A woman named Adriana Smith, Guns N' Roses
groupie and stripper at the time, had been with drummer
Steven Adler for around a year. Smith later claimed in a TV interview that, after Adler insisted that she was not his girlfriend, she went to the mixing sessions at
Mediasound Studios in New York City. Rose and Slash were there. Rose propositioned Smith that they have sex in a vocal booth so that the sounds that Smith made could be recorded and put over the bridge of the song. Smith replied that she would do it, "For the band, and a bottle of
Jack Daniel's".
Steve Thompson, an engineer of the album, said: Another engineer,
Michael Barbiero, did not want to record the sex session, so he set up the microphones and left the task to his assistant, Vic Deyglio. Smith revealed in an interview that Adler "freaked out" when he found out about the recorded sex session, and she spent some years using alcohol and drugs "because I had this extreme shame and guilt and stuff." Smith also later said in ''The Girls Behind Guns N' Roses'': However, further revelations could indicate that Smith and Rose have not been the only people recorded for the song.
Mike Clink, longtime producer of the band, said: "The guys were taking turns fucking this girl in the studio. Those are actual sounds of sex, captured live on tape." Furthermore, a former
Geffen employee claimed that Rose had sex several times with two or three girls on tape, unhappy with the results. == Structure ==