14/09/2023
The band filmed the video's outside shots of Slash playing his solo in New Mexico, where they had a church specifically transported. "I was always that guy who really could not care less about concept videos and all that kind of stuff," he laughed to Yahoo Entertainment. "I just showed up to do it... I really just couldn't get into the cinematic and theatric kind of concept thing. So, I just would write my own part, like: 'This is what I'll do, and you guys do whatever.'"
What Slash didn't realize was that director Andy Morahan had an aerial shot planned from a helicopter that would leave him thinking he might die. "When I got out onto the set and did my thing, I noticed that this helicopter would come back and forth at extremely fast speeds and get really, really low... And I thought, 'Well, this'll be my last day on Earth,'" Slash recalled. "It was the kind of thing where you're just resigned to the fact that you're probably gonna die. And at that point in time, I was pretty much had that (mind-set) - I didn't have very much fear of death in those days. Anyway, we shot it and I had no idea what it was going to look like afterwards. But it ended up looking pretty cool. But I didn't know it was going to be as memorable as it turned out to be."
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