JONEZY Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Marc,Did Axl put the keyboards/synth on "Paradise City" without the bands knowledge? Or did they know about it? Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.wa.T Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Pretty sure Slash said Axl did it on his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansidhe Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 He was already at a decent level on piano by then so I'd assume that a simple synth part would have been a piece of piss for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scans n' copies Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I think I remember seeing somebody talk about it not too long ago and said it was Clink's idea? Can't remember exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.wa.T Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Scans, you could be right. Slash's book has a bunch of inaccuracies, that could be one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recklessroad Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 I don't know but my guess is that it was Clink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 The tone of the album changes a bit with ‘’Paradise City’’.We had a manager courting us at that time, and she gave us a ride to San Francisco to play a gig with Jetboy. While heading back in the van, we started writing ‘’Paradise City’’. It started off with those basic chords and then the melody, and I remember writing the words. Originally it was ‘’Take me down to the Paradise City, where the girls are fat and they got big titties’’ [laughs], which are changed into ‘’where the grass is green and the girls are pretty’’.When was the synthesizer part added to the song?That didn’t come in until Axl was putting his vocals down on the record, so I had no idea about that until we got to the mixing stage. All of a sudden there was that part. Being the guitar purists that we were, Izzy and I were like, ‘’whoa, whoa, whoa!?’’ But Axl won that battle, so it stayed on there. All things considered, it was never that big of a deal, but it introduced a certain electronic thing that didn’t fit well. Axl had a tendency to do that from time to time – to bring it in on the back end.Back to the Jungle (Slash Interview - 20th anniversary of AFD) - Guitar Edge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 The tone of the album changes a bit with ‘’Paradise City’’.We had a manager courting us at that time, and she gave us a ride to San Francisco to play a gig with Jetboy. While heading back in the van, we started writing ‘’Paradise City’’. It started off with those basic chords and then the melody, and I remember writing the words. Originally it was ‘’Take me down to the Paradise City, where the girls are fat and they got big titties’’ [laughs], which are changed into ‘’where the grass is green and the girls are pretty’’.Back to the Jungle (Slash Interview - 20th anniversary of AFD) - Guitar EdgeGN'R played The Stone (with Jet Boy), 28th August 1986. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 It sounded like Slash was a staunch "no synths" guy in the interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Steven: [Mike Clink] had the idea to add a vintage Moog synthesizer to the beginning of 'Paradise City' and again, that ended up sounding great["My Appetite for Destruction", 2010]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scans n' copies Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Thanks, SM. I've been reading that masterpiece and that's where I'd seen the Clink thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.wa.T Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I love the synth. Imo it elavates the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeetarMikey Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Think it really adds to the song and never seemed out of place to me even when I was a huge "guitar purist" in my early teens as we all can be sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JONEZY Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 Think it really adds to the song and never seemed out of place to me even when I was a huge "guitar purist" in my early teens as we all can be sometimes I don't have a problem with it. The keyboards are only on the song for about 15-20 seconds total. I only asked because I've read that Axl wanted Dizzy in the band pre-Appetite, and he was out-voted. Which leads me to believe that Axl wanted keyboards all along. Axl has 2 keyboardists in his current band. Anyway, glad there wasn't key's on all the songs on AFD. I probably would never have liked GnR as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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