http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC8N_betq4Y&feature=related
Somebody either isolated the real track or learned the "Welcome to the Jungle" bass track. It's easy to miss what the bass player's doing when you focus on the guys in the tophats, noserings, ever-so-L.A. sunglasses parked on their forehead as a fashion statement, wiggly spandex butts, constipation faces when bending any string further than a half-step... but I can guarantee you Guns 'n' Roses would've sunk without a trace if Duff hadn't been on his game, pretty much all the time. Hell, the same thing goes for Nirvana, Aerosmith during the liquid Demerol years, THE ROLLING STONES during the Keef vomit on yer git days (C.Watts carried them a long way too)... the Grateful Dead after Jerry died the first time in 1985... and the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Flea was the only one of those guys who can assume any sort of "Rock God" status, in fact the whole grunge movement seemed to revolve around guitarists and singers falling over on smack and bass players who could sometimes drag them back to a beat. A great bass player can't really make a sloppy band great, but a sloppy bassist can pretty much guarantee you a retirement plan centered around chugging Sterno and fighting your singer for the fresh chunks in the Jack-in-the-Box dumpster.
Somebody either isolated the real track or learned the "Welcome to the Jungle" bass track. It's easy to miss what the bass player's doing when you focus on the guys in the tophats, noserings, ever-so-L.A. sunglasses parked on their forehead as a fashion statement, wiggly spandex butts, constipation faces when bending any string further than a half-step... but I can guarantee you Guns 'n' Roses would've sunk without a trace if Duff hadn't been on his game, pretty much all the time. Hell, the same thing goes for Nirvana, Aerosmith during the liquid Demerol years, THE ROLLING STONES during the Keef vomit on yer git days (C.Watts carried them a long way too)... the Grateful Dead after Jerry died the first time in 1985... and the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Flea was the only one of those guys who can assume any sort of "Rock God" status, in fact the whole grunge movement seemed to revolve around guitarists and singers falling over on smack and bass players who could sometimes drag them back to a beat. A great bass player can't really make a sloppy band great, but a sloppy bassist can pretty much guarantee you a retirement plan centered around chugging Sterno and fighting your singer for the fresh chunks in the Jack-in-the-Box dumpster.
