Guns N' Roses Recording -- A Killing Joke?
Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, Guns N' Roses have NOT yet begun
recording their much-rumored comeback album. Axl Rose and associates are
scheduled to go into a Los Angeles studio later this month to begin tracking
the album with one-named producer Youth at the helm. Many of you will remember
the knob-turner as Martin Glover Youth, who cut his teeth in the gone
but-not-forgotten UK punk band Rage before being drafted into service as
Killing Joke's bassist. For those of you who don't remember this post-punk
band, Killing Joke made three ultra-menacing albums before disbanding. Lead
singer Jaz Coleman's fascination with the occult led him to the conclusion
that the apocalypse was imminent, and he fled to Iceland in an attempt to
escape it, followed soon after by Youth, and drummer Paul Ferguson. (Fifteen
years later, Blur's Damon Albarn made his own pilgrimmage). Eventually the
three of them staggered back, and resurrected Killing Joke twice in the early
nineties before it actually took. The return trip from Iceland may have ridded
them of their fears of the end-of-the world, but did nothing to abate their
fascination with the esoteric, and in 1994, they recorded one of their better
albums, Pandemonium, in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Cairo.
Metallica, the Cult, Ministry, Soundgarden, and Skinny Puppy have all tipped
their hat to this seminal band, while many claim that Nirvana's "Come As You
Are," is a direct cop of Joke's "Eighties." Beyond anyone's wildest dreams,
the band still is hanging together, releasing Courtauld Talks in 1997 and
following up this September 22, with Extremities Dort on F.A.D.Records.
In Spite of Youth's crowded schedule, Axl Rose convinced the bassist to free
his calendar and come to beautiful California to oversee Guns N' Roses own
resurrection. As it stands, Rose--who's really doesn't have a relationship
with the occult, but has been known to consult a psychic from time to time --
has resinged back GNR's once and future keyboardist Dizzy Reed to fill out
the line-up, which also includes Perfect's perfectly beautiful Tommy Stinston
on bass, the Vandals' Josh Freese on drums, and Nine Inch Nails guitarist
Robin Finck. Some of us surmised the reason Rose picked Finck was because
the two bonded when NIN opened for Guns N' Roses in Europe back in 1991--
but pals of Rose say that Finck was a new find for the singer. It's not clear
what involvement Rose's longtime friend Paul Huge will play in the project.
The guitarist remains one of Rose's closest confidence and is indispensable
to the singer by allowing him to bounce ideas off of him--but we could not
get confirmation at press time whether he would appear on the record.
Contrary to other reports, Slash will not appear on the forthcoming album.
There was a scuttlebutt that the guitarist was coming in at night to record
guitar parts for the disc--in an effort to avoid his old compatriot/nemesis
Axl Rose, but Geffen Records told us that was patently untrue. There is
currently no release date scheduled for the record.
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These words above is dedicated to all those Guns N' Roses' fans
who stuck with GNR throught all the fuckin' shit！
And to all those opposed！ Hmm...Well....
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