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Izzy Dutch
'The Flying Dutchman'
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Since: Jan 11, 2006

Apr 18, 2009 02:16 pm

There was this topic on the Izzy Stradlin (ex Guns N' Roses, see www.chopaway.com/ ) board I'm on which people posted funny quotes they came across in interviews, here they are:

Talkin' of sick," he seemingly free-associates. "Y'now Motley Crue? Sick ******' guys, man! Real sick fucks, those guys! In '87 we were supposed to come... here... to Europe, man... with ******' Motley Crue, and they burnt out on us and had to go into detox. You wouldn't have believed these guys. Like they're doin' an ounce of cocaine each a ******' day. These guys are walkin' into ******' walls, man. And they're doing this ****... Y'know, havin' this chick tied to the bed and stuff. And they tried to get us into that **** too, just to **** us up, right. Which is what happened." And here he straightens up. "I mean, can you believe... These guys gave ******' Stevie ******' Ajax to snort all ******' night. ****** him up. You don't pull that kinda **** on another musician!"

On _Illusion_, we did the basic tracks in about a month. Then there was a time lag of about a year before the vocals were finished. I went back to Indiana and painted the house.""

Slash in 1995....
"Izzy is in indiana doing donuts"

Another one from Slash on Izzy:
I was in a club one day and I ran into his drummer. He goes, 'Have you seen Izzy?' And it's like, Well, I should be asking you that. He goes, 'No, we were in the studio for two weeks and he went to go get some cigarettes or something and he never came back.'

The key to Axl's personality, reckons Izzy, still lies back in Lafayette.
"In high school, you know, Axl, he had long, red hair, he was a little guy and he got a lot of **** [because of it]. I think he never got laid, too, in school. I hate to bring this up cos this is getting nasty," he laughs. "But he never got no pussy at school, Axl. So now the guy's a big ******* rock star, he's got the chicks lined up, he's got money and he's got people... and the power went to this guy's head. I mean, he was a ******* monster! Nuts! Crazy!"

Guns N' Roses' motto from like that day on has been '**** everybody,' y'know. '**** everybody before they **** with you.'"
"'**** the whole ******' world,' y'know. Just let's keep movin'."

I saw this thing in National Enquirer and... It's ******' Stevie, man. Apparently he went to Nevada, got ****** up, met some girl and, like, ended up marryin' her or somethin'. And the headline, y'know... It read something like "GN'R DRUMMER MARRIES GIRL: SAYS I CAN STILL **** AROUND". In-credible!

I think Axl will probably end up living over thereat the end of this tour too. He's talking about getting a place in Europe, in Paris or Spain maybe, 'cos he really liked it over there, even though a bunch of French guys ended up macing him. He phoned me up straight afterwards: 'Izzy, man, I just got into a gnarly fight'. He said these guys were talking **** - though I don't know how he'd know 'cos he doesn't know any French." He pauses. "Maybe they were looking at him funny."

What would you be if you weren't a musician?
Dead. (laughs) Because music gave me something to do in my life.

Which is better: music or sex?
Pherrrgh! Oh God, I'll have to think about it… sad, eh?! I was going to say ‘sex’ right off the bat, but I don't know… lately, both have been pretty even keel. That's a tough one… music or sex? I'd say sex, if I gotta choose!

Uh... addiction... That's a very heavy word... That depends. [Another pause] Do you mean physically or mentally?

Are you physically addicted to hard drugs? I mean, that's what everybody infers about you guys. The big national rumor is that you're all junkies.
Listen, I can't even... I don't... I'm OK, y'know. Everyone in the group's OK. I mean, everyone's talkin' about this **** all the time. I mean, I never said nothin' about "drugs". Everyone has to know their own limits. That's all I wanna say.

Dougie's done a lot of stuff in the last couple of years," Stradlin avows, before chuckling darkly. "He's the guy who now gets to go over to Axl's at six in the morning when his piano's hanging out at the window of his house. All kind of **** like that. Now we get these ******' calls - 'You hear what happened?' No, what now? 'Axl just smashed his $50,000 grand piano out the ******' picture-window of his new house.' That's nice, Dougie. You just take care of it. Call me when it's all over."
Well, Axl and high school... He must have spent at least two days there! (laughs) Yeah, I saw him briefly there.

Videos! It's necessary nowadays, or so they say... I'll be there, of course. I've already got an idea... I'd be dead, they'd put me into a coffin. And when they would put the coffin into the ground, at this moment, we'd see... We'd see my *** (laughs)! Oh, oh! And Jimmy would hold a sign with "Here's Izzy!"

Is there any gear made after 1968 that turns you on?
I don't know. I can pretty much make any guitar sound like ****!

What's gonna happen if the Izzy Stradlin band becomes enormous too?
Well, we'll hire a brass band and a harpist!

I know he is creative, intelligent, he is a good singer, but it took him so long to write and record songs. Yes, I will listen to it and send it back to him if it's crap.

Then in spite of the fact that you grew up together, now you aren't a friend at all of Axl.
No, we're still friends, we just don't talk to each other (laughs) you know?

I = Izzy and C = Caller

C: (Shouting in the background) I wanted to ask--

I: Is that your dog, in the background? (Laughs)

C: --you about a couple of songs on the album, well one's not on the album, I wanted to ask you about my favorite track, "Train Tracks"?

I: Mm hm!

C: (more background shouting)

I: (Laughs)

Have you ever worked with female singers?
Um... Axl. Uh, no. [laughs]

Uh yeah, I mean where it was going, and uh...yeah where it was going and--and--and...you know the things that were happening... while it was going wherever it was going. (Laughter) Uh...

Would you donate your bone marrow to save the life of Vince Neil?
Izzy: ****, no! There’s plenty of other donors out there.

Your manager begins telling the press that your forthcoming album is a cross between Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Physical Graffiti’. Do you try to shut him up?
Izzy: Yes! And that has happened in the past!

You’re getting ready to go onstage and one of your band puts on a leather kilt. Do you tell him to change?
Izzy: No, I couldn’t give a **** what these guys wear. They could wear pink tutus onstage if they wanted!

Would you donate your bone marrow to save the life of Axl Rose?
Izzy: What, you mean if he had an accident? Uh, if he was gonna die I’d give him a little bone marrow. A little. We could work something out!

CURRENTLY, THE Ju Ju Hounds' live set includes several covers; The Rolling Stones' 'Jiving Sister Fanny', The Faces' 'My Fault', The Maytals' 'Pressure Drop', of course... but no Guns N' Roses songs.
"No," Izzy shrugs. "In Australia, there was a guy in just about every front row yelling for 'Dust N' Bones' or something, and I'm hitting a chord every time they shout, going, 'What?!.'

"We have quite a few lawsuits already, but our attorney says you're not a real band until you have at least a dozen of 'em, so we have about eight more to go."

"The fact that I'm from Indiana has no business being in my career."

"Many times I'll be playing and some big kid will be hurling through the air at 100 miles per hour right at me. I can't imagine what that must look like from the audience but I'm sure it adds excitement to the show. When these kids go flying past me and I never see them coming, it gives me a rush of adrenalin like you wouldn't believe."

"We don't really care if people think we've got a bad attitude. We're the only band to come out of L.A. recently that's real. And the kids know it."

"I Used To Love Her But I Had to Kill Her is a joke. I was sitting around listening to the radio and some guy was whining about a broad who was treating him bad. I wanted take the radio and smash it against the wall! Such self pity! So, we rewrote that same song we heard with a better ending, it's a real New York-type of song."

"I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid."

"We constantly disagree and keep changing our minds about everything from one day to the next."

"We're not as crazy as we used to be. Nobody's laid out with a jones anymore. Now we know what we have to do and we do it. What's fun is getting to meet all the people whose music we listen to. It's a gas! We met Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick ... he was the greatest! He hung out with us when we played Rockford, Illinois and he got totally plastered! No more tequila for you Rick! When he pulled that stuff out, I knew there'd be problems. What a wild guy. We loved him. When we left him, he was sacked out on the floor."