Guns N’ Roses Member Admits To Being ‘Hired Gun’

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Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal discussed his time in the band in a new FaceCulture interview.

“My dream was always to be in a John-Paul-George-Ringo, not John-Paul-George-and-a-hired-guy,” he said, referring to The Beatles’ classic lineup. “Not to put it down and not to understate the eight years that I had with [Guns N’ Roses] — and I did write and play my own parts on ‘Chinese Democracy’ — but for me, I need to be a founding member and a writer of the music and a creative part of it.

“When I played with Guns, it was cool playing all the big stages and everything,” he continued. ‘Yes, that was wonderful, and it’s what you aspire to as a kid when you start out.”

Asked to describe his years with Guns N’ Roses with one word by the interviewer, Thal answered: “Intense. It was very intense. It was high highs, low lows and everything in between. And I made a lot of good friends. I hate to say I learned a lot of things, ’cause it’s not supposed to be an education — you’re supposed to be there ’cause you don’t need an education, but you never stop learning, and that’s the truth. And I got experiences and learned things that I didn’t do yet. So that was good. But at the same time, I was touring a lot before GUNS — a good 10 years of international touring.

I mean, I played Russia before Guns did, doing solo stuff — things like that. So it’s not like I was completely inexperienced. I was just inexperienced at being a hired gun in a stadium band or an arena band. So with that, that was a whole new thing. ‘Cause for me, bands were your friends that you played together and you had this familial kind of relationship, and you’re not just brought in to play with strangers.

And I have done that kind of thing as well, where I’ve been called in to play gigs, but never on something on such a big scale and where it would be something that really is the biggest thing of notable name recognition or anything that I had done. So that was different. And there’s lots that come with that that you didn’t expect.”

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Brett previously hosted the BWR wrestling and MMA podcast, interviewing pro wrestling and MMA stars like Kurt Angle, Seth Rollins, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Bruce Buffer, AJ Styles, Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy, Edge, and DDP. After ending BWR, Brett opened GrungeReport.net in May 2009. The site changed its name to AlternativeNation.net in June 2013.  Brett ran Scott Weiland's social media accounts for his final 'Master Blaster' tour in fall 2015 and continued to run the accounts after Weiland's death until July 2016. On Alternative Nation, Brett controls all aspects of the website and reports the day to day news.  He has interviewed members of Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Imagine Dragons, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Stone Temple Pilots, and The Smiths. Brett has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and on the Reelz Channel. You can reach Brett at contact @alternativenation.net