As bassist Pete Agnew told Classic Rock in 2009, "Hair of the Dog" was originally supposed to be called "Son of a Bitch." This makes sense, of course, given the epic chorus ("Now you're messing with a son of a bitch!"). Alas, the powers-that-be decided that wasn't going to fly.
First, "Son of a Bitch" evolved into "Heir of the Dog," which then became "Hair of the Dog" (inspired, of course, by the traditional hangover cure).
Indeed. "Hair of the Dog" isn't about how to rebound from a night of drinking. It's more about how to rebound from a toxic love affair:
Red hot mama, velvet charmerTime's come to pay your dues
“It was based on a riff that Manny [Charlton, guitarist] had been messing around with,”he said. “Everyone else joined in and mucked around with it, adding the stops and starts.”
“When we heard Dan singing the chorus we all thought: ‘This should do well,'" Agnew quipped, adding, "Such language is nothing to the stuff you hear on records these days, but back then it was considered outrageously risqué.”
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“We were playing two nights in Chile back when [military dictator] General Pinochet was still in power," Agnew said. "It was a televised thing that went out to about 100 million people. On the first night, we finished as usual to 'Hair of the Dog' and Dan got the audience to sing the chorus back at him. It created such a furor that it made the next day’s newspapers."
McCafferty's reaction was pure rock and roll rebellion.
It's safe to say Guns N' Roses didn't have to deal with any of that by the time they covered "Hair of the Dog" almost two decades later. As for Agnew, he seemed less than impressed with the band's cover, released on The Spaghetti Incident? album.
Well, you can't blame Axl for that.
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