Dave Sabo

Yeah.

the guitar player from Vixen, and somebody else important, the guitar player from Dave the Snake Sabo from Skid Row.

Right

on.

But you really got to commend Rick Allen on that.

uh fighting through you know losing an arm as a drummer would probably be a point where a lot of people people would be like well i guess i'm not a drummer anymore not rick allen and so the name of the album hysteria comes from him that was how he described the experience that he was going through uh while losing the arm and so that that album title came from him and then also this album was the last one with guitarist steve clark who unfortunately uh died in 1991 of a combination of um pills and alcohol.

And so he, this is the last album that, that Steve Clark is on.

And also, uh, famous producer Mutt Lang is on this and his name came up again later.

He sent her the recordings and he wanted her to write the lyrics to it.

And she just was overwhelmed by this 10 minute length of music and just just kind of was like, no, I don't think I can do it.

So Prince brings it to his band, The Revolution, and a young guitarist, I think 18-year-old Wendy Melvoin at the time, she kind of comes up with those first opening chords that really shape how the song is going to go from being a country ballad to this rock ballad and what it becomes.

Now, she doesn't take credit.

And, um, and we all got drunk, and, uh-

It was Dave "The Snake" Sabo from Skid Row.

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annoys me...

You can knock on her door and ask for Dave.

They'll be like, Dave's not here, man.

Yeah.

They'll be like, all set.

Yep.

The song originally didn't have that guitar riff on it, which I found very interesting.

If it wasn't for Dave Sabo from Skid Row, who they were on the record label with, being like, this song needs a guitar riff, then the song wouldn't have had a guitar riff on it.

Hey, what's happening? This is Snake from Skid Row, and you're watching CMS TV.

[rock music]

It's Metallica right here on your classic metal show from the Ride the Lightning release, that is Fight Fire with Fire, and-

Most of the records.

Um, the first major, major tour after, uh, the success of the single Runaway, Dave Sabo, the guitar player for what was going to be Skid Row, was set to be the live touring guitar player, and backed out because his band broke, and that's Skid Row.

Um-

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