I translated those two questions with their respective answers:
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This tour has had his problems. Tico Torres' health issues and the fact that Richie Sambora left the tour who knows why, but his band-mates continued. How hard it was?
The story here, and I'm being honest, and I've been being honest since then, is that Sambora left for personal reasons. And he's going to have to face the press someday and decide what he wants to say. Really, we never fired him. We don't even consider him fired right now. But if you get a call in the show number 21 and you're told "I'm not going" and it's 3:30 PM, when you stopped being just a band member and became a man who's name is on the marquee... You have a commitment with 20.000 persons, a tour team that has all they year planned, a record, and a company -AEG- who's counting on you, and fans that traveled all over the world to get there, to be there that night. And the same we did in the show 21 and in the show 97, we keep on doing. There're people that thinks that being in a band it's a commitment for life, but some decide not to take part of it, and that's OK, is their prerogative. I'm not mad with Richie because of that. There were no fights. In fact, we emailed each other last week. That's the truth of the story. We have to keep the business running.
Are you actually writing? There's more fuel for a new record and all that comes with it?
Not these days. I can assure you that. I need to turn off the engine for a while so I can catch my breath, recharge batteries and get back in the game. Mick Jagger will always be my role model. And until he doesn't put the "Retired" banner, I won't know when is the moment to do it. I'll keep on kicking the ball until Jagger says "we are for the gol area".
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Also, these are interesting as he speaks about the setlists, something we criticize a lot here:
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[...]There're times when one wants to play the dark songs of the album all night, but there're those guys that want to hear the greatest hits. The song list this tour has been a shorter than in previous tours. I know well why and it's not typical of me to do it. I used to be proud and say "We played 100 songs on the last tour" and when you have a 28 years old band it's easy to do it. But because of what we've been through this year, the setlist was restricted. And then one thinks: "well, there's a new generation hearing the band for the ferst time". If you're in a stadium you must play the hits. [...]
You toured almost all the world this year. Do you adapt the shows depending the musical culture of the place where you're playing?
Yes, sure, most of it, definitively, in Europe we offer a different show than the one we give in the United States. The European crowd pays more attention to the verses, while the north-american pays more attention to the chorus. We must apply that everywhere we go. There're albums that will be more important in an X place than in an Y place.
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He also said that he can't see anything (and that's a bad sign), that he likes more playing on closed venues than in stadiums, and that Italy was great and South America fantastic, "South America is always worth it".
I won't translate everything as is really long and it's pretty hard to write with the cast in my hand.
02-10-2014, 09:13 PM
