Favorite Guitar Riffs

jst5150 · Dec 4, 2007

Looking for specific licks or riffs that totally wow you. For instance, two are right up there in the best of the best for me are:

-- Steve Stevens about a third of the way through "Soul Standing By" by Billy Idol

-- Lindsey Buckingham for that little bit in "You Make Loving Fun"

What's yours?

jt

ChunkyC · Dec 4, 2007

There are so many, but Roger Hodgson's riffs in Easy Does It and Sister Moonshine, the opening tunes of Crisis What Crisis by Supertramp, are just great.

Rolling Thunder · Dec 4, 2007

Free Bird!

*runs like hell*

Shadow_Ferret · Dec 5, 2007

Pretty much everything on Captain Beyond's self-titled debut album.

Pretty much anything Tony Iommi ever did, but specifically "Sweet Leaf," "Children of the Grave," "Into the Void," "Wheels of Confusion," "Tomorrow's Dream," and "Supernaut."

"Buzzard" by Armageddon

"Pull me Under" by Dream Theater

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head without access to the actual music.

III · Dec 5, 2007

Oh man, I could spend all day here . . .

Song Riffs
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Cactus Juice - Bang Tango
So Help Me God - DC Talk
Voodoo Child - SRV
Looking For Love - King's X
Aching Hunger - Steve Vai
Demon Alcohol - Ozzy / Wylde
Rain Will Fall - I Mother Earth
Darling Nikki - Prince

Dang it Jason, did you start this thread just to trap me here all day?

KTC · Dec 5, 2007

VAN HALEN - ERUPTION.

NUFF SAID.

Jersey Chick · Dec 5, 2007

The opening riff to Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones

Sad But True - Metallica

Back in Black - AC/DC

ChunkyC · Dec 5, 2007

I was on the way out the door yesterday when I first saw this thread....

Steve Howe's opening for Roundabout, especially the climb down to where the band kicks in. Just spine-chillingly awesome. Too bad it gets overplayed so badly in music stores around the world, something I contributed to in my time to my eternal embarassment.

Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple -- so many wicked licks. Highway Star in particular blows me away.

Brian May of Queen -- also so many wicked licks. Procession from Queen II (arguably one of the heaviest albums ever recorded) is masterful.

Solsbury Hill from Peter Gabriel's first solo album. I'd have to hunt down the name of the player, but that is such a nice guitar part.

jst5150 · Dec 5, 2007

The Trooper, Iron Maiden
"You fire your musket but I'll run ya through!"

I Guess I Showed Her, Robert Cray

Top of the Rock, HSAS

DonnaDuck · Dec 5, 2007

"Layla" by Derek and the Dominos, or Eric Clapton, whichever version you like better.

C.bronco · Dec 5, 2007

Fade to Black, Metallica, after the last verse
Space Truckin, Deep Purple
Of course jst5150, the intro for The Trooper, Iron Maiden
Stairway to Heaven, the part right before Robert sings "and as we wind on down the road"
The opening for Rough Justice, The Rolling Stones

jst5150 · Dec 5, 2007

The Mighty Turtle Head, Joe Satriani

I point this one out specifically for guitar enthusiasts. The opening riffs of that instrumental (played on a Telecaster) are bad-ASS.

If you've never heard and would like to hear it, PM me for the MP3. You'll have to give it back, though, since, you know, the RIAA would send its SWAT team after me.

jt

III · Dec 5, 2007

Gothic Killer Clown by Fifi Larue

benbradley · Dec 5, 2007

Sometimes old things get stuck in my head. Lately it's the riff from The Eagles' "Already Gone." It's kinda neat how the guitar riff in the chorus goes right into a lead.

DonnaDuck said:
"Layla" by Derek and the Dominos, or Eric Clapton, whichever version you like better.

You mean Clapton's "unplugged" version? I never liked that one. The original is a true classic, though.

RG570 · Dec 5, 2007

21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson.

jst5150 · Dec 5, 2007

Delaware Slide, George Thorogood

Gearjammer, George Thorogood

and

Would, Alice in Chains (for that little opening bass riff to get the whole she-bang rumbling)

ChunkyC · Dec 5, 2007

III said:
Gothic Killer Clown by Fifi Larue

RG570 said:
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson.

Oh, wicked tune.

Voyager · Dec 5, 2007

Dire Straits - Sultan of Swing
Korn - Alone I Break
Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
Disturbed - Stricken, Prayer, Remember
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy

to name a couple

Favorite Guitar Riffs

jst5150

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ChunkyC

It's hard being green

Rolling Thunder

Shadow_Ferret

Court Jester

III

rockin the suburbs

KTC

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Jersey Chick

Up all night to get Loki

ChunkyC

It's hard being green

jst5150

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DonnaDuck

My Worlds Are Building

C.bronco

I have plans...

jst5150

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III

rockin the suburbs

benbradley

It's a doggy dog world

RG570

jst5150

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ChunkyC

It's hard being green

Voyager

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