I can't believe this isn't on the Sift already.
Sweet Child o' Mine is an awesome hit song by hard rock band Guns N' Roses, featuring a simplistic riff and a legendary solo by Slash.
The riff heard at the intro and repeated throughout the song was played as a joke by Slash (lead guitarist at the time) as a "circus" melody during a jam, but the riff was picked up, chords were added, and eventually a song was built around it.
According to Wikipedia: "Sweet Child o' Mine" placed #37 on Guitar World's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos." It also came in at number three on Blender's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, and at number 196 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 6 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The introduction's famous D-flat based riff was also voted number-one riff of all-time by the readers of Total Guitar magazine. It was also in Rolling Stones 40 Greatest Songs that Changed the World.
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vsabraxassays..."I can't believe this isn't on the Sift already....blah blah blah"
Listen: GnR SUCK, they SUCK SUCK SUCK, cock rock & tumble, guiter solo dinosaurs, middle ov the road "Songs that Changed the World" HA HA effing HA.
Good riddance to unspeakably bad rubbish....
rembarsays...^--- You want some cheese to go with that whine?
Protip: You don't have to watch sifts you don't like.
Super-pro-tip: Get a bronze star if you want to actually make your opinion matter in votes.
Ultra-super-pro-tip: Westy called, he wanted his bad spelling back.
Farhad2000says...Seriously though, fuck Axl Rose...
special_opssays...yikes *dead
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siftbotsays...jwray has fixed this video's dead embed code - no star awarded because jwray was awarded too recently.
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JAPRsays...*promote!
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