Billy Howerdel on CD (Quick mention in article)

[Disco Volante]

Do you get tired of people asking you about working with Axl Rose?

Haha, I don?t know what to say sometimes, because I was there for a long time. But it?s not like you would think, like crazy stuff was going on. It wasn?t some crazy situation. I always think people expect a big answer. I had a very strange job which wasn?t exactly labeled but I just call it ?pro tools engineer? or ?pro tools editor? or something like that. But it afforded me the learning, I got to learn a lot about making records, and I?d never been in the studio for that long a time. I think I can say that I made a better sounding record than I would?ve because I worked for Guns N? Roses. I got to be around a lot of people that knew what they were doing and the bar got raised to what I found to be acceptable for music production, form being in there.


http://www.metalsucks.net/?p=4625#more-4625
Close to bottum of the page.

Sounds like he learned a lot from GNR camp.

[daviebuckethead]

seems as though he was a relative rookie at the job when he went in to it, which is strange given the amounts of cash mentioned and the fact he was working for a big band. Must've been real good experience for him1

[The_Wretched]

lack of experience or not... billy is a genius when it comes to sound and engineering. his work on guitar and effects is phenomenal. axl wouldn't of had asked him if he wasn't that good.

i love billy and APC so i will always be biased.

good find!

[Verasa]

Working with Maynard James Keenan and Axl Rose   

What a life!

[Jim]

And Tool! Don't forget Tool!