Guitar: Favourite Riff/Favourite Solo
 

Ok so another favourites thread, yippy ****ing kye yai yay.

Give me your all time guitar favourites:

1. Favourite riff in a song e.g Led Zep - Whole Lotta Love

and

2. Favourite solo in a song e.g Guns N Roses - Sweet Child

Obviously your tastes change so if you post once you can easily come back and make an advancement. I will let you away with that.

Mine right now:

1. Alice in Chains - We Die Young
2. Pearl Jam - Alive

1. Aspirations - Between the Buried and Me. the opening riff is gorgeous

2. Symbiotic in Theory - Necrophagist. best metal solo ever.

1. Converge "Homewrecker" the intro is amazing.
2. Dragonforce "My Spirit Will Go On" The solo is also amazing.

Achilies last stand by zeppelin, that song is insane, and has so many tight riffs, and quite possibly the thightest solo ever. Ok maby not but it is still a really tight solo.

favourite riff in a song, you're worst mistake by strung out, the opening riff, once i hear it its always stuck in my head. and for fav solo, probably the bass solo on maxwell murder by rancid, freeman owns.

Riff, Personal jesus

Solo, Enter Sandman (I don't knw why)

I like the new coheed 'welcome home' riffs/solo pretty gnarl if ya ask me.

OH and thrice posting made me remember.

That bass line in thrice's "stare at the sun" is orgasmicandthirtyfour.

Favourite Riff: Danzig - How The Gods Kill
Favourite Solo: Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms Of Death

Riff - Heartbreaker.

Solo - Anything by David Gilmour or Steve Howe.

Hendrix, Page and EVH are also some of my favorite riff makers and soloists.

Riff: Eagles - Hotel California
Solo: Iron Maiden - Afraid To Shoot Strangers

fave riff: slayer, reign in blood
fav solo: Nevermore, final product

Riff: Cowboys from hell (Pantera)
Solo: Mask of sanity (Children of Bodom)

Ohhhh theres so many choices for riffs ohh

Riff: Decapitated- Babylons Pride or Pantera- ****in' Hostile (Sorry couldn't choose)

Solo: Children of Bodom- Bodom Beach Terror

Its so hard to choose just one favourite riff! Theres so many good ones!

i'm not a huge fan of david gilmour. he never seems that imaginitave to me on his solos, its wailing on the major scale for god knows how long. thats what gives it the completely melodic feel, but still, he could change it up here and there.

riff-ten years gone - Zeppelin
solo-Dazed and confused (Live on the Song Remains The Same)

also kind of a riff but is my favorite opening to a song ever is won't get fooled again by the who

Its so ****ing hard to name my favorite riff,,,so many good ones

But one of my favorite riffs is from metallica the thing that should not be

off of master of puppets track 3

One of my favorite guitar solos is by dimebag of pantera from the song floods

and also walk.

Both badass solos.

Hand of Blood by Bullet for my valentine, fecking love that riff.

Riff: Highway Star
Solo: Since I've Been Loving You

Riff: Ravenous by Arch Enemy
Solo: Kissing the Shadows by Children of Bodom

Im changing my solo.

Dimebag Darrel - Little Wing.

Download it, I know it's not the original but he has done a masterful job of it!

hmm....tough choice.

my favorite riff would have to be the intro riff to "the light that blinds" by shadows fall....pure power.

my favorite solo...probably the solo from "i wont see you tonight" by avenged, or from stairway to heaven. i dont know though...there are probably ones that i like even more that i just cant think of right now.

1. Debra Kadabra - Zappa and Beefheart - it lacks tonality but i love it!
2. The acoustic solo in Who are You is my favourite at the moment

Ok changed my mind!

Riff: Decapitated- Babylons Pride and Usurper- Slavehammer

Solo: Decapitated- The Fury, its not much of a solo length wise, but sends a shiver down my spine whenever I hear it...

yeah that intro riff is pure guitar genious!!!!!!!

i always thought the riff in money was pretty good, its so simple yet it goes perfect with the song

^ Good Call. Money has a great riff.

I don't think my answer will ever stay consistant.

I've just changed my favourite riff to that of Smoke On the Water - Deep Purple. They used to play that out at the speedway over here, apart from the big sprintcars thats all I went out there for, because of that song.

There's more to the "GLEN" than big sprintcars and and Ritchie fecking Blackmore.As it goes I'm actually doing a ramp derby on the 26th December:thumb:

there are tons of great riffs. Almost any song by zeppelin has a great riff in it (whole lotta love, kashmir, ten years gone, in my time of dying, over the hills and far away, bring it on home, etc.).
Heres a little list ive put together of some great riffs:
-sunshine of your love - cream
-Johnny B Goode - chuck berry
-back in black - ac/dc
-voodoo child - hendrix
-purple haze - "
-hey joe - "
-sweet home alabama - skynard
-aqualung - jethro tull
-outshined - soundgarden
-walk this way - aerosmith
-money for nothin - dire straits
-frankenstein - edgar winter
-brown sugar - the stones
-dont fear the reaper - blue oyster cult
-pinball wizard - the who
-up around the bend - creedence
-under the bridge - chili peppers
-Aenima - tool
-You shook me all night long - ac/dc
-rockin in the free world - neil young
-love me two times - the doors
-barracuda - heart
-limelight - rush
-come as you are - nirvana
-spoonman -soundgarden
-rock you like a hurricane - scorpions
-man in the box - alice in chains

those are about all that i can think of right now although im sure there are many other great riffs out there. I think that all in all Jimmy page was the master at coming up with some of the most awesome riffs of all time.

Really?! You race at the "GLEN"?! And I love them damn ramp derby's, I've only ever seen one. This one little black honda civic outlasted a field of station wagons and everything. It was fantastic. I mess the Glen haven't been there in ages. Dad stopped going when the sealed the roads up so there was no shingle to go do skids on:laughing:

No we just haven't gotten around to going out there much lately. Awesome place. Better than the speedway out by Ruapuna. Dad does circuit racing at Ruapuna though.

im changing my mind......my new favorite solo is the solo from ozzy's "goodbye to romance". pure sex in my opinion.

Only derbys and 50 lappers.Can't afford to regularly race a car there.

fav solo shelf in the room by days of the new

fav riff the shame by flogging mary

thats awesome to see a days of the new fan in here, meeks is awesome on the acoustic, very underrated

not quite as good as jimmy page though on the acoustic though

which guitarist do u think is better jimmy hendrix, or jimmy page?

hendrix

why?

page

he was more of a pioneer, and more a showman. he had it all. page was amazing as well but IMO hendrix takes the cake