What is the story behind the “Godfather Love Theme” performed by Slash?
That was a last-minute addition to the album. I was at Bob’s house, and we were just finalizing the order for the CD, and he off the cuff mentioned that he had this thing he wanted to play for me that Slash had given him for his birthday, about five years before. It’s not in the film, but it’s a nice capper to the album. It’s somehow very “Evans-like”, and it seems to fit somehow into the whole thing. It was literally a last-minute addition – he handed me the DAT that night, and we mastered it the next morning. According to your biography, you were more of a performer, until you suffered a hand injury? Yeah, I had a really bad case of tendonitis and carpal tunnel in both my hands and forearms. It was bad – I had a hard time opening doors and stuff. It was pretty debilitating, and the doctors questioned my ability to continue on as a player at that point of time. That precipitated this shift from performing to composing -much like my brother’s injury, which is really weird. The straight
