If you're looking for a gift idea for Slash today for his forty-ninth birthday, you can scratch tophat off your list. He has one of those. It's gonna be hard to beat the present he received on his twenty-third bday. That's the day in 1988 that Guns 'n Roses debuted on the Billboard charts with another song from their debut Appetite For Destruction, "Sweet Child O' Mine."

In my humble opinion, one could make the argument that the first Gn'R album is one of the finest in rock history. Here's a good example why. Slash said no other Guns song made him move so much on stage as "Nightrain." Here is the band tearing it up at the Ritz in New York in 1988.

Here is the expanded live set from The Ritz show:

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