# Identify a song (again) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586 "2017-04-02T14:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/1 "2017-04-02T14:23:25Z")
At a Robert Randolph concert last night. He started off the set with a very well known song intro, the name of which (and the group that did it) I’m drawing a blank on. It seems sort of AC/DC-like to me and I’ll try to describe it. The intro is mostly vocal, punctuated by pairs of power chord strokes. The vocals ascend the scale, then descend. At the end of each da-da, da-da, da-da, da-daaaaah, going first up, then down, the two guitar strokes are played. That’s all I’ve got, other than my brain is telling me there are words in there that may rhyme with “matches” or “batches”. Lame, I know. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/2 "2017-04-02T14:29:47Z")
Dude! No clue. I Googled “Robert Randolph Portland setlist” and found this: > **[Robert Randolph & The Family Band Concert Setlists](https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/robert-randolph-and-the-family-band-63d63a93.html)** > > Get Robert Randolph & The Family Band setlists - view them, share them, discuss them with other Robert Randolph & The Family Band fans for free on setlist.fm! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/3 "2017-04-02T15:52:00Z")
Are you sure it wasn’t the intro to AC/DC’s _Thunderstruck_? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/4 "2017-04-02T16:03:38Z")
War Pigs? [Black Sabbath ~ War Pigs - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/5 "2017-04-02T16:05:28Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > War Pigs? [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w) Bingo. Thanks, it was driving me nuts. The sad part is that I learned the guitar part of the song some months ago. :smack: I think the volume of the concert melted those brain cells. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/6 "2017-04-02T16:46:57Z")
Witches playing with their matches Frying up delicious batches ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/7 "2017-04-02T16:56:34Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > Witches playing with their matches > > Frying up delicious batches 😃 Well, “masses” sort of rhymes with “matches”, dunnit? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/8 "2017-04-02T16:58:57Z")
It’s surely better than rhyming _masses_ with _masses_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/9 "2017-04-02T17:09:40Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > War Pigs? [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w) I went back and scanned **Chefguy’s** OP attempt. Damn, that’s impressive that you figured that out! That’s 1 Doper Bonus Point for you. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/10 "2017-04-02T17:23:53Z")
While I don’t doubt the OP’s sincerity, I’m kind of shocked anyone who knows the song could blank on “War Pigs.” It’s one of the most iconic and distinctive songs even in Black Sabbath’s catalog, let alone in the history of music. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/11 "2017-04-02T17:37:10Z")
^ In the history of music? Not even in the top 500. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/12 "2017-04-02T17:44:10Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I went back and scanned **Chefguy’s** OP attempt. Damn, that’s impressive that you figured that out! That’s 1 Doper Bonus Point for you. Thanks. 🆒 It was dumb luck, though. I’m about the least metal person around. For some reason that song just occupies a little corner of my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/13 "2017-04-02T18:21:37Z")
Its kinda funny that it turned out to be that. When I read the OP this morning and saw acdc and the da-da da-da’s I was going to ask him to rule out Crazy Train. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-song-again/783586/14 "2017-04-02T19:11:38Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > While I don’t doubt the OP’s sincerity, I’m kind of shocked anyone who knows the song could blank on “War Pigs.” It’s one of the most iconic and distinctive songs even in Black Sabbath’s catalog, let alone in the history of music. I’ve never been a fan, if that’s any help. Learning the guitar riffs with my teacher was just an exercise for me, not a fan wank. That said, I should have known it just from the opening riffs by RR. But he quickly segued into Voodoo Chile and as I said the volume was deafening in that venue.