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#595916 - 03/13/08 10:18 AM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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HiDee Bro D!
Even with My BAAD Memory I still remember:
Jimi Hendrix: "Foxy Lady"..(& TONS of Others!) Clapton's "Cocaine" already-Mentioned (& Who CAN Forget?) Joe Walsh's (?) "All She Wants to Do is Dance"--Eagles Keith Richard's in "Gimmie Shelter".."Satisfaction"..MANY More.."Paint It Black"..etc. "(Gimmie) Money"..Beatles I could listen to Brian Adams "Run to You" for 24 hrs Straight.
Thanks for De Trip Down Memory Lane, Amigo, Big Guy-Hug, Stan
A few PSes: Keith Richards again.."The Last Time" (What a Killer!) Jorgan Inngman's simple "Wheep-Wheep-Wheep" in "Apache"... Joe Walsh.."Life's Been Good"
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#596150 - 03/13/08 10:06 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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um.. we were just waiting for you to mention "another one bites the dust"... Tom Tha's a Bass Riff  that's gonna be another thread.
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#596166 - 03/13/08 10:48 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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Hey Sub, they allowed bass OR guitar riffs in this thread If you read up at the top... I can tell the difference, really I can - lol Linda
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#597396 - 03/17/08 02:12 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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um.. we were just waiting for you to mention "another one bites the dust"... Tom Tha's a Bass Riff  that's gonna be another thread. OKAY Mike - you got me - but I always call it a bass guitar as opposed to just a bass so that people know I'm not messin' with a fish. So it's still a guitar. Sort of. A mutant thumpy guitar. I guess that's why Chris Squire wrote "The Fish" so you can tell the difference. 
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#597536 - 03/17/08 08:42 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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What about Big Bottoms, by Spinal Tap? All bass (not a fish) all the time! Talk about yer mudflaps...my baby's got 'em.
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#600442 - 03/26/08 05:46 AM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin', thats what I say! [The greatest movie EVER, period!]
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#632116 - 07/09/08 02:42 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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Great thread  Since we're allowing bass riffs - Nobody's said Another One Bites the Dust yet?
You have Bernie Edwards of Chic to thank for that, originally from Chic’s Good Times. I love all those Chic bass riffs, they are often plundered and why not? Another classic Beatles riff: "Hey Bulldog" Great riff. Always in our live set One of the coolest riffs ever wasn't done on a guitar or bass - Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" Most definitely! Some of my favourite riffs: What Difference Does It Make – The Smiths Superstition – Stevie Wonder Come Together (bass) – The Beatles Now I’m Here – Queen Enter Sandman – Metallica Love Spreads – The Stone Roses Don’t Believe a Word – Thin Lizzy
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#849550 - 10/09/10 12:55 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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Baby let me follow you down....Bob Dylan Purple Haze.... Jimi Hendrix Hey Hey My My or is it My My Hey Hey...Neil Young I want you...The Beatles I also wanted to bump this thread up for more exposure 
I can tell you what I am not I just can't tell you what I am I am just slippin' down this road no longer with any plan stoney rohde
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#851319 - 10/17/10 04:15 PM
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#916301 - 08/17/11 03:29 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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Oooh JMSocia
You mentioned Uncle Tupelo--I love those guys. I'd love to see a reunion, but I doubt that will happen. I don't think Farrar and Tweedy get along very well.
Eric Speaking of UT: "Graveyard Shift" And, more great riffs: The Kinks... since I think that "You Really Got Me" was already mentioned: "All Day and All of the Night" "Tired of Waiting" "Waterloo Sunset" "Till the End of the Day" "Superman" And many more. The Kinks probably had more great riffs than any band not named Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones. Another that you may not consider: Beastie Boys - "Gratitude" Again, technically a bass riff. Still, it's pretty killer. A lot of you didn't know that thy played instruments, did you?
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#916451 - 08/18/11 03:11 AM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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Derek, you can be my street team any time. That was great--just the right soupcon of sincerity. Morgan Fairchild, huh?
I agree, by the way, with just about all of the Famous Riffs mentioned. I believe Keith Richards' riff on "Satisfaction" is what won the song an award as "the most memorable rock 'n' roll song of all time."
My candidate that nobody's mentioned is Don Rich's riff on Buck Owens' "They're Gonna Put Me in the Movies."
Joe wasnt the name of that "Act Naturally"?????
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#916452 - 08/18/11 03:17 AM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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i had alreday been playing a few years and was already listening to everything...BUT WHEN I HEARD!!!! Joe Satriani's SURFING WITH THE ALIEN in 1986!!!!....that is when i started taking guitar very seriously
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#1026439 - 10/17/13 05:53 PM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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Wow nice to see this thread survived a little while I was absentee. Hmm so many good riffs mentioned and yet so many good ones out there, should we expand it to keyboard and other instruments? If so I nominate Michael Mcdonald for what a fool believes and Boston for the beginning keyboards in Foreplay (longtime). Crazy stuff going on there in those songs keyboard wise. Thanks everyone for keeping this one going Derek aKa tHaT gUy
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#1026502 - 10/18/13 02:30 AM
Re: What's your favorite guitar riff?
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yeah, I would Say nobody mastered the riff more than Led Zep. They almost didnt even write songs, they wrote riffs with a little song in between. However, cant forget the great Angus Young of AC/DC, Back in black and shook me all night long still hold up as two of the best. Must mention Van Halen as well. Beatles-Day Tripper Dire Straits-Money for Nothing Chuck- Johnny B Goode, which started it all Eagles-life in the fast lane Ozzy-Crazy Train The Clash-Should I stay or Should I go, Rock The Casbah, Train in Vain, damn they were good! The Doors-Love me Two Times, Roadhouse Blues Might seem a bit out there, and trivial, but this pop riff is still one of the most exciting riffs ever recorded. And funny thing most bands cover it and they never play the riff right! think it's all in the voicings oops wrong link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqnw5IfbZOU
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