Released on Guns N’ Roses’ debut album "Appetite for Destruction", the hit Sweet Child o’ Mine not only became their most famous song but also one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in the history of Rock and Roll, a riff that even people who aren’t fans of Rock music enjoy. Although this is a great achievement, the band’s guitarist Slash is not a fan of the track. He explained that in an interview with Guitar World. Slash explains why he doesn't like "Sweet Child o' Mine" "Yeah, I have to admit I did have a thing with it. It was a riff I came up with, and I didn't know what I was going to do with it. I wasn't really thinking about it at the time, but it inspired the whole song." "I always say this, but to me, we were like a Motörhead-type hard rock band, so any kind of ballads were sort of uncongressed. But it really became part of our set. We played it one time opening for Ted Nugent, and when it was time to play that song, I was like, 'Oh, fuck…'" "And, of course, I had to remember how to play the riff accurately by myself in front of everybody every time we played, which, at the time, I was a little drunk, and you never knew what was going to happen." How the guitar riff was written In an radio interview, made available by Raised On Radio back in 2018 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage), Slash recalled how he created the guitar riff and how the band wrote the rest of the track. “All of us were living in this one house. It was completely a shell of a house. We parted this house on the ground. We were sitting on the floor in the living room because we didn’t have any furniture. I was playing this riff and Izzy started playing some chord changes behind it and that’s where started. Then Axl was in the house and he was listening from upstair. So a couple days later we had a pre-production rehearsal and we’re playing.” “Between songs at one point Axl said: ‘Hey, play that thing you guys were playing the other day. All of a sudden we realized he had written a whole thing of lyrics for that basic idea and off it went. Guns N’ Roses was a pretty hardcore, gritty Rock and Roll band.” “That was an up tempo ballad and in the set. It just didn’t sit well with me, you know. It’s like, here we are doing ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, ‘Paradise City’, ‘It’s So Easy’ and then came this sort of ballad thing. When you know, it turned out to be the biggest song we ever did (laughs),” Slash said. The group is currently touring with the classic members Slash, Duff McKagan and Axl Rose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLMOF7Bfdw&t=255s&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzvThe post Slash explains why he doesn’t like “Sweet Child o’ Mine” appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.