Best riff ever

[cloudyday]

 

[rutabowa]

oof

 

[Knotted]

Mannish Boy (and to a lesser extent Hoochie Coochie Man).

 

[killer b]

this still sounds pretty radical 65 years on. amazing

 

[cloudyday]

this still sounds pretty radical 65 years on. amazing

Quality bit of footage. Great guitar sound on this from the same period.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Barney Sumner is the best crap guitarist of all time.

 

[killer b]

Quality bit of footage. Great guitar sound on this from the same period.

nice.

 

[cloudyday]

 

[rutabowa]

I def approve of this new direction you brought to the thread. unsure about if they're "riffs" again (apart from the bo diddley one, that one no doubt is imo). they might be more "licks". But who cares.

 

[cloudyday]

I def approve of this new direction you brought to the thread. unsure about if they're "riffs" again (apart from the bo diddley one, that one no doubt is imo). they might be more "licks". But who cares.

yeah i'm blurring it a bit with green onions.


some quality riffage here

 

[rutabowa]

yeah i'm blurring it a bit with green onions.


some quality riffage here

ohh if we're going black flag i think i pick this (another bass riff, the guitar is just grimey noise widdle)

 

[Hearse Pileup]

I love this thread.

Just remembered this classic.

 

[killer b]

oh this!

 

[Hearse Pileup]

Oh, actually forget my previous link and listen to this instead

 

[cloudyday]

 

[rutabowa]

oh this!

yesss wonderful.
(prob not a riff again tho... it's a slippery thing)

 

[Knotted]

A riff is a repeated musical phrase and is not genre specific. A good one should survive a crummy cover.

 

[Knotted]

Slightly surprised nobody has mentioned this:

 

[Knotted]

The difficulty with jazz riffs is that they always insist on jazzing them up but there's a killer riff in here:

 

[sleaterkinney]

Nirvana had plenty:

 

[Knotted]

 

[SpookyFrank]

Pick any Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song at random and it's probably a contender.

 

[Knotted]

Not had this yet?



And in a different context:

 

[Knotted]

 

[Knotted]

Obvious one:

 

[cloudyday]

solid bass riff, top notch guitar tone shredded on top

 

[Orang Utan]

solid bass riff, top notch guitar tone shredded on top

Bah, not a patch on the original

 

[killer b]

Bah, not a patch on the original

there's a great full Talk Talk show from Montreaux Jazz Festival on youtube, really worth watching/listening if you haven't heard it

 

[cloudyday]

Bah, not a patch on the original

The bass needs a little pause at the end of the second bar to match the original track a bit better. I prefer RSH vocals and guitar

 

[Ax^]