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Best ever guitar riffs

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Bronco, Aug 13, 2021.

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  1. Bronco

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    This should be interesting which are your favorite guitar riffs :
    Slash, Sweet Child of mine.
    Clapton, Crossroads.
    Randy Rhoads, Mr Crowley, Crazy Train.
    Jimmy Page, Stairway to Heaven.
     
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    Could go on forever on this...

    Crazy Train is a great riff. I would go with Kashmir or Whole Lotta Love from Jimmy Page.

    For Tony Iommi I would go with Children of the Grave or Symptom of the Universe.
     
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    Beyond the Pale...Machine Head
    New Rose...The Damned
    Frozen Crown...The Atlas Moth
     
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    Les Paul, That good they named the guitar after him and helped invent the Looper and other effect pedals, quite simply the master of the modern guitar
     
    #4 trevor, Aug 14, 2021
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    Hendrix,Voodoo chile
    Deep Purple,strange kind of woman
    GnR sweet child o mine
    Led Zep,too many to mention
    Free, Alright now
    Stevie Ray Vaughan,again too many to mention
     
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    #5 Bantam 760, Aug 14, 2021
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    Bert Weedon Apache
     
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    Strange choice. The original of Apache was by the Shadows. And it's a tune not a riff.
     
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    So is stairway to heaven
     
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    Hotel California
     
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    Bradfords own Chantelle McGregor possibly now Britains top blues guitarist, Listen and watch her p;laying the classic Red House Live
     
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    Yup. There is a memorable acoustic fingerpicked opening chord sequence, but it's not a riff. Also a memorable arpeggiated chord sequence on electric 12 string , between verses but, again, I wouldn't call it a riff.
    Arguably there is one riff in Stairway - the A5, G5, F5 motif behind the 'And as we wind on down the road' section. But it's certainly nowhere near being one of the 'best ever guitar riffs'.
     
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    Yes, he was a master. But where are the riffs in that? I hear lots of single note soloing but no riffs.
     
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    I saw her at her first public appearance as a 13 year old with an acoustic guitar, playing Alanis Morrisset's 'One Hand in My Pocket' at the Tuesday night jam session in The Peel, behind Bradford Uni. Sadly, now demolished.
    Good guitar playing on that clip. But no riffs
     
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    Nice arpeggiated chords. Not a riff though.
     
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    Tony Iommi - NIB
    That's a rif.
     
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    Queens of The Stone Age - No One Knows
    Muse - Knights of Cydonia (The outro riff)
     
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    Cockney rebel, Come up and see me
     
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    Trevor, do you even understand what a riff is?
    There are no riffs in Come Up and See Me.
    This is the third or fourth musical example you have suggested that contains no riffs whatsoever! :unsure:
     
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    Booo!! Now look what you have done :cry::cry::cry:
     
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    Layla - Derek & the Dominos!

    Often wrongly credited to old Slowhand himself but it was really played by Duane Allman
     
    #20 Dennis, Aug 16, 2021
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