THE GLORY YEARS: TOO DRUNK TO PLUCK

Cementing TG's reputation for quality educational content, this 2005 advert for clean living taught us... well, nothing really, but it seemed like a great idea at the time

In recent years, TG has focused on responsible pursuits like improving your knowledge of guitar playing. This, though, was the early noughties: the height of Top Gear, Jackass, Loaded and lad culture. Into this rich cultural milieu came TG’s immortal drinking experiment.

The premise was simple: a contest to see who could still play the opening two bars of Sweet Child O’ Mine after the most drinks. Slash being mysteriously unavailable for this important research, TG’s editor Stephen Lawson, staff writer Nick Cracknell, music editor James Uings, and deputy editor Phil Ascott stepped up, with production editor Claire Davies dodging the vomit and keeping score.

Our excuse that we aimed to discover whether, as some had apparently claimed, you can play better when drunk. But mostly it was a chance to get hammered at work.

What follows is a representative sample of the evening’s proceedings:

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