Get in the Ring

Song infobox
Name = Get in the Ring


Artist = Guns N' Roses
Album = Use Your Illusion II
Released = September 17, 1991
track_no = 5
Recorded = A&, Record Plant Studios,
Studio 56,
Image Recording, Conway Studios & Metalworks Recording Studios 1990-1991
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 5:29
Label = Geffen
Writer = Axl Rose
Slash
Duff McKagan
Producer = Mike Clink
Guns N' Roses
prev = Knockin' on Heaven's Door
prev_no = 4
next = Shotgun Blues
next_no = 6"Get in the Ring" is the fifth song on the Guns N' Roses album "Use Your Illusion II". It was written by Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, and Slash and is directed at music critics who gave the band negative reviews because of their actions on stage. Critics from "Hit Parader" (Andy Secher), "Circus", "Kerrang!" (Mick Wall) and "Spin" (Bob Guccione, Jr.) are all mentioned by name. Guccione actually responded in a letter to Axl Rose, saying that he accepted the challenge. However, no fight ever occurred. [ [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/74736811.html?dids=74736811:74736811&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+15%2C+1991&author=Richard+Harrington&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Guns+N'Roses%2C+Back+in+Fighting+Form&pqatl=google Washington Post article] ] [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4D1C6AE161673&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Miami Herald] ]

The song is notorious for its amount of swearing. The song was originally written by Duff McKagan and was titled 'Why Do You Look At Me When You Hate Me?'. However, the title was shortened, and the original title became the first line in the final version.

Despite popular belief, the song heard on the album was actually not performed live, but was rather recorded in the studio and crowd noises were added to it (similar to all the songs on "Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide"), recorded from a concert in Saratoga Springs on the 10th of June, 1991. Such noises included the "Guns N' Roses" chant in the beginning and the "Get in the Ring" chant at the very end.

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