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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

rpic wrote:

Sin City - AC/DC
Givin' The Dog A Bone - AC/DC
Rock Bottom - UFO
Black Tiger - Y&T
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zep
Anything Off Of Montrose - Montrose
Out Of Control - Ted Nugent

Actually I give up....this is impossible.

Nobody riffs like Angus Randu! Lest we forget Thunderstruck!

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

"Couldn't Stand the Weather" -- SRV (and just about any riff he played)
"The Wait" -- James Honeyman-Scott--link is the band and him in action at a Rockpalast show (that Pretenders debut had some amazing stuff, in general)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjKGJ9RFo78

The Doobie Brothers had loads of classic riffs, too.  Too many for me to single out anything in particular.  Same for Skynyrd.

Like others, I could go on and on.  But these jumped to mind.  I was also fond of the work of Ross Childress with Collective Soul.

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

JBFan4Life wrote:

"Couldn't Stand the Weather" -- SRV (and just about any riff he played)
"The Wait" -- James Honeyman-Scott--link is the band and him in action at a Rockpalast show (that Pretenders debut had some amazing stuff, in general)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjKGJ9RFo78

The Doobie Brothers had loads of classic riffs, too.  Too many for me to single out anything in particular.  Same for Skynyrd.

Like others, I could go on and on.  But these jumped to mind.  I was also fond of the work of Ross Childress with Collective Soul.

Man do I love the Doobies, right off the top of my head, the riffs Tom Johnston & Pat Simmons trade off in the end of Road Angel just sizzle. Don't even get me goin' on Skynyrd, Sweet Home Alabama is an absolute classic IMO. The two of them played together last night in Stockton, Ca. and sad to say I wasn't there, but I caught them together a year ago this weekend @ BR Cohn Winery in Glen Ellen, Ca. Bruce Cohn, the Doob's long time mgr.s winery. Oh yeah, Leon Russell & Little Feat were there too! BTW, this topic is futile, I gotta million favorite riffs!!!

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

ohiodawg13 wrote:
rpic wrote:

Sin City - AC/DC
Givin' The Dog A Bone - AC/DC
Rock Bottom - UFO
Black Tiger - Y&T
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zep
Anything Off Of Montrose - Montrose
Out Of Control - Ted Nugent

Actually I give up....this is impossible.

Nobody riffs like Angus Randu! Lest we forget Thunderstruck!

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Yes Angus has a bunch of great riffs...

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

Lest we forget, a lot of these belong to Malcolm and not Angus. didn't want to turn it into an ACDC topic, but here is my fav.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ZUwciBDWg

ohiodawg13 wrote:
rpic wrote:

Sin City - AC/DC
Givin' The Dog A Bone - AC/DC
Rock Bottom - UFO
Black Tiger - Y&T
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zep
Anything Off Of Montrose - Montrose
Out Of Control - Ted Nugent

Actually I give up....this is impossible.

Nobody riffs like Angus Randu! Lest we forget Thunderstruck!

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

I don't think I've ever listened to Road Angel at anything much less than full volume.

Have loads of fond concert memories (not so much from the Michael McDonald days).

Ditto for Skynyrd, and the Outlaws could lay some pretty intense guitar out there, too.

I always liked Henry Paul.  Remember a solo tune he did called "Grey Ghost", that had some killer licks.

Play like you've worked at it, and don't worry about sounding like your influences.  You can't cheat on them, or your practice, anyway.  If you've worked hard at your skill, your audience will know it.
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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

Hold That Train by Steamhammer

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

JBFan4Life wrote:

I don't think I've ever listened to Road Angel at anything much less than full volume.

Have loads of fond concert memories (not so much from the Michael McDonald days).

Ditto for Skynyrd, and the Outlaws could lay some pretty intense guitar out there, too.

I always liked Henry Paul.  Remember a solo tune he did called "Grey Ghost", that had some killer licks.

Gonna see Henry and his latest version of The Outlaws Fri. night @ Thunder Valley Casino In Roseville, Shred's neck of the woods. I won a pair of tix to see them 2 weeks ago tonight, but already had the tix for this Fri. and nobody was into going on a Mon. night after a very active weekend prior. Their new CD is good 'ol southern rock titled It's About Pride.

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Wow I could go on forever but here are a few to go on with.
Burn - Deep Purple
What You're Doing - Rush
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
Hair Of The Dog - Nazareth
Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
Emerald - Thin Lizzy
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC DC

I could go on but you get the drift.........

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

Perm any one of many from Skynyrd also. big_smile

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Lenny Kravitz. Always on the Run. Not sure if Slash or Lenny plays it but its awesome.

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just about anything from Leslie West, Mountain or otherwise. Miss Queen is quite the shyte, I need moa cowbell!

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Whenever I hear Mississippi Queen live on youtube, or another band covering it, even my old band did it, to me; nothing compares to whatever magic they captured when they recorded it. It just has THAT sound. Kinda fuzzy, overdriven, muffled kick drum..I don't know. I always think when I hear it that we're lucky we have it. Cause if someone else was working the controls, it might not have been as good. I just hate that the song is only like 2 minutes long!

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Whenever I hear Mississippi Queen live on youtube, or another band covering it, even my old band did it, to me; nothing compares to whatever magic they captured when they recorded it. It just has THAT sound. Kinda fuzzy, overdriven, muffled kick drum..I don't know. I always think when I hear it that we're lucky we have it. Cause if someone else was working the controls, it might not have been as good. I just hate that the song is only like 2 minutes long!

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Mean Streets by VH-Eddie at his best!!!

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

ahsmith33 wrote:

Lest we forget, a lot of these belong to Malcolm and not Angus. didn't want to turn it into an ACDC topic, but here is my fav.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ZUwciBDWg

ohiodawg13 wrote:
rpic wrote:

Sin City - AC/DC
Givin' The Dog A Bone - AC/DC
Rock Bottom - UFO
Black Tiger - Y&T
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zep
Anything Off Of Montrose - Montrose
Out Of Control - Ted Nugent

Actually I give up....this is impossible.

Nobody riffs like Angus Randu! Lest we forget Thunderstruck!

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They don't call Malcolm "The Riffmaker" for nothing.

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

PSmith1946 wrote:

How about Rollin Stone, Humble Pie

So many great Humble Pie guitar riffs! Ive got so many personal Humble Pie stories...only one of them good lol.

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Re: Favorite Guitar Riff

Whenever the question is asked the first one to jump into my mind is Elliot Randall's "Reelin in the Years".