![]() Why is it a positive thing? Why is it a good thing? Why does it make sense now? And I told her why I did it. I didn’t answer her for a couple days because I really had to process the reason that I did it. And it turned out great and Kathy (Rhoads) hit me and up and goes I can’t believe you did this. So I agreed to do it after I saw the documentary and I read the script, it was really put in a positive light and it was very truthful. I had to think about it at that point because I knew that if I didn’t do it they would just get anybody to do the narration and then it would be a big sore spot forever. And he (Andre Relis) said well I understand your thing but I’m doing it anyway there’s nothing legally binding that says I can’t do it. So I talked to Andre about, what does Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne say? What does Kathy (Rhoads) say? Are they all against it? I’m like those are my people and I really shouldn’t do this without their approval. And we have always said that we would never do anything to do with Randy (Rhoads) unless it made sense and somebody else wasn’t gonna make money off it, like it wasn’t a cash grab kind of thing. How I got involved was Andre Relis the director contacted me and I got really nervous because I’m really good friends with Randy’s brother and sister. The Quiet Riot years, a lot of people didn’t understand them or they didn’t know about them at all. “All the feedback that I’ve gotten from it is, people are just grateful that it exists. When asked about his experience narrating the Randy Rhoads documentary (Randy Rhoads: Reflection of a Guitar Icon) that was released two years ago So more Straight Ahead, more L.A. Guns-ish really.” ![]() It wasn’t as blues-based, it was a little bit more metal. When I was in the band (Guns N Roses) we were heavier than what people know as Guns n’ Roses now. I don’t remember but that was always a favorite song of mine that they had. But for some reason when we got together as Guns N’ Roses we didn’t play ‘Welcome in the jungle’ I don’t know why. Because earlier Izzy and Axl were in a band called Hollywood Rose and when Slash was in Hollywood Rose they wrote ‘Welcome to the Jungle’. “Yeah some of them because me and Izzy lived together so by the time we had Guns n Roses, when basically he joined LA Guns. Izzy had some of those songs that they had played in Hollywood Rose. When asked if he helped in the arrangements and compositions of the early Guns n Roses songs Songs like ‘Don’t cry’, ‘Anything goes’, ‘Think about you’ a bunch of them.” ![]() When asked if they were rehearsing the early Guns n’ Roses material that we know today That’s all we did, we just changed the name and we added Izzy. We sat on the couch and decided what we were going to do next and it was Guns n’ Roses. Our manager fired Axl but we all lived together. Based on a big throwdown with another band we played with that night. Guns, we did a gig, there was a big throwdown with our manager. When asked how long he was a member of Guns n’ Roses in the early yearsĪ year. ![]() As long as Phil (Lewis) sings, it sounds like L.A. So there could be some extreme metal and Reggae on the same album. So I really don’t put much as far as musical limitations with L.A. So it’s like the playground, the giant sandbox where all the other kids left all their toys in it and you get to play with these trucks, these balls, these Jacks, these shovels, that kind of thing. Guns is kind of all over the place and it always has been. I can focus on a sound or a Vibe or something like that. Guns aren’t specific, like some things that I do which are very specific. “It’s always such a mysterious question to me too, you just kind of gotta go with whatever comes out. When asked what they did differently on the new album ‘Black Diamonds’ compared to their last album ‘Checkered Past’
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