top 40 rock riffs

[briggie]

Its a sort-off follow-on to Driving songs.
Again it the result to a poll carried out by a radio station. What are Rock Riffs? They are that chunk of guitar playing that can turn us all into "air guitarists"..

1) Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
2) Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
3) Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
4) AC DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
5) Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
6) Derek & The Dominoes - Layla
7) Free - All Right Now
8) Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
9) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10) Deep Purple - Burn
11) AC DC - Back In Black
12) Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
13) Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
14) Metallica - Enter Sandman
15) Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
16) Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
17) Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
18) Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
19) Aerosmith - Walk This Way
20) AC DC - Highway to Hell
21) Black Sabbath - Iron Man
22) Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
23) Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
24) Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
25) Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
26) Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
27) AC DC - Thunderstruck
28) Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar
29) UFO - Rock Bottom
30) Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone
31) Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
32) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
33) Rush - Spirit of Radio
34) Status Quo - Caroline
35) Pink Floyd - Money
36) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
37) Iron Maiden - The Trooper
38) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
39) Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
40) Guns n Roses - Paradise City

[(RIP) PLANK]

cool, i wouldn't have put them in the same order and a couple not in there at all, but I can see why they were chosen.

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

so how many can you claim to have heard live then?

ok, i'll start with the two g'n'r tracks at monsters of rock
donington '88 and axel's left overs at sheffield arena 2006.

metallica sandman also sheffield arena 92 i think.

not a maiden fan but also headlined above monsters and
later same year at whitley bay...bonny lad.?

[(RIP) PLANK]

[QUOTE=Thomas-the-Terrano2;97242]so how many can you claim to have heard live then?

QUOTE]

i've read the list carefully and i may be wrong, so forgive me if i am, but the answer is ..................................none! :o

[makeitfit]

Now that's what I call Driving riffs ever:D
Seen Dire Straits and the Floyd :cool:
Was at a gig where Jethro was on but mised the Tull :lol

[Darwin]

i would add the riff from ''a kind of magic''

[paulp]

bob seger and turn the page (or metallica)
Simple man - lynard skyard

both are always in the car

paulp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe7yOccqdxI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs

[macabethiel]

So where is "Living on the Edge" by Aerosmith ?

[makeitfit]

Sensational Alex Harvey Band :sly
Faith Healer, pref live version :naughty

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

funny was walking round a toy shop on a retail park today, they
were playing a yorkshire station when up popped g'n'r sweet child
of mine, impromptu head banging ensued!

made think not bad classic rock song being played on a mainstream
station in a shop, 23 years after was released and dont recall it
getting that sort of airing on radio back in the day. back then would
have to stay up late to listen to tommy vance on radio 1 or even
during night record raw power hour, on the betamax....