The PARADISE CITY Lick That TERRIFIED Me as a Guitarist! 

After so many years... can't believe I'm watching someone ACTUALLY playing the real solo and not replacing original licks with lame phrasing. You're insane dude. Saludos!

Slash is so underrated by some guitar players it’s ridiculous. He’s one of the best ever.

The one solo that consistently makes my hair stand on end. The absolute chaos at the end of this song is probably what I’d show to aliens if they asked what rock and roll was.

"I've been obsessed with this song for three straight days..." It's ok. I've been obsessed with this song for three straight DECADES. This song made me want to play rock and roll as a kid.

I'm so glad someone recognises this solo. This blew me away the first time I listened to Appetite

I've been delving into Slash recently and falling in love with his playing. However, some of his songs are damn hard. I'm tired of Anastasia, a very difficult piece for me, especially the solo parts. It's a pity I only recently appreciated Slash!

To me the greatest part of this solo and whole album is that Slash was just 20 years old when they started recording Appetite. The talent and maturity in his playing at such a young age is unreal.

When I saw the title of the video, I was hoping for a certain part of the solo. As soon as I hit play, I thought "YES. That's exactly the part I was thinking!". Nice video and thanks for shedding some light on a part of the song that never gets the attention it deserves

Jeez man you nailed that!

Same here, that part of the solo always blew me away. My other favorite Slash moment is the solo-ish riff at 2 minutes into "Civil War". It sounds like he's playing guitar with a flame thrower!

For years ive seen video of people playing their own version of this never to attempt the original and you are the first to actually nail it.

The Paradise City solo is one of the very few that still blow me away after years of playing. Most solos can be broken down to a few sections where you can kinda map out what the player was doing, but this is just on another level, you can tell he wasn't mechanically thinking of any of the phrases, they just flow so perfectly.

Next has got to be Sykes' blistering solo in Still of the Night. It's so buried in the mix and hard to determine what he's playing

You absolutely NAILED that solo. I am very impressed, Mike.

That solo is terrifying, but so fricken awesome! Great breakdown of it and thanks. Subbed!

Love this solo! 🔥🤘🏻

Slash really is an excellent player and this solo really does capture that. Bro, you did an excellent job with this.

Perfect!!

I dig your content and thank you for your time, detail, and passion. This solo is a real hellraiser! Love the detail of how he goes from bridge to neck pickup as it goes to ludicrous speed.

I always thought this was improvised, but now I feel he had a solid structure for this run. Great work man, wow!

Learning these old solos is a freaking fantastic idea! I've been working on Cliffs of Dover, but that's a BIG chunk of stuff to try to chew. This seems so much more achievable.

I've played this song live many times but never bothered learning the solo - it's just too bonkers! I really should some day as it's an absolute monster of a solo. A perfect halfway point between Chuck Berry rock n roll and EVH shred. Incredible playing.

I have always ran away from this solo too. This is something I needed for sure. It’s a freaking monster.

That was freaking perfect! Man you're such a great guitarist.

This solo has kept me from attempting Paradise City. Thanks for the breakdown.

best thing about this video:no foreplay,you just blow my brain straight away and Im lovin it :) superb video,thanks for sharing your experience

I believe in Duffs book he wrote that the chaos at the end of Paradise City was improvised.

Amazing! This lick has terrified and amazed me for decades and maybe the time has come to finally tackle it with this great breakdown of yours. Thanks.

One of the best guitar solos, so much energy in it, it's just wild. And thats exactly the part where i am stuck, so thanks for this video! Fun fact: my wife (non-musician) is a huge GnR Fan but actually never noticed the solo at the end, until i pointed it out for her. Guess she was just focusing on axels voice.

This is a great solo because it gets more and more intense ...

Awesome job man. Always wondered about this exact spot. You're doing good work

Very well done. Glad there is someone willing to try and make sense of everything he does there. The mixture of scales is pretty awesome.

Awesome!! Thanks! Great tutorial. Would LOVE to have a few more sections of the solo!

I can’t thank you enough for making such a great tutorial on that section! Incredible cooking🤘🤘⚡️🎸

The 1st solo on White Lion's "Warsong" is pretty furious. The 2nd solo is slow and filled with emotion. Check it out.

You play it so perfectly crisp and clean!🤘🏽🤘🏽

Bravo my friend! That’s a spot on transcription. Man that same phrase where he switches to the neck pickup has always been intimidating to me too. Gonna give it a shot now that I see it’s possible for a mere mortal to play it correctly.

You absolutely smoked this one man. Thanks for doing this video I’ve always done it like Slash different every time lol.

1:17 I love it 😂😂

Calling Guns N' Roses hair metal is a crime!

Totally nailed it! Thanks for this tutorial much needed. And that Black Beauty is a beast of a workmanship!

You did well breaking down this solo. Not an easy job as Slash's style is pretty spontaneous and freestyle. I've tried to mimic this solo many times but gave up😀 Thanks for the upload.

Excellent lesson, and you absolutely nailed the solo, but the best part of the video for me is the comment section. Everyone seems to have the same love (and fear) of this solo that I do. It’s odd to me that it’s never listed in the best solos category, because I think it’s one of the best.

Awesome job, great playing. Really though makes you re-realise how good people like Slash are.

Outstanding! It blows my mind that Slash was only like 22yro when they recorded appetite

Thanks for demystifying the only bit on the album that I gave up on over 30 years ago. Still, my fingers now won't be quick enough but glad to see it's possible for the young and able :-)

This last outro solo is criminaly completely underrated

This was very well done, when learning this solo i quickly realized the exact notes wasn't as important as just getting the right scale and feel during some of the blazing parts, but you got really darn close to the exact ones anyways!

Another great video! This solo always impressed me even before I played guitar. I never realized there were chromatic licks in there as well as a quick diminished lock too. This breakdown is super helpful and informative!🤟🎸

I love how you are teaching us a way to play this amazing solo and at the same time you're teaching about the Micro-Chaining learning method that you did some time ago, this is perfect for players who want to learn this

Great video, thanks. I’ve never really found a good breakdown of this section of the song. I love GNR and I’ve been puzzled by this solo for years.

Fantastic lesson and analysis of one of my all-time favorite solos---awesome video, thank you!!

That’s the best lesson I’ve seen on that solo. Great job!

Great break-down Mike. Amazing!

Your an amazing and patient teacher. Oh my Goodness that’s serious skills. 😳😳

Man, your tone really is on fire these days. That ENGL is fantastic. That beautiful LP doesn't hurt either.

Great video! There’s this ongoing rumour that it wasn’t actually Slash playing the outro solo, but a session player instead. Interesting idea. I also always thought this solo was stylistically different from most of his other solo’s.

Your LP is just stunning, drool

I just took a look at this song recently and this song is BRUTAL. It’s overlooked how tough this is to play

Love the videos, you helped me improve my playing alot 🤙

Thank you so much for this! I'll probably never be able to play it but its so cool to be able to see what Slash was playing and make sense of it, hopefully I can use some of this to play fast licks in a new way

Hardest solo from the GnR catalogue, great job!

Slash is a FORCE but still melodic. A monster in his prime.

Who'd've thought that one day I'd be listening to Michael McIntyre doing his best to explain how to play the end of Paradise City

Great walkthrough Mike. Maybe one day I’ll attempt this 🤣. Please make more videos like this 🤘🏻

Minus the pickguard and covered pickups and swap in black/cream zebras results in a wicked Black Beauty.

I've never heard anyone play Slash that well. Mind blown.

I wish I could sub again off that opening solo! Well done👌🤘

This part of that solo is pure killer 80s love for ripping guitar… Subbed!

Impressive. I’ve never even heard slash do this note for not. Very good 👍

I can't believe I'll try to learn this thing now...thanks for the video!

This is really amazing, professional acoustic playing I love to see and hear this, thank you for sharing my friend

This is gold to me 👏👏👏 After this i had to subscribe,do you have any list on your channel with Slash stuff only? Thank you 🤘

That is one fine looking Les Paul! Playing's pretty good too. 👍

Amazing!! This part blows my mind since always and still does to this day Once I had to play this song live and I was freaking out because I couldn't play this part properly Luckily, the other guitarist started to solo at the end and I got rid of the reeponsability of playing that hahahaha after this video, it won't happen again next time 🤘

It's fucking awesome man I'm playing an listening to this 30 yrs u have it to a tee well done

That classic black Custom is awesome!

best lesson on yt so far. thanks a lot you made this song learnable for me

I love slash’s playing….feeling every note

I’ve also been trying to learn this solo for the last few days. You definitely play it the best of all the RU-vidrs.

Didnt know I need this video untill now hahahhahahah loved it, dude! Great Job!

That was a really good job man, well done learning it

Great job man, you pulled it off ! I read somewhere Eddie Van Halen did praise Slash in person for this particular solo.

That LP is beautiful...🎸🤩

Slash is,was and will be AMAZING !!!! For me a living Legend !

I’ve learned up to the last flurry of notes and rewinded the video more than I can count😂

That's blazing fast. I admire your persistence in learning it. I don't think I have the patience.

Awesome playing man!

Holy Hell, great Paradise City solo man! Bravo!

The solo sounds very improvized so no wonder Slash plays it differently every time.

Great solo! Loving the solo'ing technique videos as well! Would love to get faster! Do you think alternate picking would be just fine for this Solo rather learning Economy picking?

Dude i still love that mockingbird...great video! I love that you got slash with the bad brains shirt too.

Without a doubt, the best cover. Well done!

What a beauty of a guitar!🎸♥️

I tried to learn this a long time ago with some crappy tabs before youtube, I think I finally got is somehow but suretanly not right and then I just improvised whole outro for a video which came out pretty good. Too scared to get onto this now, blows my mind.

What the fuuuuuuuu. Never seen Slash be so well covered. Amazed.

One thing ulis hate as a guitar player that mainly learns covers of songs by ear and just sounding it all out trial by error....but I notice when it comes to solos...like this one is a perfect example. Now, I'm not like knowledgeable in any sense when it comes to all the technical terms and aspects of guitar I can read tabs but not sheet music....I dont know any of the chords by heart,really. I can barely remember the letters of each string other than low E and High e ...so when I go off of feeling, by ear....its actually REALLY hard to follow solos that have soo many notes shoved into such a small spot and when I hear it being played at a much slower tempo I cant tell which part I'm at in the actual song to reference, like I normally do in my head when I'm learning a cover of a song i know,and like so it makes it much easier to figure out what i need to play by kinda just replaying the part I'm at in the solo or bridge part of the song mentally in my mind....but when some solos are being played slow it doesnt sound nothing like the familiar solo I'm use to hearing so then I'm lost lol but as soon as its sped up it sounds right but for me it's just hard to follow at first when just trying to memorize the right strings and frets and being played at a slow pace to get the speed up.....like sometimes I want to play infront of like a guitar instructor or just anybody that has much more experience on the technical side of guitar playing to watch how I play so they can tell me the things I'm not doing correctly or what I can change in my playing to make it sound better to get an idea of the issues I have and to see what I'm good at and what I need more work on....like just watching my favorite guitarist Chuck Schuldiner playing live I noticed to basically ALWAYS keep the shape of a power chord when playing... and instead of going all the way from the bottom to the top of the fretboard on just one string...to go across the fretboard using the other strings to play those same notes but it then sounds much much tighter and faster when playing across the fretboard instead of stretching all over the fretboard on the same string (sorry if its confusing lol like I said I dont know the technical terms to explain it. But the easiest way for me is to just show what i mean on the guitar)

That’s so cool that John Cusack plays guitar too!

It’s cliche but I WISH this stuff was available when I was a kid….but I’m glad it’s available now. Thanks brotha!

Amazing, dude... Just amazing! I don't think even Slash knows how to play that anymore. :) Incredible work!