Axl wasn’t really doing drugs because of the medication he was on. “The problem with that is, the minute you do it a second time, you’re addicted to it. “Slash once told me, ‘You know, you do heroin once and it’s such a high, that you want to do it again,” says the band’s former European publicist Arlett Vereecke. Brownstone,” a warning of sorts about the allure of heroin, came quickly to Slash and Stradlin, largely because they wrote from experience. McKagan had “ It’s So Easy,” Stradlin presented “ Think About You,” “ Anything Goes" was a Hollywood Rose tune and Slash, McKagan and Adler had started “ Rocket Queen” when they were in the band Road Crew. The writing sessions for Appetite for Destruction were brief and frantic, largely because they band was aching to get into the studio again and record their first album, but also because they wrote many of the songs on their debut before the band got signed. And then they used 'Shadow of Your Love' as a b-side.” Guns N' Roses, "Welcome to the Jungle" They recorded nine songs in that studio including 'Heartbreak Hotel,' 'Don’t Cry' and ' Welcome to the Jungle.' But they only used those four. They’d throw up or pass out in the studio. Once he saw that they were totally spun out, he just stopped. But he was fooling around with whatever they were doing. Even Axl wasn’t in the best shape, and he was the cleanest out of all of them.
“GN’R recorded those songs in two or three weeks at a time when they were totally out of control. “Proffer didn’t produce those songs, his engineer just recorded them,” Canter says. He also agreed to record a few extra songs with the band for the EP Live Like a Suicide, which Geffen released in England under a different label to pique interest in the band before they toured there. Impressed by Guns N’ Roses’ ability to endure under adverse conditions, Zutaut paid producer Spencer Proffer $15,000 to record “ Nightrain” and “ Sweet Child of Mine,” as a test and if the chemistry was good he would stay on for the debut.
For every Guns N’ Roses or Motley Crue that delivers, there’s probably 10 bands that are great but fall apart before they even become successful.” Guns N' Roses, "Sweet Child O' Mine" I don’t know if that makes them like gorilla glass on a cell phone or what, but there are plenty of bands that probably did less heroin than Guns N’ Roses and drank less alcohol, but imploded. Guns N’ Roses were able to consume those things, yet, deliver at a live show and deliver in the studio. “No amount of alcohol or drugs will slow them down. “There are some bands that just can’t be stopped and you can sense it,” Zutaut says. Yet what Zutaut heard from vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler was inspiring and seemed to have the potential to be a profitable signing if they didn’t all die in an alcohol or drug related mishap. No one else wanted GN’R because they were viewed as a liability, a band as likely to miss the show as perform a gangbuster set.
When Geffen Records A&R man Tom Zutaut signed the band he had no idea what he had gotten into. Their songs echoed with the love for rock and roll and the spirit of rebellion. In an era of bad-boy rockers who weren’t terribly bad and wrote music that sounded too good, Guns N’ Roses were the genuine article.
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