August 26, 2025 • 16 mins
Rock legend Glenn Hughes returns with his new studio album “Chosen," set for release on September 5th. Glenn chats with us about what may be his last rock record, how to stay "in the moment," and thoughts on Guns N' Roses.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I pushed the boundaries and the limit and they were
for me. As you can imagine, they were a real
garage bat.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Into the podcast, mister Glenn Hughes, how at her?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Bye? How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm I'm living the dream I love. I have a
you know, a floral shirt, a Hawaiian shirt too. I
feel like almost under dress hanging out with you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am in Queens, New York.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh, I love New York absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm I'm coworkers actually with your tour producer Bill, and
sometimes I'm lucky enough to jump on these tours. And
just a little heads up, I have my two year
old in the background, so he may join us.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh cool, how nice, we'll.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
See I guess you know, kind of the getting started.
Do you remember you're very first? Because I'm talking about
like his first concert. Do you remember your very first
concert that Glenn Hughes ever went to?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It would be the Beatles in nineteen sixty Wow, back
in my very early years.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow. Well his name is Harrison, named after George, So
there's it's indifference there. So we're here to talk to
Glenn about his brand new album Chosen and how long
have you been? Were you working on this because we're
all so excited to hear on the greatest voices in rock.
We're all back.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I I think God be I thank oak Mills better. Okay,
So I've been working. I went into the studio early
twenty four I have a studio in my house, and
I wrote those particular songs, and then I did a
European tour March April, in May, and then in June
of last year I went into the studio for real
(01:46):
in Copenhagen and made children.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I love it. So how do you you feel, because
you were talking about like, okay, if this is my
last album, do you do you feel that way that
this could be or is it just you're just saying that?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Because I'll say again, I think long playing albums are
becoming a thing of the path. When I see and
read what's happening now, I think generally people are only
listening to one or two songs that they buying one
song from iTunes or streaming one song. And I put
(02:19):
a lot of time and effort into making these albums,
and so it's a lot of work. But I love it.
Don't get me wrong. I love what I do. So
for me, it might be the last rock album I make.
It might not be the last album I make.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh okay, that's that's interesting, you know, And speaking of
because you can say whatever album you want to make,
you have that kind of voice. I couldn't help but
notice in the in the prep, I can't believe this.
This quote has always passed me by that. But Stevie
Wonder once said about you. Do you know that the
reaction when he said that you were his favorite white singer.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I met Stevie in seventy four. He came to see
me in the studio and from that day we became
very good friends. And he's been very kind to me.
And it's not just I love his voice. I just
love him that he's a family man, he's a good man.
He's everybody has to have our mentor, and I'm looking
(03:16):
enough to have him.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's one of the best mentors you can get. What's
something that you learned from him? I guess is there
something that you still take with you that maybe he
said that you still remember to this day that You're like, Okay,
Stevie told me that, and you've been hanging on it
all this time.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
He's just very calm and studious and incredible. We know
about his voice, but his lyrics are so I read
a lot and I also realized that lyrics are very important,
and his lyrics are just incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
What kind of stuff are you are you reading with
the stuff you like to read?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, I really ever think I do read about spiritual progression.
That's my I've been studying Buddhism for fifteen years and
I've been reading about staying present and living here in
the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's that's a challenge. That's something that I tell myself,
you know, just studying Buddhism or just me going to
therapy and just trying to be in the moment and
not worry about the past or think about the future.
So maybe do you have a do you have do
you have advice and tip maybe just for myself or
for your your fans of just how to how to
(04:28):
live in the moments because it sounds so easy, but
it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's as soon as I hit the floor in the morning,
I said thank you, and I am in tune with
my breath, which is important for my breathwork is Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Here's Harrison. I told you he can crash the interview.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You're a lucky man. I'm living in the moment right now.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I told her has a high glen hughes.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hello, so sweet, so adorable. Saw mute my mind?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well you give your answer because I told our bill,
our friend producer. I'm like, I don't know how this
is going to go, and we get a few minutes.
But I'm living in the moments. You know. My wife
had to go to work and I guess what it is,
you know, So how do you live in the moment?
How do you do a glen?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A breath work? It starts with if I'm ever not present?
When I'm not present, I am present because I realized that.
So for me, the breathing techniques I use are very important.
Breath work is vital for me.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How do you keep your your voice still a tiptop shape?
Because if you look at the video and the music
that you have out now and people are like it,
does you just sound like you did fifty years ago?
How do you take care of yourself?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I sleep a lot and I drink a lot of water.
I don't overthink. I think overthinking is not good, so
I try to to keep the voice of my head quiet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Overthinking my God and this it's like your here's you're
in my head. That's my problem. So I don't want
to overthink this. And and yeah, one of these days
I'm going to train him to be my co host.
But right now he's playing with balls. If you're listening
on the audio side.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Of it, you're a lucky man, my friend.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh thank you. I mean interviewing Glenn Hughes with my
two year old son in my lap. Yeah, I'm pretty lucky.
And it's all through this. Uh you could tell by
the backgrounds, guns and roses, you know, appetite for the
story podcast. It's a theme. So I do these six
degrees of GNR bacon. So I'm hoping maybe you could
talk about your relationship with with Slash because it goes
(06:39):
way back, you know. I I see you guys have
performed at Peace festivals and yeah, so you can just
talk about maybe the first time you met him. In
your relationship with Slash, I met him.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
At the beginning, you know, because not Sorems a good
friend of mine. So I met I met him at
the Troubadour at eighty seven something or so. Along a
long history with Slash as a personal friend, and we've
worked together we have this thing called Kings of Chaos
(07:11):
with Matt and Doff and Gilbic. So it's an interesting scenario.
And from time to time I see Slash. Yeah, it's great.
I love him. He's a good man.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What do you think is you go back that far
in your history? What do you think of Guns and
Roses when they came out?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Incredible? I mean they pushed the boundaries and the limit
and they were for me as you can imagine. They
were a real garage band, you know, Edgy take No Prisoners,
just just an edgy bar band, kind of punkish and
(07:54):
came in at the right time.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, thank you, that's that's usually the answer you get.
But I wasn't there, you know, and I like to
hear from people who lived it. And yeah, I'm gonna
have to tell this kid, you know about all you know,
I have you telling me about back in the early
eighties and seventies. Now I have to tell him about
my time. So uh, just Glenn, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You want to say bike Glynne, say Bike Glynn.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Hellove, sweet hook.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So I hope we get to do this again. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I have a good day, my friend, have a good day.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you, clemy bye, thank you. So that does it
for episode of our five hundred and twenty six. I'll
be honest, probably would have gotten another minute and a
half if Harrison wasn't hanging on me. But Glenn Hughes
seems to appreciate it. So this podcast was weird and
awkward well before my son came along, and it's going
(08:49):
to continue to be so I love it. The more
he talks, more he gets involved, the more interesting my
interviews are going to be. And let's just I'll be honest,
if it's ever a serious interview, I'll get a babysitter.
You know what I mean. If for whatever reason I
got axel for like five hours, I'll pay for a babysitter.
I can't have that craziness going on. So but uh,
(09:11):
just just so you're aware, sometimes it's fun. Sometimes I'm like,
all right, buddy, Uh, you need to go somewhere else anyway. Actually,
one more thing before I wrap up, because I want
to talk to you. So let's do mister Mailstone.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Here's a mailing never fails. Didn't make you my tails
when it comes out? One wal.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mister Mailstone, where I read messages and letters from you.
Whether it's a DM or what are my social media
or an email to the af D Show at gmail
dot com, you can always send one to me. This
is from Sharon from the UK and I it's really
it's just so funny. I just go through a lot
of my days doubting my myself and very honest, you know,
(10:02):
and you've all appreciated my honesty with it. And it's
messages like this that I've gotten consistently over the nine
years that I've been doing this podcast that just keeps
me going. So dear Brando, says Sharon. First of all,
thank you for all that you do for the G
and R community. It's much appreciated. I listened and watched
from London, UK and became a fan in twenty twenty
(10:25):
three after unexpectedly being blown away by their Glastonbury show.
Since then, I've been absolutely hooked and Axel has a
very big place in my heart. Once I took a
deep dive into the band's history and old interviews and
I felt a real kinship with him. I was so
excited to hear your recent podcast about Axel's voice, as
I'm often disappointed by the constant negativity surrounding this topic.
(10:47):
I saw G and R for the first time this
year at Wembley, and to be honest, I wasn't sure
what to expect. But as many have said before me,
hearing Axel live is a completely different experience. Of course,
he doesn't sound the same as in his youth, but
I thought he sounded great, full of energy, running around
the stage, engaging with fans and giving us all. The
(11:09):
whole band was so tight, and in my opinion, Isaac
is the perfect edition. Unfortunately for Axel, his instrument is
his voice and he never spared it. No one could
sustain that forever. He's also the front man with no
instrument to hide behind, so all eyes are on him always.
I also hate how many people unfairly blame him alone
(11:32):
for the band's breakup or complain about the lost Year's
albums Slash albums, well, the actual punctuation Slash Year's punctuation
Slash albums. These are the clarifications you need to make
on a GEDR podcast. What slash are you talking about? Personally?
She continues, Personally, I'm grateful for the brilliant discography we
(11:53):
do have, even if it's short The criticism of his
looks is another thing I dislike. It's almost a down
great of being so good looking in his youth. At
sixty three, he's still a handsome, fit man with a
musical talent most of us can only dream of. Lastly,
I have to say how much I enjoyed your three
interviews with Peter napole Yellow, such a great guy. As
(12:13):
he said, I can't wait until you get one of
the guns Og members on your podcast. I truly believe
you will. Fun fact, my personal six degrees of separation
is that I used to be a nanny for one
of the members of Queen sadly not around the time
of the Freddie Mercury concert. WAMAS wishes to you Brando
and keep on keeping on, Sharon, thank you so much.
(12:36):
This made my day. You know, this was like sent
to like at eight thirty in the morning the other day,
and it's nice thing to wake up to. So just
thank you. I know it's in the UK, it's different
so over here in New York I woke up to this.
It just it meant a lot to me, and all
your points I agree with. Obviously you were agreeing with
some of the points that I made. So let me
(12:58):
just kind of had that with Yeah, I agree with
you that, and it's I'm not making it up. Fans
that ghost see Guns and Roses live say Axle sounds
better live than through YouTube a cell phone clip. It's
it's just the way it is, and that's the way
it's supposed to be. Right, Live is live. Even if
(13:22):
you're live shooting with the cell phone camera, it doesn't
get everything, It just doesn't. We were so spoiled with
technology that we just think we can get anything at
every time, and it's exactly what it's supposed to be.
But nothing, nothing is going to replace reality. I'm sorry
we've made so many movies about this, but reality is
(13:43):
just unless we're all lifitting in the matrix. But I
guess that's another podcast all to all together. And yeah,
he just the fact that Axel gave his off for
so long. How do you sustain that? That's screaming and
for that age. So whenever people try to compare him
to other singers of his age are older, you can't.
No one no one sings like Axel, no one has,
(14:04):
no one will. And if you it's if you try
to sing like Axel, you're just emulating him. So he's
the he's the original, He's the OG. I appreciate you
thinking I'm gonna get some OGG and R members in
the podcast. Technically as I you know, push up my
glasses like as a nerd. Technically I had Rob Gardner,
the original drummer on and technically I finally had Tracy
(14:27):
guns on the original. But I know what you mean.
I'll continue to dream about it. You never know. I'll
keep doing this podcast, so you never know, as I
continue to train baby Brownstone, maybe one day he'll be
the uh, he'll interview Axel. Never know, wouldn't that be fun?
And yeah, Peter Napoleon, he is a great guy. I mean,
one of the many people I've met during this podcast
(14:50):
has just been a really kind person to me and
it became more than an interview, became a friend. So
just thank you for everything he wrote, Sharon. And if
you want to be in a future featured future on
this little segment that I do, mister Mailstone obviously combining
it with Blues Clues and mister Brownstone. If you couldn't
(15:10):
figure that out, you could again email me at the
AfD Show at gmail dot com, where you can inbox
me at Facebook, x, Twitter, Instagram, anywhere that you communicate
with me, I can, I'll respond and sometimes it's a
quick response like just through email whatever, or I like
(15:31):
reading it on the air because it's it's fun. I
think it should be shared with everybody. All right, So
that does this for this episode of Appetite for Distortion.
What is to come? Well, Bruce Dickinson is on the way.
Just remember I'm not gonna hype it up or psyche
you out. We don't talk about guns and roses. We don't.
(15:56):
But it's gonna be a great conversation with Bruce Dickinson.
The icon from my from Wired Maiden, So stick it
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(16:16):
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm going home.
I pushed the boundaries and the limit and they were
for me. As you can imagine, they were a real
garage bat.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Into the podcast, mister Glenn Hughes, how at her?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Bye? How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm I'm living the dream I love. I have a
you know, a floral shirt, a Hawaiian shirt too. I
feel like almost under dress hanging out with you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am in Queens, New York.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh, I love New York absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm I'm coworkers actually with your tour producer Bill, and
sometimes I'm lucky enough to jump on these tours. And
just a little heads up, I have my two year
old in the background, so he may join us.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh cool, how nice, we'll.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
See I guess you know, kind of the getting started.
Do you remember you're very first? Because I'm talking about
like his first concert. Do you remember your very first
concert that Glenn Hughes ever went to?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It would be the Beatles in nineteen sixty Wow, back
in my very early years.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow. Well his name is Harrison, named after George, So
there's it's indifference there. So we're here to talk to
Glenn about his brand new album Chosen and how long
have you been? Were you working on this because we're
all so excited to hear on the greatest voices in rock.
We're all back.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I I think God be I thank oak Mills better. Okay,
So I've been working. I went into the studio early
twenty four I have a studio in my house, and
I wrote those particular songs, and then I did a
European tour March April, in May, and then in June
of last year I went into the studio for real
(01:46):
in Copenhagen and made children.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I love it. So how do you you feel, because
you were talking about like, okay, if this is my
last album, do you do you feel that way that
this could be or is it just you're just saying that?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Because I'll say again, I think long playing albums are
becoming a thing of the path. When I see and
read what's happening now, I think generally people are only
listening to one or two songs that they buying one
song from iTunes or streaming one song. And I put
(02:19):
a lot of time and effort into making these albums,
and so it's a lot of work. But I love it.
Don't get me wrong. I love what I do. So
for me, it might be the last rock album I make.
It might not be the last album I make.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh okay, that's that's interesting, you know, And speaking of
because you can say whatever album you want to make,
you have that kind of voice. I couldn't help but
notice in the in the prep, I can't believe this.
This quote has always passed me by that. But Stevie
Wonder once said about you. Do you know that the
reaction when he said that you were his favorite white singer.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I met Stevie in seventy four. He came to see
me in the studio and from that day we became
very good friends. And he's been very kind to me.
And it's not just I love his voice. I just
love him that he's a family man, he's a good man.
He's everybody has to have our mentor, and I'm looking
(03:16):
enough to have him.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's one of the best mentors you can get. What's
something that you learned from him? I guess is there
something that you still take with you that maybe he
said that you still remember to this day that You're like, Okay,
Stevie told me that, and you've been hanging on it
all this time.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
He's just very calm and studious and incredible. We know
about his voice, but his lyrics are so I read
a lot and I also realized that lyrics are very important,
and his lyrics are just incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
What kind of stuff are you are you reading with
the stuff you like to read?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, I really ever think I do read about spiritual progression.
That's my I've been studying Buddhism for fifteen years and
I've been reading about staying present and living here in
the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's that's a challenge. That's something that I tell myself,
you know, just studying Buddhism or just me going to
therapy and just trying to be in the moment and
not worry about the past or think about the future.
So maybe do you have a do you have do
you have advice and tip maybe just for myself or
for your your fans of just how to how to
(04:28):
live in the moments because it sounds so easy, but
it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's as soon as I hit the floor in the morning,
I said thank you, and I am in tune with
my breath, which is important for my breathwork is Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Here's Harrison. I told you he can crash the interview.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You're a lucky man. I'm living in the moment right now.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I told her has a high glen hughes.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hello, so sweet, so adorable. Saw mute my mind?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well you give your answer because I told our bill,
our friend producer. I'm like, I don't know how this
is going to go, and we get a few minutes.
But I'm living in the moments. You know. My wife
had to go to work and I guess what it is,
you know, So how do you live in the moment?
How do you do a glen?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A breath work? It starts with if I'm ever not present?
When I'm not present, I am present because I realized that.
So for me, the breathing techniques I use are very important.
Breath work is vital for me.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How do you keep your your voice still a tiptop shape?
Because if you look at the video and the music
that you have out now and people are like it,
does you just sound like you did fifty years ago?
How do you take care of yourself?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I sleep a lot and I drink a lot of water.
I don't overthink. I think overthinking is not good, so
I try to to keep the voice of my head quiet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Overthinking my God and this it's like your here's you're
in my head. That's my problem. So I don't want
to overthink this. And and yeah, one of these days
I'm going to train him to be my co host.
But right now he's playing with balls. If you're listening
on the audio side.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Of it, you're a lucky man, my friend.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh thank you. I mean interviewing Glenn Hughes with my
two year old son in my lap. Yeah, I'm pretty lucky.
And it's all through this. Uh you could tell by
the backgrounds, guns and roses, you know, appetite for the
story podcast. It's a theme. So I do these six
degrees of GNR bacon. So I'm hoping maybe you could
talk about your relationship with with Slash because it goes
(06:39):
way back, you know. I I see you guys have
performed at Peace festivals and yeah, so you can just
talk about maybe the first time you met him. In
your relationship with Slash, I met him.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
At the beginning, you know, because not Sorems a good
friend of mine. So I met I met him at
the Troubadour at eighty seven something or so. Along a
long history with Slash as a personal friend, and we've
worked together we have this thing called Kings of Chaos
(07:11):
with Matt and Doff and Gilbic. So it's an interesting scenario.
And from time to time I see Slash. Yeah, it's great.
I love him. He's a good man.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What do you think is you go back that far
in your history? What do you think of Guns and
Roses when they came out?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Incredible? I mean they pushed the boundaries and the limit
and they were for me as you can imagine. They
were a real garage band, you know, Edgy take No Prisoners,
just just an edgy bar band, kind of punkish and
(07:54):
came in at the right time.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, thank you, that's that's usually the answer you get.
But I wasn't there, you know, and I like to
hear from people who lived it. And yeah, I'm gonna
have to tell this kid, you know about all you know,
I have you telling me about back in the early
eighties and seventies. Now I have to tell him about
my time. So uh, just Glenn, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You want to say bike Glynne, say Bike Glynn.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Hellove, sweet hook.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So I hope we get to do this again. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I have a good day, my friend, have a good day.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you, clemy bye, thank you. So that does it
for episode of our five hundred and twenty six. I'll
be honest, probably would have gotten another minute and a
half if Harrison wasn't hanging on me. But Glenn Hughes
seems to appreciate it. So this podcast was weird and
awkward well before my son came along, and it's going
(08:49):
to continue to be so I love it. The more
he talks, more he gets involved, the more interesting my
interviews are going to be. And let's just I'll be honest,
if it's ever a serious interview, I'll get a babysitter.
You know what I mean. If for whatever reason I
got axel for like five hours, I'll pay for a babysitter.
I can't have that craziness going on. So but uh,
(09:11):
just just so you're aware, sometimes it's fun. Sometimes I'm like,
all right, buddy, Uh, you need to go somewhere else anyway. Actually,
one more thing before I wrap up, because I want
to talk to you. So let's do mister Mailstone.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Here's a mailing never fails. Didn't make you my tails
when it comes out? One wal.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mister Mailstone, where I read messages and letters from you.
Whether it's a DM or what are my social media
or an email to the af D Show at gmail
dot com, you can always send one to me. This
is from Sharon from the UK and I it's really
it's just so funny. I just go through a lot
of my days doubting my myself and very honest, you know,
(10:02):
and you've all appreciated my honesty with it. And it's
messages like this that I've gotten consistently over the nine
years that I've been doing this podcast that just keeps
me going. So dear Brando, says Sharon. First of all,
thank you for all that you do for the G
and R community. It's much appreciated. I listened and watched
from London, UK and became a fan in twenty twenty
(10:25):
three after unexpectedly being blown away by their Glastonbury show.
Since then, I've been absolutely hooked and Axel has a
very big place in my heart. Once I took a
deep dive into the band's history and old interviews and
I felt a real kinship with him. I was so
excited to hear your recent podcast about Axel's voice, as
I'm often disappointed by the constant negativity surrounding this topic.
(10:47):
I saw G and R for the first time this
year at Wembley, and to be honest, I wasn't sure
what to expect. But as many have said before me,
hearing Axel live is a completely different experience. Of course,
he doesn't sound the same as in his youth, but
I thought he sounded great, full of energy, running around
the stage, engaging with fans and giving us all. The
(11:09):
whole band was so tight, and in my opinion, Isaac
is the perfect edition. Unfortunately for Axel, his instrument is
his voice and he never spared it. No one could
sustain that forever. He's also the front man with no
instrument to hide behind, so all eyes are on him always.
I also hate how many people unfairly blame him alone
(11:32):
for the band's breakup or complain about the lost Year's
albums Slash albums, well, the actual punctuation Slash Year's punctuation
Slash albums. These are the clarifications you need to make
on a GEDR podcast. What slash are you talking about? Personally?
She continues, Personally, I'm grateful for the brilliant discography we
(11:53):
do have, even if it's short The criticism of his
looks is another thing I dislike. It's almost a down
great of being so good looking in his youth. At
sixty three, he's still a handsome, fit man with a
musical talent most of us can only dream of. Lastly,
I have to say how much I enjoyed your three
interviews with Peter napole Yellow, such a great guy. As
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he said, I can't wait until you get one of
the guns Og members on your podcast. I truly believe
you will. Fun fact, my personal six degrees of separation
is that I used to be a nanny for one
of the members of Queen sadly not around the time
of the Freddie Mercury concert. WAMAS wishes to you Brando
and keep on keeping on, Sharon, thank you so much.
(12:36):
This made my day. You know, this was like sent
to like at eight thirty in the morning the other day,
and it's nice thing to wake up to. So just
thank you. I know it's in the UK, it's different
so over here in New York I woke up to this.
It just it meant a lot to me, and all
your points I agree with. Obviously you were agreeing with
some of the points that I made. So let me
(12:58):
just kind of had that with Yeah, I agree with
you that, and it's I'm not making it up. Fans
that ghost see Guns and Roses live say Axle sounds
better live than through YouTube a cell phone clip. It's
it's just the way it is, and that's the way
it's supposed to be. Right, Live is live. Even if
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you're live shooting with the cell phone camera, it doesn't
get everything, It just doesn't. We were so spoiled with
technology that we just think we can get anything at
every time, and it's exactly what it's supposed to be.
But nothing, nothing is going to replace reality. I'm sorry
we've made so many movies about this, but reality is
(13:43):
just unless we're all lifitting in the matrix. But I
guess that's another podcast all to all together. And yeah,
he just the fact that Axel gave his off for
so long. How do you sustain that? That's screaming and
for that age. So whenever people try to compare him
to other singers of his age are older, you can't.
No one no one sings like Axel, no one has,
(14:04):
no one will. And if you it's if you try
to sing like Axel, you're just emulating him. So he's
the he's the original, He's the OG. I appreciate you
thinking I'm gonna get some OGG and R members in
the podcast. Technically as I you know, push up my
glasses like as a nerd. Technically I had Rob Gardner,
the original drummer on and technically I finally had Tracy
(14:27):
guns on the original. But I know what you mean.
I'll continue to dream about it. You never know. I'll
keep doing this podcast, so you never know, as I
continue to train baby Brownstone, maybe one day he'll be
the uh, he'll interview Axel. Never know, wouldn't that be fun?
And yeah, Peter Napoleon, he is a great guy. I mean,
one of the many people I've met during this podcast
(14:50):
has just been a really kind person to me and
it became more than an interview, became a friend. So
just thank you for everything he wrote, Sharon. And if
you want to be in a future featured future on
this little segment that I do, mister Mailstone obviously combining
it with Blues Clues and mister Brownstone. If you couldn't
(15:10):
figure that out, you could again email me at the
AfD Show at gmail dot com, where you can inbox
me at Facebook, x, Twitter, Instagram, anywhere that you communicate
with me, I can, I'll respond and sometimes it's a
quick response like just through email whatever, or I like
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reading it on the air because it's it's fun. I
think it should be shared with everybody. All right, So
that does this for this episode of Appetite for Distortion.
What is to come? Well, Bruce Dickinson is on the way.
Just remember I'm not gonna hype it up or psyche
you out. We don't talk about guns and roses. We don't.
(15:56):
But it's gonna be a great conversation with Bruce Dickinson.
The icon from my from Wired Maiden, So stick it
around for that. Conversation continues in between the broadcast. Social
media Follow me Everywhere, YouTube, afdpod, dot com, keep up
to date by merch you can send me donations, which
is all just going to go to the Baby Brownstone Fund,
(16:16):
the Baby Brownstone Hard School Fund. That's how I gena
are it up. That's just that's translating to me buying
new diapers from anyway until the next episode when we
see it in the words of axl Roads concerning Chinese democracy,
I don't know as soon as the word, but you'll
see it thanks to the lame ass security.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm going home.
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