Best guitar riffs or intros

[Led Zeppelin]

I reckon

Derek and the dominoes - Layla
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Alice |Cooper - Schools Out
Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Led Zep - Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love
Eagles - Hotel California

[Jon Broderick]

Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Van Halen - Jamie's Crying
Pearl Jam - Alive

[Mai Zure]

Black Sabbath - Iron Man (simple yet inspiring)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Bon Jovi - Raise your Hands
Europe - The Final Countdown (I know its not guitar)
The Beachboys - Fun, Fun, Fun
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun


I know, I cross genre's a little bit there. :)

[Zeppelin]

Deep Purple / Highwaystar intro
Deep Purple / Why didnt Rosemary
Deep Purple / Chasing Shadows
Led Zeppelin / Lemon Song
Led Zeppelin / Heartbreaker
Led Zeppelin / Whole lotta love
Led Zeppelin / Rock'n'roll

anything played by angus young

[zepp_rules]

i guess it would have to be:

Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix-Star Spangled Banner
Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin-KAshmir
Led Zeppelin-Achilles LAst Stand
Ozzy OSbourne-Crazy Train
Clapton-Layla
Guns N Roses-Sweet Child of Mine
The Who-Pinball Wizard
Van Halen-Ain't Talkin Bout Love (don't really like the song but the opening riff is cool)
AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
Chuck Berry-Johnny B. Goode


there are many others, but this is all i can think off now

[Code_Monk]

Deep Purple - Highwaystar intro
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

[aeroslash]

Guns N Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine
Metallica- Enter Sandman
Deep Purple- Smoke On The Water

[James]

GNR- Sweet Child O' Mine
GNR- Welcome to the Jungle
Ozzy- Crazy Train
Van Halen- Right Now (ok so it's actually a piano intro)

[kirk5]

Metallica-Battery(the whole song-intro,main riffs and solos)

Metallica-One(solo)

AC/DC-Thunderstruck(intro)

Deep Purple-Child in time(vocals are amazing)

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to heaven(problably the most beautiful song in the world)

Black sabbath-paranoid(main riff-easy yet genius)

The list goes on,but i can`t think of any right now.

[James Hetfield Is Jesus]

METALLICA METALLICA METALLICA




YEAH

[Vlahos]

Whitesnake - Wings of the storm
Steve Vai - Hand on Heart
Steve Vai - Attitude song
Steve Vai - For the love of God
Steve Vai - Any other Steve Vai songs

[agentfuschia]

Metallica - Enter Sandman
King Nothing
Creed - What If?
A Perfect Circle - Judith

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[billcrawford]

I can't disagree with any of these choices. For myself, if a riff made the hair on your neck stand up, it was cool! Go back 32 years to the days of a battered strat, treble booster and AC30 and listen to Rory Gallagher's "What's goin' on" or "Sugar Mama" and be amazed.
CODA

[rhoads01]

ozzy - crazy train
ozzy - relelation
ozzy - diary of a madman
ozzy - mr crowley
nirvana - smells like teen spirit
black sabbath - iron man
jimi hendrix - fire
jimi hendrix - voodoo child
jimi hendrix - foxy lady
gnr - knockin' on heaven's door
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
srv - little wing
srv - voodoo child
van halen - little guitars
van halen - you really got me
yngwie malmsteen - far beyond the sun

[Kirk Hammett is God]

MASTER OF PUPPETS!!!!!





by Metallica, of course












Oh yeah, and Thunderstruck by ACDC and maybe some Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix.....


Yeah, that's the stuff.

[Kirk Hammett is God]

And Purple Haze, too.

[Kirk Hammett is God]

Damn, I forgot "Smoke on the Water" from Deep Purple. I can't get enough of that intro.