Composition
According to an interview published in Hit Parader in March 1988, "It's So Easy" is "an account of a time Duff McKagan and West Arkeen, and also the rest of the band, were kinda going through. They didn't have money, but they had a lot of hangers on and girls could basically live off of ... things were just too easy. There's an emptiness; it's so easy."
In an Eddie Trunk interview from 2006, Axl states that Duff and West originally wrote the song as an acoustic "Hippie Ya-Ya" song, and that it was Slash's idea to change the song into being a rock song.
During the 1988 Monsters of Rock tour, two people were crushed to death trying to get closer to stage to see the band, causing the festival not to be held the following year.
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