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| Excerpt (WNEW 1991) |
Source: WNEW. About: Bad Obsession, You Could Be Mine video, Get In The Ring, Estranged Full article: Yes Duff: It's kind of a contradiction of terms. There's tons of bad obsessions, and realistically we've experienced most of 'em, you know. And really, I mean, it's… it's… a follow-up of "Brownstone", really. Actually it was written before "Brownstone". "Bad Obsession" is… us objectively looking at ourselves, you know. Duff, Slash, Axl, you're screwing up. You got a bad obsession. Slash: Arnold was great. I was real skeptical about getting involved with "Terminator" at first, because… uhh… It's just… It's another one of those things people do a lot nowadays. And you see these videos that makes absolutely no sense. It's like, the song, and then… and then… uhh… and then… uhh… you know, some clip from the movie, and then you see the band and the two… The twain don't meet on the same ground for some reason. And so, I didn't wanna get involved into that sort of campy way of doing things. But at the same time, "Terminator 1" was great. And so we liked that, you know. And sort of in good faith, we gave them four songs for them to check out. To see if they're really interested or not. 'Cause they brought it up to us, we didn't go to them. And they picked "You Could Be Mine" and… So, we went to Arnold's house and we had dinner and we hung out. And it was like, we stripped away all the… the celebrity status stuff and just really hung out and had dinner and had a great time. So that meant a lot, you know, to get personal and get toe-to-toe with somebody. That's like, one of the most important things for us, is to be able to feel comfortable with somebody. And believe me, that's a hard thing for us to do. And so, that went over well. And they… they took "You Could Be Mine"… and they put it into a rough edit and we went and saw a screening. And the movie was cool and the song was really cool where it was in the movie. And… as long as we had final approval on the… on how we were gonna use it in the video, then everything was great. And the finished product was cool. So, I'm actually happy with it. And I thought for a movie… uhh… for… for… you know, music video… music video slash movie kind of thing, it was pretty original, you know. And pretty dynamic. Axl: "Get In The Ring" was a song that was… basically put together by Slash and Duff and… I came up with the… with the low vocal part. And Slash and I wrote that part together. We wrote different verses. And we wrote a whole song that when the whole band actually had the song together, the words didn't fit the arrangement of the song. And so, we were in Toronto, playing a show in Toronto. And we had one last song to re… to finish recording, that was "Get In The Ring". So, we went in the studio and just kind of started putting things together. And then Duff decided that I should express my feelings about how we've been treated by the press, because that was his initial concept for the song, and that I should just go for it. And I was kind of like: "Are you sure? You sure I should do this?". And then Tom Zutaut, of Geffen, was there and he was like: "Go for it." So I got behind the mike and went for it. And everybody was really happy and we just decided to do it. And this naming names, and things like that, were because most bands can't afford to express how they feel about how they're treated in the press, because they need the press so much. And I know that this could hurt us, but we're in a position where I think we owe it to ourselves, and we owe it to an element of the public, to explain a bit what's going on… When a magazine prints… umm, interviews out of context, or they print parts of things you said, or they make up interviews, or they say all different kinds of things that don't really have anything to do with the band. Someone reading an interview of Guns N' Roses doesn't know what to think about us. And since this whole thing is about expression, the expression is, you know, being tampered with, and I wanted the people that buy these magazines to realize… From certain magazines, they're not really getting the whole story, when they pay their money to find out what's up with Guns N' Roses, or any other band. And this was also something for other bands. You know, maybe… maybe Guns N' Roses is still keep getting crap… But maybe somebody else won't get that much crap, or they'll decide to stand up for themselves a bit more, and not let themselves be treated… umm… so carelessly. I mean… An artist is expected to be, you know… so responsible in his music, or true to his art. And you know, the same thing doesn't necessarily seem to apply with the press. Umm, we're not trying to… umm, you know, mess with the liberties of the press. We just would like it to be a bit more responsible in dealing with… the people that… are helping them sell their magazines. You know, it's kinda like: "We're on the same side, aren't we? Why are…" You know, why is someone trying to shoot it down with lies or something. Or distort the truth. Umm, I don't have time for that. And there's a lot of people that are upset and put out phony interviews, because we wont talk with them. The same way you wouldn't talk with somebody you know that like, you talk with them and every time you talk to this person that's supposed to be your friend, a bunch of things happen in your life. Umm, a bunch of problems and you finally realize… it's just not good for me to associate with that person. So, that we don't associate with certain magazines. But then they'll run: "Exclusive interview with Axl Rose" and da, da, da. And it's not an interview I've done. I haven't done an interview with certain magazines for over three or four years. But yet they'll run an exclusive interview and a 13-year-old kid will go buy that magazine, thinking he's, you know, hearing what I have to say. And he's not. Or these magazines will take parts of interviews from other magazines and, you know, put it in such a way to make themselves look favorable to their readers. You know, that like, I'm supporting that magazine. And then we decided to take this opportunity to… say that we're not supporting certain things. Or we're not supporting certain practices or ways of reporting. And that's about it. Slash: It's one of Axl's… what, you know… Axl's babies, where he sat down and he had something he really wanted to express, and he wrote it on piano. And so there came the time when the band had to figure out where these… where the bass is gonna come in, where the guitar is gonna come in. This and that. And so, I did all the guitar arrangements on it. And wrote… umm, like, the guitar melodies, which are pretty important to the song now, I would say. 'Cause you recognize 'em, you know. And… That's that. That's… that's why I have credit on it. |
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