Double Talkin' Jive - about Izzy

[uk_shaun]

(sorry if this is old)

I really really like Double Talkin' Jive, and today on YouTube found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=946cP6-pAA8&feature=related
Guns N' Roses - Double Talkin' Jive (Werchter, 1993)

at the start of the song:
Axl: This is where we dedicate a wonderful song to Izzy Stradlin.. You remember Izzy.. Ok.. Fuck Izzy.. (audience laughs) This is a song Izzy wrote about himself.. and erm.. why your thinking about it, you can think that I think he can (suck?) off -- Jive m'fuckers..

On a light note: Is it a work of fiction, or did Izzy really find a head and an arm in a garbage can? 

[IzzyDutch]

It ain't fiction, Slash mentions it in his bio. Outside the alley of their 'box' rehearsel space they found those bodyparts in a garbagecan.

For the rest the song is mostly about Vince Neil. It was called Double Talkin' Jive Motherfucker at first

[jarmo]

I remember Axl telling the story about how somebody found a head and an arm in a garbage can outside the recording studio (?) before the song was played at the show I saw in Stockholm in 1991.





/jarmo

[faldor]

Axl dedicated this song to a number of people back in the day.  You gotta love angry Axl.

[Smoking Guns]

I remember Axl telling the story about how somebody found a head and an arm in a garbage can outside the recording studio (?) before the song was played at the show I saw in Stockholm in 1991.





/jarmo

Holy Fuck, that is by far going to be the craziest factoid of the day for me!

[Fingers]

Izzy IMO was involved in a lot of great songwriting in the UYI albums-this was a great song, and it always funny how Axl dedicated to someone

[uk_shaun]

There's some truth in it. Oh. So there were body parts found 

I know most GN'R songs are based on reality, although some are fiction. I'd always though of Double Talkin' Jive as a work of fiction. Guess I was wrong.

[Litti10]

Its funny when u think about it that after 15 years somebody would comment on it on youtube. Axl was  just joking but somepeople dont understand

[manicstreet]

I remember Axl telling the story about how somebody found a head and an arm in a garbage can outside the recording studio (?) before the song was played at the show I saw in Stockholm in 1991.





/jarmo

Jarmo,

Did you ever seee Guns when Adler was in the band?

[jarmo]

I remember Axl telling the story about how somebody found a head and an arm in a garbage can outside the recording studio (?) before the song was played at the show I saw in Stockholm in 1991.





/jarmo

Jarmo,

Did you ever seee Guns when Adler was in the band?

No.



/jarmo

[Pine Barrens]

The "Communication Breakdown" jam that they put in there was very cool.

[kaasupoltin]

Well, he dedicated the song to Izzy like in every show after Izzy performed those couple of shows with them in 1993. I think I read somewhere it had something to do with money..

[Grasshopper]

Axl dedicated it to many people, the Warren Beattie dedication in 92 was funny.

[IzzyDutch]

Well, he dedicated the song to Izzy like in every show after Izzy performed those couple of shows with them in 1993. I think I read somewhere it had something to do with money..

Izzy agreed to came back out on the tour in '93 for a few shows replacing Gilby cause they asked him (since he already knew the songs) and they still owed Izzy some money, plus it was in countries he hadn't been before. After he realized nothing had changed (Duff and Slash were still walking around like zombies) he vanished again after the shows.