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(IGN 2003A) |
Source: IGN, July 18, 2003.
About: Seven, Thyme, General, Leave Me Alone, Chinese Democracy [album]
Full article: Yes (external
link)IGN: Since we're talking about
rock musicians, what was the deal with you arranging some orchestral sections for the
impending Guns N Roses album?
Marco Beltrami: That was sort of just work for hire. I guess they'd heard
some of my orchestral music of mine. I met with Axl and he played me these songs, asked me
my ideas about them, and I told him what I thought they needed. They gave me four songs to
orchestrate. A couple of them I did more than orchestrating, I actually wrote some
melodies and stuff. It was a fun project. I really enjoyed it. The music was eclectic and
at the time that I was doing it there were no lyrics on the songs that I was working on.
People ask me about the album and I really have no idea about the release. I thought it
was coming out last September. I'm the wrong person to ask about that.
IGN: He came to you with the tracks then, so you weren't ever in the studio with
the musicians or anything like that
Marco Beltrami: No, they had finished tracks. On one song I actually
wrote a guitar part, but they pretty much had the band tracks down and then I added
orchestral stuff on top of it.
IGN: What songs were they, by chance?
Marco Beltrami: A song called "Seven," which is the one that I
did the most work on, I actually did some writing on. There was one called
"Thyme," one called "The General," one called "Leave Me
Alone."
IGN: How was that as an experience? Do you have any future plans to work with more
rock musicians or is it more like you'll take it as it comes?
Marco Beltrami: I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was different than doing
film music, but it was a lot of fun. I would probably do it again. It would probably be
more fun at some point, to do it as a more collaborative affair, starting more from
scratch, working and writing stuff [together]. But it was definitely fun. |