Slash stated he believed he was “in all probability gonna die” in the course of the making of Weapons N’ Roses’ traditional video for “November Rain.”
“‘November Rain’ as a video was actually Axl [Rose]’s form of brainchild, and I don’t even know precisely what it’s about,” the guitarist admitted throughout an interview with Yahoo!
Slash famous that one of many video’s most well-known moments, by which he emerges from a church to ship an epic solo, was director Andy Morahan’s thought.
“However [Morahan] did not inform me that they have been going to be doing bomb pictures with me with a helicopter!” the guitarist defined. “And after I received out onto the set and did my factor, then I seen that this helicopter would come backwards and forwards at extraordinarily quick speeds and get actually, actually low.”
So low that Slash feared for his life.
“I believed, ‘Effectively, this’ll be my final day on Earth,’” he famous. ‘It was the form of factor the place you’re simply resigned to the truth that you are in all probability gonna die. And at that time limit, I used to be just about had that — I did not have very a lot concern of demise in these days. Anyway, we shot it and I had no thought what it was going to seem like afterwards. Nevertheless it ended up trying fairly cool. However I did not comprehend it was going to be as memorable because it turned out to be.”
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“November Rain” – with its indulgent manufacturing and hefty price ticket – stays some of the well-known music movies in historical past. The clip, which has amassed greater than 1.8 billion views on YouTube, just lately celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on Feb. 18.
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