10 Perfect Rock Songs That Divided Rock Bands
6. Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses
When you're one of the greatest riff crafters of all time like Slash is, you're going to have some songs you like playing more than others. Even though you may have to play something like Welcome to the Jungle a hundred times, there's something about it that gives you that spark of energy whenever you play it live. What about the other side though? A song that you hated from the moment you played it...and became classic anyway?
Slash apparently has that very song in his arsenal, saying that he never wanted to make the Sweet Child O Mine riff into a song in the first place. When the band first started jamming, Slash didn't imagine that the little melody he had would be a song, since he was just using it as a warm up exercise as Steven Adler was getting his drums set up.
With Axl Rose's bedroom being right above the rehearsal space though, Slash was surprised to find that the singer came downstairs complete with most of the lyrics to the song intact, having written them as a love letter to his girlfriend at the time. Although Slash was able to sprinkle in some fireworks towards the end of the song, he still never really clicked with the song and almost performs it out of necessity these days. Then again, he's not alone in hating it. Considering this is the soundtrack in nearly every guitar store, Slash has some company in not being in love with this song anymore.