And it is what permeates the room as we talk about all three during our interview. It is his passion – for music, for his family, for his spirituality – that moves and motivates him.
His love for music remains intact, always there to inspire him to be a better musician, to keep playing when life throws a curveball or when he is missing his children during long intervals on the road. Sitting down in a back room after the GNR Meet & Greet, Fortus scrolls through his phone’s gallery to show me a recent photo of himself with Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, as if he were only a starstruck fan and not a member of one of the biggest rock groups in the history of music. Whether it’s about his own musical projects or other bands he admires, his whole demeanor recharges when he talks about what they do for his musical soul. When Fortus talks about music he loves, his eyes light up and you can feel the passion he has for it. And he recently hooked up with Norwegian musician Lasse Kvernmo for Saivu. He sometimes tours with the legendary Thin Lizzy, one of his favorite bands. He added stripped-down guitar attitude to The Compulsions, a New York based bluesy-rock-with-punk-undertones band whose most recent CD is called Beat The Devil and features his GNR bandmate Frank Ferrer. He loves to sit in with other bands when time allows him to do so. Richard Fortus has been around the block a time or two in music but has settled in nicely with this supergroup. It is how you want your rockers to be when a concert has ended. Spinning, windmilling, getting low to the ground on some of the meaner chords, he is stripped of shirt and scarf by show’s end, the culmination of all the sweat and sacrifice that he has given for the past three hours. It is a fire that burns strong when the vibe is there and tonight it is there, fueling him on during his solos, adding an exclamation mark to yet another concert with his band Guns N Roses in Las Vegas. He is attacking the guitar, lost in the moment somewhere between the music and the energy of the crowd watching him. In part 1, we talked to Dj Ashba, in part 2 we looked at the concerts and in this final installment, we sat down with Richard Fortus before their concert.
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