Bestest Guitar Riffs

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 15 Jul 2005 05:09

Was just listening to Faith No More's 'Ashes to Ashes' and got to thinking about great guitar riffs in music.

Another would be Deftones 'My Own Summer (Shove It)'. And how about Tool's 'Aenema'? Anyone heard Something For Kate's 'Captain Million Miles An Hour'? Soundgarden's '4th of July'...

What are your favorite guitar riffs?

professor · Post by **professor** » 15 Jul 2005 06:35

This is not exactly a riff as much as a solo, but.....

On Dream Theater's Live Album, John Petrucci does like a 12 min. solo that is INSANE! He's such a sick guitarist and his music is (to quote Napoleon) SWEET.

Chim-Chim · Post by **Chim-Chim** » 15 Jul 2005 08:14

There is one really distinct riff on the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen, it's totally killer.

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » 15 Jul 2005 08:57

Any by Jimi Hendrix!

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 15 Jul 2005 12:54

Weezer does SO many great guitar riffs/solos/buildups, but the best guitar work is in 'only in dreams' in the blue album and the solo in 'death and destruction' from maladroit.

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 15 Jul 2005 13:21

Ironman - Black Sabbath
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Layla - Eric Klapton
Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
Trampled Underfoot - Led Zeppelin
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

jedidove · Post by **jedidove** » 15 Jul 2005 17:15

professor wrote:This is not exactly a riff as much as a solo, but.....

On Dream Theater's Live Album, John Petrucci does like a 12 min. solo that is INSANE! He's such a sick guitarist and his music is (to quote Napoleon) SWEET.

My dad played in a band with Jordan Rudess (keyboards) and is friends with him and my dad's friend is good friends with John Petrucci. Sick Band. Petrucci alone could fill this thread.

There's just too much stuff to even mention. Thats like asking what my favorite songs are.

MegaFighter_X · Post by **MegaFighter_X** » 16 Jul 2005 01:18

good call on ironman..

Another solo part is from a DDR song called "daikenkai" The guitar sounds pissed off... and since it's a solo it's like you're charging up for the rest of the song to be a bigass moshpit.

zachatree · Post by **zachatree** » 16 Jul 2005 02:11

Zeke wrote:Ironman - Black Sabbath
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Layla - Eric Klapton
Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
Trampled Underfoot - Led Zeppelin
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

HELL YAAA

boy knows his music.

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 16 Jul 2005 05:44

led zeppelin - no quarter
tool - lateralus
anything of RaTM's first album
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Chris Cornell - Seasons
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
Tool - 46&2

I could go on and on.

And the bestestest bassline riff would be Winona's Big Brown Beaver from
Primus..

Juice · Post by **Juice** » 16 Jul 2005 06:34

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
AC/DC - Back in Black
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way

I could go on

vanderwax · Post by **vanderwax** » 16 Jul 2005 07:34

the dillinger escape plan - we are the storm SICKEST RIFF EVER IN THIS SONG!
coldplay - fix you
deep purple - child in time (though i guess its more like a 4 minute solo)
at the drive in - quarantined
any song on the newest unearth cd.
come to think of it, every song by the dillinger escape plan too

peanutbuterboy · Post by **peanutbuterboy** » 16 Jul 2005 08:05

Free Bird-Lynerd Skynard

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 17 Jul 2005 03:33

radiohead - paranoid android

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 17 Jul 2005 03:46

ebo wrote: And the bestestest bassline riff would be Winona's Big Brown Beaver from
Primus..

Shake Hands With Beef!

footjoe · Post by **footjoe** » 17 Jul 2005 07:51

Im not to sure what a riff is but I know Pink Floyd has some fucking awesome guitar solos

comfortbly numb naming one of them

Badnfluenc · Post by **Badnfluenc** » 17 Jul 2005 11:43

www.angelo.com
watch the speed lives video he is insane, and yes he is that fast i saw him in person.

Chim-Chim · Post by **Chim-Chim** » 17 Jul 2005 17:53

soundgarden - hand of god, little joe
Queen - killer queen
the Pixies - all over the world, allison
Kyuss - Thee Ol' Boozeroony
T-Rex - Mambo Sun
Frank Zappa- Yellow Snow

Laroche · Post by **Laroche** » 17 Jul 2005 20:04

Ditto on Zappa, he is such a supremely talented musician, I wish I could have seen him live before he died!

LittleBoy footbag · Post by **LittleBoy footbag** » 18 Jul 2005 05:52

wow...I want to go back to footbag.

Anyways, I think that in essence, any Iommi, Clapton, Randy Rhoads, and I'd even have to say some of today's guitarists...like Satriani, Vai and Malmsteen. Obviously, Petrucci HAS to be in this...he's a freakin' virtuoso.

But i think that some songs live even have amazing solos...Keith Richards, for example, he has great solos in the cd Flashpoint....

and oh yeah Unearth's The Oncoming storm....geez I could possibly go on forever but this is what comes to my mind at 8 in the morning.