It's the big ongoing conflict in my life, finding time for everything and everyone. So I'm gonna get it a call at a time, and going each digitally. I'd rather keep releases at a steady simmer than waiting for a big pot to boil every few years. Know what I think? We experience the technology to do it this way now, wanna have it a try.Metalkrant: You get [across] as a real social guy. You ever got time for fans and often bring with them away the hotel. Is it difficult to continue being that way. Now that you are in the famous rock band GUNS N' ROSES?Thal: Playing in GUNS N' ROSES, I take more of an opportunity to do things like this. It's been good. It constantly happens spontaneously. Fans outside a hotel, I'm walking in with a guitar, or they give one, we're talking for a while, next thing ya know we're all singin' and playin'. It's nice. It's why I'm here. On Earth, I mean.Metalkrant: Being away from home for such a long time must be a difficult matter to do. How do you living up the right life and continue being on the route for that time?Thal: My wife visits a lot; we get to see the earth together, it's great. I think Skype keeps everyone sane, fathers getting to see their families. There's a lot of lot and crew walking round with laptops in presence of their faces, talking to it, everyone waving to each other through the cover as they walk by.Metalkrant: Besides making good solo records, you too are one of the lead guitarists in GUNS N' ROSES. Is it difficult to trust your solo-work with existence in GUNS N' ROSES?Thal: Yes. The more we turn the less time there is for everything else. The final thing I did was put out my own "Abnormal" album and acoustic "Barefoot" album in 2008 while GUNS N' ROSES' "Chinese Republic" was in its last stages to be released. I spent most of 2009 living out of a hotel room in L.A. prepping with GN'R for this past year of touring. Took a stop over that summer and wrote and recorded a batch of my own music, toured with Lita Ford for a few months, then got back to biz with GN'R, hit the road end of '09 and have been touring since. On breaks in between legs of the tour, I'd try to tap out whatever I could. My first album was re-released by the judge that owned it and I transcribed and released a 200-page tab book of the album, I set some guest solos, started laying vocals to the '09 songs I wrote ("Invisible" will be the start of them.), did a call for a "Rock Band"-style video game of rock versions of Chopin's music, mixed RETURN TO EARTH's new album, "Automata" (Metal Blade Records), mixed and down some other demos and albums, did go with some charities as well. Just a big race against the time all the time. I'm getting' things done, but I definitely find the constant impending "to-do" list hovering over my mind at all times, and struggle to tap down the list every free chance I get.Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com
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