Guns N' Roses Guitarist Richard Fortus | Artist Interview | Gretsch Guitars

[@amyn227]

Other than Richard Fortus is a great guitarist, his experience with "those" gnr member and yeah, honor to be with them is so amazing... 15 years with the band.. from robin finck, buckethead, Ron Bumblefoot Thal, DJ Ashba.. and finally, richard be with the original line up... Slash. You r amazing fortus!

[@simply417guy]

I met him in Springfield Missouri in ‘88-90 ish when he was with The Eyes/Pale Divine out of STL MO ~ I still love Pale Divines sound

[@remingtonsteele3581]

Watched this guy last night at GNR Sydney and extremely impressed.

[@thornvulf9103]

Saw him in Melbourne, he was very good - hard to compete with the mighty Slash but held his own

[@peteq1972]

I saw them in London, June this year (2017) absolutely awesome!

[@zeppage4]

Love seeing hollow bodies in rock, they’re so much more versatile than people including myself realize. I picked up an Ibanez art core and it’s cleans and gain tones are like none of my other guitars.

[@gregoryzoebisch7792]

Yes my Ibanez AS 93 kicks ass....

[@whiteyholmes]

Fortus is a great conversationalist... Always seems interested and attached to what’s he’s doing and talking about. And the guy is a frigging stud guitar player...

[@dmac-333]

Man he killed it live with guns, great player and seems like a nice guy

[@mackin26]

What an amazing player. Nice bloke too. Hope I get to see them.

[@minitom74]

what a career to this point for fortus...versatile, all the way from playing with inglesias to gnr, he sure has an open play book but you can hear a tone unto himself no matter what guitar or amp he's on..he's deceptively good, and that tonality makes you want a gretsch today.

[@youkid1991]

Slash and him have their own technique, but they are on both par with each other

[@gkouroushi]

lol

[@soofitnsexy]

lmao

[@wickedcrypto6004]

Both phenomenal players

[@baliscotsurf]

one of the best demos of any gtr Ive ever seen, Grt player and what a musicologist

[@Boabywankenobi]

First interview / demo I've watched with Richard (having seen him play live with GnR this summer). Was very impressed with his playing on stage, glad he's also a nice guy in person. Great addition to the band, sorry Izz.

[@marksc1929]

...great player ....well spoken ....nice guy...better than Slash in my opinion....I know they're different ....but what he does is more complicated....

[@NigelNaughton]

Awesome! Didn't know he was so versatile.

[@MrSpeedyrocks]

You have to hear the stuff he did with the Dead Daisies, especially the "Revolucion" record. After that he left the Daisies, 'cause G'n'R went on world tour again and was replaced by his mate Doug Aldrich.

[@MarcosSalustiano]

beautiful guitar. Gretsch rules.

[@THUNDERWORX]

I play with a guy in his 80's who talks about the White Falcon he used to own about once a week..... Still cool... rock on. LOL... also, I have pictures of this guy with Chet's arm around him.

[@peteq1972]

"Hi I'm Richard Fortus and i play with guns n roses" You thought you did, but you do now! 😊

[@justiceforall6412]

I was always more of a Fender/ Zemaitis/ Gibson guy. I recently got a G5120 and it changed my mind completely! I was so impressed added a Jet to the collection. They are great guitars. They are versatile enough to go from easy jazz to heavy rock. He's right about the extra definition. I prefer the Filtertrons over humbuckers any day.

[@monkeyxx]

I dunno why but this guy is really fascinating to me..

[@TroubleinZION]

His tats and playing are awesome.

[@joeyball3342]

Play a Gretsch. Because it's really cool to be an individual. Play something else,....and you can be just one of everyone else. Gretsch rocks!....Malcolm told me so.

[@flinchey6962]

Great guitar player seems like a cool guy, Izzy will always be one of the best

[@jacobk4n3]

This dudes dad is a TV repairman, and has the ultimate set of tools.

[@mattstanley8944]

😂😂😂😂

[@officialWWM]

Hes rockin some nice Maori ta moko artwork on his right arm :)

[@GarryFullerSr]

What a Great Guitar.

[@guitarsword1]

Great player. Great guitar.

[@Rich31977]

Where in this video did you hear the words "new material"?

[@geoffmckay4001]

On 🔥

[@bean5964]

you are beautiful and so talented.................

[@leftymadrid]

Sounds delicious!! Is he playing 10's or 11's?? They look pretty thick. I never thought a Gretsch would be good for that kinda rock! Hummmmm...

[@markdwighttadina7655]

He's Guitar skills is the sum of Gilby and Izzy

[@davidkoltai383]

Supro amp!!!!!!

[@Nghilifa]

Discount Izzy Stradlin! (His looks that is)

[@jameswellington4795]

Better than Izzy

[@jesuscastro9998]

RickyboyH cierto se parece un poco a izzy

[@siegfriedwashburn3484]

"I dont need your civil Greeeetch!":-))))

[@koilzimbabwe]

Way better than gilby Clark and Izzy Stradlin by far

[@flinchey6962]

Fuck no, it’s not about guitar solos, Izzy wrote the songs came up with most riffs and plays one of the best rhythm guitar. Izzy can take lead guitar too also fuck Trump

[@cornstar1253]

@@flinchey6962 No. fuck you

[@johnmullarks3555]

first

[@MarchPancake]

Oh! You will break your hands on old Gretsches? BULLSHIT. What a cheap salesman trick

[@citybabyrats]

KjellGibson what's he trying to sell? That white falcon would have the pick up selector in the same spot his 66 would have. He moved it himself

[@citybabyrats]

KjellGibson I agree with that 100% I've barley even seen him play gretches. I just didn't think the thumb story had anything to do with it. In fact I'm surprised gretsch left that in there. It makes their design look bad.

[@alanporter1488]

KjellGibson h

[@soofitnsexy]

oh smell "gibson" you are an ass

[@Tylerrn91]

Oh god, the tone. It hurts :(

[@pierproximo1111]

Izzy Stradlin Better than this guy