![]() “As a band, we always said we’d never let anyone tell us how to write our music. But most of the songs are first or second take. Axl’s vocals are what took the longest, because he’s a perfectionist: some of the vocals, he’d record one word at a time. He’s like… I don’t want to say Dracula, but he likes his space. We’d sleep all afternoon, go record, then go out and party.”Īll except Axl: “He’d do his parts by himself. Our guitar players, they’d fiddle-faddle every once in a while. I was a big pot smoker, a little alcohol… but heroin around the band during Appetite? I’m telling you, none. “We were young guys, and had nothing but parties and pussy on our minds, but when it came to going in that studio, everybody straightened their ass up. When it came to recording, Adler insists they lived a dual existence. Slash has previously described songs like Mr Brownstone as being written “at the height of our chemical bliss”. You’re living on the streets, you got nothing… Thank God we had strippers! Because strippers make great money, and if you’ve seven or eight of them on your side, that’s a lot of money. It was just the five of us, our crazy friends, and all the crazy experiences. “The songs were everything we’d lived though,” says Adler. ![]()
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