Greatest Guitar Riff Ever!
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Topic: Greatest Guitar Riff Ever!
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Subject: Greatest Guitar Riff Ever!
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 02:37
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Here we go which is the best guitar riff ever!
I will start
IRON MAN - Black Sabbath ------------- 
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 03:40
| Oh wow, way too many but since you mention Sabbath... A National Acrobat is a killer. |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 03:48
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alright you dickheads..Phil Keaggy's "John The Revelator" where he he waits till just the right moment..then drops the sucker like a ball in a build your-own cat trap.
Phill Keaggy's "Salvation Army Band"
anything by PHILKEAGGY ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 03:58
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:06
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consider yourself shunned from the privelage of conversing with the Keaggykitty ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:17
Not sure I understand your post above, but I was laughing at the ''alright you d*******s'' comment.
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halabalushindigus wrote:Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:24
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sojournicus you gotta check out "Time to Rate "Dark Side Of The Moon" a PA topic New guy verbally trounces Epignosis and says ..just read it ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 04:39
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ok Phil Keaggy nobody knows here's my for real pick:
Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman.......cuz i dig it. you know when you hear Santana you go freaky, so cuz i go freaky when this groove is in my ears
all i want to say Car los Angelos Santanosas
woman of black
magic de woman ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 07:21
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I'll go into metal and say:
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera My personal favourite. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 11:41
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Black Sabbath : Symptom Of The Universe Jimi Hendrix : Purple Haze The Byrds : Turn Turn Turn Iron Maiden : Aces High AC/DC : Highway To Hell |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 12:18
| "The Great Deceiver" - King Crimson |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 13:53
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*greatest guitar riff ever* SITTING ON A PARK BENCH, etc. ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 13:58
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That's a great one too.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 13:58
| Pantera - Walk this is my favourite metal riff, great to head band too |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 14:27
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You cannot beat Black Sabbath.
Symptom of the Universe, Into the Void, Children of the Grave, Supernaut, Neon Knights, Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath, NIB, The Wizard, A National Acrobat, Snowblind, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Hole in the Sky, Heaven and Hell, After Forever, Paranoid, Sweet Leaf, Under the Sun....
I could go on. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 14:36
It is great, but I prefer Cowboys From Hell and 5 Minutes Alone.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 14:51
| Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown, Foxy Lady, Machine Gun, Master Of Puppets, plus indeed quite a few Black Sabbath ones. |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 18:30
Funny, this popped into my mind immediately, and I scrolled down and... bingo. Now, I wouldn't call it the "greatest" but it may be one of the most: recognizable? catchy? overplayed? obvious? I don't know. I'm at a loss for words. Finally.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 18:50
------------- What? |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 19:03
Dean's correct. Those were some of Fleetwood Mac's best years.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 19:25
they were great in all their years.. even in the tweener years between Green and Buckingham/Nicks. enjoy bot... too many to pick... but another great one. Layla edit... damn that video makes me homesick... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 19:38
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Enter Sandman is always what I immediately jump to when the term greatest guitar riff ever comes up. But since it's all personal opinion, it won't matter. I have probably changed my mind from time to time, and most people here hate that album, anyway. So it won't be a popular choice. Plus it's easy as hell to play, something many progheads scoff at.
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 19:58
Love the song. Great lyrics.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 19:59
that is why progheads are sick and twisted... it wouldn't be a great guitar riff if it wasn't easy to play.. or more to the point.. if it was so hard to play. Why do they become so great... first they 'grab you' and have a life their own..much of that stems from power.. not frickin complexity and because of that.. everyone of the true greatest riffs is that way because every teenager who has ever grabbed a guitar has learned the riff. They don't become great because some geek who thinks it has to be complex to be great... they become great when they resonate with everyone.. and that means the 98% of music lovers that are not hung up on difficulty or complexity ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 20:11
I agree with you, micky. But 'round these parts, I never know if I'm going to get a back pat or an ass kicking.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 20:38
I don't care if something is difficult or easy to play, but http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/latestsub.aspx?csid1=145&csid2=870&fid1=47845 - f**k resonating with everyone. I'll say Smoke on the Water because they stole it from Gil Evans. :P ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 20:41
Whole Lotta Love, Sweet Child O'Mine, You Really Got Me, All Right Now... all simple, all great riffs (even if the songs perhaps aren't) ------------- What? |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 20:46
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Immortal's Tyrants Satyricon's Mother North ------------- 
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 20:47
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Howz about: AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
In the prog realm:
KC - LTIA Part 1, when that riff finally arrives, it's just pure power shoved down your throat.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 20:49
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Sunshine of Your Love, Heartbreaker, Aqualung, and personal favorites Out on the Tiles and Malmsteen's 'Evil Eye' |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 03:48
| It has to be something from Sabbath... all the abovementioned Sabbath riffs are killers |
Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 06:13
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21st Century Schizoid Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 Villanova Junction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 06:47
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I thought about Iron Maiden too with 'Ghost of The Navigator' 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the incredible 'Brave New World' all classic riffs. As far as easy to play riffs. Sabbath's 'Paranoid', 'The Wizard' and 'Snowblind' are phenomenal.
Have to mention Metallica's 'Master of Puppets', 'For whom the bell tolls' and 'Sad But True'. Awesome power riffs.
And I am glad someone mentioned 'Aqualung' as that is an amazing riff. -------------
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 11:20
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 11:33
How could I forget this?! Amazing riff! Changed my life.
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 11:51
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and the winner is.."Heartbreaker" by Jimmy Page. love you Jimmmy Page!.
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yeh yeh more jimmy yeh yeh
"Shut-up! Beavis!" ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 11:58
------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 12:03
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my personal favorite: "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 12:19
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Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath Schizoid man - KC Symbolic - Death Dangerous Meeting - Mercyful fate One Shot At Glory - Judas Priest Lots of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Savatage, and Iron Maiden songs. |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 12:28
| Mississippi Queen - Leslie West |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 13:54
HOCUS POCUS  . YA HOZNA-FZ. DYING WORLD-PENTAGRAM.THE WAIT-KILLING JOKE |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 13:57
| ^Headbanging mesmerizing apocalypse |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 14:13
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^ Instead I would go for
Killing Joke THe Hum
Dave Brock ; A living Riff ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 14:15
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Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: tarkus1980
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 14:23
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"Teacher" ------------- "History of Rock Written by the Losers." |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 14:37
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I cannot and will not choose just one... Willie the Pimp is the first that comes to mind though. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 15:13
That one gets stuck in my head all the time.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 21:12
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In a gadda da vida I like NIB by Black Sabbath Walk by Pantera I dont know, there is no possible way to pick a best...so just gunna throw out awesome ones I like. All the ones mentioned already are all pretty good too. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 22:08
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Floyd (Barrett)- Lucifer Sam Zappa-way too many to name Gentle Giant-The second half of Peel the Paint, if you know the song, you know where I mean. King Crimson-Fracture, the main riff in Larks' Tongue Part I, Larks Tongue Part II, Indiscipline, a lot more. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 22:33
Great, overlooked choices!
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 01:13
Yeah, that solo that comes blistering through in Peel the Paint absolutely destroys me. The tone is some of the best I've ever heard, and it's so bluesy. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 04:07
| forgot to mention - Rock Bottom by UFO!!! |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 18:41
Killing Joke is rifftastic |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 01:05
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-------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 01:27
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This riff is the greatest ever. Period. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG97k6DMNVM&feature=related - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG97k6DMNVM&feature=related |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 11:23
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Posted By: mr.cub
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 11:47
Don't get much better than that. I think You Know What I Mean has an equally good riff. But as far as riffs go ------------- 
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 11:48
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Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: July 12 2010 at 15:10
I know it's a prog forum, but...Teenage Kicks by The Undertones 
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 05:21
WIGGLY DOODLY DOO YEAH HOCUS F**KING POCUSSSS ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 05:27
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heart of that sunrise by Howe ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 13 2010 at 05:30
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Killing Joke - Millenium, Pandemodium, Night TIme, Love Like Blood, Eighties and many more.
10cc - art for art sake, wall street shuffle.
the Polce - Syncronicity I and II
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Posted By: Anonamoose52
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 11:20
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Pull Me Under- Dream Theatre END OF DISCUSSION
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 11:29
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^^ That one's not even DT's best. Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam (this one's been copied by TONS) Black Sabbath - Every Riff in Vol. 4 and Master of Reality Beck - Devil's Haircut AC/DC (first mention? Seriously?) - Big Balls -------------
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Posted By: Anonamoose52
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 11:31
| In all honesty, It isn't their best song, but for just a riff, I think it takes the cake. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 12:04
My favourite DT one is Home. Not the "wow-wow" riff, the riff at 2:05. Edit: Actually, I almost forgot. A DT riff thats one of my favourite riffs of all time, the one at 4:44 of The Count Of Tuscany. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 12:22
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Another great one which has been overlooked so far: "Locomotive Breath" by Jethro Tull. And how about "Bird of Prey" by Uriah Heep? Several great riffs in that one. Amon Düül 2 had lots of great riffs too, for example "Surrounded by the Stars" or "Archangel's Thunderbird". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 12:52
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Posted By: Anonamoose52
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 12:54
| I'd also like to post Siberian Khatru, Can't believe I forgot about that one. |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 15:48
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Megadeth: Wake Up Dead (many in there but my favorite is the break after "Diana...") ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 17:17
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Mel Bay's Guitar Lesson ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 17:41
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Fields of the Nephilim - "Power" Massacre (Frith/Laswell/Maher) - "Legs" MC5 - "Kick Out The Jams" The Damned - "New Rose" ; "Neat Neat Neat" Dead Kennedys - "Holidays In Cambodia" ; " Napalm Death - "Vision Conquest" ; "Unfit Earth" ; "Plague Rages" ; "Greed Killing" Death - "Leprosy" ; "Living Monstrosity" ; "Without Justice" Django Reinhardt - "I Have My Moments" ; "Nuages" |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 18:43
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Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
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Posted By: ppl
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 06:39
| this one goes to the wonder kid Schenker..Rock bottom rock bottom rock bottom.....hell of a riff!! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 12:22
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It maybe inspired by Achilles Last Stand, but Heart's Barracuda has a kicking riff
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Posted By: cannon
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 12:25
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Crash Course in Brain Surgery - Budgie
Am I Evil - Diamond Head
Buzzard - Armageddon
Smoking the Day Away - May Blitz
Crazy Train - Ozzy
Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow
Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
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Posted By: Niv
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 12:07
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Heart Of The Sunrise I could listen to for days on end. I'm also finding the main theme of Celestial Elixir by Haken extremely enjoyable! But there's so many out there, it's impossible to choose.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 12:16
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For more generic (but still f**king awesome) rock, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (the album) has a TON of great riffs, more than Back In Black I would say.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 16:18
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let's not forget some other riff lords: Hawkwind. "Brainstorm", "Master of the Universe", "Orgone Accumulator", "Silver Machine", "Steppenwolf", "Magnu" and lots of others -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 16:33
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The Less obvious"
Robin Trower's Day of the Eagle and same on Procol Harum's Whiskey Train! Wow! Jan Akkerman makes Hocus Pocus (and not Van Leer's yodeling!) resonate. Fripp on LTiA part 2 is sizzling. Killing Joke's Love Like Blood is deadly , the Payolas Eyes of a Stranger is another fave. So many more though,,,,,, ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 06:53
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Focus - Harem Scarem King Crimson - Red (three great riffs on this one) King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part I King Crimson - Fallen Angel (chorus riff) King Crimson - Indiscipline King Crimson - Neal and Jack and Me Do you get the point? ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 12:00
I'd agree with Larks Pt-2 (though Pt-1 was mentioned!)!  But I'd probably pick Symptom of the Universe or Sweet Leaf. Master of Puppets and Post Mortem also come to mind. Metal's where it's at if it's riffs you want.
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 12:22
Some bands would kill just to have one of Dave Brock's riffs: The Riff machine was so rifftastic and riffmongous that he would get more riffs in one 'song' than others had in a lifetime.
Just the start of this ^ sends tingles of rifftricity down my spine! oooooerrr  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 04:58
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how about this? or this? ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |