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Best (rock) guitar riff - released in 1972 edition?
YellowSnow
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Best (rock) guitar riff - released in 1972 edition? 18 votes
Oh Alabama, the devil fools with the best laid plans when you poach a fat State Farm Agent - Neil Young
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In the Street - Big Star
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Ziggy Stardust - Bowie
5%
1 vote
Just Got Paid - ZZ Top
11%
2 votes
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
61%
11 votes
Happy - Rolling Stones
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Reelin' in The Years - Steely Dan
11%
2 votes
From the Beginning - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
5%
1 vote
Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group
5%
1 vote
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
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Best list yet. It was hard not to vote for Bama, but From the Beginning is one of the best things ever recorded.
I'm a ELP guy myself
Need more thought
Also, one of the great earlier synth rock records.
Had a hard time with this year. Exile especially puts me in a quandary since it's my favorite album of any genre, but the riffing is more Yella centric vs what the plebes here want to see.
Greg Lake had some mad skills. That's him doing everything but the congas and synth.
That is a killer list…I had every one of these recordings (album/45/8 track), sans In the Street, in 1972 (got into Big Star later)…I’d like to thank Columbia House for building my music collection, for 1 cent…
Big Star is a cult band that know one knew at the time.
I have everything here on 33.333 LP except for Edgar Winter. Have some Johnny Winter on vinyl though.
Columbia House and some other one I can't remember the name of. I used both 3 or 4 times for a total of about 80 disks.
Anyone have an address? I should probably send them a check some day before I die.
Race is like the US Senate.
*Deliberative…
This isn’t hard. Smoke is arguably the most recognizable riff of all time. Its fucked out big time but I was just at our high school basketball game and they played it. 52 years later
It’s also a song about my avatar.
I tend to vote for what is presented, but Black Sabbath “Supernsut” is up there.
nor is Snowblind but Tomorrows Dream might be my fave off Vol. 4
Even if you couldn't play the guitar which most people can't you could do the lick. @Joey convinced me and reminded me
Yeah, I need to offer my mea culpa on Sabbath 4 here which @Joey I should say is my 2nd favorite album of theirs.
I think I had been Sabbath heavy in 1970 and 71 and lost track for 72.
#PerfectionIsTheEnemyOfGood is my motto!
I mean it's probably it's probably on the Mt Rushmore of most recognizable heavy rock riffs.
I chose Steely Dan because of how technically gifted the playing is.
Jimmy Page said at the time that Elliott Randall's (sessions player) playing on Reelin' in the Years was 12/10.
Dammit, Yella. Make yer mind up on technically gifted playing. Didn't you flip me shit about that same point when I mocked that Nirvana song?
Technically gifted Steely Dan jazzy rock »»» Technically Gifted Metal shredding.