Former Guns N 'Roses Drummer Remembers The Process Of Cultivating You Ain't The First

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JAKARTA - Former Guns N 'Roses drummer Matt Sorum recalls the moment when he recorded the iconic albums Use Your Illusion II and Use Your Illusion II.

When Guns N 'Roses returned to the studio after the members got drunk at a nearby club, Crazy Girls, a song Sorum described as a "drunken pirate song" was created.

Yes, Sorum is very drunk. He admitted that he could not play the bass drum at the tempo and gave the task to his roadie. Sorum himself then tried to play the tambourine.

"I was very drunk. But the tambourine, if you listen to it, makes me feel a bit shaky, but it's a bit perfect (compared to the kick drum), "Sorum told Gretch Generations.

The result was the song You Ain't the First, which was written by Izzy Stradlin and appeared on the album Use Your Illusion I in 1991.

"So that's what you hear on the record - acoustic guitar, bass drum, my technician plays it because I can't stand, (I just) rocked the tambourine."

Sorum added that producer Mike Clink at that time was more like a nanny than a producer.

When the Guns N 'Roses personnel returned to the studio, Sorum said Clink saw them and "he was like,' You guys ... go home! '" But they didn't want to.

"We said, 'Whoa, come on - we want to jam!' And Izzy has a cool song called You Ain't the First, and if you listen to it, it's basically a drunken pirate song. But we're in the perfect state of mind to record it. "