You know that I make a big deal about the step before content draft creation where Bredemarket asks questions and creates the plan. But sometimes that isn’t necessary.
Some music managers insist on a pre-programmed planning session to truly engage the target audience.
As American Songwriter notes, Guns N’ Roses didn’t put up with all that.
“I was f—ing around with this stupid little riff,” Slash recalled to Q Magazine in 2005, via a Guns N’ Roses fan archive. “Axl said, Hold the f—ing phones! That’s amazing!”
And that finger exercise, a guitar version of a Bach invention, was the birth of “Sweet Child O Mine.” The band continued to develop the riff into a complete song.
Or almost complete. Producer Spencer Proffer thought the song needed a breakdown at the end.
According to Slash’s autobiography, written with Anthony Bozza in 2007, Axl Rose listened to the demos on a loop, then started muttering “where do we go?” to himself, thinking things over.
And you know what happened next.
Remain open to sudden inspiration.
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