I'd say Deep Purple's Smoke On the Water's intro.
I know alot of people who don't listen to rock who know the intro... but not the rest of the rest of the song.
So what do you think is the most famous guitar riff?
2007-10-03 18:19:07 · 30 answers · asked by meep meep 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
"25 Or 6 To 4" - Chicago
"I'm A Man" - The Spencer Davis Group
"Purple Haze" - Jimi Hendrix
"Magic Carpet Ride" - Steppenwolf
"Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who
"Freebird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Money For Nothing" - Dire Straits
2007-10-03 19:00:29 · answer #1 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not Googling or looking anything up, I promise: 1. Led Zeppelin - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham. 2. A lyric in Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild": "heavy metal thunder." 3. Don't know 4. The Beatles, The Dave Clark 5, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks 5. Black Sabbath 6. London 7. The Beatles and ? 8. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd 9. Pete Townshend of The Who 10. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles 11. Disc jockey and promoter Alan Freed.
2016-04-07 03:03:08 · answer #2 · answered by Gail 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, "Smoke On The Water" is pretty famous. I knew the riff before I knew the song or even Deep Purple.
Others include the riffs in these songs:
"Iron Man" by Black Sabbath
"Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones
"Day Tripper" by the Beatles
"Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
But I knew the riff from "Smoke On The Water" before I knew who any of these bands were.
2007-10-03 18:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by Montag 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My local radio station did a list of best guitar riff songs a week or so agao t he top 5 were:
1.DEEP PURPLE Smoke On The Water
2.AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
3.ROLLING STONES Satisfaction
4.VAN HALEN Eruption/You Really Got Me
5.CREAM Sunshine Of Your Love
2007-10-04 03:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Schism 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Rolling Stones - Paint it, Black
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven (into)
The Who - Baba O' Reilly (aka Teenage Wasteland)
The Eagles - Hotel California (into)
Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
Bon Jovi - Wanted, Dead or Alive
2007-10-04 14:54:42 · answer #5 · answered by siara_sambora 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well everyone know's stairway to heaven by led Zeppelin but is the considered a riff?? Either way DEF Smoke on the Water
2007-10-03 18:36:59 · answer #6 · answered by Pearl Jam Lover 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No one has said
China Grove- The Doobie Brothers
Honky Tonk Woman - Stones
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Tommy Tutone - 8675309 Jenny
and
BO DIDLEY THE MOST FAMOUS RIFF
2007-10-03 19:51:33 · answer #7 · answered by Mike S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple
2007-10-04 03:15:10 · answer #8 · answered by Peepaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
Day Tripper - Beatles
2007-10-03 18:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by jrh330 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every time I go into Guitar Center, there's, even still, posers picking out: "Stairway to Heaven", "Hotel California", "Smoke on the Water", and even "Sanitarium" or "One" (of course by Metallica)....any one of the above mentioned have to definitely be considered!
2007-10-04 02:20:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋