The super-warm tone that Slash wrung out of his Les Paul for the solo came from a Marshall amp, although he went elsewhere for the clean chords in the verses. It was completely different to the rest of the song.” When we said, ‘Here’s the chord changes,’ it occurred very spontaneously, and I always looked forward to that part of the song in the set. “That was a very organic solo that came together simply. “The saving grace for me was the solo section,” he says. Rose 1985), and despite the fact that it got in the way of his pre-show tipple, he admitted that parts of it floated his boat.
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Apparently, the Superbowl last year was the biggest audience for a TV show ever.”īut while Slash thought Sweet Child… was a bit wussy for, ‘the most dangerous band in the world’ (© A. But when the song came up in the set, that riff was really hard to remember! So all in all it was a very aggravating song, although ironically it turned out to be the biggest song we ever did.
“It really disturbed my drinking,” he chuckled to Total Guitar, “because whenever we did a show I’d have a fair amount of whisky beforehand. "That only made him even more impatient with the song. Nowadays, Slash is on the wagon, but back in the GN’R era he was an alcoholic (see his 2007 autobiography, Slash, for his account of the grisly details) and that twisty little riff – which is horribly easy to screw up after a few shots of Jack – interfered with his booze consumption. Slash shares his 7 tips for recording live