Back Off Bitch

Infobox Song
Name = Back Off Bitch


Artist = Guns N' Roses
Album = Use Your Illusion I
Released = September 17, 1991
track_no = 8
Recorded = A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios,
Studio 56,
Image Recording, Conway Studios & Metalworks Recording Studios - 1991
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 5:04
Writer = Axl Rose
Paul Tobias
Label = Geffen Records
Producer = Mike Clink
Chart position =
Chronology = Use Your Illusion
prev = "Bad Obsession"
prev_no = 7
next = "Double Talkin' Jive"
next_no = 9"Back Off Bitch" is a song by the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, written by Axl Rose and Paul Tobias. While written before their 1987 debut album, it appears as track 8 on "Use Your Illusion I", one of two albums released by the band in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour. The lyrics of the song did not help the band's image of being misogynistic. In a 1992 interview with "Rolling Stone", Axl said that "Back Off Bitch" was a "10-year old song" at the time. Therefore, it can be assumed that the song predates the formation of the group. The song was also played during Guns N' Roses concerts before the release of Appetite for Destruction.

The song was performed live several times in 1986 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF4nR59RTI0] before the release of Appetite for Destruction but never made the album. It was also demoed several times by the band during this period [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV42wzGjVF4] . This is one of very few Guns N' Roses songs to feature Izzy Stradlin' playing a longer guitar solo. This solo opens the album version. The solo is more complex than the intro played on earlier live versions.