the only one who is allowed to play this at guitar center

Someone flattened his top hat....

"Yeah, we were just chilling and accidentally created one of the most iconic riffs of all time..."

It's always nice to here the story behind the song...

One of the greatest guitar solos ever.

0:29 good spot to scratch xD

Slash might not be the most technical guitarist but the way he composes his solos, he's a pure gifted genius.

i like how he speaks in a present tense about his gnr days its like he's so passionate about the memories that he gets stuck back in those moments.

I just clicked on this to see if Slash could speak

BEST LINE : All Guns N' Roses songs write themselves . There's no formula , there's no pattern

He's humble. That's why I like him

Idk if he’s actually a nice guy, but from the videos I’ve seen of him, he sure does seem like a genuine person

1:17 "the song wrote itself" that whole album sounds like that. all songs and parts seem to come together effortlessly. it is a great record.

the old GNR will NEVER die!!!!

the beginning bass of sweet child o mine has to be my favorite bass line of all time

I was looking at the nice guitars in the background then i saw the price next to it.... Jesus man.

Wow, his pinky finger is as useless as my own. Now THAT's inspirational.

Isn't the riff originally an exercise?

You can definitely hear that marshal humming in the background, ready to rock with slash on the other end!

Slash the most badass guy I know he can be a awesome rockstar and be a gentleman at the same time he’s just himself all the time

It's funny when slash says he doesnt recall when Sweet childonmine riff came from..Stuff i do and we all do we dont remember how we got there but glad we did...fkn great interview.One of the greatest riff ,in history

This man, Slash is legendary much love Slash I've been with you guys since the beginning the 80,s were the best times of my fuckin life

Greatest riff ever, loved by millions, well done Slash, I love GNR, seen them many times

I actually wrote this song and never got credit. I was visiting LA one day and this guy with a top hat was outside crying, and i was like, what's the problem sweet child, and he was like, i just can't play the guitar its too hard. and i was like, start with something easy like this, and i played a little cross pattern (it was my first time with a guitar), and i said just do that and some day you'll be good. well later that year I see that same guy on tv. its ok though, i'm satisfied just knowing i helped him reach his full potential

One of the best guitar players

Just to play that Melody is absolutely crazy.

SLASH'S GUITAR PLAYING TOUCHES ME TO THE CORE OF MY SOUL AND ROCKS IT TO THE POINT IT MAKES ME CRY ITS SO BEAUTIFUL GRATEFUL FAN ANN FROM CT

those simple 3 chord things, they are all izzy LOOOOOL

Appetite For Destruction was a game changer. The soundtrack to my youth. Not necessarily a positive soundtrack, but one nonetheless.

This Slash guy is super good! He should join a band.

It makes me feel so good to hear a great guitarist say that he really didn't like the song even though he wrote the main riff, sometimes a song just doesn't go where you expect it too when you come up with that first good riff. Sometimes I will have a part that I think is killer but after putting it to live drums it takes the song in a different direction, its up to you as the song writer to use that and build upon it, I just can't believe sweet child of mine was that song in his mind.

The genius of youth and the adrenaline that tears it all apart, great insight to the song here.

this is how you know real talent is there, even if i learnt how to play this song theres no way id know the chords behind it, makes me realise how much i dont know and ive been playing guitar my whole life, i think some people just have it

0:35 its the first time I see this intro being played with the exact same tone as in the studio.

My band did an album with one of the producers that helped on appetite for destruction and we learned alot from him.. I cannot for the life of me remember his name but we were in highschool and won a battle of the bands for studio time and free gear and we had a studio tech a producer and musical genius to help better our songs and I'll never forget the signed pictures of him and slash... Cause that was my biggest idol at the time... Would kill for a jam sesh with the legend of a man

I'm sorry everyone, but Slash isn't real. Parents dress up as him to try and help their kids believe in the magic.

thank you for making the song man

Y'know, I bought AfD in 1987...and I think this is the first time I've ever heard Slash's voice.

Excellent music. Remember where I was when I heard this song.

Not one, not two. probably not even three genius minds came together to make this epic Iconic rock and roll song. absolutely brilliant.

0:36 Fucking Sandstorm. It's everywhere!

I wish I had 4 JCM800's behind me.

wow, slash is so inspiring!! i just watched 3-4 vids of him and BAM i sat down with my guitar and shredded the hell out of it!!!

GNR is such a great band. They killed it in their prime. They were made to perform. My favorite Rock band. 🤘

so axl said, "where do we go now?" and they turned it into part of the song...LOL

ah... scuze me brothers, the vid is clearly called shred with slash but i have yet to shred with slash a single fockin time

I love this guy with all my heart. So thankful to God for creating such a talented guy

Really like to listen the story behind song which is my all time favorite.its like personalize a song,giving soul to a simple song....really nice...

(Plays at guitar center) never saw the light of day again

0:30 He knows exactly where to scratch there.

Sweet Child creation told by Slash! Fantastic!

Energies between artists genius and masterpiece is born love this❤❤💯💯👌👌💙💙

One of the greatest rock solos ever

walking legend

Love that riff and always will...

This solo took me 30 years but one day for Slash : ))

Come on Slash you know Guitar Center's rules, no stairway to heaven.

Ay up Stoke lad! With many blessings to you and all whom you love. Regards AJ, Stoke, England.

Lovely song Slash. Thank You 😍

It’s always interesting to me that the best songs you think take forever to write and record were actually written in a day.

3:25 "Alright, let's move on" lol, that was unexpected.

I've always been trying to play this lick with my pinky & it's been almost impossible for years. I could never get the Tempo or keep the fretboard quiet the way I was trying to do it with the added pinky doing the majority of the work. Now seeing u play it, it makes sense as to why I could never get it correctly. I had a friend & when we were kids, he could play it with no problem, but sadly he took his life & ever since then I have always tried to practice it. Hoping that 1 day I would get it down. Now seeing you actually do it. It looks like it will be so much easier now that I won't be trying to add the pinky. Thanks man. Hopefully my friend will finally be able to look down & see me not butcher ur intro, sooner than later. God bless. And if anyone is reading this & thinking about taking your own life or someone else's, Please don't man. Just pick up a guitar & play out what your feeling man. I've beaten my guitar over the years when I'm feeling bad. My Guitar has helped me work thru so many good & completely horrible situations. Just pick up an instrument, any instrument man. Please Play.

Great Video, Love Slash, Rock On

Any of the simple 3 chord stuff is Izzy. Izzy - Thanks Slash. Really generous of you.

Odd, in his book Slash said that he and Steven were at a guitar store and as a gag, Slash started playing music that sounded like it belonged in a carnival. Adler looked at Slash and said something to the effect of, "hey that sounds really cool, you flesh that out." Oh well, I guess the origin is immaterial. The song is with us and it's one of the best ballads ever.

Musicians at their finest !!! Accidentally coming up with a hit song and “IT” becoming a staple ..

the song writing for them back in the good ol days seems to have come so easily

Slash is God... From there, Led Zeppelin telling the heaven. Thanx Guitar Center

the way he got this riff i saw it the producer said he was drunk in the studio and slash did this riff as a an ice cream truck it was like a joke and thats why slash dosent remember where he came from this riff

Look at all those awesome guitars!

I love hearing this story of the song, I've got so much love for slash, mainly coz his English but how could you not be proud of him if his one if your own?

Slash is really an underrated guitarist. He is no where near Eddie Van Halen, although Eddie is, in my opinion, the only guitarist that is worthy of being compared to Hendrix. Slash is a great guitarist that doesn't necessarily showcase his full capability in songs. Slash knows how to take a backseat to really demonstrate his band mates' skill, like Duff. Slash is a fantastic guitarist that is ageless. His solo albums really demonstrate how he can take a back seat to showcase the band but at the same time be so prominent. He is a fantastic guitarist, he just doesn't have the same playing style as Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, or Stevie Ray Vaughn where the guitar almost over powers the song. With that being said, I'm not talking shit about any of those guys, they are amazing guitarists. It's just Slash has a somewhat different playing style which leads people to believe he is not as great of a guitarist as he really is. Don't believe me? Look up "Hold On" off his solo album, really demonstrates and reiterates what I'm talking about. Slash is easily a top 10 guitarist.

I see a Les Paul Special Vintage Sunburst back there. :O

he's very humble. he was the core of all of those songs. none of those guys can do it without him but he can without them which is why velvet revolver was also great.

Who"s watching this in 2020

Wow !! What a story !!! So inspiring :))

This is one of my favorites songs so far. It been almost teen years that I haven’t go to my country and I know this song is mostly about a pretty and a loved woman, but then the other part it’s what remind me my country. Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 an Island with Blue skies, a place where I spend and had nice warmer place to play and enjoy it for my self and you can have an idea of what I mean 🥲🔥

so my fav guitar riff of all time was kind of an accident

Saul Hudson

No one ever mentions the chords for the song being one of the most important thing to make it awesome, so many nice changes really allow for the epic solo to be what it is. Take the same solo and play it over 3 chords in the right key and it's still never gonna happen work so well. 👌👍

The story I heard about it is the riff came from trying to make some producers laugh at a studio. They came walking in and he was trying to play something really sappy and cheesy to make them laugh, but they ended actually liking it. I don't remember where I read that....

they made it by coincidence , so this is the best coincidence ever

His voice is amazing

Imagine hearing this song come together through the day, before any recording.

That solo is redeeming indeed 💥

Anyone else notice he's not wearing his top hat

I what that Les Paul gold. :* its fucking sad that I don't own a single one n he got a showroom

he's so chilled,relaxed and in a totally weird way COOL !

and that folks is how the magic of great songwriting happens.

That's not Slash, his hat is wrong. Nice try though...

Needs more marshals.

Crazy to think if Axel never came over that day we may never have got this absolute masterpiece of a song.

One of the most if not the most iconic intro in history of rock...

Bruddah, his tophat changed to a bowler. _Transformers_

Why is this guy playing Sweet Child O' Mine at Guitar Center

OMFG all those guitars and amps!!

love this song

I wonder what his real name is ? maybe he has transcended above a normal identity and on his every contract or legal document he just writes Slash and nobody would ever dare question that because he is the one and only slash, he doesn't need a regular name. And he's allowed to wear glasses all the time and anywhere even in church !! and always with a high hat which in some way makes him look like he travels with a carnival !!

For everyone say sweet child o mine is easy.... I know how to play the entire song. The intro is pretty easy and a lot of fun actually. The verses are even easier as long as you can hit a hammer-on without moving any of your other fingers. As soon as you start getting into the solo it starts to get very technical, Slash used a lot of bends, pull-offs hammer-ons, slides even a light sweep pick and blended it all together perfectly. One little mistake can really throw it off. It's not the hardest solo for sure but definitely isn't easy either. all together I would say you need to be an average-pro guitar player before playing it.

The entire song kind of came together, that evening !!!!