Gilby Clarke – Speaks Up About New Album and Rockstar: Supernova
GILBY CLARKE has been involved with two high profile bands, GUNS N’ ROSES and ROCKSTAR: SUPERNOVA. He has also been churning out solo records for the past decade and a bit. His newly released, self-titled retrospective CD shows a guy that just loves to rock, with a no-frills wrapping — Keith Richards style. antiMUSIC’s Morley Seaver recently spoke to Gilby about the CD as well as the Rockstar: Supernova television show. Here’s what he had to say.
antiMUSIC: You’ve always struck me as a guy who is just interested in putting our records and making music and not really too concerned with how many units you’re selling or what magazines you’re appearing in. Have you ever had a blue print for your career at any point?
Gilby: (laughs) No actually, I’m not that organized. I mean the first part is true. I mean, I’ve always looked at myself as a musician, you know. And musicians have to do certain things to make a living. And sometimes I’ll take a guitar job. Sometimes I’ll go play guitar with a band like Heart or something for a tour. Gotta earn a living that summer, you know? And other times I’ll go play guitar with the MC5. So sometimes, you know, I’ll take guitar gigs. But I try to, for me, what’s important is I play guitar a certain way and I’m not the kind of guy that can adapt to certain styles. The music has pretty much be based around the way I play. And that’s why I never really fit in with a lot of the current metal bands, back in the eighties and nineties. I was more of a bluesier, rock player. So it was just kinda hard finding the right gigs. And you know, when I’m writing and performing my own music, it’s right up my style, you know. That’s what I like to play. I always had that: if there wasn’t a guitar gig out there, I could always go out and do some dates on my own. I always had some pretty decent audiences out there, and could always make a record that I thought was good.
antiMUSIC: Did the TV show end up being different once it got going from what you were presented?
Gilby: Oh, it was definitely different from what I was presented. When I sat down in those meetings I was under the understanding that it really was, you know, a new band between myself, Tommy and Jason. And it certainly was represented more like Tommy Lee’s new band. I definitely didn’t sign up for that. You know, I respect Tommy, as a guy in the band, of course, but I was kinda disappointed with the way they were advertising that. But we got the right winner in the end. There’s definitely a lot of things I don’t agree about with television, you know. Television is editing and all kinds of things. I think most people who went to the tapings of show but then saw the show actually on TV, saw two different shows, but look this is my first shot at doing something on television. And I definitely learned a little bit from doing it.
You can read the whole interview here.
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