Best rock guitar riffs and solos ever.

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  1. bayareatiger

    bayareatiger If it's too loud YOU'RE TOO OLD

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    Riffs:

    Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie (Mick Ronson was a genius RIP)
    Gimme Shelter - Stones (Quite possibly one of the most powerfully mesmerizing intros ever to a rock'n'roll song)
    Black Dog - Zeppelin (Supposedly after they wrote this riff Page and John Paul Jones would fall down laughing every time they played the riff)
    Revolution - The Bea'uls (Blew my ears out with this when I was 11 years old)

    Solos:

    Starship Trooper - Yes - live off Yessongs (Steve Howe plays one of the greatest live guitar solos EVER on this after Chris Squire's bass solo and Rick Wakeman's synth solo)
    Don't Do It - The Band - live off Rock Of Ages (Robbie Robertson plays like a banshee on this. Screamin'.)
    Peace Frog - The Doors (Robby Krieger provides 13 seconds of sheer bliss)

    Gimme some time, I'll think of some more. :wink:
    Lots of other great songs and riffs already above.
     
  2. bayareatiger

    bayareatiger If it's too loud YOU'RE TOO OLD

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    Nice try, but not the original live LP version.

    BTW that original LP was taken from a week's worth of shows at a fabled Bay Area music venue, Winterland. It was torn down in '78, a year before I arrived here. :bncry: Thank God we've still got The Fillmore.
     
  3. bayareatiger

    bayareatiger If it's too loud YOU'RE TOO OLD

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    IMO Prince's greatest solo on record. Dude shows he's got it.
     
  4. Tiger Dabbs

    Tiger Dabbs T.D.

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    This list is f'n awesome.:thumb:
     
  5. TexasTigers

    TexasTigers Are You With Me ?

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    The fact no one has mentioned

    Ted Nugent - Stranglehold.

    That is one of the greatest guitar riffs ever.
    I would toss in the beginning of Great White Buffalo as well.
     
  6. COramprat

    COramprat Simma Da Na

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    I thought about that one after reading the top 100...
     
  7. TexasTigers

    TexasTigers Are You With Me ?

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    I would put Stranglehold in the top 5 with

    1. Voodoo Child - Hendrix
    2. Stanglehold - Nuge
    3. Falling off the edge of the world - Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi (spelling is wrong i think)
    4. Aint talking about Love - Van Halen
    5. Over the hills and far away - Jimmy Page

    (my personal favorites)
    although Queensryche is my favorite band and think everything they do is fantastic.
     
  8. Richdog

    Richdog 02 Cecilia alumni champs

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    Good one there!

    Riffs-
    Aerosmith-Walk this way!
    Rush-YYZ
     
  9. friedriches

    friedriches mr. t

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    Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand has a good riff.

    But IDK anything about music.
     
  10. HatcherTiger

    HatcherTiger Freedom Isn't Free

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