Sweet Child of really annoying....

stonevibe · October 2013

jpfamps said:

Sweet Child of Mine, the new Stairway.

Exactly.

After working in guitar shops around the time this came out, I f'ing hate this song!

sheraton52 · November 2013

I remember John Wheatcroft saying in GT it's awkward until you limit it to the first three fingers..trying to use the fourth finger in the mix it kinda messes it up..

ftumch · November 2013

sheraton52;86576" said:
I remember John Wheatcroft saying in GT it's awkward until you limit it to the first three fingers..trying to use the fourth finger in the mix it kinda messes it up..

This is true, however I chopped off half my little finger so have no choice but to play everything with only three fingers.

Sambostar · November 2013

I was GNR fan since Appetite was released and Sweet Child solo was the first decent solo I actually managed to nail at 16, mainly because I practiced it six hours a day, seven days a week.

I loved the song at the time, because it was three chords and easy to make sound good, even with a single guitar in the mix and, of course I could nail the Party piece.

But I also hated that song a bit even then because my intonation was always out as the bridge was liable to move on my Les Paul copy. I always played the intro with three fingers, I can't see that it is hard, unless you cannot remember the melody.

These days it ranks on a par with Cher's 'Believe' which was one of five songs the factory I worked at for a year, played back to back as it was all they would dish out for. Seriously head fucking.

I always though Slash stole and adapted Ratt's 'Scene of the Crime' intro for Sweet Child of Bum.

Also Nightrain sounded alot like the Back for More chorus

(GNR) It's so Easy - She wants money (Ratt)

(GNR) Anything Goes - Back For More

(GNR) Rocket Queen - You're in trouble (Ratt) verse sections

....maybe there is nothing there and it was just an eighties thing, there there seem to be a few parallel in the formula

Sambostar · November 2013

I don't know how you could play Sweet Child very week. I'd be like 'Sorry folks, tonight it is Mr Crowley'

Grunfeld · November 2013

Sambostar said:

I don't know how you could play Sweet Child [e]very week...

It would probably be cos it pays the wages

supes · December 2013

Great song. Great band (at the time). Well worth learning.

stickyfiddle · December 2013

Sambostar;92510" said:
I don't know how you could play Sweet Child very week. I'd be like 'Sorry folks, tonight it is Mr Crowley'

The answer, as with all party setlist discussions, is "because drunk girls".

Function/party bands play what the crowd wants, at least the successful ones do.

viz · December 2013

I have told this story before but I was in a duo called Double Whammy, playing van halen covers in south africa and an "oke" with a gun threatened to shoot us if we didn't stop playing that shit, so we switched to UB40. So that's my definition of being successful, or "alive" as we call it.

mike_l · December 2013

Sambostar said:

I don't know how you could play Sweet Child very week. I'd be like 'Sorry folks, tonight it is Mr Crowley'

Depends on the audience.

Pub band - SCoM

Rock club - Mr Crowley

Sambostar · December 2013

Those same, slightly older pub cliental who insist on hearing SCoM, and are old enough to remember '87/88, back in the earlier days of Appetite, dismissed it as heavy metal trash. They are hypocrites of the highest order.

IF SCoM was good, it was ONLY so because of the intricate guitar interactions between Izzy and Slash, even though it s a simple three chord song, it needs a 5 piece band to nail it. Sick of hearing it from two people and a drum machine at a venue without a licence, thinking it will do because the singer can sing it.

These hypocrites need a good dose of Mr Crowley DAP fisting, Flying HIgh, No Bone Moviies, Bark at the Moon or any Ozzy song which is essentially a single guitar part song and truely playable with two people playing it, plus you can add a 10 minute stand alone guitar solo in their too.

Do you know how many years I suffered before Guns and Roses became mainstream?

I was wearing cowboy boots everyday and three years later I see them appearing for sale in the mens fashion departments by which time I had moved on.

GNR sounds shyte on a single guitar. These audiences have no idea. And arm tattoos, back in the day they were a badge of honour of a seasoned rocker and expensive. These days every poofter has em and tatt palours are everywhere.

Hypocrites....lol

I remain embittered and unemployable.

Sambostar · December 2013

And Viz, you may have your life, but how can you live with the guilt on your conscience? Seriously that sounds scary man.

stickyfiddle · December 2013

@Sambostar I think you may be taking things a little personally.

My point was not about guys who were around in the 80's, but girls who are now in their 20's who have never heard of Mr Crowley, Bark At The Moon, etc but go nuts for SCOM, Mr Brightside and Sex On Fire

Grunfeld · December 2013

Sambostar said:

GNR sounds shyte on a single guitar. These audiences have no idea.

We did "November Rain" -- a really pretty Lithuanian girl asked for it -- we hadn't brought the orchestra so we did it with a harmonica, and okay just a single guitar. It may have needed another guitar but I think we got away with it.

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