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What are your favorite guitar riffs???
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:03 am
by Alexandra
This is a follow-up to tea-cake's thread . . . .
So what are your favorite guitar riffs (not solos) from the past and present day?
(No fair picking Smoke On The Water or anything by Jimmy Page or Keith Richards LOL!!! Oh, go ahead!)
I like these (in no particular order):
The Kinks/Lola
ZZ Top/Sharp Dressed Man
Iron Butterfly/In-A-Gadda-Di-Vida
Nirvana/Come As You Are
The Guess Who/American Woman
Alice In Chains/No Excuses
Free/All Right Now
How about you?
cool thread
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:35 am
by Tea Cake
Hi Alexandra!---cool thread
I would have to pick
That riff from the Bob Marley song
about Pirates yes they rob I---...
...so help me sing these Songs of freedom---it's all I ever had
It's so simple and slow and so moving.
-------------------------Tea Cake
(Jah LOve!)
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:51 am
by Alexandra
I'm not sure I know that Bob Marley song . . . I'm gonna try to find a sound sample . . .
meanwhile, Nirvana's "Breed" just started playing and the riff from that is simple yet LOUD and HARD as anything Jimmy Page ever did.
more riffs
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:08 am
by Tea Cake
Nirvana rocks!
And for the list:
The melody from The Beatle's Norwegian Wood
Van Morrison's old band: "Them" doing: Baby please don't go down to New Orleans ( now that's a riff!)
and who could leave out surf-guitarist Duane Eddy's
Rebel Rouser?( twang's the thing!!)
----I'm hearing it all in my head

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:43 am
by Jaye
Guitar riffs, huh?
Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me
Live - Lightning Crashes
Sheryl Crow - A Change
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Those are just the ones I can think of off the top.
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:57 am
by Anita
Great thread!
Jaye, you reminded me--"I Alone Love You," Live. Wow!
"Rock the Nation"--Montrose
"La Grange"--ZZ Top
"Wishing Well"--Free
And I don't mind playing In-a-Gadda every once in a while, A. Just in the privacy of home, though.
Have not been exposed to a lot of reggae, TC. I'm not familiar with that song, either. Was it a big radio hit?
Help me sing, these songs of freedom...
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:40 pm
by Tea Cake
Hi Anita,
I can hear the riff in my head but it took me till today to remember the songs title!---its called Redemption Song----
While I can't recall if it was a radio-hit---it does grace lots of the Bob Marley and the Wailers- " Best of Albums"- that I've heard.
I actually think most people--once they heard it---would remember it.
It has a very simple and poetic guitar part.
be well!!!!!!!!!!------------------------------------

Tea Cake
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:00 pm
by Lorna
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode... (yes i love it, Rock & Roll was born in the 1950s)
The Doors - Light My Fire
Def Leppard - Photograph
Huey Lewis & the News - Power Of Love
Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey - Easy Lover
Prince - Let's Go Crazy
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
... just to name a few!

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:13 pm
by SophieLawson
I dunno who does it but I play it on my Guitar a lot to just relax, its allreally deep bass and the song goes something like, it's contagius.. I can sing the song but I dunno who or what it is!
Sophie xx
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:21 pm
by Alexandra
how about this one to piss off your parents (and neighbors) -- turn the knob up to 11 and play Alice Cooper's "School's Out".

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:18 pm
by Celia
This
is a good topic.

So many to choose from . . .
A couple from The Who come to mind:
I Can See For Miles and their cover of
Summertime Blues (off of
Live At Leeds).
I think a few from the Stones are in order:
Paint It Black,
Get Off Of My Cloud, and
Jumping Jack Flash spring to mind.
Hendrix of course:
Purple Haze and his cover of
All Along The Watchtower.
Layla--Clapton in Derek and the Dominoes.
What Is And What Should Never Be,
Bring It On Home, and
Out On The Tiles--Zep. And although the main riff from
Whole Lotta Love is nothing to write home about, the brief lead guitar solo could send one to the Emergency Room with severe electrical burns.
A couple from pre-reunion Aerosmith:
Sweet Emotion and
Back In The Saddle.
Running With The Devil--Van Halen. Sure it's c*** rock, but that riff hits like a sledge hammer. As far as I've been able to tell, VH has never done anything else anywhere near that good.
Those are just a few--I'm sure I could do this for hours, but I just don't have that much time these days.
-Celia
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:51 pm
by Amelie-Laveau
Jungle Waterfall by Chick Corea and the Return to forever band
Roundabout by Yes
I'm going home by Ten Years After
Purplr Haze by Hendrix
Maybeline by Chuck Berry
Peter Gunn by Duane Eddy
Amelie
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:31 am
by Elizabeth
Hi girls,
Steely Dan- Reelin in the Years
Rush- Spirit of the Radio
Heart- Crazy On You
Boston- Piece of Mind
Led Zepplin- Bring it on Home
Van Halen- Ain't Talkin Bout Love
Ozzy Osborne- Crazy Train
Judas Priest- Electric Eye
Those are the ones that just jump out at me right now
Love always.
Elizabeth
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:20 am
by Eloise Goth
'all along the watchtower' by hendrix.
'submission' fields of the nephilim.
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:34 pm
by Jadeanne
I'm going to bring this thread back up with two of my favorite riffs that haven't been mentioned yet
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar's signature song with great playing by Neil Geraldo.
Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress) - my favorite song by the Hollies.
Jadeanne