Pretty Tied Up |
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| Title: Pretty
Tied Up On Album: Use Your Illusion II Also Included On: "Live Era '87-'93" Running Time: 3:15 Produced by: Mike Clink & Guns N' Roses Engineered by: Mike Clink Mixed by: Bill Price Audio: N/A Single: No Video: No |
Drums: Matt Bass: Duff Lead and Rhythm Guitars: Slash Rhythm Guitar / Coral Sitar: Izzy Piano: Dizzy Vocals: Axl Written by: "Pretty Tied Up" was written by Izzy. Written in: "Pretty Tied Up" was written in or before 1989. Additional information: The seed for the song "Pretty Tied Up", came one afternoon when Izzy was about 19. |
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| Lyrics | |
| [The Perils of Rock n' Roll Decadence] I know this chick she lives down on Melrose She ain't satisfied without some pain Friday night is goin' up inside her...again Well crack the whip 'Cause that bitch is just insane I'm serious She's pretty tied up Hangin' upside down She's pretty tied up An you can ride her She's pretty tied up Hangin' upside down I can't tell you she's the right one Oh no,oh no,oh no Once there was this rock n' roll band rollin' on the streets Time went by and it became a joke We just needed more and more fulfilling - Uh-huh Time went by and it all went up in smoke But check it out She's pretty tied up Hangin' upside down She's pretty tied up An you can ride her She's pretty tied up |
Hangin' upside down Ohh I can't tell you she's the Right one Oh no,oh no,oh no Once you made that money it costs more now It might cost a lot more than you'd think I just found a million dollars That someone forgot It's days like this that push me o'er the brinks Cool and stressing [pronounced: kool ranch dressing] She's pretty tied up Hangin' upside down She's pretty tied up An you can ride her She's pretty tied up Hangin' upside down And I can't tell you she's the Right one Oh she's the right one...[etc.] [But I can tell you a thing or two 'Bout somethin' else If you really wanna know-Know what I'm sayin'] |
| Live Performances | |
"Pretty Tied Up" was a regular in the setlist during 1991. It was dropped in the beginning of 1992. Notable Performances:
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| In Their Own Words | |
| Izzy: My Mexican friend Tony took me to meet this woman named
Margot at her house. She gave us some tequila or something and she goes in the bedroom and
we walk in and there's this big fat naked guy with an onion in his mouth. He's wearing
women's underwear and high heels and he's tied up with duct tape against the wall. Me and
Tony were like, What the fuck is going on here? Cracking up laughing. She was this
dominatrix chick. We sat around her living room for the rest of the afternoon, listening
to records, and she'd go in the bedroom and do her thing. At the end of the day she turned
him loose and he paid her all this money. She took us out to eat. There was this whole
scene of dominatrix chicks who worked in the S&M clubs. They'd beat on guys and after
work, they'd take a musician out to dinner, let you stay at their place sometimes.1 Gilby: I like "Pretty Tied Up" and "Locomotive." I like playing the fast, hard ones.2 Gilby: Izzy wrote songs like "You Could Be Mine," "Pretty Tied Up" and "Patience" and those are still in the live-repertory. As I said Guns wouldn't have been anything without Izzy, and in spite of the things that has happened between them there's no reason to exclude his material. Slash: We started working on a song that became "Pretty Tied Up". I remember that Izzy had taken a cymbal and a broomstick and some strings and had made a sitar out of it. Needless to say ... Izzy was pretty fucking high.3 |
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