GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist BUMBLEFOOT Breaks Down Solo Song 'Strangles'

August 24, 2010

Video footage of GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal breaking down the song "Strangles" from his 1995 debut, "The Adventures Of Bumblefoot", can be viewed below. The entire clip, including tab, audio, and an interview with Thal, is available at this location.

An instrumental effort, "The Adventures Of Bumblefoot" has been re-released with a 200-page transcription book "that explains everything that was recorded on the whole album," according to Thal. Copies are available at BaldFreak.com, with autographed CD proceeds going to multiple sclerosis research.

"The Adventures Of Bumblefoot", was originally released in 1995 by Shrapnel Records in North America and Roadrunner Records in Europe and Japan.

All the songs are named after obscure animal diseases, and the characters in the artwork reflect each song.

The original album contained 12 songs and two bonus tracks. Out of print and unavailable since the late '90s, CD copies of the record have been selling for as much as $600 on eBay.

15 years later, Shrapnel Records has re-released the album, with new packaging and an additional five bonus tracks from a SEGA video game soundtrack Ron did in 1996.

"The Adventures Of Bumblefoot" re-release track listing:

01. Bumblefoot
02. Orf
03. Scrapie
04. Blue Tongue
05. Limberneck
06. Q Fever
07. Strawberry Footrot
08. Ick
09. Malignant Carbuncle
10. Rinderpest
11. Strangles
12. Fistulous Withers

Bonus tracks:

13. Poem
14. Shell On The Sand
15. Pirate Level 2 *
16. Mythology Level 2 *
17. Sci-Fi Level 3 *
18. Cemetery Level 2 *
19. Cemetery Level 1 *

*From SEGA "Wild Woody" video game soundtrack

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