Following is everything you need to know about the Guns N' Roses classic; the story behind the song, amp and pedal settings, as well as used guitar techniques, courtesy of Ultimate-Guitar.com

From UG: "Today, we’re testing a new song learning format where everything (and by everything I mean tablature, techniques, song info and amp setting) can be found on one page. We think that one of the best ways to spread the knowledge is to do it in articles, well, kinda like a lesson. It's something new for UG so, will be waiting for your feedback. For the first time we took 'Welcome To The Jungle' by Guns N' Roses. There are reasons to why we chose this song. First, it’s one of the bands Ultimate Guitar started from. Secondly, Appetite for Destruction turns 30 this year which is a considerable milestone. And thirdly, that’s a damn good song after all."

Story Behind The Song

This song is actually about Los Angeles. It exposes the dark side of the city many people encounter when they go there to pursue fame. Guns N' Roses knew this side of the city well: in 1985, they lived in a place on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles that they called "Hell House." The house was often filled with drugs, alcohol and groupies.

Slash said: "I was at my house and I had that riff happening and Axl came over and he got those lyrics together, and then the band sort of arranged it. We got an arrangement for the whole band, 'cause that's how we work. Someone comes in with an idea and someone else has input and in that way everyone's happy. That came together really quickly too, that was arranged in one day. It was really the first thing we all collaborated on. And it’s really a combination of everybody’s input."

The song had a heavy swing to it – a dirty, nasty groove. But there was also a mid-section in which the band pulled back a little, easing the tension. This breakdown was lifted from a song called 'The Fake', which McKagan had written in 1978 when he was a member of Seattle punk band The Vains. 

"I don’t want to say the word 'bluesy'," Slash says, "but it had a really cool kind of soulful feel. There was no analyzing this stuff – writing a song was something that happened spontaneously. But in that whole ‘discovering ourselves’ period from eighty-five through eighty-six, when we were living very haphazardly and getting together and jamming, there was something going on that not a lot of people had. And this song just had this natural feel that was very cool."

There are different stories to where the famous lyrics origin. Axl said it originated when he spent a night in a Queens schoolyard before joining the band. "This black guy said, 'You're in the jungle! You gonna die.'

Jake Query a friend of Axl Rose, gave a different account, saying: "When Axl Rose hitchhiked to Los Angeles, California, on the last leg, a truck driver drove him to Los Angeles, and when Rose got out of the truck, the truck driver said 'Welcome to the jungle!'"

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