Pretty Tied Up
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| “Pretty Tied Up” | |||||
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| Single by Guns N' Roses from the album Use Your Illusion II |
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| Released | September 17, 1991 | ||||
| Recorded | A&M Studios Record Plant Studios Studio 56 Image Recording Conway Studios Metalworks Recording Studios 1990-1991 |
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| Genre | Hard rock | ||||
| Length | 4:46 | ||||
| Label | Geffen Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Izzy Stradlin | ||||
| Producer | Mike Clink Guns N' Roses |
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"Pretty Tied Up (The Perils Of Rock N' Roll Decadence)" is a song by the hard rock band, Guns N' Roses. Written by rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, it appears on the band's 1991 album Use Your Illusion II. The song opens with the sounds of a coral sitar played by Stradlin. According to an interview, It could be possible that Stradlin himself wrote Pretty Tied Up after seeing a dominatrix chick with a client. Stradlin said:
"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." [1]"
Slash has stated that the song was written one night at Izzy's house, before the band went to Chicago to write. According to him, Izzy was so high on heroin that night that he made a sitar out of a cymbal, a broomstick, and some strings, thus serving as the inspiration for the sitar heard at the beginning of the track.[1]
We can see a drawing in Use Your Illusion II album artwork next to Pretty Tied Up lyrics.
The song was a live favourite during the Use Your Illusion Tour[citation needed] and a live version can be heard on the album Live Era: '87-'93.
It was first played live at Rock in Rio 2 festival on January 20th, 1991.
[edit] References
- ^ Bozza, Anthony, & Slash (2007). Slash. Harper Entertainment: New York. p. 258
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