Best/most memorable rock riff.

I'd say the credit for the riff has to go to the original writer, unless the cover-ers changed the riff for their song...

I went with Sunshine, although there were a few that were tempting....

Bad to the Bone is definitly up there.

I'd say Iron Man is the most memerable, but not the best.

Of the ones listed....Layla plain and simple. I was walking down the street and car passed me by at 40mph and I could tell they were blaring layla as it passed by. :)

I had to vote for Smoke on the Water....

Only because every band I've ever been in has played it. :roll:

And it's the most requested song besides Freebird. :roll: :roll:

I gotta go with Whole Lotta Love by Led Zep. That riff still knocks me out everytime I hear it.

I've looked at this loads of times and still can't make up my mind - any way of changing "other" to "all of the above?"

Apart from those already mentioned, Black Dog - Led Zep. Day Tripper - Beatles. Brown Sugar - The Stones. Burn & Black Night - Deep Purple.

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Vic

So freaking' obvious: Satifaction - The Stones

I prefer You Really Got Me and Sunshine, but Satisfaction is the epitome of the rock riff.

Honorable Mentions, that weren't:

Louis, Louis (I-dunno-da-words frat rock)
Wipeout (surf rock)
Rock and Roll - (lonely led rock)
La Bamba (I-dunno-da-words rock, part II)
Tush - though La Grange is really a better tune and tastier riff

I gotta agree with Greg here: Satisfaction. And I'd place Lennon's "Day Tripper", his answer to the "Satisfaction" riff, right up there at the top too.

I chose Purple Haze, primarily because it's such a definative song that says "This is the Sixties", the riff is technically hard to get right as well (at least for me anyways).

All the other songs are great as well... especially Smoke on the Water. It's the one song that my song plays over and over, he's actually written a song used the riff from Smoke on the Water.

About ten years back, I was at a TV conference in Montreaux. There was this editor setting up his system and he was using Smoke on the Water for a clip that he must have been using. Although in most editors cases, they tend to rock the clip forward and backwards a lot and the sound was loud. I really got sick of the song, while he was playing it that morning. However, when I had a chance to walk back to my hotel I stopped to take a picture of the lake and it was one of those duuuuhhh moments. Here I was in the very city that the song was written about, I laughed as I took my picture of the smoke on the water.

..Satisfaction, good point.

I actually just learned to play Ironman and Sweet Home Alabama. I've been playing Stariway to Heaven and Smoke on the Water for far to long, I have to learn new riffs.

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"I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart."-Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)

the riff from The Fly is pretty darn awesome.

and ANY riff made by my man Tom Morello is a cut above the rest.

That is an awesome song man. Fly, Acrobat and Ultraviolet are my favs from Achtung Baby.

Hey, Howz about "Mannish Boy" ? A great riff by Muddy Waters, Start playing that at a jam and it usally gets just about everyone to go off in all kind of directions!

Mannish Boy is easily one of the top ten blues songs of all time. But its not quite rock. And, correct me if im wrong. I dont think that the origional riff to the song was actually a guitar riff. Wasnt it a trumpet riff with Muddy playing slide over it?

I gotta go with Whole Lotta Love by Led Zep. That riff still knocks me out everytime I hear it.

I sat here and said, "I don't think I ever tried that one?".

Well, I have now and it's just as much fun playing it as it is listening to it! :D

Just thought I would share! :)

Thanks Wes!

Mike