNR with Steven.
Anybody with a brain in there fucking head knows that 1991 was Guns N' Roses best year as a live band.
nkmcfrln Read Slash's autobiography (which will show you how bad Guns gpt) and rewatch this, he clearly say it at 1:20
wolfie2478
You are a fucking idiot! You are such a fucking idiot. Reading and comprehension is beyond you.
nkmcfrln Wow who shat in you're coffee this morning?, if you start actually looking up for information about this particular BEFORE you start up with your high testosterone levels and arse hurt :D
Wolfie 24
Yeah, Izzy says at 1:20 " I've got no problem, really, with touring, I think I got a bad rap on all that, but, you know what I mean, it's like..."
What was the actual story then?
"Uh... Wel, I had a bus, they had a plane... and I beat 'em.. to the gig (laughs)
The interviewer preceded the questioning by saying the reasons for Izzy quitting the band were personal.
So, what have I said that's wrong?
"If I started looking up for information?" I'm a pure Rock N' Roll fan. I'm on the same page as the members of Guns N' Roses. We all have our biases but are in the same ball park. I was into The Cult. I got to see them on the Love tour and Sonic Temple with Matt. I decided not to see them for Electric and If I did I would have seen GNR and possibly into them by then in 1986. I got into them after Appetite was released at the end of 1987. I didn't like them immediately, but would read about them in the magazines I collected. Many of my favourite bands are bands that I didn't like at first or even hated.
the coolest guy ever
+nina didnt he kick vince neils girlfriend?
Uncle Jesse Full House I think he did hit her, that's why he decided to get clean
+Stay Cold613 Yeah he did. He said in an interview that she hit him "so he just lifted up his foot and gave her a kick and she fell back hard" (his words). That sounds bad. Kicking a woman is not cool. She was also pregnant at the time so that makes it even worse. I like Izzy but the fact that he did that bothers me. Course maybe he was high as a kite but still...
Izzy is izzy.... I just love and respect this guy so much. After he left axl..... Axl should have known that the gutters is not so far away
Every interview with Izzy after he left GnR makes it so clear that he was miles ahead of every band member when it came to his outlook on what's best for the band and completely dropping his ego. Izzy no longer making music was a major loss for the world.
izzy's hair is awesome XD. but that makes sense because he IS awesome
izzy is like the mysterious gn'r alumnus.
...and that axl, his OWN BEST FRIEND, was trying to put him on salary. my guess is izzy had enough of the drama, the lifestyle, the bullshit, and going from being part of a great rock band between friends to being part of a support group for axl, so he left. izzy is just doing his own thing, making occasional guest appearances with his old bandmates and recording a single every now and then. basically, at this point, he's an independent artist who was once part of the biggest band in the world
Even during GnR's most revelling days, Izzy always seemed to be a humble person.
izzy rocknroll! pure musician at heart for sure.one of the all-time great guitar heroes .
Love, love izzy, dust an bone used to be one of my favorite songs !!!
Izzy didn’t need GNR
GNR needed Izzy
He is so beautiful.I just found this interview a few months ago-or rather,a friend found it and emailed it to me.I wish Id gone to see the JuJu Hounds when they were around but i missed my chance.Ive never met Izzy but he so sweet and so talented.Thanks for posting this.
Please would all hardcore Izzy Stradlin fans and Axl-haters, be a 'little' bit more objective and far less biased when talking about who 'wrote' the Guns songs. 'Izzy wrote all the songs'...'Izzy wrote the best songs' etc... so fed up with continuing to read these sorts of commentson GNR videos... Yes, we all love Izzy. Yes, he wrote some fucking great stuff for Guns, and Izzy was very cool, very stylish, and a brilliant guitarist, and Guns would never have sounded, or been as great without his contributions, but lyrics are massively important... Ask Elton John how far he would've got without Bernie Taupin's lyrics. The fact is, Axl Rose, love him or hate him, wrote the lyrics to Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child, November Rain, Nightrain, Don't Cry x2, Civil War, You Could Be Mine, Rocket Queen, Estranged, and Coma, and many more... Izzy and Axl were as important as each other. Hate Axl, but to discard or ignore his contribution to the Guns songs would be foolish.
Too right. None of the classic GNR five are as successful solo as they were as a group. Together, they had the right chemistry for the place and time. Everyone, including Izzy himself, acknowledges that Izzy's songs were normally basic structures that the others, primarily Axl and Slash, would add onto with lyrics and guitar parts. Also, Izzy's stuff has gotten simpler over the years. His most recent album, Wave of Heat, has just been a collection of 3- and 4-chord mid-tempo songs with little to no guitar interplay or variety. These guys needed each other to produce that special sound, without a doubt.
You're right, even if Axhole completely lost his shit later on he was extremely creative and hard-working on all the early stuff, credit where due.
Chineese Democracy was missing something... I listen to Izzy solo stuff and I hear GNR in there... I can listen to Civil War/You could Be Mine/ then go to anything off of LIKE A DOG by Izzy and it sounds like they are intertwined... Thats the Izzy influence...
+onepinkrose x Yeah Izzy was very stylish for sure. I've never heard any GNR fan say negative things about him.
+onepinkrose x
The original 5 members all brought something special to the band; if a piece is missing its not the same
GNR was Shite without Stradlin, now it's just a band with hired guns + Axl. Such a shame.
So handsome...
Eve Stradlin Izzy originally wanted the band to be just a thing between old friends. Keep in mind that he's been sustaining his own solo career ever since he quit GNR. Besides, I really can't see Izzy fitting in with the whole Velvet Revolver sound. Izzy is really loose, old-time feel-good rock n' roll, while Velvet Revolver is a tight, stadium-oriented modern hard rock band. But that's hindsight talking. I don't know if VR would've sounded cooler with Izzy than with Scott and Dave, but it would've sounded much different for sure :)
welli would disagree with that seing as he co wrote 90 percent of the somgs on the first velvet album
Yeah,Izzy help VR with the first album but not the second one.Which explains why the first VR album was really good and the second one sucked.
Guitarists are Gods He better talk to his lawyers then as he has zero writing credits on that album. He worked with them in the early stages but they didn't release any of the songs that he worked on.
*****
He didn't want any "Credits". Izzy lives like a Gypsy and could care less.Why do you think he doesn't Tour?
+lifespawn94 Izzy was the only one who voted to keep Steven Adler :)
Izzy=Legend.
No Izzy, NO Guns N Roses!
seems and intelligent guy ! Great musician and song writer 👌
The record is awesome, I highly recommend it.
The great thing is that for him it was always just about the music and nothing else. Great Izzy.
He’s humble af
out of all the old members of Guns N' Roses, i never heard Izzy talk until now!!
& it is very rare, thanks for sharing!
thanks for this
Miss u izzy! would be amazing to see u pop in to play a song or two during the last few dates of this tour. I won't be at the shows in cali, but it would be great for all the die hard GNR fans to see the majority of the band back on speaking terms. do it for the fans who have stood by u guys all these years. it's never too late
I has a bus they had a plane and I would beat them, to the gigs! What an awesome reply!
ugh i remember this, took me nearly 20 years to forget it last time
since izzy quit GnR never had another bonafide hit
Miss that guy.
He's in music for his love of it, honest and no-nonsense
It's nice to here more from izzy, I'm a big guns fan but never new much about him
thx izzy for the great music
I seen The Ju Ju Hounds live in 93 or so, one of my top 5 shows ever.
No Steven and then no Izzy. I'm afraid the heart and sole of the band had gone. Would love to see a reunion with both of them playing.
I really can’t say I blame him for leaving the band. He got clean and didn’t subscribe to the drugs/alcohol/excess that GnR was known for, and he just wanted to stay lowkey and genuine. Being in the spotlight 100% all the time is not for everybody. I respect him for not only getting clean and beating addiction but for staying true to himself and who he is as a musician.
izzy knew he would end up dead of an OD eventually so he went back to Indiana and asked his Dad to help him get clean. Smart guy. He was right about where he was headed and saved his life
o my god, so happy to watch his real interview..
Izzy is so fuckin' cool
His solo stuff is amazing too!
izzy, my fav. original gnr member. smart guy.
Thanks for posting this! It seems the original is longer though.. the video fades at the end but Izzy is still talking.
And never swears when he talks wow!!! love him...good guy..
thanks dude!
quite well....he's put out a lot of albums and all of them have been great :)
Great album! Found it on tape at a second hand shop the other day :)
Love it! Simple!
what i like about him is that he is being Honest about how he feels
love Izzy, him and Axl are my favourite "original" members.
Izzy is the JPJ of GNR. Axl and Slash get all the recognition but he is as much of a legend than both of them. Extremely talented
I really love both of them
MORÌ DE AMOR,SOS TAN HERMOSO...
Amo A Izzy Es Tan Perfecto! ;)
Like what the hell did him and John Frusciante get together and brainstorm on how they can leave the greatest things that ever happened to them?
+Jbeliski Izzy and JF need to team up together some day and try to create something together! Wouldn't it be wild?
+Roniel81 It'll never happen though. They're two very different people. But yeah, they're both great and I like them both. They march to their own drum that's for sure. Like many true artists.
Jbeliski Him and John actually remind me of a lot of each other.
This remember me the movie "Rock Star". He felt that it didnt feel right.
Extra UA-cam points if you immediately pictured Kurt Loder's face when you heard his voice.
so young
+Philip Reed Wallace Yeah. Hard to believe. He looks so different now. They all do. lol.
Izzy rules..Was the original brains and leader behind Gunners !
He was neither a leader nor brains of the band...
Where's the rest of the interview? He continues to talk towards the end of the video but the sound is cut off...
Missyou Izzy ..Greatest Gunner.. Ever!!!
Well I read a lot about how Slash "sucks" in songwriting.
Have a look at Slash's Snakepit or his solo projects. Pretty good stuff...
But I also like Izzy pretty much ;)
Yeah I think people forget that songwriting is more than just lyrics. Slash has written some of the best guitar solos ever.
Biggermack20 i'm guitarist and i love slash but i disagree a good solo makes a song sounds good. Guitar solo is just the cherry on the cake lol. But without a cake, you just a have a single cherry.
I am also a guitarist, and I'm not arguing that a solo makes a song great, but rather that the solos that Slash has created are brilliant.
he defines the word COOL
I find it rather interesting and telling, that he has his guitar with him in all the interviews I've seen him in. Haven't seen a lot, but the one I have seen, he has his ax.
Oh meu Deus, eu amo tudo nesse homem!!! 🛐
Izzys got a birthday coming up and I hope its the best one he's had 🎼🎵💕💋🤟💖
well, the rockline interview used to be on youtube. I'm not sure where it is now but I think it was removed. search up "Guns n' Roses KNAC 1986" on youtube. that one should be there.
*u* Ownt Izzy! You are MY....MY handsome man! My handsome Boy! I Love You Izzy! ♥
I loved izzy and his cool self
i imagine this video on tv at 4 am, its gives mr that sensasion.
I completely agree.
The thing about Slash.. I don't know if it's like that or not, but when I read what Duff said about Velvet Revolver I was pretty angry at Slash. Izzy wanted to play with them, but he didn't agree on the singer, he wanted Duff to sing, Slash decided for Scott so Izzy didn't join VR. Why??? It could have been perfect.
Why? Why didn't Slash want Izzy in VR? Think I remember Slash stating in his book that he didn't like playing with Izzy in Guns, liked him as a person, but would rather have played on his own. Plus I think Slash wanted all the guitar attention... But Slash also stated that Izzy was chilled and easy to get along in Guns, and he's said that 'singers' and big names, as in 'Scott' are hard work, so why would he chose Scott over Izzy, especially with the knowledge that Izzy could write great tunes. Why chance the hassle with Scott if you know life would surely be easier with Izzy. I think it's cause Slash knew the attention with songwriting would be on Izzy, and Slash wanted to be the main man... SLASH'S SNAKEPIT... SLASH and Friends... SLASH with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators... Or Slash didn't wanna upset Axl by recruiting Izzy, and therefore, most definitely kill ANY possibility of a future 'Appetite' line-up reunion. Who knows.
onepinkrose x No, in an interview they said that Izzy was asked to join and he declined, dude doesn't like drama and Scott is the king of drama, guess after axl lead singers don't appeal to the guy anymore. I don't think Slash cares about what Axl thinks, if a GnR reunion was to ever happen i'm pretty sure it would be because Axl agreed to it, every GnR fan is waiting for Axl to get his head out of his own ass first (i like the guy but still). There's no tension between Slash and Izzy, they all get along so I've heard, the only problem is Axl refusing to talk to Slash.
Gresaaa Don't wanna argue, here, but where are you getting this ''waiting for Axl to get his head out of his ass first...'.... Come on, think about it, why is Axl refusing to speak to Slash? Is it because Slash stole a pair of Axl's underpants back in '93? NOOO.... It's because while Axl was being reclusive, and doing his own thing, Slash was doing hundreds of interviews / going on chatshows etc... and spreading childish anti-Axl, bitter crap, talking as though GNR was his band... Slash has done a great job of mocking the big videos like NR, says it was all Axl's idea etc.. but Slash did a bloody great job acting in the big videos, he could've walked with Izzy if things were that bad... How many interviews on youtube have you seen Axl mocking Slash, but there's tons of Slash laughing about Axl... Oh, and talking of heads up asses, think Slash having the word $LA$H tattoed on his neck says it all... Having two dollar signs tattooed on his neck, jesus, that's the type of shit i'd expect from 50 Cent... I'm not a fan of Chinese Democracy, but at least Axl kept it real, refused to play the media-game, sought no publicity, and did what he wanted... I loved Slash in GNR, but the man's become the biggest sellout. What if Axl did a Singer-Hero, (Guitar-Hero), played with Fergie etc... he'd be slated beyond belief... The problem IS / WAS Slash continuously ridiculing Axl in the media, and all the while somehow convincing the masses that GNR was his ($LA$H's) band.
onepinkrose x
Great post dude. Axl gets the blame for a lot of things that were never his fault. For example people complained about the Use Your Illusion tour getting too bloated with horns and backup singers and extra keyboard players and blamed it all on Axl when in fact the horns and singers were Slash's idea. I have huge respect for Axl because for over ten years, while Slash was talking shit about Axl in every single magazine he could get on, Axl didn't say shit about Slash or anyone else for that matter. But because Axl didn't defend himself everyone believed Slash's stories about him and the break up of Gn'R. And the result is that everyone thinks Axl broke up the band and fired everyone and was alone responsible for the whole thing. That's the price Axl paid for staying out of the media in the 90's and 00's.
mrsiCkstar Yeah right. Slash has shown no inclination to use back up singers and horns and strings and other such things on his own work really, has he? So how can you honestly believe they were his idea and not Axl's? Sounds like bullshit to me.
Izzy❤
It's called "Take a Look at The Guy (feat. Ron Wood)". It is very awesome.
Izzy was the only thing I ever liked about GnR, always had pretty tasteful songwriting chops.
Izzy knew when to get out !!!
The Coolest Cat known, past present & future. Was an absolute LEGEND!
It was bizarre and shocking when Izzy left the Gunners. There was even a reference to this in the "short promotional film" (i.e.: "music video") for the song "Don't Cry". One of the members has a sign on their back that says "Where's Izzy?" which was also shocking at the time. It is REAL quick so you have to look for it.
the songs used (in order) are: "Shuffle it All", "Train Tracks", "Cuttin' the Rug", "Time Gone By", and "Take a Look at the Guy (feat. Ronnie Wood)". You can find all these songs on Izzy's album Izzy Stradlin' and the Ju Ju Hounds. Great album, by the way.
P.S. nice username.
can anybody write down all the words he said in this video？？ I wanna make subtitles but I'm not sure I heard all the words clearly...plz help!!thx so much!!
Genius.