GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal - "I Think That People Definitely Judged Chinese Democracy Without Listening To It A Lot Of The Time"
February 7, 2010, 14 years ago
GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal is featured in a new Ultimate-Guitar.com interview. An excerpt is available below.
Q: Do you feel 'Chinese Democracy' was unfairly criticized?
Bumblefoot: "I think that people definitely judged Chinese Democracy without listening to it a lot of the time, and I think they based their ideas on what they thought of G N' R's current situation, or on their opinion of Axl and things like that. I think that definitely biased some people, but not all. I think with any album, people are gonna love it, people are gonna hate it, and some people will just be indifferent, and it won't mean anything either way. With the amount of expectation for the album though, I think that it definitely changed the way people viewed it, and they went into listening to it with ideas already in their heads. It's hard not to with an album that took longer than usual to be released, but then sometimes albums take time."
Q: Do you feel that some hoped for Appetite For Destruction: Part Two?
Bumblefoot: "I'm sure there were those expecting that, yeah, but again, they were expecting the caterpillar and not the butterfly - the whole cocoon thing. It's like where The Beatles became long haired, screaming hippie dudes, but people were still expecting the mop tops to come out, and go "WOOOOoooo". People just continued where they left off with it, so if they left off at 'A Hard Day's Night', they're expecting 'Beatles For Sale' (1964) next."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
