November Rain

Guns ‘n Roses

People, and rightly so, will hail Appetite For Destruction as one of the greatest Rock albums of all time. Personally I enjoyed the Use Your Illusion twins even more. Given what would happen to G ‘n’ R I am just so fucking grateful that they managed to get this amount of material out before it was too late. Axl was starting to get his hooks into the song writing process and the slower stuff like ‘November Rain’ and ‘Estranged’ were just incredibly good. I don’t think it would be inaccurate to say that of the 20 or so hours a week I spent studying in 1991 around half of them would have been spent with these two masterpieces playing in the background.

It’s all about the guitar solo on this guys, that amazing moment when Slash walks out of the church like a Rock and Roll outlaw and does the solo in the desert. Watching your buddy fuck up his life at a wedding will do that to you. I can never get tired of watching this. It starts at [04:10] if you want to jump to it 🙂 but you should start with the church walk out at [03:37] to do that properly, ahh fuck it watch the whole thing.

JAMES DAUBENEY