![]() So many people saw dollar signs and got greedy when it came to Guns N’ Roses, which I found quite obnoxious. ![]() “I didn’t ask for money for doing Ain’t It Fun. I remember thinking that they had the same kind of voodoo. In some parts Axl even sounds just like Stiv. Then we lit up the candles and sang the song face to face. So me and Axl collected all the candles we could find in the studio and made a circle of them around us. When Stiv and me used to record vocals in the studio, Stiv had this ritual in which he placed a bunch of burning candles in a circle around me and had me sing the vocal inside the ‘protective’ circle. We’ll do it as a duet, you and me.’ He immediately called Slash and said let’s get the band together, we’re covering this Dead Boys song. We were driving around Hollywood in Axl’s car, listening to that tape, and when Ain’t It Fun came on, Axl said: ‘Wow, this a great song! We’ve gotta record this for our covers album. I gave it to him when I got to LA for the Use Your Illusion sessions. ![]() “Axl mentioned to me on the phone that he was not that familiar with the Dead Boys material, so I made him a tape of their first two albums. Axl told me that Izzy used to tell him: ‘Do your hair like Michael Monroe.’ I saw a little bit of that in some of their early photos and the Welcome To The Jungle video, but Axl has always had his own unique style. Guns N’ Roses always acknowledged that Hanoi Rocks had influenced them. He came up and introduced himself and turned out to be a really nice guy, so we got along great. Michael Monroe: “I first met Axl when he happened to stop by the video shoot for my song Dead, Jail Or Rock’N’Roll in Midtown Manhattan. Here they enlisted another inspiration, Hanoi Rocks’ Michael Monroe, to pay tribute to US hooligans Dead Boys and their late singer Stiv Bators. The Spaghetti Incident? is GN’R’s love letter to their punk influences. Ain’t It Fun (The Spaghetti Incident?, 1994)
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