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Hello Bugleers and welcome to issue 50 of the Bugle for the week beginning Monday,

the 27th of October 2008 with me and his altering here in London, UK and in New York City

Mr John Oliver. Hello Bugleers, hello Andy, happy 50th Andy.

I'll see you mate, answer you, it's just this always a bit of a milestone isn't it, you

just worry about the future. You've just seen some of your friends already go by the

wayside and you just wonder who's next when it comes to podcasts.

It's on towards the inevitable chasm of death. I've found out something this week though

I need a vote of my heart swell with joy and you can be damn sure that we've had this

time. Let me guess what I'm seeing this week, were you groomed by Bob Hope?

No, no, all right. This did you hang on, hang on, hang on.

Did you play tennis with Pete Sampress? Yeah, but that's not the story. That's not the

story I'm about to tell you. This was to do with a long-awaited new Guns of Roses album

all right, rumored to be the most expensive album of all time, which our gather is finally

going to be released next month after over a decade in production. Now, it's not that

on particularly a big GNR fan, Andy, although I like Switchholder Mine as much as the next

man, if the next man likes it a bit. It's this detail. They hired a new guitarist called

Buckethead for this. Cool Buckethead, Andy, because, and this is true, he likes to wear

a KFC bucket on his head while playing in the studio. But he quits and only came back

when the label came into his demands that he'd be more comfortable playing inside a chicken

chicken. The record company built an entire chicken coop for him inside the studio out

of woodplanks and chicken wire. That is proper rock star behind you, Andy. I don't want

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