Slash: curlers, top hat plus Fender, the emblematic guitarist of the Guns. Picture Austin Nelson
“Game of the game, gentlemen, gentlemen.” Or better yet: “You make games, rockers!”
The slogan: what is the best riff in rock history? (Riff, we say, should not be confused with the best solo). A riff is a phrase that serves as a musical motif throughout a song and gives it a recognizable character. The solo depends on the inspiration of the moment and, by definition, it does not repeat itself, it varies with each interpretation.
From Chuck Berry to here -in the mid ’50s until now-, and according to each listener’s passion for music, of course, the answers can be very varied, of course. And if something forms this kind of lists – a special magazine initiative ultimateguitar– These are surprises.
slash. His riff, chosen as the best. Picture Austin Nelson
Because, let’s be honest, it’s enough to listen to this slogan to think first of all – it’s happening to us – in guitar heroes like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page or Keith Richards. But not.
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Although in this case, it is true, the winner agrees the vote of 1500 consulted of the company Muse Group, publisher of ultimateguitar and creators of software for musicians – there’s reason to brag. what to call it slashthe iconic violist of Guns N ‘Roses, and it is because of that notes that glow and cut in his classic My tender childfrom his debut album, Appetite of Destructionsince 1987.
The survey yielded many surprises, including emblematic water smokeby Deep Purple, just released at number 16that among the first five places a composition by King of Leon was cast and that was among the first ten songs selected Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones or AC/DC don’t come outjust to name a few curiosities.
Second place went to Tiger’s eyeeighties classic that served as the curtain for the film Rocky III is defined by surviveda pool that can be enrolled within calls “a hit band”denomination for groups known only for having a great success throughout their careers.
In third place is a piece recognized for its bass line rather than its guitar riff and this is it Another Bite of Dustfrom What in; he obeyed sex burns, by the Lion King, and close the top 5 Stairway to Heavenby Led Zeppelin.
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A riff is a phrase that serves as a musical motif throughout a song and provides a recognizable character to the composition.
The following is the list of 30 riffs selected in the survey conducted by Muse Group.
1) “My Sweet Child”, Guns N ‘Roses.
2) “Eye of the Tiger”, survived.
3) “Another Bite of the Dust”, What in.
4) “Sex on Fire”, Lion King.
5) “Stairway to Heaven”, Led the Zeppelin.
Robert Plant asked for “loud applause” for his Zeppelin partner, guitarist Jimmy Page. Photo by AFP
6) “Talohin”, michael jackson
7) “Amoy Teen Spirit”, Nirvana.
8) “Sweet Home Alabama”, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
9) “Layla”, Eric Clapton.
Eric Clapton (“is God!”, London graffiti commands: a God) was chosen for his classic “Layla”.
10) “Money for Nothing”, Say the Straits.
11) “Purple Haze”, Jimi Hendrix.
12) “The Chain”, Fleetwood Mac.
13) “Back to Black”, AC DC.
Brian Johnson, voice of the singer, and Angus Young on six strings, signed with AC/DC.
14) “The Ace of Spades”, Motorhead.
15) “Walk Here”, Aerosmith.
16) “Water Smoke”,Deep purple.
17) “You Really Got Me”, The Kinks.
In the riff of “You Really Got Me”, by Kinkz, the germ of what we would call punk was spotted.
18) “The Wall”, Pink Floyd.
19) “Ring of Fire”, Johnny Cash.
20) “I Love Rock’n’Roll”, Joan Jett.
21) “Voodoo Child”, Jimi Hendrix.
Hendrix model ’67: invented a new language for the electric guitar. (By the way, look at those “fingers”). Photo by AFP
22) “Born to Be Wild”,Steppenwolf.
23) “Seven Nation Army”, The White Stripes.
24) “Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No)”, The Rolling Stones.
25) “Come as You”, Nirvana.
And the first is punk, from the ’90s, with Kurt Cobain as the new star/martyr, is grunge. Photo by AP
26) “Whole Lotta Love”, Led the Zeppelin.
27) “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, Arctic Monkeys.
28) “Message in a Bottle”, The police.
29) “Sige na”, Free.
30) “Brown Sugar”, The Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and his loyal Fender Telecaster, a powerhouse of stone riffs that spans several generations now. And they went on … Photo Martín Bonetto
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Source: Clarin