Guns N’ Roses covern Wish You Were Here

Guns N’ Roses Sänger Axl Rose ist derzeit in aller Munde als Ersatzsänger der australischen Hardrock Legende AC/DC. Davor war er im April mit seinen wiedervereinten Guns N’ Roses auf Tour. Die Songliste von GNR enthielt eine Coverversion von Pink Floyd’s „Wish You Were Here“, den sie als instrumentales Intro zu „November Rain“ spielten! Nicht einfach eins zu eins kopiert, sondern mit viel eigentümlichen Gitarrenpower u. a. von Slash! Eine sehr interessante und gelungene Version. Ihr findet sie sicherlich auf YouTube. Schreibt uns, was ihr von dieser Coverversion hält.

In einem Interview für das Guitar World Magazin erklärte Guns N’ Roses Gitarrist Richard Fortus wie es überhaupt dazu kam.

Guitar World: What’s been your favorite song on the setlist during this reunion run?

Fortus: When we were last in Europe we were playing (Pink Floyd’s) ‘Wish You Were Here’, which ended up being one of my favorite moments in the set. That just came about because Axl broke his foot on the first show of the tour. So he was in the chair and we were at soundcheck preparing for the second show. He wanted us to fill some time for him to get to the piano for ‘November Rain’ and come up with some musical thing for that point in the set.

Slash looked at me and was like, ‘What do you want to do?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know!’ so then he asked if I knew ‘Wish You Were Here’ and I said yes. He just started playing it and we all came in together. We just did it once at soundcheck and the crew – who are the most jaded people ever (laughs) – just stopped and applauded when we finished. Because it was like this magical thing that happened… that’s what music is, a magical conversation. We liked how it sounded so we kept it for the rest of the tour.

Quelle: GUNS N’ ROSES Guitarist RICHARD FORTUS

Ich danke Boris, Thomas und AJ für den Hinweis.