Coma (Guns N' Roses song)
"Coma" is a song by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It is the final song on their album Use Your Illusion I. At 10 minutes and 14 seconds, it is the longest track released by the band, and has no choruses.
Composition
Slash states that he wrote the music to this song in a house he and Izzy Stradlin rented in Hollywood Hills, following the Appetite for Destruction tours. In a 2011 interview, he stated he wrote the song in a "heroin delirium".In an interview, Axl Rose talks about writing "Coma":
In an interview, on August 31, 1990, with MTV's Kurt Loder on Famous Last Words, Axl talks about the song "Coma":
Reception
Coma was ranked the 19th best Guns N' Roses song by Kerrang!.Live performances
From 1991-1993 the song was performed only four times. A rare live version was featured on Japanese and vinyl copies of the Guns N' Roses live album Live Era: '87-'93. On April 8, 2016, the song was performed for the first time in almost twenty three years and became a setlist regular during the Not in This Lifetime... Tour.Personnel
;Guns N' Roses- W. Axl Rose – lead vocals, production
- Slash – lead guitar, production
- Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar, production
- Duff McKagan – bass, production
- Matt Sorum – drums, production
- Johann Langlie, Bruce Foster – sound effects
- Diane Mitchell, Michelle Loiselle, Monica Zierhut-Soto, Patricia Fuenzalida, Rose Mann, Susanne Filkins – spoken word female vocals