Best guitar riffs of all time?

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Goodfield Nohit
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While playing my new Tele last night, I got to wondering, what are your favorite guitar riffs?

My list looks like this:

Layla
Voodoo Child
Cinnamon Girl
Sweet Child o' Mine
Can You Hear Me Knockin'?


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Guitar solo in Whole Lotta Love
China Grove
Life in the Fast lane
Fortunate Son
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Runnin with the devil
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A radio show I listen to did a big tournament about this, specifically riffs and not solos. The winner was Money for Nothing by Dire Straits.
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Rule #1 on the Tele
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If you're just talking riffs, start with Sabbath. Tony Iommi is the riff king.
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Long Cool Woman - Hollies
Highway to Hell - ACDC
Anything done by Led Zep
What you need - INXS
Satisfaction, HTW - Stones
Heart and Soul - H. Lewis and the News
Are you gonna go my way - Kravitz
Her Strut - Seger

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Sultans of swing - dire straits

Criminally underrated song.

Layla I think is number one, Sultans of swing is a close second.
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Nice call on FBG

Rebel Rebel - Bowie
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Allman Brothers-Jessica (just one long as riff)
Sublime-what I got
AC/DC-back in black
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JBG - Chuck Berry

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Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Metallica - Seek & Destroy
Scorpions - The Sails Of Charon
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Sabbath - Paranoid
Pour some sugaron me - def
Stricken - disturbed
Zz top - sharp dressed man
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Pour some sugaron me - def
Zz top - sharp dressed man
Two horrible crimes against rock music by formerly great bands.
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You Really Got Me - Kinks
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Hinder - Lips of an Angel
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SLTS - Nirvana
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Hinder - Lips of an Angel
Get a new joke, man. This one is older than your mom.
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Guitar solo in Whole Lotta Love
China Grove
These two and Voodoo Child
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Get it on - T. Rex
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Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
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Best riff in the game right here

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A radio show I listen to did a big tournament about this, specifically riffs and not solos. The winner was Money for Nothing by Dire Straits.


That one is pretty strong.
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Hinder - Lips of an Angel
Get a new joke, man. This one is older than your mom.
F you, lump.
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No love for Little Wing by SRV? The whole thing is badass.
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Y'all can laugh, but Beat It has a great riff.
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Ah crap, thought I put that one on my list.
Yes, SRV's version is top notch
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Y'all can laugh, but Beat It has a great riff.
The solo is better.
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Y'all can laugh, but Beat It has a great riff.
The solo is better.


This is true, but we arent talking solos.
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John Petrucci playing Paradigm Shift is damned impressive.

80s Guy
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While playing my new Tele last night, I got to wondering, what are your favorite guitar riffs?

My list looks like this:

Layla
Voodoo Child
Cinnamon Girl
Sweet Child o' Mine
Can You Hear Me Kockin'?



Pretty good list of riffs...

Several others already mentioned after this list are good too,

The opening riff on Paradise City may not be an all time great, but I always dug it.
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No love for Little Wing by SRV? The whole thing is badass.


There's another guy who plays that song real well too. I forget his name, but it's really something you should experience.
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Rule #1 on the Tele
Here ya go


 
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