"You know, this was like building up to that show [House of Blues]. We were supposed to – well, not supposed to, but everybody was like, “Hey, if anybody’s got songs and shit, you can bring them in”. [...] Extrakd [Steve Freeman] and Mirv [Marc Haggard] and I, when I wasn’t doing Guns stuff, we’d just jam in my living room type of thing. You know, we had, like, a ProTools setup and we were jamming, and we were trying to come up with songs for Guns. [...] We were writing all these crazy songs to try to turn in and these were coming from, like, you know, Extrakd is an old school dj type – he’s a bass player, but he loves old school break beats and, you know, cratedigger type of guy – and so this shit we were putting together was crazy. You know, we were just kind of going like, “Okay, what samples should we find for Axl?” Like, “Well, he’s kind of like Julius Caesar”, so we were sampling Julius Caesar, looking for albums, you know, and old school crazy shit. And I think we sampled, like, Ben Hur and chopped it up and cut it up, and that became a jam called “Seven” – I think we called it “Seven”. And I remember bringing that to the studio to have – I think Roy Thomas Baker was producing at that point and, you know, we’d be playing the stuff and he’d be in."
Appetite for Distortion, March 17, 2019
the concept of grace is central to "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," as the story explores themes of forgiveness and redemption, particularly through the character of Judah Ben-Hur's transformation influenced by his encounters with Jesus. The narrative illustrates how grace can lead to reconciliation and a deeper understanding of love and compassion.
Seven is most likely State of Grace.
Ides of March is most likely Circus Maximus.
Do you agree or disagree ?
I think the information above with other post in this thread have made a compelling argument for that to be the case.
Update still coming on the other Chinese Democracy Era Songs.
