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Who is Gilby Clarke?

rizzdaddyrizzdaddy Posts: 262
edited August 2006 in Other Music
I've been watching Supernova. Doubting the band is going to be good at all. But I was wondering who is Gilby Clarke? I don't remember him being in GN'R was he after the breakup or what?
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  • GummiBeerGummiBeer Posts: 189
    he joined them on the illusion albums, played keyboards and rhytem guitar
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  • jb13lettersjb13letters Posts: 220
    rizzdaddy wrote:
    I've been watching Supernova. Doubting the band is going to be good at all. But I was wondering who is Gilby Clarke? I don't remember him being in GN'R was he after the breakup or what?
    He replaced Izzy right after the Use Your Illusions were released. The only recording he did with the band was The Spaghetti Incident.
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,168
    he's a nobody.
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  • tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
    he doesn´t deserve be in the same band with this great musicians as Tommy and especially Jason newsted... but the worst situation is when brook or dave navarro talk to gilby with all the respect possible, he´s not a rock hero, fuck you gilby get away with you stupid mustache...
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,933
    GummiBeer wrote:
    he joined them on the illusion albums, played keyboards and rhytem guitar
    Dizzy Reed was the keyboard player.
    Gilby only played guitar to my recollection. He also played with Slash's Snakepit for a while and as stated has done some solo records, 1994's "Pawn Shop Guitars" probably the most successful. The song "Tijuana Jail" got a reasonable amount of airplay when the record was released.
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  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    tonadax wrote:
    he doesn´t deserve be in the same band with this great musicians as Tommy and especially Jason newsted... but the worst situation is when brook or dave navarro talk to gilby with all the respect possible, he´s not a rock hero, fuck you gilby get away with you stupid mustache...
    Well Gilby is the only guy in the band who's shown that he can write songs and sing.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    tonadax wrote:
    he doesn´t deserve be in the same band with this great musicians as Tommy and especially Jason newsted... but the worst situation is when brook or dave navarro talk to gilby with all the respect possible, he´s not a rock hero, fuck you gilby get away with you stupid mustache...
    How much street cred does Navarro really have left?????
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  • DCGARDENDCGARDEN Posts: 515
    Gilby Clarke was hired to replace Izzy Stradlin for the tours. He did not record anything on the Illusion albums, as Slash played both lead & rhythm on a number of those tunes. Gilby played with GNR long enough to get his name out there, but he eventually Axl lost patience with him. Axl & Slash both said they liked playing with him, but were never really sold on him contributing anything to an actual record. I saw an interview with the guy, and he was promoting Supernova and talking about how Metallica fans would tune in to see Jason, Crue fans would tune in to see Tommy, and GNR fans would tune in because of him, and I was like ....ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.....NO
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  • Garden DoggGarden Dogg Posts: 226
    DCGARDEN wrote:
    Gilby Clarke was hired to replace Izzy Stradlin for the tours. He did not record anything on the Illusion albums, as Slash played both lead & rhythm on a number of those tunes. Gilby played with GNR long enough to get his name out there, but he eventually Axl lost patience with him. Axl & Slash both said they liked playing with him, but were never really sold on him contributing anything to an actual record. I saw an interview with the guy, and he was promoting Supernova and talking about how Metallica fans would tune in to see Jason, Crue fans would tune in to see Tommy, and GNR fans would tune in because of him, and I was like ....ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.....NO

    Izzy recorded the Use Your Illusion records with GnR. He even wrote a couple of the tunes. He left the band shortly after the Use Your Illusion World Tour started, and was replaced by Gilby.
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  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    Gilby is a self-absorbed douchebag with no concept of the reality that he isn't popular or famous by any means.
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  • MookieBlaylock5v1MookieBlaylock5v1 Posts: 353
    Poncier wrote:
    Dizzy Reed was the keyboard player.
    Gilby only played guitar to my recollection. He also played with Slash's Snakepit for a while and as stated has done some solo records, 1994's "Pawn Shop Guitars" probably the most successful. The song "Tijuana Jail" got a reasonable amount of airplay when the record was released.

    I have the video for "Tijuana Jail" on an old VHS tape somewhere. Decent song, I taped it mainly because it featured Slash on the guitar solo.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Garden Dogg wrote:
    Izzy recorded the Use Your Illusion records with GnR. He even wrote a couple of the tunes. He left the band shortly after the Use Your Illusion World Tour started, and was replaced by Gilby.
    The tour actually started a couple of months before the records were even released.....if I remember correctly the release date kept getting pushed back during the summer and finally saw the light of day in the fall of that year. I believe that Izzy made most of the dates at least upto the release of the albums.
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  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    tybird wrote:
    The tour actually started a couple of months before the records were even released.....if I remember correctly the release date kept getting pushed back during the summer and finally saw the light of day in the fall of that year. I believe that Izzy made most of the dates at least upto the release of the albums.
    Izzy quite in Europe I believe. The insanity of the tour was getting to him. From the drugs around him, to the uncertain stage times. You have to remeber that Izzy was under very strict probation requiring lots of testing to travel internationally. This after his drug induced melt-down on a flight when he was a full blown junkie.

    Gilby was a great fit for Gunners though. Played the same style as Izzy, had a lot of the same influences and didn't have a huge ego. Gilby and Slash got along great. Gilby did a solo tour with Slash, which from all accounts was great onstage and involved just a staggering amount of alcohol consumption. Gilby was kicked out of Gunners by Axl as he was taking Slash's side on a lot of issues.
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  • Garden DoggGarden Dogg Posts: 226
    tybird wrote:
    The tour actually started a couple of months before the records were even released.....if I remember correctly the release date kept getting pushed back during the summer and finally saw the light of day in the fall of that year. I believe that Izzy made most of the dates at least upto the release of the albums.

    i do remember they did three surpise, warm-up gigs--one in l.a., one in new york, and the other might have have been san fran. i went to the nyc show at the ritz. still one of the best shows i've ever seen. small venue...band on fire. i know the records weren't out at the time of these shows, but i really don't recall how far into the tour they were released.
    "let's hug it out, bitch."

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Garden Dogg wrote:
    i do remember they did three surpise, warm-up gigs--one in l.a., one in new york, and the other might have have been san fran. i went to the nyc show at the ritz. still one of the best shows i've ever seen. small venue...band on fire. i know the records weren't out at the time of these shows, but i really don't recall how far into the tour they were released.
    I actually got them here in Birmingham, Alabama in either June or July 1991 on that tour...........at a horse racing track (now Greyhound racing). I think that the infamous St. Louis meltdown also occured before the albums hit the street.
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