It was a real song to her, not something hokey. It describes her life… I showed her the lyrics after about three weeks of debating, and she was so happy that someone didn’t paint just a pretty picture. I’d written this nice sweet song about her, and then I looked at it and thought, “That really doesn’t touch any basis of reality,” so I put down an honest thing. Slash and some other members of the band said that’s kinda too heavy to say about poor, sweet Michelle: she’ll freak out. One of the weird things is I had a feeling that it would go over good in Europe.Īxl: I know a girl named Michelle and she became a really good friend of the band’s and I was going out with her for a while. And when I started putting the overlayers of my vocals (I put five tracks on there), it seemed that it came out like some Irish or Scottish heritage. There are parts of the song that have more of a down-home feel. It reminds me of when I was a little kid and just looked up at the blue sky and went, “Wow, what is all this, it’s so big out there.” Everything was more innocent.
The best way to do it is to have the whole band sit there and listen to everybody else’s ideas, and put it all together to make something that everybody enjoys playing.Īxl: The verses are more about being in the jungle, the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere. Slash: The best songs we do, they’re collaborations. So that kinda came out, like reaching for something, you know. “Paradise City”ĭuff: The chords to that song I wrote when I first moved to LA, when I didn’t know anybody and was kinda feeling a little down. It’s like when you listen to a Zeppelin song, what do you think? I have all kinds of f_king wild ideas about what “Custard Pie” is about. Izzy: It can mean a million different things to a million different people. It’s a good little ditty that people can listen to and maybe think about what they’re doing. It’s not so much a statement about our drug habits it’s more a statement about other people’s drug habits. Slash: A lot of people have a misconception about this song. I read it and went, “This is great.” They said they had music for it and we ended up starting to rehearse this thing. It had the lyrics to ‘… Brownstone’ on it. Brownstone”Īxl: When we moved out of our place on Fountain and La Cienega I was the last one to leave, and found this piece of yellow paper wadded up in the corner where Izzy’s and Steven’s room was. And trying to say Guns N’ Roses this and that, and don’t let them in here, and don’t let them do this, and don’t let them do that, and watch them, and this and that and the other. But we started out with so many people from so many different directions, trying to lash out at us. It’s not as bad now ’cause we’re signed and some people like the s_t we do. We had opposition from everywhere, the whole f_king time. Slash: It’s kinda hard to explain this so people can understand it. Some people say I got a chip on my shoulder.
But they’re the ones that bought the bottle of whiskey to get you drunk on. The last verse Slash and I put together as a joke, ’cause we were talking about how we get in fights sometimes, and how some people get pi_ed off that you’re drunk. You know, parents, teachers, preachers… everybody.
It’s just being railroaded into something and trying to get out from underneath it. “Out Ta Get Me”Īxl: The lyrics are saying, “I’ve always been in trouble but I’m still handling it.” Like every time you turn around, someone is trying to screw you over financially, or the cops are banging on your door and you didn’t do anything. We lived off this stuff.Īxl: As far as the lyrics go, it’s more attitude and describing how you feel when you’re on it, rather than necessarily how you may be. It happened to sell this great wine called Nightrain that would f_k you up for a dollar. We had no money but we could dig up a buck or two to go down to this liquor store. I remember when it first came together, we’d hitchhiked to the Rainbow and were walking down to the Troubadour and just started yelling ‘Nightrain’ ’cause we were drinking it…ĭuff: We were living in the Gardener Street studio, this place where we had one little box of a room. It’s very indicative of what the band’s all about. Guns, Denis Degher, Jim Wirt, Duane Baron, John Purdell, Nick Cripps, Philip Lewis, Tom Werman, Michael James Jackson, Michael Grant, Stacey Blades, Adam Hamilton, Chris Van Dahl, Jizzy Pearl, Jim Faraci, Kurt Frohlich, Scott Griffin, Mike Gersema, Mark Ugolini Dutton, Paul BlackĭISCOGRAFIE L.A.Slash: ‘Nightrain’ is just like ‘… Jungle’. Tracii Guns, Steve Riley, Phil Lewis, Kelly Nickels, Andy Johns, Mitch Davis, Shane Fitzgibbon, Mick Cripps, Johnny Crypt, Gilby Clarke, Johnny Martin, L.A. Componisten, tekstschrijvers en producers
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