Pretty Tied Up

Single infobox
Name = Pretty Tied Up


Artist = Guns N' Roses
Album = Use Your Illusion II
Released = September 17, 1991
track_no = 8
Recorded = A&M Studios
Record Plant Studios
Studio 56
Image Recording
Conway Studios
Metalworks Recording Studios
1990-1991
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 4:46
Label = Geffen Records
Writer = Izzy Stradlin
Producer = Mike Clink
Guns N' Roses
Last single = The Garden
(1992)
This single = Pretty Tied Up
(1992)
Next single = Knockin' on Heaven's Door
(1992)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Use Your Illusion II
Type = studio
prev_track = Breakdown
prev_no = 7
this_track = Pretty Tied Up
track_no = 8
next_track = Locomotive
next_no = 9

"Pretty Tied Up" (commonly referred to as The Perils of Rock n Roll Decadence) is a song by the hard rock band, Guns N' Roses. Written by rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, it appears on the band's 1991 album Use Your Illusion II. The song opens with the sounds of a coral sitar played by Stradlin. According to an interview, It could be possible that Stradlin himself wrote Pretty Tied Up after seeing a dominatrix chick with a client. Stradlin said:

Slash has stated that the song was written one night at Izzy's house, before the band went to Chicago to write. According to him, Izzy was so high on heroin that night that he made a sitar out of a cymbal, a broomstick, and some strings, thus serving as the inspiration for the sitar heard at the beginning of the track. [Bozza, Anthony, & Slash (2007). Slash. Harper Entertainment: New York. p. 258]

We can see a drawing in Use Your Illusion II album artwork next to Pretty Tied Up lyrics.

The song was a live favourite during the Use Your Illusion TourFact|date=February 2007 and a live version can be heard on the album "".

It was first played live at Rock in Rio 2 festival on January 20th, 1991.

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