Synopsis
Guns N' Roses perform "It's So Easy" in the sweaty, anything-goes atmosphere of Hollywood's Cathouse nightclub. The footage cuts between the band tearing through the song onstage and provocative scenes involving club-goers, bondage imagery, and Axl Rose with Erin Everly. Rather than presenting a conventional narrative, the video captures the band's dangerous late-1980s club persona and the unruly world surrounding them. Its raw concert footage and deliberately excessive imagery make it feel closer to a nightlife document than a polished promotional clip.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was filmed live at the Cathouse nightclub in Hollywood in 1989, a venue closely associated with the Los Angeles rock scene.
- It was reportedly the band's first music video, but the original version was never completed or officially released at the time.
- The footage remained in the vaults for nearly three decades before being issued in 2018 as part of the promotional campaign for the expanded *Appetite for Destruction: Locked N' Loaded* reissue.
- The clip includes BDSM-themed material and provocative club imagery that made it unsuitable for regular television rotation in the band's early commercial years.
- Axl Rose's then-fiancee Erin Everly appears in the video. Everly was also associated with the band's early history through her relationship with Rose.
- The officially released version presents the performance as a rough, high-energy snapshot of Guns N' Roses before the band moved toward the more elaborate visual style of videos such as "November Rain."