Slash Discusses The True Random Origins Of “Sweet Child O’ Mine”

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Slash recently revealed in an interview with Eddie Trunk that the story of the iconic guitar riff for the Guns N’ Roses‘ classic “Sweet Child O’ Mine” did not actual originate from a warm-up exercise. “It wasn’t a warm-up exercise. I was sitting around the house where Guns used to live at one point in ’86 I guess it was and I just came up with this riff. It was just me messing around and putting notes together like any riff you do.” says Slash.

The band never anticipated the song to get the level of attention it did. Slash said: “It was just a song that we put together that was cool before we actually made the Appetite for Destruction record. So we put it on the record like that and then the next thing you know at some point after the record had been released for a while, that song all of a sudden just took off.”

The guitar that Slash originally played the song on is featured in the recent coffee table photo book The Collection: Slash with Gibson guitars. Slash revealed that around the same time he was shooting the photos for the book, he also took the guitar and used it in Capitol One commercial where he also plays the “Sweet Child O’ Mine” riff. (Loudwire)

Gracie Chunes: My name is Gracie Chunes and I am a 21 year old senior at Illinois State University. I major in English with a sequence in Publishing Studies. I grew up in the capitol, Springfield before moving to Normal, where I currently reside. I have always had a passion for music for as long as I can remember, starting with One Direction of course. In college I discovered my love for writing and what goes into publishing a piece of writing. I recently worked as a production and editorial assistant in the publication of the chapbook "Time/Tempo: The Idea of Breath" by Laura Cesarco Eglin.
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