With this week’s release of the 17-years-in-the-making Guns ‘N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy, and since I heard a review of it on Sound Opinions this morning and it all pretty much sounded awful, I thought I’d post this clip from EQTV. East Bay local, studio owner and session drummer Brian “Brain” Mantia (Primus) played drums on the album, and had this to say about the experience:
Apparently Axl Rose’s management people are pissed about this clip being online, but there’s nothing all that juicy or scandalous here — Brain’s just talking about playing and recording the drums. I’ve seen the footage from that session that EQTV did not run, and believe me, there are plenty of embarassing tales of prima-donna-tude, excessive expendatures, and generally over-the-top rock star bullshit that will never see the light of day. Whatever. Axl sucks, so does his record.
awesome video. brain rules. he would call the studio i was working at a lot when he first got down with the gnr project. sounded like a mess from the get go. dude was like, “i just wanna be home making beats on my mpc.”