What Are Your All-Time Favorite Guitar Riffs?

[puppyonacid]

hmmmmm.....no Queen?
Stone Cold Crazy
Ogre Battle
Keep Yourself Alive
Brighton Rock (it's a riffathon!)
Tie Your Mother Down

Extreme:
Cupids Dead
Get the Funk Out
Play With Me

Dream Theater:
Home
Erotomania
The Mirror
Lines in the Sand
Beyond This Life
Glass Prison
As i Am
The Root of all Evil

John Petrucci:
Damage Control
Glasgow Kiss

LTE:
Acid Rain
Paradigm Shift

Eric Johson:
Cliffs of Dover
Manhatten
SRV

Steve Morse:
Tumeni Notes
Cruise Control (Dixie Dregs)

Paul Gilbert:
Colerado Bulldog (that intro is a killer!)

Thats all for now folks.

 

[robelinda2]

Eric Johnson- ZAP!

 

[DaveB]

OK I'm game - these are totally MY choices

Kings X - Summerland
Kings X - We Were Born To Be Loved

John Mayer - Neon

Nuno Bettencourt - Dramagods - Pilot

AC/DC - anything <G>

Tool - Vicarious/Schism/Undertow (great band)

Pantera - Cemetary Gates / Cowboys from Hell

Madonna - Dont Tell Me

Discuss.....!

DaveB

 

[tristan]

Smoke On The Water....!!!

 

[syciprider]

My fave all time guitar riff is


Crap.. I play bass...

 

[edensdad]

Top 5:

SRV - Pride and Joy
Rush - YYZ
Dream Theater - Under a Glass Moon
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
David T. Chastain - Wild and Truly Diminished

Not a Riff, but still one of my favorites: SRV's version of Little Wing

I could go on for days - that's why I limited myself to a top 5.


>^..^<

 

[Sweat]

Great Riffs

Man so many and so many well known ones here a few of my favorites some obvious some not!

Savatage- Handful of Rain
Ozzy(Zakk Wlyde)-No More Tears
Queensryche-Eyes of a Stranger
Tesla-Heavens Trail
Aerosmith-Last Child

 

[JMB27]

So many riffs and so little time ... maybe something like Can't You Hear Me Knocking by The Stones, Europa by Santana, Freeway Jam by Jeff Beck, Texas Flood by SRV .... and maybe, Whipping Post by Allman Bros.

 

[guitrr]

Hmmmm, favorite guitar RIFFS, right? Not songs or solos, but just riffs. OK, here are some of my favorites:

#1, heads above all others: Funk 49 - Joe Walsh and the James Gang


Others I am particularly fond of:

The opening steel riff on the original Sleepwalk - Santos & Johnny

The end of verse break from Pappa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown

Waitin' for the Bus - ZZ Top

Back in Black main riff - AC/DC

Bad to the Bone - George Thoroughgood (but based on countless blues songs)

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love intro - Van Halen

Heartbreaker intro - Led Zep

riff during the break after the drum solo of Whole Lotta Love - Led Zep

Cold Shot - SRV

the slide solo riff from Dixie Chicken - Little Feat

Daytripper - Beatles

main riff from Waitin' on a Friend - Rolling Stones

intro from Machine Gun - Hendrix

intro from Fly by Night - Rush

" " Bad Little Doggie - Gov't Mule

" " Victim of Love - Eagles

" " Fun, Fun, Fun - Beach Boys (heavily inspired by Chuck Berry)

" " Freak Out - Chic (Nile Rogers)

" " Cut the Cake - Average White Band


There you go. Good luck with the article, it's sure going to be hard to whittle down the most notable riffs, there are so many good ones.

Kane

 

[JMB27]

definitely agree on the 3 Fs of riffer madness:

Funk 49Fun, Fun, Funand Freak Out

2 out 3 are still guilty pleasures and the one from Cleveland is just an outright sin

Joel

 

[Sigmunds Couch]

My favorite new/current riff is actually by one of our own. The first time I heard it I was in the deer in the headlights, mouth agape pose. It's definitely got a WOW factor.....

Taint Your World - Luke (Toto - Falling in Between)

 

[Baird]

Although most of the song generally annoys me as I have heard it a million friggin' times, the solo near the beginning of Layla and througout the song (Derek and the Dominos, not Unplugged) is still one of my favorite licks.

 

[wolfbone07]

Robin Trower : Bridge of Sighs, Too Rolling Stoned, Little Bit of Sympathy
Semisonic : FNT
SRV : Couldn't Stand the Weather
Prince : Kiss
YES : Owner of a Lonely Heart
DT : Test that Stumped Them All, Puppies on Acid
Queensryche : You, The Needle Lies, I Don't Believe in Love
Led Zeppelin : Nobody's Fault But Mine, The Rover
Queen : Another One Bites the Dust
Eric Johnson : SRV
Satriani : Summer Song
ACDC : Black in Black, You Shook Me All Night Long
Beatles : Day Tripper
Jeff Healey : See the Light
Jimi Hendrix : Crosstown Traffic
Carl Verheyen : Chinatown
Mr. Big : The Whole World's Gonna Know
Paul Gilbert : Individually Twisted, Let the Computer Decide
Andy Timmons : Super 70's, I Remember Stevie
Jon Finn : Two Monkeys Jump Back
Eagles : Life in the Fast Lane
The Police : Message in a Bottle