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Origins?

Jeff Price (Tunecore) wrote:

Prior to [Appetite For Destruction] just taking off were you just sleeping on the floor of a van in a cockroach infested neighbourhood?

Izzy wrote:

[...] The best places that the band, the GNR guys had, we all used to live in this like, I think it was a 12x14, I call it the box.

And it literally was a rehearsal studio that we built bunks in, and we all lived in this thing. There was no running water or TV's or cable, there was nothing really it was just a box, and we lived in this thing for a while.

It's right behind where the Guitar Center is now on Sunset Strip.

Izzy wrote:

There are 2 songs I co-wrote with an old friend of mine.... Timo Kaltia [guitarist/songwriter]. He lives in UK, the songs are "Box" and "Seems To Me"... The writing started with those 2 songs and I took off from there.

Timo Kaltia wrote:

I was in touch with Izzy after I moved back to London in 1990 for many years, but eventually we lost each other's numbers... I got his email address a while back and been in touch again since...

Box Lyrics

Hmmm da da da

He lives in a box down by the ocean
Down off the main road by the hill
Takes what he finds and eats it right there
Makes what he can with what he will

He don't ride the bus
They don't let him drive
There he walks for miles, a day
Cause he ain't got no ride

He lives in a box down by the ocean
Down by the sea side at the hill
Palm trees it ain't the beauty look, good though
Eventhough he looks pretty ill

He lives in a box down by the ocean
Down by the sea side at the hill
Palm trees it ain't the beauty look, good though
Eventhough he looks pretty ill

He lives in a box down by the ocean
Down by the sea side at the hill
Palm trees it ain't the beauty look, good though
Eventhough he looks pretty ill

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Many thanks to Ed for transcribing the lyrics.

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