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Been studying music theory. Occasionally I run across some interesting stories. IDK. This stuff fascinates me.
Sweet Child O' Mine.
So that iconic riff was not a favorite of Slash's. In fact he thought it sounded "circusy". And it was just a warmup exercise.(Side note - Slash plays an alternate tuning with each string down a half step - makes bending easier).
Anyway he was playing it at practice one day and the rhythm guitarist (Izzy Stradlin) kinda liked it and laid some chords over the top. Then the bass player and drummer jumped in.
Axel was upstairs writing a poem for his then girlfriend Erin Everly daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers.
Axel liked what he heard and by the next day had penned some lyrics. So they had a harmony, a melody and a bridge but didn't know how to end the song. When playing it for their producer, when they got to the part after the solo Axel just sang out "where to we go now?". The producer liked it and said keep it in, so the song ends with that line repeated about 40 times. From a "circusy" warmup riff GnR had their first and only #1 hit.
The moar you know.
Sweet Child O' Mine.
So that iconic riff was not a favorite of Slash's. In fact he thought it sounded "circusy". And it was just a warmup exercise.(Side note - Slash plays an alternate tuning with each string down a half step - makes bending easier).
Anyway he was playing it at practice one day and the rhythm guitarist (Izzy Stradlin) kinda liked it and laid some chords over the top. Then the bass player and drummer jumped in.
Axel was upstairs writing a poem for his then girlfriend Erin Everly daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers.
Axel liked what he heard and by the next day had penned some lyrics. So they had a harmony, a melody and a bridge but didn't know how to end the song. When playing it for their producer, when they got to the part after the solo Axel just sang out "where to we go now?". The producer liked it and said keep it in, so the song ends with that line repeated about 40 times. From a "circusy" warmup riff GnR had their first and only #1 hit.
The moar you know.
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