most recognizable opening riffs

[lovelynugget]

La Grange ZZTop I (Someone, if willing, embed the damn thing. Is a Winner!).

Sure, Senor G.

 

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[Miguel Gierbolini]

Thanks lonug. La Grange IS the RIFFest of the RIFFests. The whole song is a riff.

[Behemoth]

I can play the opening riff from "Smoke on the Water". I do not count this among my greatest achievements.

 

Nor should you. But the best SOTW story I ever heard was in an interview with Tommy Lee, erstwhile drummer of the Crüe. (aka Mr. Anderson-Locklear.)

 

Apparently his first instrument, bought by well-meaning parents, was an accordion. He figured out the opening chords of smoke on the water and went to town on the thing out his bedroom window. Next morning on the way to school

 

-dude were you playing an accordion last night?

-nah, man, that was a guitar.

 

I don't feel like looking through the whole thread. I assume Iron Man has been covered.

[rancho_gordo]

The drum beat, bass line and finger snaps spell only Fever by Peggy Lee.

[Behemoth]

The drum beat, bass line and finger snaps spell only Fever by Peggy Lee.

 

Oh, did anyone mention These Boots are Made for Walking?

[Jaymes]

Delilah

 

 

[SRD]

Delilah

Nice one.

 

[ivan]

I can play the opening riff from "Smoke on the Water". I do not count this among my greatest achievements.

 

Nor should you. But the best SOTW story I ever heard was in an interview with Tommy Lee, erstwhile drummer of the Crüe. (aka Mr. Anderson-Locklear.)

 

Apparently his first instrument, bought by well-meaning parents, was an accordion. He figured out the opening chords of smoke on the water and went to town on the thing out his bedroom window...

 

 

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[Behemoth]

NICE.

 

(Where've you been, anyway??)

[ivan]

Oh, here and there.

 

Here's another one for this seemingly inexhaustible thread: School's Out!

 

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This one requires the DEN notation.

 

 

[hollywood]

It's next to impossible to move back or forth in this thread. I'm guessing it's because there's so much video loaded on the thread. So, not knowing what's been cited, I'll just throw out a lot of CCR, Ricky Don't Lose That Number, Sweet Home Alabama, Light My Fire, Los Angeles (X), Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, That Thing, You're Gonna Miss Me, a lot of Chuck Berry (of course it's easy to recognize, but hard to figure out which song it's meant to be), Sweet Jane, a lot of Cream has good riffs but you don't hear Cream much these days, Paper Planes (M.I.A.).

[ghostrider]

Takes a spell to get to the song, sorry, hard to find a good clip:

 

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[g.johnson]

Sweet Jane

Good call.

[mongo_jones]

Crazy busy day, will have to go back and read this later perhaps, so slap me down if these have been mentioned: Psycho Killer, Brown Sugar.

 

Bears repeating. I recognize it from the first chord. So do millions.

 

I was going to mention Hard Day's Nigth's opening chord, but that's not a riff.

 

read the first, and most correct, post, you goddamned communist.

[mongo_jones]

I don't feel like looking through the whole thread. I assume Iron Man has been covered.

 

you too, moron!