Guns N' Roses Axl Rose Talks Get In the Ring & Izzy Stradlin Weighs In!

Hello everyone, what's going on and welcome to Guns and Roses Central. I want to talk today about the song Get In The Ring. Now I did a true story episode about the song, but I discovered some new interviews that Axl did that maybe. You guys hadn't heard him before, so in 2011 he gave an interview to Eddie Trunks on that metal show which would be his second appearance on Eddie Trunk's shows. His first appearance was in 2006 on the radio and this was his first appearance on television in a long time and one of the topics that came up was a song "Get in the Ring" and Axl talked about the song 20 years later and it didn't really seem like have good feelings about the song and probably wouldn't have repeated all that. process of recording it and criticizing people and actually naming names, this is what he said in 2011 and you might be surprised that it was an actual idea to call out certain journalists and publications because that wasn't my idea, you know, that was The idea of ​​Tom and Duff McKagan Andy says.

I'm sure you know this and Bob Guccione Jr. and uh, sure in the end I did it and everyone was happy with it, but when it got to the fan they all disappeared, you know, and I didn't even realize the political wars that were going on between the different record label publicists and his relations with the Rolling Stone spin or whatever and then I prepared myself but then no one stepped forward to say anything. I'm thinking why are you this ugly, I'm sorry, no, no, but how come you don't take these things personally? Once you get an attack, I've been watching for a minute, so I've done that and then I have to work through it.

You know well, this is what a long time ago. I mean, the things that happened coming to light about Madhavi just now. It may seem like big news to a lot of people, but Ax talked about valuable lyrics and where the actual idea of ​​naming names came from since 1991, so Axl was promoting user illusion records in September 91. in an interview on a radio station called W ne W 102.7 and said get in the

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was a song that was basically written by slash and Duff and I came up with the low vocal part and slash and I wrote that part together we wrote different verses and we wrote a whole song which, when the whole band got together, had the song together, the lyrics didn't fit the arrangement of the song, so we were in Toronto, Canada, playing a show there and we had one last song to finish recording. and that was getting the

ring

, so we went to the studio and started putting things together and then Duff decided that I should express my feelings about how the press had treated us because that was the initial concept of the song and that Basically, I should try it and I thought, are you sure I should do this?

And then Tom, a bunch of Geffen were there and he said, "go ahead," so I got behind the microphone and tried it and everyone was very happy. and we just decided to do it and this naming names and stuff like that basically because most bands don't have the luxury of expressing how they feel because of how the press treats them because they need the press so much. and I know this could hurt us, but we are in a position where I think we owe it to ourselves and we owe it to an element of the public.

Here's another interview he gave around the same time in 1991, where he said something. You'd be surprised that getting the ring isn't supposed to be a literal song and you'd feel like okay, he wants to get in a boxing ring and fight. These guys are getting into a wrestling match with these guys. Here's the clipping and Alan. from Athens in a towel and running with Axl Rose oh hey guys you know I really think I'm going to get in the ring that's a great question to ask you it's really that bad um the ones I mentioned in the situations that are Moved yeah you know , it's like one of the reasons I did it because I remember some of those same magazines did the same things to Zeppelin and I couldn't get a decent interview with Zeppelin and I learned what I had to do to start a band. right, and when the kids know that we're reading these magazines and they get false stories or twisted stories or things that say I'm running over dogs and you know, and it's all confusing about who was in the band and when and things that really aren't, right? you know how to help a kid find out about a band or their favorite band and you know it doesn't really give this person anything to work with and they're paying good money for it?

Distribution companies and things like that that put out magazines and I don't really approve of their methods and things like that, so yeah, it's not like you did very well Bob Guccione Jr. and really challenged to hear from him in the afternoon, well, you know, what I feel about that situation is that I hit him below the belt with my comment, so to speak, yeah, you know, and that's my problem, but he He just didn't let it. up, you know, but this getting the ring thing is not necessarily literal about getting in the ring with boxing gloves, you know, otherwise I'll be a boxer, you know, but you know, to get in the ring, I feel like you need integrity , You know? that disqualifies Bob, you know that from the beginning.

I've heard a lot about him and he, you know, he did certain actions that I know, you know he doesn't know, I know and there are other problems, but you know the guy should like it. shut up and write about rock and roll, you know, and forget about Axl Rosen, and you know, if he has a problem, I definitely do something else, you know, I just wanted to scream and print the truth, you know, he's printed a lot of Lies and a lot of things that I said that I didn't say and you know it makes me very sick, you know, but you know, and it's their problem, they create problems that I have to work with in my life, you know, but we're fine and Bob seems to be the one who's really upset, so that's great, it's a powerful song, you'll have to listen to it on the CD, although you won't be here, no one on the radio too much, I don't.

I think Alan, thank you and thank you for being with us now, Duff even re-watched the song nine and even almost 20 years later it came out, so in an interview he gave in July 2000 he still had some hard feelings against some members of the press. I said: you know what I wrote that part of the song, the title was why do you look at me when you hate me? and it was about the press writing about us, well why do you write about us if you really hate us? I could give you the names of those who hated us and why the press didn't hire someone else to write about us instead of criticizing us why do they have to write about us period I was very idealistic and I thought the world had changed, you need a lot of negativity You have the energy to write so much about someone you really hate, so Axl took it very personally and thought it was a good idea, but definitely, if there are dirty people who need to be treated like trash, who cares, and then nine years later, almost 20 years. after the song came out and said, "I just hated some of the music critics, the ones who weren't informed when they listened to classical music and didn't know about rock and roll, they criticized it, so I wrote a song, you know, that goes into a song plays on it and for me I've never been a pop singles writer, you know about a guy and a girl who meet and basically I'm not like that, I can only write songs so I can work out right away and basically I just write songs because They're like they were my therapy.

Now even Izzy Stradlin gave his opinion on the song after his departure from Guns & Roses, so in September of '92 Izzy was promoting his, you know, his new record in his new band, the jujube. hounds, and he said this about Axl and get in the ring, he said that Axl is very critical of himself and his anger to drive him in many ways, that song get in the ring. I really love a lot of the lyrics just because they're so aggressive. Axl also played guitar on the song and that was the first time I saw him play electric E guitar and he did it pretty well.

I was interested because it had that divine punk energy, but with all the names at the end I was thinking that I wouldn't have left people asleep on my record now this is a really cool and cute little snippet this is from 1991 Duff was on a radio station radio called pyro radio and he was promoting Illusions Records and I think this was right before the records were about to come out and one of the biggest revelations was that Duff had already recorded a good portion of a solo album, trust me , in fact, they played a rough demo of believe me on the recording. but during the show itself they were playing songs from Illusions albums and at one point Duff actually begs the interviewer to get in the ring and even offers to pay the fines the station would have imposed on him because of all the bad language, here's the exchange you guys might be wondering, like how did some of the writers who were specifically named in the actual song react to being called out on a Guns N'Roses track?

Well, here is some coverage of the song that MTV News did in 1991 Bob Guccione Jr. he even challenged Axl to a fight and once Axl found out that he was a black belt, things calmed down in the Guns and Roses camp and even Slash had a few words about the song as well. They call me to take the ring off one of the two. new Guns and Roses albums coming out next week about other crass things Rose accuses editor Bob Guccione Jr. of spinning. Hit Parader editor Andy Sesor and Circus magazine have printed lies instead of the things we said and are threatening to quote them and kick their asses.

Guccione follows in the footsteps of Motley Crue. Singer Vince Neil quickly issued a press release saying that he is ready to face Rose. and noting that he studied circus karate, editor Gerald Rothberg declared himself outraged by Roses' accusation that the magazine's printing lied about Guns and Roses, but Andy said yes and struck Parader said he was simply grateful for the free publicity it gave him. Sure Illusion 1 & 2 frontman Axl Rose has. He angers some members of the rock press who have heard an unusual song alluding to it called get in the ring and Rose goes on an angry tirade against several members of the music media and sings that journalists have been quoting printing lies in Instead of the things we said Rose names some of his critics and even offers to quote them to kick their asses and at least one of them says he's ready to rock.

Bob Guccione, the junior editor and publisher of Spin magazine gets a lot of the abuse in Axl and Guccione's song "He's now launched his own challenge saying quote Rose really wants to attack the media, can you start with me and if you really wants to get in the ring, I volunteer. This is the second time this year that Axl has been challenged to a fight after Motley Crue's Vince food several weeks ago Axl also targets Parader and Surface magazines in the song, without. However, another member of Guns & Roses was able to shed some light on the ring-entering clue.

Recently, guitarist Slash spoke to our colleagues at MTV Europe as the band was wrapping up a European tour slash says Axl's rant against the rock press started out as a totally spontaneous jam and the band decided to leave it in the final track here's why these are people who just completely misrepresented us and and it was high profile and we're sick of it, it seems crazy, yeah, ya You know, I mean, we have a new point where we don't think it's so important to kiss, ask the press and stuff because really with the stands all that.

It's the music we're playing, the people they play for and these people you know, people believe what they read on television in general, it's like their lifeline, you know, Axl said in an interview in 1991 that getting in the ring is not means Be literal and doesn't actually refer to getting in the ring and doing a real boxing match, here's the 1991 interview Axl did talking about the song, so that's for today's video guys thanks for watching Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below and looking at what you know about the song now, do you think it was a good idea for Guns & Roses to mention all of their music critics by name or do you agree with Axel saying in 2011 that maybe I should do it?

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