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Icarium
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Topic: favourite Gentle Giant riff (guitar or moog) Posted: April 26 2011 at 16:32 |
GG have many AWESOME guitar riffs that would make AC/DC jelous/proud, so hmm what do you progzers think is the most grabbing guitar riff, which gives you most reason to raise the devil horns and BEDHANG ( I mean HEADBANG)
i think the heavy riff on In a Glass House is headbangworthy I have even made the cute bartender at the studentbar play it, and SHE LIKES IT the entire song can you belive it, but that riff after like 5 minuts is like punching myself with a fist.., so intence WHAM!!!
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 17:08 |
I have the beginning guitar riff to All Through the Night as my "alert tone" on my phone. It's such a juicey riff that it turns heads sometimes and I have actually been asked, "What song is that?" When I say its by the band Gentle Giant I get the usual "Never heard of em'..."
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 17:22 |
it is from THAT album, I need that album soon but such a great riff that is, so juicey
Edited by aginor - April 26 2011 at 17:23
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 17:33 |
I too love the In A Glass House riff (in 13/8 I think)
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 19:06 |
I don't know if it was a Moog but keyboard thing Minnear does after "time to rearrange" is what hooked me on the band the first time I heard it. Hail to power and to glory's way all.
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 19:23 |
There's another amazing hard rock riff off of Experience on In a Glass House. Though the title track is my favorite from that album! The riff from Peel the Paint (Three Friends) is killer as well.
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 21:28 |
I have a soft spot for Wreck, so i'll go with that riff
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 22:09 |
I've always loved the riff during the last passage of "I Lost My Head"
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 00:39 |
I also like the riff (the middle riff) in Pantagruels Naivity
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 08:51 |
The main theme of "Playing the Game" is awesome.
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 09:24 |
Lots to choose from, but my favourite is the acoustic guitar part in Octopus (Boys in the Band) on the Playing the Fool-album, from about 2:30 to 6:00.
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 12:23 |
Plenty to choose from. Three Friends has plenty.
I'd say the most notable is the one from "In a Glass House". Quite "heavy".
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 16:15 |
So many great ones so I won't repeat any that are mentioned. I'll go with For Nobody. It's a great interplay of guitar and keys together. The intro section is amazing and they keep it up through most of the song.
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 17:56 |
also Moog riff in Alucard such a unique song, which have never been heard the likes of, so intence so mad, so vapyric, Dracula would be proud
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 21:28 |
Pantagruel's Nativity, Time to Kill, In A Glass House.
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Harry Hood
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 23:13 |
For me it doesn't get much better than the title track on Free Hand. So funky.
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Posted: May 04 2011 at 03:35 |
Pantagruel, Three Friends, Peel the Paint, The Runaway (2 or 3 riffs), Prologue, The House, The Street, The Room... I think I'll go with the last one, especially the middle section riff, so heavy, it sounds like Black Sabbath circa 1971 to me.
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Icarium
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Posted: May 04 2011 at 03:41 |
^ i think it sounds more like Gentle Giant from around 1971 if youd ask me
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Posted: May 04 2011 at 18:16 |
Make AC/DC proud? That's pretty insulting to Gentle Giant
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 14:05 |
Harry Hood wrote:
For me it doesn't get much better than the title track on Free Hand. So funky. |
Same here!
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