Call me a classic rock bore, but...



^ A song I don't think I'll ever get sick of as long as I live.



^ My favourite off Humble Pie's uber-awesome debut.

Not to mention a bunch of others I can't think of at the minute.

Humble Pie`s debut is a great album with its sweaty sounding boogie blues rock and an essential late 60`s early 70`s release. This album along with their live album, are two must have albums from Humble Pie.

Yeah, the debut's fantastic, and as if his work with the Small Faces wasn't enough, it's another example of why Steve Marriot's one of the more overlooked talents in rock history. Not heard the live album myself, but I know Smokin's meant to be pretty spectacular too. Funnily enough, it's an album I've had for ages now but never actually listened to.

For some reason I always think of Led Zeppelin, Free and Humble Pie as being the most essential British rock bands of that era as they all released their debut albums around the 1969 period, all had an initial classic rootsy blues sound, fantastic vocalists and great musicians but all quite different as well. Steve Marriot as you mentioned, was very much an established frontman due to his time with Small Faces and certainly deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Robert Plant and Paul Rodgers as a vocalist.............sadly he is often overlooked. By the way their live album IS A MUST listen to, Smokin I never thought was that great but admittedly its been yeeeeeeeeeears sinnce I listened to it and opinions do change.

Baba O Riley's intro three chord riff.
Have A Drink On Me- AC/DC
All Right Now- Free
Whole Lotta Love- Led Zeppelin
The Number Of The Beast- Iron Maiden
Downfall- Children of Bodom
Sweet Child O Mine- Guns N Roses
Limelight- Rush
La Villa Strangiato- Rush (Every Riff in that song is good)
Hallowed Be Thy Name- Iron Maiden
Johnny B. Goode- Chuck Berry

michael jackson - beat it (thanks van halen)
guns n roses - sweet child of mine
the smiths - how soon is now
rage against the machine - killin in the name of
chuck berry - johnny b goode
smashing pumpkins - cherub rock
bush - gylcerine (easy one but damn, it sounds good)
aerosmith - walk this way
tool - sober

and FREEBIRD!!!! haha

then the obvious choices: stairway to heaven, jimi hendrix, lots of allmond brothers' songs, stevie ray vaughan, etc etc.

Bass riffs
"Dazed and Confused" and "The Lemon Song" - Led Zeppelin
"Jerry Was a Racecar Driver", "American Life", "Groundhog's Day", and "Southbound Pachyderm" - Primus
"N.I.B." - Black Sabbath
"Phantom of the Opera" and "The Trooper" - Iron Maiden
"For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Orion" and "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)" - Metallica
"Rotten Apple", "Would?" and "No Excuses" - Alice in Chains

Guitar riffs
"Prequel to the Sequel" - Between the Buried and Me
"Master's Apprentices", "Deliverance", and "Bleak" - Opeth
"Master of Puppets" and "The Call of Ktulu" - Metallica
"Hallowed be thy Name" and "Powerslave" - Iron Maiden
"Know Your Enemy" and "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
"Ocean Planet" and "Backbone" - Gojira
"Bladecatcher" - Mastodon
"Space Truckin'" - Deep Purple
"43% Burnt" - The Dillinger Escape Plan
"A New Level", "I'm Broken", and "Slaughtered" - Pantera

I'm scatter-brained right now. I can't really think of much more.

I wanna be adored- The Stone Roses (bass)
Penetration- The Stooges
Ride the Lightning- Metallica
Nosferatu Man- Slint
Mr. Brownstone- G N R
I wanna be sedated- Ramones
Suck my Kiss- RHCP (bass)

Ride the Lightning has some of the worst vocals by James, and I am a big fan of most Metallica.
If we're talking about bass riffs

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