Hair Of The Dog

by **Soulmonster** Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:40 pm

HAIR OF THE DOG

Album:
The Spaghetti Incident?, 1993, track no. 8.

Written by:
Dan McCafferty, Pete Agnew, Manny Charlton and Darrell Sweet (Nazareth).

Musicians:
Vocals: W. Axl Rose
Lead & Rhythm Guitars: Slash
Rhythm Guitar: Gilby Clarke
Bass: Duff McKagan
Drums: Matt Sorum
Piano: Dizzy Reed
Percussion: Matt Sorum, Mike Fasano

Live performances:
'Hair Of The Dog' has to our understanding only been played live once, at Winnipeg Arena, on May 23, 1988, although it might have been played in Hollywood Rose and Axl performed it together with Sebastian Bach at a RIP Anniversary party.

Lyrics:

[spoken] Give me a little bit of volume on this

Heart-breaker, soul-shaker
I've been told about you
Steam-roller, the midnight shoulder
What they been sayin' must be true

Red hot mama ????? [original was "Oh that charmer"]
Time's come to pay your dues

Now you're messin' with a A SON OF A BITCH
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch
Now you're messin' with a A SON OF A BITCH
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch

Talking jive and poison ivy
You ain't gonna cling to me
Minute-taker, fall-faker
I ain't so blind I can't see

Red hot mama ????? [original was "Oh that charmer"]
Time's come to pay your dues

Now you're messin' with a A SON OF A BITCH
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch
Now you're messin' with a A SON OF A BITCH
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch

Quotes regarding the song

We did ‘Hair Of The Dog’ by Nazareth. It really turned out brilliant, ‘cos Dan McCafferty, their singer, is one of Axl’s idols.

Raw Magazine, September 1993

I’m real proud of the Nazareth tune, Hair of the Dog, because it has a history. I mean, all the songs have a history to it, but since we used to play that a long time ago, I never would have thought that it would be on a record for Guns N’ Roses coming out years later.

MTV, December 1993

"Buick Makane", "Hair Of The Dog", and "I Don't Care About You" were my ideas.

Guitar Player, January 1994

[Hair of the Dog] goes back to Hollywood Rose.

Axl and Slash interview, Rockline 1994

We played it only a few times a very long time ago. When we were in the studio, finishing up the recording of the song, Slash is going: "This is cool!". 'Cause he's the one that brought it to our attention to do it for this album and Duff reminded him… He goes: "Remember the old days? This was cool." Duff reminds him: "You hated this song". Slash goes: "Oh, yeah". Which was very strange when he brought it to us: "We gotta do this song." I was like: "You hated it". I was confused for months.

Axl and Slash interview, Rockline 1994

I never really got that into [Nazareth]. I think Axl really made me more aware of Nazareth than anybody, because he can sing like that (Dan) McCafferty guy, and really dug his voice. And so I remember listening to Nazareth a lot at one point, and then, ah, that sort of passed.

Q Magazine, March 1994