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Learn more. Is the song "Paradise City" written about a specific city? Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 8 months ago. Active 4 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 24k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Wikipedia is rather vague : Guns N' Roses' lead guitarist, Slash, states that the song was written in the back of a rental van as they were on their way back from playing a gig in San Francisco with the band Rock N Riders.
A contributor added more details: On Improve this answer. Tracy Tracy 21 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. But is the southern Indiana city of 85,, in the heartland of America , really the ultimate utopia for an 80s rock star? All because Lafayette natives Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin were rumored to take road trips to IU, "where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.
For awhile now, Indianapolis sports broadcaster Jake Query has been connected to the theory, attributed as a source "every few years," as a "friend of Axl Rose.
Query is indeed a proud, longtime fan of the rock band. And though he's worked in radio, he says he's never been a DJ, as people have cited him. The campuswide rumor has been connected to him specifically, he believes, because of comments on a radio show more than a decade ago. He was working at WIBC when they were on air discussing funny incidents of misunderstood music and song lyrics.
He told the story of his friends' theory about 'Paradise City' — mocking their own absurdity, he says, but "somehow or another that morphed into fact.
Query says if he did meet Rose in real life, he'd share this story and his somewhat accidental involvement.
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