The Spirit of St. Louis, riverfronttimes.com

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The Spirit of St. Louis

Two of the Lou's famous rockers fill us in on their favorites of 2007 ? and what the next year holds.

By Annie Zaleski
Published: December 26, 2007

Richard Fortus once attended a Replacements/X double bill at the legendary venue Mississippi Nights. At the time, he and 'Mats bassist Tommy Stinson were the same age. Two or so decades later, the two men are bandmates in the current incarnation of Guns 'n Roses.

It's a just reward for Fortus, a talented guitarist who first found fame in the '80s with St. Louis darlings the Eyes (who were later known as Pale Divine during their major-label days) and later in Love Spit Love, the criminally underrated '90s act that also featured Psychedelic Furs figurehead Richard Butler.

Fortus is still an in-demand musician today: In 2007, he played on albums by the Crystal Method, Puddle of Mudd, the Divinyls and Scott McCloud (ex-Girls Against Boys); worked on the Spiderman 3 video-game score and played on releases by three new (and completely separate) artists named Kerli, Krista and Karen.

As for G n' R, Fortus hit Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and Japan with the band this year, and in 2008 he hopes to be touring in support of G n' R's long-awaited album, Chinese Democracy: "No, really."

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[RickRoses]

TOUR IN 2008!?!?!

[Cuzon_Jason]

Great news. I thought this thread was gonna be about the St Louis incident that happened in the early 90's. A 2008 tour for Chinese Democracy... could go both ways. One way would mean it will coincide with the album release and be more Chi-dem orientated, the 2nd way would be its simply another tour without a CD release... I'm hoping/thinking its the former, as i think it would be very niave/stupid/reckless to tour again without a release. I think we should hear something official in the upcoming months unless they plan to tour late 2008. People will hear music next year haha.

[Gunns]

but still ,

This doesnt confirm anything,

I mean Axl actually thought the album was coming out last year, and he said it numerous times that it would,
And If he says its coming out one year and it doesnt,
Then fortus saying itll come out or not really doesn't hold much ground like axls comments,

But  I hope to god it does ,
or at the very least we get some saught of update from Axl in the next few months 

[zombux]

I don't get it. what does the "no, really" quote mean?

[Gunns]

I don't get it. what does the "no, really" quote mean?

As for G n' R, Fortus hit Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and Japan with the band this year, and in 2008 he hopes to be touring in support of G n' R's long-awaited album, Chinese Democracy: "No, really."


Their making fun of chinese democracy again,


Their saying,

No really, this time its coming out,
We mean it,

Cause everyone usually says, their will be democracy in china before chinese demcoracy,

,
somethin like that, anyway thats how i perceive it

[UcudBmine]

He just means it's serious now.


but he hopes to be touring, nothing's set. Cool.
In support of CD itself.

Dude, finally.

[thomase]

2008 could be the year that we will finaly have the album

[zombux]

2008 could be the year that we will finaly have the album

we keep saying this since 2000

[ShePoutsHerBest]

Good to read about Richard but as far as the stuff in bold I don't give a shit, I've been reading the same thing only with different years in it for a long time

[GnrJanus]

Well I like richard a lot for what he has been doing, and I hope to see him back in08 with GNR and the album. Rock on Rich

[Axlcrazy]

You guys are reading way to much into this. Of course he "hopes" to be touring in support of CD this year. And if it doesn't come out this year, he will "hope" to tour in support of it next year.

[zombux]

You guys are reading way to much into this. Of course he "hopes" to be touring in support of CD this year. And if it doesn't come out this year, he will "hope" to tour in support of it next year.

sure. this just shows the band members have no clue about what's going on. btw, they're touring in "support" since 01-01-2001, that's crazy - 7 years support of something that doesn't exist

[UcudBmine]

2008 could be the year that we will finaly have the album

so could 2009 2010 2011 en 2027 for that matter

[Axsalute]

Outdoor, Pittsburgh, summer.

[RoyalAccident]

MAYBE.

thats all i heard. Mexico and shizz have already been toured in 2007, so they said maybe..

[thomase]

we keep saying this since 2000

ok well 2009 could be the year for gnr better

[axlstwin]

It reveals nothing. Look at the wording: he hopes to be touring in support of the album. (No, really.) He hopes.