Guns N Roses Paradise City Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, USA 3 9 2012

This song was often used as the band s showclosing song during the Appetite for Destruction Tour, Use Your Illusion Tour and Chinese Democracy N Roses lead guitarist, Slash, (Back in the Day) states that the song was written in the back of a rental van as they were on their way back from playing a gig in San Francisco with the band Rock N Riders. He says that the band was in the back of the van, drinking and playing acoustic guitars, when he came up with the intro. Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin started playing along. Slash started humming a melody when Axl Rose sang, Take me down to the Paradise Slash chimed in with Where the grass is green and the girls are Axl sang the first line again, where Slash shouted out Where the girls are fat and they ve got big Axl finished with Take. .. me. .. home Slash preferred his second line but the rest of the band felt differently. He was