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Greatest Guitar Riff of the 1960s
YellowSnow
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Greatest Guitar Riff of the 1960s 19 votes
Day Tripper - The Beatles
15%
3 votes
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
10%
2 votes
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
15%
3 votes
You Really Got Me - The Kinks
5%
1 vote
Heart Full of Soul - The Yardbirds
0%
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
5%
1 vote
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
15%
3 votes
Communication Breakdown - Zeppelin
0%
Substitute - The Who
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
31%
6 votes
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Layla
Worried 'bout u…
Released
March 1971
‘All Along the Watchtower’ by Jimi Hendrix
If you remember the when the 60s stopped you weren't there
Nope. I wasn't.
I can appreciate the 50s bleeding into the early 60s and same for late 60s bleeding into the early 70s, and so forth.
But for this exercise I gotta put Layla in the 70s
This must've been a tough list to make. I feel like you left a lot out, but it's a tough one that I wouldn't have taken on.
It's Day Tripper from this list though. I Feel Fine would've also sufficed.
There are 30 or so riffs that are good enough for this, or I could have done it by year.
Day Tripper is 1A Beatles for me with I Feel Fine as 1B
3 cultural ends to the 60s
January 1969 Nixon takes office
May 4 1970 you can get killed for protesting. (white division)
January 1972 the draft is mothballed
I thought Black Sabbath came out in 1969 so I spent a few minutes trying to to pick the best riff from that. Probably just stick with NIB as it's the most iconic.
Then I saw that it was 1970.
You missed the lead.
Best riff from 60s Zep is Whole Lotta Love.
House of The Rising Sun should be on the list.
Or Heartbreaker. I could have gone either way.
I might break this out into riff of the year type series. Still trying to get my reads down.
That Yardbirds riff is a complete ripoff of a Beatles song, I just can't remember the name of it...I am not a Beatles guysm, but I know most of their stuff in general terms.
Not even close to the mark, Pal. No Beatles rip off here whatsoever.
It was Jeff Beck trying to mimic the sound of a sitar. The Beatles didn't even use a sitar on a record until about 6 months after Heart Full of Soul was released.
Very similar, IMO. First thing I thought of when I heard the Yardbirds tune was "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles.
I guess there's a slight similarity but I'm not hearing it the degree you are. Way different tone, tempo, progression, etc.
I'm proud of you, bud, however for pulling some mid 60's examples and music did exist before 1978.
60s riff
Love that dirty water. The Standells
I used to love her. Bobby Womack Rolling Stones
Agree on both.
Day Tripper from the list, I’m sure you have this one hot in the bullpen…
I continue to be amused by the expressions and movements of Keith Moon when they were lip-syncing on the Telly BITD…
To add to @BleachedAnusDawg talking points, "I can't explain" is a total rip off and "You really got me now" which Pete has admitted.