“Pretty Tied Up” by Guns N Roses

"Pretty Tied Up", subtitled "The Perils of Rock n Roll Decadence", is Izzy Stradlin's song on Guns N' Roses' 1991 album Use Your Illusion II. The rhythm guitarist wrote it alone, and it opens on the buzz of a coral sitar he plays himself. Slash traced that sound back to the night the song was born at Stradlin's house, before the band decamped to Chicago, when Izzy rigged up a makeshift sitar from a cymbal, a broomstick and a few strings.

The lyric may owe something to a scene Stradlin once described, a visit to a dominatrix with a client tied up in her house. Axl Rose sings it, with Slash and Izzy on electric guitars, Duff McKagan on bass, Matt Sorum on drums and Dizzy Reed on piano. It debuted live at Rock in Rio 2 in January 1991.

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