In a new interview with Appetite For Distortion podcast, Joe Satriani spoke about recommending Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal for the guitarist position in Guns N' Roses more than 20 years ago.

He said, "That happened because our current producer, Eric Cadieux, and I had been working together since the very first 'G3' live album," Satriani explained.

"He was the editor that was charged with pulling all those live performances together for one live DVD and CD." And so one day he calls up and says that Axl [Rose, Guns N' Roses singer] is looking for the craziest guitar player ever; it was one of the things that he was demanding.

So Satriani thought of Ron Thal as "the craziest and best." He had met Thal in the funniest way because he was doing an interview in Paris, and the interviewer was sort of trying to get him to make off comments about other guitar players.

And he prefaced playing some of Ron's music by talking about blues and blues feeling, and do I notice blues feeling in these guitar players? Satriani recalled: "I had played somewhere in New Jersey at the time.

And I said, 'We'll just show everybody where guitar playing's at today, and we'll laugh about the whole 'blues feeling' thing.'" He became a super admirer of Thal's musicianship all around.

Circling back to how he connected Thal with Guns N' Roses, Satriani added: "So anyway, Ron came to my mind, and I said, 'Eric, you have to get this guy Ron Thal into Axl's band.' And tell Axl that there's no one else who can stand next to Buckethead and look even stranger and play just as good,' because they're two premier guitar players." But my conversation with was with Ron was pretty funny, because the last thing he expected was me to call him and say, 'How would you like to audition for Guns N' Roses?' Because he had accepted, I think, the fact that he was just the oddest guitar player, and [he never thought] that the most accepted rock band at the moment, the new standard for straight-ahead rock was ever going to be calling him for an audition.

But he did it anyway, I think as an experiment in life, just to see how much fun it would be.

And so that lasted a long time, didn't it?" In another statement, Satriani noted: "I knew there was only one guy." The guitarist joined Guns N' Roses in 2006 and appeared on their album Chinese Democracy in 2008.

He later revealed that he was focusing on his solo career and other projects after spending eight years playing in Guns.