JohnKenn
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Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
Juzt curious...
Seen various polls from the past. Music Radar and others. The 12 year old kids have voted to put Stairway to Heaven up in lights as the greatest guitar solo in the universe. Or maybe something like that.
Can't get down on the 12 year old kids. There are a wash of savants that can put Eddie Van and the rest of us to third tier. Proof is as far as opening YouTube.
Was wondering from the standpoint of you guys and girls who have paid your dues and lived through the trends and the evolution of techniques and styles.
What solos (or guitarists) did you hear that made a major impact on your playing style or maybe your life.
For me, at least 25 percent of what Rev Hendrix did. Then there was his student (or influenced him... Randy California)
Randy's tirade in Street Worm, from "12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus" was over the limit.
So many of the defining moments were also an artifact of the era. Something that has since been copied and run rings around, but broke critical ground at the time.
Curious, what made you tick, got you thru blood and guts to the place you are now, where you can raise hellfire with the instrument.
John
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 01:25:46
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I have to say the first time I heard Eruption, I was blown away. Instantly became a VH fan....every track on that first album was something else (especially for 1976).
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 01:33:39
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JohnKenn
The 12 year old kids have voted to put Stairway to Heaven up in lights as the greatest guitar solo in the universe. Or maybe something like that.
Pretty much everyone acknowledges "Stairway to Heaven" as one of the all-time greats. The reason we started putting "no Stairway" signs in music stores is because we got tired of hearing it---not because it was a bad song. It was too much of a good thing.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 01:49:50
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The solo from the song "Rejoice" by Phil Keaggy live 1977. The man was simply the best guitar player on the planet in the 70's. He had no peer.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 01:54:11
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We need to define between "lick" and "riff".
and of course this is subjective (and I'm limiting it to electric guitar on rock tunes and weighting popular influence on following generations)...
"Lick(s)" - The outro solo from Hotel California
"Riff(s)" - All Day and all of the Night by the Kinks
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 01:57:46
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I was born in 1970. My mom played Sabbath, Zeppelin, Creedence, and stuff like that. My dad played a lot of Elvis, Chuck Berry, and Beatles. In '76 my mom bought me my first KISS record, and that's when I decided I wanted to play guitar. My folks got me an acoustic guitar and a Mel Bay book, and that was my world for a year or so. But as an 8 year old kid, guitar took a back seat after a while. Then in early 1981, my whole world changed. Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz was released. I begged my parents for an electric guitar. Diary of a Madman came out several months later, and blew my mind even more. My parents got me a guitar and a year's worth of lessons for Christmas, and I started my quest. Guitar became an obsession after that. It was all because of Randy Rhoads. He's even the reason I studied classical guitar in college. I have many influences when it comes to guitar, but Randy will alway be the one who inspired me the most.
Oh BTW, my favorite riff is probably Zero The Hero by Black Sabbath, or Over the Mountain off Diary of a Madman.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 02:18:36
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There's about seven of them, and they are all in one song!
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 02:28:42
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@leadster... I've always been a rather secular fellow but this was my guit bible as a greasy young metalhead twonk with a guit, amp and a chip on his shoulder... Unfortunately it's a YT playlist but yanno, that's how she goes... Ozzy - Randy Rhoads Tribute
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 02:29:49
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This is gonna get nerdy... ain't it?
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 02:50:13
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NTTIAWWT
Apparently Rhoads said he just used his classical training and applied them to ripped off EVH techniques... which of course worked spectacularly.
At one point I had coaxed some family member to buy me the tab book for "Tribute".
ooooohhhhh... I stole so many things... which I am now realizing so much more listening to the original for the first time in years.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 03:00:47
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Then of course there is Brian May...
But he is not a mere mortal so I think it's unfair to include him in our study.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 03:19:04
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Heh... and that drum solo gets wicked boring just as fast as it used to when I was kid.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 04:46:14
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Smoke on the water. I mean c'mon.
Eruption is not a riff btw.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 06:25:14
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Riff - Back in Black
Solo - both of Larry Carlton's from Kid Charlemagne.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 06:43:59
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Back in Black is number 1 with a bullet.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 07:38:38
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jamesg1213
Riff - Back in Black
Counterpoint... then again... that's not really a consistent riff. More meandering riffy type chaos.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 08:01:47
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But out of all the Townsend nerdery I subjected myself to I found this to be the most interesting straight up riff/proggression... Pictures of Lily The chords in that are bonkers but you can (urm... have to) wail on them. Bonus: It's of course a song about... well... yanno.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 12:21:21
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Nothing earth-shattering, but I really like this intro riff by David Rhodes. Simple, but very cool, and the tremelo tone is perfect. He only plays it twice in the whole song.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/18 14:58:52
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Live Crossroads without a doubt.
The first 12 bars of Dickie Betts' solo in One Way Out is a close second;
but Clapton "ramped" it up every time the 1 came around.
Dickie not so much in the second 12 bars.
Tone wise, Dickie's Goldtop is a bit "thicker" than the Fool SG.
Just sayin'...
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 05:00:02
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Sorry to everyone in the universe - but THE best guitar solo in the history of guitar solo's is :
Jan Ackerman - Hocus Pocus - I can barely stand the rest of the song because, you know, yodeling - but the solo can't be matched in the Universe ----ever.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 07:00:18
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Best intro riff : John Fogerty - Rocking all over the world
Best slide riff : Duane Allman - Trouble no more
Most well known riff : Smoke on the water
Personal best riff : Honky tonk women by Keef
But then its all subjective .....
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JohnKenn
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 07:18:17
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Hey Guys,
Slippin under the radar with this to comment. Here’s where the rubber meets the road as to what real musicians think. Thanks for connecting me with some real music and riffs just for asking a question.
Years ago, Guitar Player magazine did a poll on who was the greatest guitar player in the world, when they were the gurus of anything poll related with guitar players, and mouthpiece to the universe.
Elimination rounds came down to Eric Clapton and George Harrison. Heat ramped up and George Harrison won finally.
Couldn’t understand this. These guys were way better than me, but nowhere the best guitarists in the world. Like there was Jeff Beck, Trower, Segovia, Page, jazz savants, the Rush guy and so many others.
My opinion only, the poll was a popularity vote. Didn’t have much of nothing to do with the prowess of the artist. (Got to admit though, Clapton’s live Crossroads is formidable…)
Why I wanted to ask you guys what made you tick. Selfish motive for me to listen to and go through your crossroads.
Hang in there you young guys,
John
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 19:09:14
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Hotel california guitar solo for me. Damned if I didn't hear it a few times. :D:D
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 21:11:07
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One of the first Riff's that really influenced me was Day Tripper; still love it to this day.
My 2 favorite guitar solo's are; Comfortably Numb and Limelight. Awesome riff to Limelight as well.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 21:23:08
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Something by Kraftwerk ... er, I don't think I'm playing this game right.
I'm off to see the Wibble, the wonderful Wibble of Wobble
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 21:28:31
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Some viewing for you all:
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 22:13:07
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I honestly can't think of a top riff/solo, but ones that stand out for me are: Riffs: - Focus: Hocus Pocus
- Police: Synchronicity, Every Breath You Take
- Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing, Wild West End, Money for Nothing
- Rush: Limelight
Solos: - Eagles: Hotel California
- Genesis: Firth of Fifth
- Marillion: Easter
- Joe Satriani: Always with You, Always with Me... well, it's one big solo
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/19 22:42:56
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page's solo in 'whole lotta love'.
that's brilliant.
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Re: Greatest Guitar Riff of all Time
2018/12/20 03:59:03
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JohnKenn
. . . the Rush guy . . .
uh, Alex Lifeson :) I liked the Peter Gabriel riff, and the Dire Straits mentions are all great, and Hotel Cali, and anyone who has ever played Day Tripper knows how much fun that one is, plus Joe Satriani (how about "Living in a Blue Dream"), and of course Jimmy Page from Zep, and this whole thing is too much fun. Must rest now. Wait, of course,
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