MATT SORUM Talks About GUNS N’ ROSES’ Use Your Illusion Albums - “Who The Fuck Is GARTH BROOKS?!”
January 31, 2016, 8 years ago
Spitfire Audio has a new 30-minute interview with drummer Matt Sorum who goes deep into the recording of Guns N’ Roses’ legendary albums Use Your Illusion I and II that were released in September of 1991.
“It was an amazing time,” Sorum remembers. “We recorded 35 songs here and the intention was to make one great record, which a lot of bands do. Then I remember Axl (Rose) telling us that we were going to put out all the songs - we're going to do a double album. But Axl came up with this incredible idea, he said ‘I want to put two volumes of one record out, with the same album cover in different colors.
The problem was a guy by the name of Garth Brooks, and when we opened up the Billboard charts, he was number one and we were number two and three. We were like ‘who the fuck is Garth Brooks?!’ The next week we topped the charts at number one and two.
And those records gave us an amazing three and a half-year run out on the road. We continued to put up videos and we stayed out on the road forever.”
Check out the chat filmed at Henson Studios in Los Angeles.
