WCSX Classic Cuts : Mr. Brownstone
WCSX Classic Cuts Guns N’ Roses: “Mr. Brownstone” Hook: Slash says it was totally meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Released: 1987 Album: Appetite for Destruction Writers: Izzy Stradlin and Slash Stats:…
INDIO, CA – APRIL 16: Musician Slash of Guns N’ Roses performs onstage during day 2 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 1 at the Empire Polo Club on April 16, 2016 in Indio, California.
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Guns N' Roses: "Mr. Brownstone"
Hook: Slash says it was totally meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Released: 1987
Album: Appetite for Destruction
Writers: Izzy Stradlin and Slash
Stats: Only released as a single in Britain, here it was the B-side of both "It's So Easy" and "Welcome to the Jungle."
Background: "Mr. Brownstone" is a song that's been played live at almost every Guns N' Roses show, and by nearly all the former members' at their concerts as well. Slash remembers writing it.
Slash on writing “Mr. Brownstone.” OC:…out cool. :23
“That was me and Izzy. That was actually a tongue-in-cheek song about our sort of creative, uh… Y’know, we were hanging around basically getting high and playing guitar and came up with these lyrics for ‘Mr. Brownstone.’ And Izzy had this main opening riff and then just sat there together and turned that into a song and throwing the words back and forth. But it was very tongue-in-cheek, but it turned out cool.”
