How did a guitar riff that was meant to sabotage a song become one of the most iconic intros of all time?
In a recent episode of the Songcraft podcast, Duff McKagan apparently said that Slash wrote the intro to potentially ruin it, saying he “did not like” the chords presented to him by the then-guitarist at the time.
According to NME, during the podcast episode, he said,
“Izzy had the three chords. Oay, well that’s… ‘What do you do with that?’ Axl liked it: ‘Oay, well let’s try to make this work somehow.’ The intro for ‘Sweet Child o’ Mine,’ Slash just did not like the three D, C, G [chord progression].”
He then said that Slash apparently told him: “We’ve got to get rid of this song somehow.”
He then stated that Slash wrote this “twisted, atonal thing,” but his effort to ruin the song actually backfired, and it’s now a very famous riff.
Duff then said,
“Of course that part to try to get rid of the song, totally worked. It was this amazing intro to the song, and suddenly we had this ballad. … It just goes to show that everything was clicking with that band at that point.”
Slash is one of the few that could “accidentally” write a intro this great!! Read more from NME HERE.
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