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Ok...greatest opening guitar riffs..I'll start.. (Original Post) clarice Jul 2016 OP
Rebel, Rebel. nt raccoon Jul 2016 #1
Paperback Writer Tom Kitten Jul 2016 #2
One Way Out; Layla; Aqualung Number9Dream Jul 2016 #3
All along the watchtower Ron Obvious Jul 2016 #4
Johnny B. Goode Throd Jul 2016 #5
Why would you prefer Hendrix to the orignal? malthaussen Jul 2016 #35
Ohio rug Jul 2016 #6
Neil Young DianaForRussFeingold Jul 2016 #18
Love your post. Thanks. eom PufPuf23 Jul 2016 #27
This needs to be on the list, somewhere. MADem Jul 2016 #7
Nobody's ever heard it gratuitous Jul 2016 #8
Once upon a time in the west Doc_Technical Jul 2016 #9
I love that movie. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #50
I've seen it over and over and I agree with you. yardwork Jul 2016 #64
Well, there's 'Overture 1383' Populist_Prole Jul 2016 #10
Muse. Muse. IcyPeas Jul 2016 #11
That's all right Enrique Jul 2016 #12
Cliffs of Dover... Eric Johnson Callmecrazy Jul 2016 #13
Yes, yes, yes!!! My thoughts exactly. MH1 Jul 2016 #15
Easy... WiffenPoof Jul 2016 #14
Slow Death Tom Kitten Jul 2016 #16
Another version of Slow Death with original band. PufPuf23 Jul 2016 #26
What this song needs is...more maracas! Tom Kitten Jul 2016 #28
Fantastic acoustic run... catnhatnh Jul 2016 #17
Thanks, Great music! Peter Frampton, Do You Feel Like We Do DianaForRussFeingold Jul 2016 #19
Roundabout by Yes mike in raleigh Jul 2016 #20
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple lastlib Jul 2016 #21
Give Blood - Pete Townshend Nac Mac Feegle Jul 2016 #22
Money for Nothing-- Dire Straits ailsagirl Jul 2016 #23
Gotta go with 10 Years After.. Going Home likesmountains 52 Jul 2016 #24
Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac Tom Kitten Jul 2016 #25
Lou Reed Adsos Letter Jul 2016 #29
I used to jam with Dick Wagner. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #43
Can't You Hear Me Knocking-Stones Mendocino Jul 2016 #30
Ramblin' Man -- The Allman Brothers Iggo Jul 2016 #31
Iron Man -- Black Sabbath Iggo Jul 2016 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Jul 2016 #33
Purple Haze. hobbit709 Jul 2016 #34
Rocket Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2016 #36
A couple from Rush. Because Rush is teh awesome. Dr. Strange Jul 2016 #37
Brian Eno - Sky Saw progressoid Jul 2016 #38
Maybe this....from 1973 Tikki Jul 2016 #39
How about a little Satriani? jmowreader Jul 2016 #40
It has to be Iron Man for me IgelJames4 Jul 2016 #41
I think these 3 are my top 3 favorites Separation Jul 2016 #42
While My Guitar Gently Weeps Ken Burch Jul 2016 #44
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by Hendrix ok_cpu Jul 2016 #45
Now Your Ships Are Burned - Yngwie Malmsteen sofa king Jul 2016 #46
Steve Hunter, the intro to "Sweet Jane" on "Rock n Roll Animal" mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #47
This message was self-deleted by its author mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #48
I saw Alice Cooper's first solo tour. Hunter and Wagner were incredible. CBGLuthier Jul 2016 #52
I saw it as well. I was 12. Changed my life. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #55
Are Chapman Sticks allowed? mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #49
Excellent choices. progressoid Jul 2016 #57
Please delete this thread. I have to go home. (Just kidding. The thread is great.) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #51
Don't Take Me Alive- Steely Dan callous taoboy Jul 2016 #53
Some fine choices. For sone reason I thought of Los Lonely Boys: panader0 Jul 2016 #54
A Shot in the Dark nightbloomer Jul 2016 #56
Rush: Limelight Still In Wisconsin Jul 2016 #58
THE KINKS. You really got me. cliffordu Jul 2016 #59
PINBALL WIZARD. cliffordu Jul 2016 #60
How in the Name of Robert Johnson could you NOT post These Three??? Night Watchman Jul 2016 #61
Those are excellent... I didn't want to hog all of the glory.lol clarice Jul 2016 #63
J J Cale-Cocaine hobbit709 Jul 2016 #62
The opening of Repo Man mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 #65

Tom Kitten

(7,350 posts)
2. Paperback Writer
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 01:44 PM
Jul 2016

Satisfaction
Iron Man
any of half a dozen or so from Van Halen's 1st album
All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix version)

malthaussen

(17,217 posts)
35. Why would you prefer Hendrix to the orignal?
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 11:08 AM
Jul 2016


Note-for-note the same, and Chuck Berry doesn't fuzz it up.

-- Mal

DianaForRussFeingold

(2,552 posts)
18. Neil Young
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:00 PM
Jul 2016
"Buffalo Springfield was an American rock band renowned both for its music and as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Richie Furay. Among the first wave of American bands to become popular in the wake of the British invasion, the group combined rock, folk, and country music into a sound all its own. Its million-selling song "For What It's Worth" became a political anthem for the turbulent late 1960s.

'Rockin' In The Free World' Live SNL 1989

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts)
50. I love that movie.
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:47 PM
Jul 2016

In a post elsewhere, I said that sometimes I think King Crimson is the best band from the '60s. Well, sometimes I think this is the best movie of all time.

I've seen "Citizen Kane" in a movie theater, when it came around on its 50th anniversary. There is no comparison with seeing it on TV. I've also seen "Once Upon a Time in the West" in a movie theater, but that was also over 25 years ago. It's on TV all the time, but even on a flatscreen, you know you are seeing only a pale imitation of the real film.

Thanks for posting this.

MH1

(17,608 posts)
15. Yes, yes, yes!!! My thoughts exactly.
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 08:03 PM
Jul 2016

Whenever anyone asks that question.

That literally plays in my head.

Tom Kitten

(7,350 posts)
28. What this song needs is...more maracas!
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:13 AM
Jul 2016

This is a great version! That's Chris Wilson singing and on lead maracas, though. He joined after original singer Roy Loney left. Although Roy cowrote the song he never recorded it with the band!

Here's another version, by the Dictators in 1977. A little faster, more punkish, but maybe even...better?

DianaForRussFeingold

(2,552 posts)
19. Thanks, Great music! Peter Frampton, Do You Feel Like We Do
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 10:09 PM
Jul 2016

"Peter Frampton's performance , 'Do You Feel Like We Do', at Burt Sugarman's Midnight Special, circa 1975."



Edgar Winter

lastlib

(23,309 posts)
21. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 11:32 PM
Jul 2016

Inna-Gadda-da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
And, of course, Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin!
Ridin' the Storm Out - REO Speedwagon

Nac Mac Feegle

(971 posts)
22. Give Blood - Pete Townshend
Mon Jul 11, 2016, 11:38 PM
Jul 2016

Last edited Tue Jul 12, 2016, 11:50 AM - Edit history (1)

He has a friend of his doing the lead guitar. David Gilmour. Eerie.

Tom Kitten

(7,350 posts)
25. Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:30 AM
Jul 2016

This is fun...thinking of songs crammed back in the memory log somewhere...Plus you find the neatest things - like this!
A live version of "Oh Well" from British TV, 1969...

Mendocino

(7,511 posts)
30. Can't You Hear Me Knocking-Stones
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:45 AM
Jul 2016

Stay With Me-Faces

Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad-Derek and the Dominoes

I Feel Fine-Beatles

James Gang-Walk Away



Iggo

(47,571 posts)
31. Ramblin' Man -- The Allman Brothers
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:50 AM
Jul 2016

More of a fanfare, really, as it just exists to get your attention and bring you over to the song.

They do kind of an inside-out recall of it right before the middle solo. (At about 1:06 on this video.)

Iggo

(47,571 posts)
32. Iron Man -- Black Sabbath
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 02:00 AM
Jul 2016

Another fanfare, announcing the arrival of a song of importance.

Eight beats and a released bend on the low E string.

Changed my life.

Response to clarice (Original post)

 

IgelJames4

(50 posts)
41. It has to be Iron Man for me
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 05:56 PM
Jul 2016

So memorable and powerful even after all these years. Stairway to Heaven's opening is also great.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
44. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 08:54 PM
Jul 2016

(which was also, weirdly, the moment Eric Clapton invented the true George Harrison guitar sound. Go figure.)

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
46. Now Your Ships Are Burned - Yngwie Malmsteen
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 01:59 PM
Jul 2016



And as an added bonus, here's one you might have missed:




Featuring the inimitable Leather Leone on vocals, who recently came out of retirement.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts)
47. Steve Hunter, the intro to "Sweet Jane" on "Rock n Roll Animal"
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:10 PM
Jul 2016

Last edited Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:50 PM - Edit history (1)

Rock n Roll Animal

I see it's already here (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018881096#post29). I should have known. Oh, well, no reason not to listen to it twice.

Steve Hunter

Dick Wagner

In 1967, during the Vietnam War, Hunter was drafted into the Army, trained as an x-ray technician, and served in an air evacuation hospital in Okinawa, Japan where Vietnam combat casualties were being treated. He considered becoming a doctor but he enjoyed music so much he knew he would follow a career in music.

After his service in the Army, he returned to Decatur where he built a reputation as a gifted guitar player. One day he got a telephone call from his Decatur friend, John "Polar Bear" Sauter, that changed his life.

My copy is warped. It still plays. I listened to this so many times.

AR turntable. Grace 707 tonearm. Dynaco vacuum tube preamp and a pair of Dynaco Stereo 70 vacuum power amps. The original Magnepans.

Totally old school, and totally high fidelity. No compressed files pretending to be some sort of reproduction of music.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.



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Lance Bass esquire

(671 posts)
55. I saw it as well. I was 12. Changed my life.
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 09:58 PM
Jul 2016

25 years later I was working with Dick.
Played live and in studio with him and co-produced/wrote with him on 4 albums.

Him and Steve were the dynamic duo for sure.

He is missed.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts)
49. Are Chapman Sticks allowed?
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:25 PM
Jul 2016

This starts with one.

Sometimes I think King Crimson is the best band from the '60s.

Robert Fripp for president.



This has to be seen to be believed:



I like 801's version, but this is great:



Greg Howard

Okay, then, Phil Manzanera, from "801 Live." This is my favorite song, from my favorite song:

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts)
51. Please delete this thread. I have to go home. (Just kidding. The thread is great.)
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 05:03 PM
Jul 2016

Last edited Thu Jul 14, 2016, 12:04 PM - Edit history (1)

They're going to lock the office sooner or later.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts)
65. The opening of Repo Man
Thu Jul 14, 2016, 12:09 PM
Jul 2016

Another poster linked to Iggy Pop.

Here's more Iggy. I just finished watching the DVD of Repo Man last night. It takes me about three nights to watch a DVD. I watch a little and fall asleep. The next night, I watch a little more and fall asleep again. Lather, rinse, repeat.



Longer and with the lyrics. You'll hear this at the end of the movie.



By the way, the car has two different license plates in the movie. One plate shows up in the opening sequence and trailer. Another is on the car elsewhere in the movie.
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