Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Best guitar riff ever?

Satisfaction -- The Rolling Stones. The story is that it came to Keef in a dream. He woke up, grabbed his guitar and a tape recorder and played it, and went back to sleep.

Satisfaction -- The Rolling Stones. The story is that it came to Keef in a dream. He woke up, grabbed his guitar and a tape recorder and played it, and went back to sleep.

He musta fell asleep listening to Muddy Waters and Otis Redding again.:beer:

Mannish Boy FTW.

Pulmonary Achery

Layla ~ Eric Clapton/Derek & The Domino's

The piano interlude is awesome too, but that's another thread.

rage against the machine....freedom

Ina gadda da vida
Thunderstruck(AC/DC)

.44 calibor love letter

Tom Scholz' solo transition in Hitch A Ride.

Metallica - Master Of Puppets (both the 4/4, 4/4, 4/4, 5/8 structure to the verses and the intro scale climb that James plays on his own) OR
Metallica - Sad But True (try playing the verse OR the chorus and singing it at the same time) OR
Metallica - Blackened (any part)
Coheed And Cambria - Ten Speed Of God's Blood And Burial (Claudio can shred while he sings, which is rare in rhythm guitarists)
RATM - Killing In The Name
Aerosmith - Eat The Rich
G'n'R - Civil War (the layered argeggio in the verses)
Pantera - Coboys From Hell
Killswitch Engage - Breathe Life (very simple, but Adam can make anything effective)
Avenged Sevenfold - And All Things Will End (again, simple, but effecive)
Atreyu - Right Side Of The Bed (the intro in minors and palm muting)
Hoobastank - Crawling In The Dark
Bon Jovi - Dry County
Steve Vai - Bad Horsie
Joe Satriani - Friends OR
Joe Satriani - Summer Song (who said virtuosos weren't meant to write songs you could dance to)
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
MachineHead - Davidian (chug-chug-chug) or Imperium (about the fastest riff you'll ever see exclusively in downpicking)
Edguy - Superheroes
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Iron Maiden - Rainmaker (just because it took them about ten albums to get to, doesn't mean it isn't awesome)
Ozzy Osbourne (Randy Rhoads) - Crazy Train
Trivium - Dying In Your Arms OR
Trivium - Like Light To The Flies (this track was written by a seventeen year old)


Yeah, yeah. I'm metal.

He musta fell asleep listening to Muddy Waters and Otis Redding again.:beer:

Mannish Boy FTW.

Have you ever heard Otis Redding's cover of Satisfaction? It kicks some butt.

Budgie - Breadfan (later covered well by Metallica)
Government Mule - Lola Leave Your Red Light On
Metallica - Four Horsemen
The Breeders - Last Splash (okay, it's a bass riff, sue me :))
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me (stripper national anthem)

Thought of some more:
Pantera - Walk; A New Level
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Motley Crue - Livewire

Yngwie Malmsteen - Evil Eye or Arpeggios From Hell, the whole peice is just mindblowing.
AC/DC - Back In Black, of course...
Master Of Puppets
Judas Priest - Breaking The Law Intro
Thunderstruck - 'nuff said
Dokken/George Lynch - Mr. Scary
Pantera - Walk, Cowboys from Hell, The Art Of Shredding
Metallica - Creeping Death

There is deffinately more out there.

Oh, and one not metal, Waylon Jennings, Good 'Ole Boys - Theme from Duke's of Hazzard

Django Rhinehardt's solo, trading off with Stephan Grappeley's violin solo, in The Hot club of France's version of Tiger Rag from sometime in the 1920's.

The crowing-coheed&cambria

More:

Helmet - Unsung
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Judas Priest - Cathedral Spires (lead in after the acoustic intro) more impressive are the vocals by Ripper Owens especially around 5:15 into the song.

Billy Thorpes "The Nightlife" (http://www.thorpie.com/)

Click Enter, then Audio, then "The Nightlife".....Great blues!

Metallica's version of "Turn the Page"

Tom Scholz' solo transition in Hitch A Ride.

What an obscure song! Yeah, I have always like that one as well.

Honorable mention: Blue Sky - Allman Brothers

Cannonball - the Breeders

Metallica- Fade To Black
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Black Label Society- Fire It Up

Black Label Society- Fire It Up


Matt Heafy of Trivium told a guitar magazine that when bored on the tour bus, the band takes part in a drinking game, to the backing tune of any BLS album. You must drink whenever Zakk plays a pinch harmonic. No-one makes it past the second song.

Matt Heafy of Trivium told a guitar magazine that when bored on the tour bus, the band takes part in a drinking game, to the backing tune of any BLS album. You must drink whenever Zakk plays a pinch harmonic. No-one makes it past the second song.

I have Trivium's cover of Master of Puppets as my Myspace song. Going to see them live in November...and BLS too. My's son's named after Zakk (Prozakk= For Zakk). Zakkary Benjamin (get it...Zakk been jamin'...lol).

What's a pinch harmonic?