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Best (rock) guitar riff - released in 1969 edition?
YellowSnow
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Best (rock) guitar riff - released in 1969 edition? 18 votes
Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
0%
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
0%
Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
5%
1 vote
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
27%
5 votes
Pinball Wizzard - The Who
16%
3 votes
Green River - CCR
0%
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5%
1 vote
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
38%
7 votes
Whipping Post - Allman Bros Band
5%
1 vote
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
0%
Comments
It's assumed that people know these tracks!! But I TYFYS. And sorry for the random year poll generator, bud.
I'm sure that 90% of people know them all, but I slapped them up for reference just in case.
Frankly, I am really shitty at remembering names of songs, but as I went through each and listened I have heard and know all of them.
Good list. Pick one.
Its funny. I clicked on each of those, but the only song I actually played through was Green River.
Guess I should change my vote.
I could have picked about 5 on here.
CCR dominated 1969 and 1970 and had about 4 of 5 worthy licks, but I think Green River is superior Born on the Bayou or Fortunate Son and established more than any other track what Fogerty was trying to accomplish. So fucking good.
Whole Lotta Love isn't really that hard to play - heck I can do it on my axe - but it was the balls to the wall heavy tone that kick started and entire genre along with Sabbath. Jeff Beck beat Zep to the punch on the first proto metal album, but it didn't sound as heavy what Page was doing.
Also, Gimme Shelter is the most brilliant of the bunch and illustrates why I think the Stones were a greater band than Zeppelin. The haunting, shit's going down nature of it sounds more authentic to my ear. There's a reason why Scorsese always went with the Stones.
I feel like I ALWAYS pick Stones in these poles so changed it up. Gimme Shelter was the choice until the last second audible.
I was damn near 30 until I began to really appreciate Gimme Shelter. It resonated lyrically then, and does today.
From the opening riff, it is a warning, building up to Merry Clayton, and finishing with the neck of Keef’s guitar (an old, beat up Aussie model someone left at his house) falling off on the last note he plays. If you ask me for my top 3, Gimme Shelter is 1 more often than not…
the WHO invented a whole new sound and changed music thereafter, gotta go with them buds… and on top of that they played this at Woodstock and lit everybody UP ~ along with CSN playing Guinnevere and Wooden Ships and Hendrix with the Star Spangled Bangled Banner [and others of course]
Skrong agree on the Who. They are on my Mt Rushmore of favorite rock groups.
I'll add, that as cool as the Pinball Wizzard intro is the studio version of Tommy is so weak compare to the live version on Leeds, Isle of White, etc.
By the time of Who's Next they had gotten their reads down on how to translate the live Who energy into what was put on tape in the studio.
"The pinball wizard has such a supple wrist."
The Who were the original TBS'ers?
And Pete got accused of looking at kiddie porn, but was later exonerated.