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      Tastiest Riff in Rock History?

      Okay, forgive me I'm not the best music expert out there but I'd like to see what everyone else thinks . I haven't heard everything though my personal favourite is "Enter Sandman" from Metallica, but Cowboys from Hell (Pantera) and One Step Closer (Linkin Park) come really close. What are your suggestions?

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      'Bad Horsie' - Steve Vai
      'The Audience is Listening' - Steve Vai
      'Walk' - Pantera
      'Kashmir' - Led Zeppelin
      'Bulls on Parade' - Rage Against the Machine
      'Ace of Spades' - Motorhead
      'Back in Black' - AC/DC
      'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' - Jimi Hendrix
      'Cocain' - Eric Clapton
      'Sunshine of Your Love' - Cream
      'Revolution' - The Beatles
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      There is no ultimate riff in rock history. Do you know how many categories, subcategories, and subsubcategories there are of music? Metal, alternative, punk, funk, ska, hardcore, screamo, emo, etc. etc.

      With that said, I can list my favourite, as that's much more realistic.


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      I think that's all he was asking. Obviously there's no objective way to tell what the greatest riff is.

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      You missed the subtle sarcastic tone. Better luck next time!


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      The Day Tripper riff by The Beatles is psychedelic.

      They didn't really do any other riff driven pieces, but they really topped them all with that single piece.

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      the riff in the chorus of Sacrifice by edguy is pretty amazing. Its simple but so effective for the mood.
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      Black Widow Of La Porte- John5
      Zugg Island Convict- John5
      Botnus- Buckethead

      Those always seem to satisfy me.


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      Dunno about riffs but these are some of my favourite intros. In no particular order and just one form each band:

      Ace of spades - Motorhead
      Throw down the sword - Wishbone Ash
      Stairway to heaven - Led Zep
      Child in time - Deep Purple
      Don't fear the reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
      Paranoid - Black Sabbath
      Brainstorm - Hawkwind
      Misery's the river of the world - Tom Waits
      Lady Eleanor - Lindisfarne
      Locomotive breath - Jethro Tull
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      Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
      The Day Tripper riff by The Beatles is psychedelic.

      They didn't really do any other riff driven pieces, but they really topped them all with that single piece.
      "And Your Bird Can Sing" has a really great riff. Now that I think about it, that is my pick.

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      Brainstorm - Hawkwind
      Oh my God! Somebody else here has heard of Hawkwind? That is crazy. (Maybe they just aren't that big in the U.S.) I am a huge fanatic of that band. In fact, "Brainstorm" is the first riff I thought of when I saw the thread title. But Xei brought up the Beatles and my answer changed.

      I met Nik Turner, and I once had a long conversation with Del Dettmar. I consider those major events in my life. They put on a mind blowing live show.
      Last edited by Universal Mind; 02-02-2008 at 01:15 AM.
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      (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

      The Rolling Stones


      Because of how it came to be:

      "The riff came to Keith Richards in a dream one night in May 1965, in his motel room in Clearwater, Florida, the fifth stop on the Rolling Stones' third U.S. tour. He woke up, grabbed a guitar nearby and taped the music racing through his head on a handy cassette machine. Richards played the run of notes once, then fell back to sleep. "On the tape," he said later, "you can hear me drop the pick, and the rest of the tape is hours of snoring."
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      Blind Faith - Dream Theater
      Scarred - Dream Theater

      [Two songs I turn to for my riff needs].

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      Dragonaut by Sleep.

      Greatest metal riff.
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      How's about the greatest ever guitar solo?

      My nomination: Patrick Buchanan-"Back and Forth", from the 80s Cameo album "Word Up".

      Favourite riffs?

      Stones "Brown Sugar"
      Free "All right now"
      Beatles "And your bird can sing"
      Beatles "Day Tripper"
      Run DMC/Aerosmith "Walk this way"

      plus many more too numerous to mention..

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      Riffs... hmmm

      Favourites include:

      Killers For Hire by ASG (I love all aspects of this song)
      Have A Drink On Me by AC/DC
      Highway Song by System Of A Down
      Cowboys From Hell by Pantera
      Nightrain by Guns 'N Roses
      Exploder by Audioslave
      Hanging Tree by Queens Of The Stone Age
      Love? by Strapping Young Lad


      And probably many others I can't remember at this moment in time...
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      Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
      Oh my God! Somebody else here has heard of Hawkwind? That is crazy. (Maybe they just aren't that big in the U.S.) I am a huge fanatic of that band. In fact, "Brainstorm" is the first riff I thought of when I saw the thread title. But Xei brought up the Beatles and my answer changed.

      I met Nik Turner, and I once had a long conversation with Del Dettmar. I consider those major events in my life. They put on a mind blowing live show.
      I'm in the UK and they were reasonably big in the 70s/80s rock scene although never one of the top rock bands (Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Rush etc). Saw them in my teens in the late 70s (Bob Calvert era) and they were excellent. Seen them a few times since (incl when Nik Turner returned to the band) but not for a long time.

      So you've met Nik? (And Del). What's Nik like? I never liked him much in Hawkwind as I thought he was just larking around not taking it seriously enough. But recently I've found more respect for him and less for Dave Brock who comes across being pompous and pig-headed. I'd like to see Nik Turner's Space Ritual live some time.

      I like a lot of the Space Ritual era Hawkwind music.
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      Beatles "And your bird can sing"
      Hmmm... I like the agressive way it's played, but the notes never really caught my attention...

      I always preferred the riff from 'I Want to Tell You' from that album.

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      Intro to "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" by the Mars Volta.
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      "American Woman" by The Guess Who (Can't tell you how many times people have said, "What, that song by Lenny Cravitz?" )
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      Hmm...

      Sunshine of your Love - Cream (If you don't know this riff, you've lived under a rock with internet access for 40 years)
      Same Old Song And Dance - Aerosmith
      Welcome to the Jungle - GNR (the opening riff and the chorus riff)
      Last Child - Aerosmith
      Hell's Bells - ACDC (opening riff)

      There's some of mine.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Burned up View Post
      I'm in the UK and they were reasonably big in the 70s/80s rock scene although never one of the top rock bands (Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Rush etc). Saw them in my teens in the late 70s (Bob Calvert era) and they were excellent. Seen them a few times since (incl when Nik Turner returned to the band) but not for a long time.

      So you've met Nik? (And Del). What's Nik like? I never liked him much in Hawkwind as I thought he was just larking around not taking it seriously enough. But recently I've found more respect for him and less for Dave Brock who comes across being pompous and pig-headed. I'd like to see Nik Turner's Space Ritual live some time.

      I like a lot of the Space Ritual era Hawkwind music.
      I talked to Nik right after he finished his show in Baton Rouge in 1995. They played in a bar. I was fried out of my skull about as bad as I have ever been, so I had practically nothing to say to him. He was not very chatty either, but I'm not sure that that was because of snobbery. One of my friends told him that I am the biggest Hawkwind fan around, and Nik said, "I'll drink to that." I asked him for his autograph, and he gave it to me. I still have it. The band was called Nik Turner's Space Ritual by that point since Nik lost the court case to Dave Brock. But Nik's band kept the original Hawkwind style and Dave's band didn't, so as far as I was concerned, Nik's band was Hawkwind.

      A year and a half earlier, I saw pretty much the same band in the same bar, and they were called Hawkwind. Before their performance, the band Sleep was playing. Del Dettmar was in the audience. I happened to be standing right near him, so I talked to him for a while. He was very friendly and chatty. He told me a lot about early Hawkwind, like stuff about the In Search of Space photo shoot and a bunch of small trivia like that. I told him about how I first got into Hawkwind when I listened to my friend's copy of In Search of Space when I was on my first acid trip. I told him that I was looking at the inside of the album and saw his picture and thought he looked like he knew something big time and how my friend said, "Yeah, he looks like he knows the secret of the universe." For the rest of the trip, my friend and I were completely convinced that Del Dettmar knows the secret of the universe and that he taught it to the drummer, Terry Ollis. When I told Del about that, he kind of chuckled, but it was obvious that I was about the 10,000th person to tell him a story like that.

      The CD of Space Ritual Live now comes with a DVD of video clips from the Space Ritual tour. I need to get my hands on that.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
      I talked to Nik right after he finished his show in Baton Rouge in 1995. They played in a bar. I was fried out of my skull about as bad as I have ever been, so I had practically nothing to say to him. He was not very chatty either, but I'm not sure that that was because of snobbery. One of my friends told him that I am the biggest Hawkwind fan around, and Nik said, "I'll drink to that." I asked him for his autograph, and he gave it to me. I still have it. The band was called Nik Turner's Space Ritual by that point since Nik lost the court case to Dave Brock. But Nik's band kept the original Hawkwind style and Dave's band didn't, so as far as I was concerned, Nik's band was Hawkwind.

      A year and a half earlier, I saw pretty much the same band in the same bar, and they were called Hawkwind. Before their performance, the band Sleep was playing. Del Dettmar was in the audience. I happened to be standing right near him, so I talked to him for a while. He was very friendly and chatty. He told me a lot about early Hawkwind, like stuff about the In Search of Space photo shoot and a bunch of small trivia like that. I told him about how I first got into Hawkwind when I listened to my friend's copy of In Search of Space when I was on my first acid trip. I told him that I was looking at the inside of the album and saw his picture and thought he looked like he knew something big time and how my friend said, "Yeah, he looks like he knows the secret of the universe." For the rest of the trip, my friend and I were completely convinced that Del Dettmar knows the secret of the universe and that he taught it to the drummer, Terry Ollis. When I told Del about that, he kind of chuckled, but it was obvious that I was about the 10,000th person to tell him a story like that.

      The CD of Space Ritual Live now comes with a DVD of video clips from the Space Ritual tour. I need to get my hands on that.
      Thanks for that story, UM. I totally agree with you about Nik Turner's Space Ritual and how they're like Hawkwind used to be (I've seen them on youtube). That band is made up of ex-Hawkwind members unlike Hawkwind, which isn't! I really want to see them play live having missed their last tour.

      Freaky meeting Del like that. I haven't met any of them although I did yell into Bob Calvert's microphone at a gig once!

      If you're interested, youtube has the history of Hawkwind in 10 installments (I think one is missing though) that someone put there a while back. No Dave Brock as he wouldn't take part in any doc that Nik was in. But I found it really interesting. This is part 1:

      http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qRw_rvrXQiQ
      Bu

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      Quote Originally Posted by Burned up View Post
      Thanks for that story, UM. I totally agree with you about Nik Turner's Space Ritual and how they're like Hawkwind used to be (I've seen them on youtube). That band is made up of ex-Hawkwind members unlike Hawkwind, which isn't! I really want to see them play live having missed their last tour.

      Freaky meeting Del like that. I haven't met any of them although I did yell into Bob Calvert's microphone at a gig once!
      You really should make a point to see Nik Turner's Space Ritual. There is nothing out there anything like one of their concerts. They definitely are in first place as far as trippiness goes. I don't know how much longer Nik will be performing. He is pretty old now.


      Quote Originally Posted by Burned up View Post
      If you're interested, youtube has the history of Hawkwind in 10 installments (I think one is missing though) that someone put there a while back. No Dave Brock as he wouldn't take part in any doc that Nik was in. But I found it really interesting. This is part 1:

      http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qRw_rvrXQiQ
      That is awesome. I didn't even know it existed. Thanks!
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      Most of Led Zeppelin's dirty blues riffs make me orgasm on the spot.

      Who said guys can't have multiple orgasms?! Just listen to some Zep!


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