I love rock music, all sorts, but most especially the part of the song where the guitar goes solo and plays a totally amazing guitar riff. Many air-guitar moments where born this way.
I want to find out if you guys feel the same. Tell me what your favourite guitar riffs are.
Persoally, i love the riffs in:
- Hotel carlifornia by The Eagles
- Bohemian Rapsody by Queen
- Mad Machine the soundtrack to Bubblegum Crisis 2034 (anime)
and many more.
I love the Guitar bit in The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. The whole tune is great, but especially the Guitar bit they used for F1 years ago (At least in UK).
I think that would count as a Guitar riff
Probably an electronically generated riff rather than bone-fide but the guitar bit in Daft Punk's Areodynamic is superb. Also the riff in Feeder's Find the Colour is cool!
Lee
I'm not so good at remember things like this. I could list almost every Iron Maiden song, but the main one that springs to mind is Fear of the Dark (which is my ringtone).
Also Layla by Eric Clapton. A bit of a classic guitar riff there, wasn't it a Vauxhall advert once or something?
And it's not a guitar, but the sax in Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty 😊
Eric Clapton and his guitar, definitively. Tears from heaven make me melt on the floor each time. Another great guitarist in my mind is Edge from U2, I just love the hypnotic sound he makes. Neither one is good for air-guitar performances I'm afraid 😊
....my favourites are
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Anyone seen Crossroads?Not the latest Britney Spears movie.The story is about a kid who wants to learn to play the guitar he meets and old guitar player who sold his sole to the devil or something.Its a good movie,I can't remember the details right now.In the end there is a guitar battle between the devil's guitar player and the kid(The kid is actually the kid from karate kid 😃 (I think).The battle is awesome!
[quote="GrammatonCleric"]Anyone seen Crossroads?Not the latest Britney Spears movie.The story is about a kid who wants to learn to play the guitar he meets and old guitar player who sold his sole to the devil or something.Its a good movie,I can't remember the details right now.In the end there is a guitar battle between the devil's guitar player and the kid(The kid is actually the kid from karate kid 😃 (I think).The battle is awesome![/quote]
sounds good!!!
i bet thats where Tenacious D got their idea from for their 'Tribute' song.
You know,i haven't thought of that.although the devil's henchman was not a demon 😃 Tenacious D rock!If anyone decides to search for crossroads,its from 1986,here's a link on imdb: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090888
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This is a great read: http://www.fast-rewind.com/crossroads.htm
What are you guys talking about? A solo that's just built on riffs surely sux!
Licks are better suited to a rythm guitar not a lead guitar (i.e the guitar playing the solo).
I'm sure Slash from Guns'n'Roses made some nice solos in his time but although I'm the bigest Metallica fan in the whole world and although I played most of their songs on my guitar, I have to say that one of favorite solos come from a song by Michael Jackson. the song is "Beat It" from the album "Thriller'.
This solo is played by one of the most famous guitarists of our time. His name escapes me.
One of my favorite solos is the solo in the song "Unforgiven" by "Metallica". This solo is unbelievable I'm telling ya.
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*edit: The second sentence should read Riffs not Licks.
Hurrah for the D! We have two copies of the album after Ewan and I bought it for each other for Christmas and didn't keep the receipts...
Fave at moment is bass solo by Stu Hamm, its got its own name, Country Music it is amazing! 😃
Weeping guitar? Got to be blues, bit of B. B. King or Bo Diddly (sp). Failing that, Joe Satriani or Steve Vai, guitar for the sake of guitar, gorgeous.
joe Satriani's bassist... Stu Hamm!
Steve Vai was in Crossroads,he was the devil's henchman,i think 😊