• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

Ex-GUNS N' ROSES Bassist: AXL ROSE Is 'Singing His Butt Off' On 'Not In This Lifetime' Tour

August 7, 2016

Talk Planet Radio recently conducted an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES bassist Tommy Stinson, who was in the band from 1998 until 2014. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On whether he has seen any of the shows on the GUNS N' ROSES "Not In This Lifetime" tour:

Tommy: "You know, I saw a couple of those shows, and I thought they were great and I thought Axl [Rose] was singing his butt off. And I had a good time watching them from a distance. It was fun to be on the other side of that show. So, yeah, cool stuff."

On his 18-year run with GUNS N' ROSES:

Tommy: "It was a great run for me. Financially, it was great for me, and it did a lot for me. It formed a lot of relationships that I still have today and I'm pretty stoked about that. So I'll always be grateful for those kind of things."

On the long wait leading up to the release of GUNS N' ROSES' 2008 album "Chinese Democracy":

Tommy: "You know what? That was a heavy position for Axl to begin trying to do all that. It took a lot because it took a lot out of him to finish it and to make it what it became. And it was super important. And there was a lot of it that happened that was super important to him just on a personal level that had to be sorted out before it could come out. So you just kind have to take all that with the whole package, you know."

Stinson, a founding member of the seminal Minneapolis-based rock band THE REPLACEMENTS, last played with GUNS N' ROSES at a 2014 show in Las Vegas.

GUNS N' ROSES' "Not In This Lifetime" stadium tour features classic lineup members Slash, Duff McKagan (bass) and Axl Rose backed by drummer Frank Ferrer, guitarist Richard Fortus, keyboardist Dizzy Reed and new second keyboardist Melissa Reese.

Find more on Guns n' roses
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).