Editing Appetite for Destruction (section)

==Writing and recording==
Rose stated many of the songs on the album were written while the band was performing on the [[Los Angeles]] club circuit, and a number of songs that were ultimately featured on later Guns N' Roses albums were considered for ''Appetite for Destruction'', such as "[[Back Off Bitch]]", "[[You Could Be Mine]]", "[[November Rain]]", and "[[Don't Cry]]". It is said that the reason for not putting "November Rain" on ''Appetite for Destruction'' was that the band had already agreed to put "[[Sweet Child o' Mine]]" on the album, and thus already had a "ballad" on the track list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hem.passagen.se/snoqalf/tr-1988.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030811025250/http://hem.passagen.se/snoqalf/tr-1988.html |url-status = usurped|archive-date=August 11, 2003 |title=''Axl/Slash Interview'', 1988|publisher=Hem.passagen.se|access-date=November 11, 2010}}</ref><ref name=rs/>

Producer [[Spencer Proffer]] was hired to record "[[Nightrain]]" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" to test his chemistry with the band.<ref name="31years"/> The band eventually recorded nine songs with Proffer during these sessions, including "Heartbreak Hotel", "Don't Cry", "[[Welcome to the Jungle]]", and "[[Shadow of Your Love (Guns N' Roses song)|Shadow of Your Love]]".<ref name="31years"/> In mid- to late-1986, the band recorded demos with [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] guitarist [[Manny Charlton]],<ref name="31years"/> which were released in 2018 ([[#Remastered version|see below]] for more info). The band initially considered [[Paul Stanley]] of [[Kiss (band)|KISS]] to produce, but he was rejected after he wanted to change Adler's drum set more than Adler wanted.<ref name="31years">{{cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction-album-anniversary/|title=31 Years Ago: Guns N' Roses Issue 'Appetite for Destruction'|website=Loudwire|access-date=October 17, 2018|archive-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017163125/http://loudwire.com/guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction-album-anniversary/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange]] was also considered, but the label didn't want to spend the extra money on a famous producer.<ref name="31years"/> Ultimately, [[Mike Clink]] (who had produced several [[Triumph (band)|Triumph]] records) was chosen,<ref>{{cite book|title=It's So Easy (and other Lies)|author1=McKagan, Duff |author2=Mohr, Tim|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2011|pages=118, 120}}</ref> and the group recorded "Shadow of Your Love" first with Clink as a test.<ref name="31years"/>

After some weeks of rehearsal, the band entered [[Daryl Dragon]]'s [[Rumbo Recorders]] in January 1987.<ref name="31years"/> Two weeks were spent recording basic tracks, with Clink splicing together the best takes with his razor blade.<ref name="31years"/> Clink worked eighteen-hour days for the next month, with [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] overdubbing in the afternoon and evening, and Rose performing vocals. Slash struggled to find a guitar sound, before coming up with a [[Gibson Les Paul]] copy equipped with [[Seymour Duncan]] Alnico II pickups and plugged into a [[Marshall Amplification|Marshall]] amplifier. He spent hours with Clink paring down and structuring his solos. The total budget for the album was about $370,000.<ref name=rs>{{cite journal|author=Hiatt, Brian|title=The Making of 'Appetite for Destruction'|archive-date=March 2, 2009|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/15690883|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302022602/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/15690883|journal=Rolling Stone Australia|date=August 2007|issue=1032|url-status=dead|access-date=October 8, 2007}}</ref> According to drummer [[Steven Adler]], the percussion was done in just six days, but Rose's vocals took much longer, as he insisted on doing them one line at a time, and Rose's perfectionism drove the rest of the band away from the studio as he worked.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Adler|first1=Steven|last2=Spagnola|first2=Lawrence J.|title=My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses|publisher=It Books|year=2010|isbn=978-0-06-191711-0|page=118}}</ref> Final overdubs and mixing were done at [[Mediasound Studios]], and mastering at Sterling Sound in New York City.<ref name="booklet">{{cite book|title=Appetite for Destruction ''liner notes''|year=1987|publisher=[[Geffen Records]]}}</ref>

Many of the songs on ''Appetite For Destruction'' began as solo tracks that individual band members began separately from the band, only to be completed later. These songs include "[[It's So Easy (Guns N' Roses song)|It's So Easy]]" ([[Duff McKagan]]) and "[[Think About You (Guns N' Roses song)|Think About You]]" ([[Izzy Stradlin]]). "[[Rocket Queen]]" was an unfinished Slash/McKagan/Adler song from their earlier band [[Road Crew (band)|Road Crew]], and "Anything Goes", written by [[Hollywood Rose]] and included on their compilation album ''[[The Roots of Guns N' Roses]]'', was re-written for ''Appetite''. Most of the songs reflect the band's personal experiences and daily life, such as "[[Welcome to the Jungle]]", some of the lyrics of which Rose wrote after he encountered a man in [[New York City|New York]] shortly after arriving there from [[Indiana]] in 1980,<ref name="TV.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/entourage/welcome-to-the-jungle/episode/1036057/summary.html|title=Welcome to the Jungle|publisher=TV.com|author=Ellin, Doug|date=July 27, 2007|access-date=November 20, 2007|archive-date=April 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403150123/http://www.tv.com/shows/entourage/welcome-to-the-jungle-1036057/|url-status=live}}</ref> and "Mr. Brownstone", which is about the band's problems with heroin. Lyrics to some of the songs focus on the band members' younger years, like "Out ta Get Me", which focuses on lead singer Axl Rose's constant trouble with the law as a youth in Indiana.<ref>Slash (2008), p.109</ref>

In 1999, Rose decided to re-record the album with the then current lineup of Guns N' Roses (Rose, [[Robin Finck]], [[Tommy Stinson]], [[Paul Tobias]], [[Josh Freese]], [[Dizzy Reed]], and [[Chris Pitman]]) to "spruce up" the album with new recording techniques.<ref name="RERECORD"/> This re-recorded version of the album was never released, although the second half of the re-recorded version of "Sweet Child o' Mine" can be heard (following the first half of a live performance of the song) during the end credits of the 1999 film ''[[Big Daddy (1999 film)|Big Daddy]]''.<ref name="RERECORD">{{cite news |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1429782/new-guns-n-roses-makes-mystery-debut-live-album-sessions-underway/ |title=New Guns N' Roses Makes Mystery Debut; Live Album Sessions Underway |work=[[MTV News]] |date=July 9, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128140836/http://www.mtv.com/news/1429782/new-guns-n-roses-makes-mystery-debut-live-album-sessions-underway/ |archive-date=January 28, 2020 |access-date=January 28, 2020 }}</ref>