By all accounts, Izzy Stradlin's "Think About You" was the song from Appetite that the band liked least. You can see why: it was an older song that was a breezy glam piece ("It was caught up in the whole Hanoi Rocks thing that was popular at the time," Slash later complained) rather than the kind of gutter groove rock'n'roll they were breaking into on Appetite.
With "Anything Goes" (another old song--this one held over from Hollywood Rose), "Think About You" is easily the weakest link in Appetite, but it still fits. At one time, G'N'R was just another set of Sunset Strip newbies, as emulative of the cool older band (in this case, Hanoi Rocks) as everyone else was. Even as the band converged over the firebreathing style of "Welcome to the Jungle" and "It's So Easy," their breakthrough album couldn't completely shake the traces of that younger group.
The new issue of Rolling Stone contains an article about Appetite in which Tracii Guns reveals that Izzy wrote "Think About You" for Monique Lewis--a Strip groupie "who we all dated. Axl has a tattoo of her on his arm."
I always wondered who that raven-haired woman on Axl's arm was. The tattoo always seemed like a perfect fit for G'N'R. Some nameless mystery chick whose face hovered in every photo, at every concert. Half-trashy, half-exotic; half-sexy, half-sad. She was a tattoo with a tattoo.
Her song may not have been the band's best, but she was their sixth member, and that's how she finally appears in this twentieth anniversary cover shot.
