What are your favorite guitar riffs???

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:03 am

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?

Tea Cake · Post by **Tea Cake** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:35 am

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!)

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:51 am

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.

Tea Cake · Post by **Tea Cake** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:08 am

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

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:43 am

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.

Anita · Post by **Anita** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:57 am

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?

Tea Cake · Post by **Tea Cake** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:40 pm

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

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:00 pm

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!

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:13 pm

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

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:21 pm

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".

Post by **Celia** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:18 pm

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

Amelie-Laveau · Post by **Amelie-Laveau** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:51 pm

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

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:31 am

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

Eloise Goth · Post by **Eloise Goth** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:20 am

'all along the watchtower' by hendrix.
'submission' fields of the nephilim.

Jadeanne · Post by **Jadeanne** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:34 pm

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

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What are your favorite guitar riffs???

What are your favorite guitar riffs???

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