Guns N’ Roses’ Bumblefoot Records ‘Pink Panther Theme’

Guns N’ Roses’ Ron Thal – a.k.a. Bumblefoot – has a holiday gift for you. It is a studio recording of “The Pink Panther Theme.” It’s a tune GN’R performed on the band’s 2009-11 tours.

You can learn guitar from this also. Via Bumblefoot’s website you can get a “Player Pack” that has “a transcription of the entire lead guitar track as a PDF file – musical notation, TAB, fingers, picking, and helpful hints. Included with the transcription is a ‘Backing Track’ mix and a ‘Boosted Lead Guitar’ mix, in both WAV & MP3 formats.”

The “Producer Pack” adds even more, containing “48kHz/24-bit Stereo WAV files of the mix ‘stems’ – individual files of drums, bass, rhythm and lead guitars in a bundle that you can load into your multi-track software to play with levels, make your own mixes, and hear every nuance of each instrument's performance on its own track.”

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GN’R Axeman Bumblefoot Survives Harrowing Car Crash

“I’m not dead yet,” Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal tweeted from his Twitter account after walking away from a collision that destroyed his Toyota.

NME.com reports that Thal, who first started playing shows with Axl Rose and company in 2006, as well as recording on GN’R’s 2008 album, Chinese Democracy, was in his car when it was hit by another driver, which sent his car careening into a couple of other vehicles.

“SUV just ploughed into me at full speed,” Thal tweeted. “Car is totaled, 2 other cars she smashed me into. Well enough to tweet, means I’m not dead yet.”

Thal, who succeeded six-string legends Slash and Buckethead in Guns N’ Roses, tweeted his thanks to Toyota for its “functional seat belt, air bags & crumple zone, you saved my skull,” while also acknowledging the obvious: “O please, I’m in GNf’R – this is like a walk in the park, lol! B’doom CHA! (That was a joke btw… tapping mic… ‘this thing on?’).”

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