GUNS N ROSES: Sweet Child o Mine (Remix) 7″ + Out ta Get Me. Check video

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“Sweet Child o’ Mine” is the third single by American hard rock band Guns N’ Roses, and the third from their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. Released on August 18, 1988, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the bands first and only number-one single in the U.S. It reached number six on the UK Singles Chart.
Slash has been quoted as having a disdain for the song due to its roots as simply a string skipping’ exercise and a joke at the time. In a VH1 special, it was stated that Slash played the riff in a jam session as a joke. Drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up and Slash began to play a “circus” melody while making faces at Steven. Izzy asked Slash to play it again, meanwhile Axl was upstairs in his room and heard the ‘jam session’ going on downstairs and couldn’t help but write lyrics. He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly. With Steven Adlers added drum part, Izzy Stradlins chords and Duff Mckagans bassline the harmony became the core of the song.
In an interview with Hit Parader magazine in 1988, bassist Duff McKagan noted: “The thing about sweet Child o mine,’ it was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, ‘What is this song? Its gonna be nothing, it’ll be filler on the record.’ And except that vocal-wise, its very sweet and sincere, Slash was just messing around when he first wrote that lick.

Music video
The “Sweet Child o’ Mine” video depicts the band rehearsing in the Huntington Ballroom at Huntington Beach, surrounded by crew members. All of the band members’ girlfriends at the time were shown in the clip. Axl Rose was dating Erin Everly at the time, whose father was Don Everly of the Everly Brothers fame. Duffs girlfriend Mandy from the all-female rock band “The Lame Flames” was there, as was Steven Adlers girlfriend Cheryl. Izzy Stradlins dog was also featured. The video was extremely successful on MTV, and helped launch the song to success on mainstream radio.
In an effort to make “Sweet Child o’ Mine” more marketable to MTV and radio stations, the song was cut from 5:56 minutes to 4:12, with much of Slashs guitar solo removed. This move drew the ire of the band members, including Axl Rose, who commented on it in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone: “I hate the edit of sweet Child o’ Mine.’ Radio stations said, “Well, your vocals aren’t cut.” “My favorite part of the song is Slashs slow solo”
The edit was released on the 7-inch vinyl format of the single as a ‘Remix’.
On an interview on Eddie Trunks New York radio show in May 2006, Axl Rose stated that his original concept for the video focused on the theme of drug trafficking. According to Rose, the video was to depict an Asian woman carrying a baby into a foreign land, only to discover at the end that the child was dead and filled with heroin. This concept was rejected by Geffen Records.
There is also an alternative video for “Sweet Child o’ Mine” with different shots, all in black and white.

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine (Remix)
Label: Geffen Records
Catalog#: 927 794-7, GEF 55
Format: Vinyl, 7″
Country: UK
Released: 1989
Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock

Tracklist
A Sweet Child O’ Mine (Edit/Remix) 3:57
B Out Ta Get Me 4:20

Mixed By – Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero
Producer – Mike Clink
Written-By – Guns N’ Roses

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 0 75992 77947 0

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Weight 0.09 kg

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