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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
Not that we will ever find out so here is my theory. There's this story around how Axl Rose wrote the lyrics and melody to Sweet Child O' Mine after hearing Slash fool around with that little riff. It was a pattern he had accidentally 'discovered' and thought it sounded like circus music. So he kept on playing it and Axl over-heard it which led to one of the greatest 5 songs of the 80s.
I think a couple of Bon Jovi songs were written somewhat like that. Three in particular. Wanted Dead or Alive, I'll Be There For You and These Days. Why do I say that? It's because they are driven by a guitar pattern that, in all three cases, is very very much Sambora. And I can't possibly see Jon having come up with any of them. But, just like Sweet Child O' Mine, the key to these songs lies in these guitar patterns that I bet, Richie just had 'lying around', much like Slash and Sweet Child O' Mine. Then they sat together and built the songs brick by brick.
With These Days - the Answer has a similar structure and is similarly driven out of Sambora's little lick. Now would it be the same song without Jon? I very much doubt it. But I am sure it was born from a guitar lick spun by Richie and this is why Richie claims it. Jon, might see things very differently. He might have had the concept for the song in the first place, yet to me, it was always a Richie song, even before this whole mess that happened. These Days fits perfectly right in-between The Answer and Harlem Rain.
But, as I mentioned, it's just my theory....
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I am going to say some stuff now that is baseless without the evidence. Anyway, I am sure Jon has said more than once that Lay Your Hands on Me was the only song written from a guitar riff. He 100% said that in fact, but it depends when he said it and whether These Days came after it.
I think both he and Richie have said the lyrics of Wanted came first and Richie then put the lick to it.
As for These Days, there are definately interviews from the era where Jon says he wrote the second verse. I am certain of it, but without the will to look for said interviews I cannot prove it. As a previous poster said, there is no way Jon would have accepted that song the way he did and has since if it had been largely a Richie song.
05-20-2014, 02:25 AM
