Slash: "It's not exactly a conscious homage, but the opening is definitely a take on that AC/DC, Ted Nugent
kind of style, with that simple open-A approach on the guitar. It's
something I normally avoid because it's been done to death, but I just
haven't heard any cool songs like that in the last ten to 20 years so, I
felt comfortable doing it this time. This one is actually a unique type
of song for this band, because it's really, really straightforward —
the guitar riff, at least, is nothing super profound. It's more of a
rhythm than anything. When I first brought it to the guys I didn't think
anybody was going to take much interest in it because there just wasn't
that much going on. But it was one of those things I stuck with until
we found the right groove for it, and then it started to take on a life
of its own. And I'm really looking forward to playing this one onstage.
It's going to be a really great live song."
Myles: "'Serve You Right' was one of those things where
I had a melody initially, but I didn't have any idea what the lyric was
going to be about. It started to come together when I saw that painting
of the nun in the bathroom at Slash's studio. That got me thinking about some things, one of which was an article I had read a while back about a book called 'The Nuns Of Sant'Ambrogio', by an author named Hubert Wolf.
It's a true story about a young deviant nun who had been abusing her
power in the convent. Which sort of tied back into that painting. So
that's where the inspiration for the lyrics came from — those two
things."
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