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Izzy singing nightrain 1993

I often wish Izzy sang lead all the time in gnr.

“… Izzy stuck to me like glue. He was like, ‘We’ve got one manager from the bottom of the barrel. The last guy possible has agreed to do this. If we lose him we’re done.’ And they would’ve been.”

‘Over time, says Niven, Izzy became “the one I could always count on for timely and pertinent input. When I wanted to know what somebody from the band felt about a particular situation, he was the one I talked to more than anybody else. It was him and Duff who caught my eye over both Slash and Axl, when I first went to see them. Because they had an amazing… they just exuded this incredible sense of cool when they were onstage. They weren’t working it. I was riveted with that confidence and insouciance.”’