There are sometimes stories that take on a life of their own, but during a recent interview with Eddie Trunk, guitar great Slash revealed that the story of the guitar riff for the Guns N' Roses' ...
The post Duff McKagan: Slash’s Iconic “Sweet Child o’ Mine” Intro Was Meant to “Get Rid of the Song” appeared first on Consequence. Guns N’ Roses made their name with a gritty blend of blues-infused ...
“Sweet Child O’ Mine” is one of Guns N’ Roses most popular songs. So it may come as a shock that Slash tried to sabotage its creation, at least according to Duff McKagan. Appearing on the Songcraft ...
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In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Almost exactly ...
With an unmistakable guitar riff opening and more than one billion streams on YouTube alone, it’s safe to say that the Guns N’ Roses song, “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” is an enduring classic. With only a ...
It wasn't a warm up exercise or a joke riff. Slash continued, saying that "At the time, it was just a song. Nobody had any designs for it to be a big hit or anything like that. It was just a song that ...
Here’s a must-listen for my fellow Guns N’ Roses obsessives: an audio recording of the band performing “Sweet Child O’ Mine” for the first time ever on August 23, 1986 at the fabled Whisky a Go Go in ...