# Your favorite guitar parts in rock music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964 "2011-09-20T16:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/21 "2011-09-20T20:19:44Z")
I would like to add: Wishbone Ash - [Phoenix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTEIrJ7-No) (1973) Love Sculpture - [Sabre Dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ7aJphv14w) (1968) SRC - [Hall of the Mountain King](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jn764Wh7g) (1969?) Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmoore) - [Child in Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAWReBmxEs)(1971) ETA: Almost forgot Eddie Hazel - [Maggot Brain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk) (1971) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/22 "2011-09-20T20:40:54Z")
The solo from [Baby’s On Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1Oy5uQ0w) is pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/23 "2011-09-21T00:08:07Z")
What It Is, from Mark Knopfler’s solo album Sailing to Philadelphia, is probably the one I could “loop and never get sick of”. In fact, I have done just that at times. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/24 "2011-09-21T00:14:05Z")
The main riff in [Mr. Brownstone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVYDnQwi3OQ). Amazing, groovy hard rock riff that’s great to listen to and great fun to play. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/25 "2011-09-21T00:27:19Z")
The Doors’ “Spanish Caravan”, among others. Robby Krieger is a very underrated guitarist. Jorma Kaukonen, “Embryonic Journey” Living Colour, “Information Overload”, again among others. Vernon Reid is an amazing guitarist. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/26 "2011-09-21T01:33:35Z")
Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner playing the intro and that awesome segue to Lou Reed’s [Sweet Jane.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayCSA6fk9ZA) mmm ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/27 "2011-09-21T02:21:12Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > The Doors’ “Spanish Caravan”, among others. Robby Krieger is a very underrated guitarist. Always has been, and (apparently) always will be. . ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/28 "2011-09-21T03:07:28Z")
More Hendrix: the opening to [“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI2uuSYHAfs) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/29 "2011-09-21T03:23:27Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > Around the time I first started playing (some 23 years ago), I loved the intro riff to **GnR’s** “Sweet Chile 'O Mine”, so much I actually did make a cassette tape looping just the intro so I could keep listen to it. It was one of the first things I learned to play. Hold on a minute…that song is _ **23 years old?!?** _ God, I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/30 "2011-09-21T04:16:56Z")
Whole Lotta Love from the Song Remains the Same right after the theramin solo. Since You’ve Been Gone from Rainbow. The very beginning is so classic. 1969 by the Stooges. Distortion never sounded so sweet. The Who - Greyhound Girl and Tea and Theater. My heart breaks every time, but in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/31 "2011-09-21T05:15:10Z")
The Church have these great double-guitar effects on a lot of their work: from _Starfish_ I like [“Reptile”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhV2l9QPxw) & [“Hotel Womb.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2niwYItxmBU) But I’m not a guitar nerd, so I await your sneers at my ignorance. \_ Well, classical finger-picking is still pretty much the coolest guitar, if you’re talking solo. There are some rockers who have a little of that going on I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/32 "2011-09-21T07:42:04Z")
The beginning of Dire Strait’s "Money For Nothing (and the Chicks are Free.) ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/33 "2011-09-21T07:56:46Z")
The start of Marquee Moon by Television. So simple, but the way the two guitars compliment each other is fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/34 "2011-09-21T13:01:00Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > The song “Is There Anybody Out There”: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLhxKpfCnA&feature=player\_detailpage#t=85s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLhxKpfCnA&feature=player_detailpage#t=85s) > > Totally different song, although both are great. Oh - that! Heck, I play that as a picking exercise! I always thought of that as “Gilmour’s A minor riffy bit” - forgot it even had a name…:smack: **labdad** - it was Shapes of Things off Beck’s Truth for you? For me it was the next track, Let Me Love You…I have an old thread where I geeked out about it…ah, [here it is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508278). And [here’s a thread on guitarists](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550053)- at post #33, I link to a bunch of guitar write-ups I have posted on the Dope if anyone is looking to geek out. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/35 "2011-09-21T13:39:11Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > **labdad** - was it Shapes of Things off Beck’s Truth for you? Nope - it was the 1966 single “Shapes of Things” by the Yardbirds I’m talking about. Released a couple of months before “Over Under Sideways Down.” Truth came out a couple of years later. Mind you, the reworking of “Shapes of Things” on Truth is remarkable, but listen to that cut by the Yardbirds! Beck’s solo is amazing! I was in the 9th grade at the time, mostly listening to the Ventures. The Ventures never played anything like THAT!! From Wikipedia’s discussion of the song: > [@](#): > > The song is considered to be one of the first psychedelic songs and features a psychedelic-style guitar solo by Jeff Beck using his Fender Esquire guitar. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/36 "2011-09-21T13:41:51Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > Lots of Steve Howe moments on **Yes’** “Tales from Topographical Oceans” though too many to name (and too difficult to describe the moments anyway since each track is 20 mins.) Ahem…“Tales from _Topographic_ Oceans” You sir, get a music geek demerit. 😉 Speaking of Steve Howe, I love the soaring solos of the Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe song “Brother of Mine.” This album gets left out of a lot of Yes discussions, but Howe’s electric lead guitars are really among his best here. Perhaps he was a little jealous of Trevor Rabin at the time and wanted to show him up at his own game. Give me Trey Anastasio playing “Divided Sky” any day. Every part of that song is just keeps getting cooler. These days, mature sober Trey really takes the lead of this song to great places. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/37 "2011-09-21T13:57:33Z")
It’s probably not considered rock music by most and it’s very brief, but there is a riff in Soul by Matchbox 20 that gives me shivers. Also the song Mr Breeze. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/38 "2011-09-21T13:58:12Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Nope - it was the 1966 single “Shapes of Things” by the Yardbirds I’m talking about. Released a couple of months before “Over Under Sideways Down.” Truth came out a couple of years later. > > Mind you, the reworking of “Shapes of Things” on Truth is remarkable, but listen to that cut by the Yardbirds! Beck’s solo is amazing! I was in the 9th grade at the time, mostly listening to the Ventures. The Ventures never played anything like THAT!! Yeah, Beck was clearly demonstrating his chops on the Yardbirds version…amazing stuff. I love the fact that on [Heart Full of Soul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mQkFpkShg), they brought these sitar players in to play the main hook since sitar players were all the rage. But the players they brought in couldn’t work with the rock idiom and find the groove - so Beck just faked it on his Esquire. Hank Marvin of The Shadows couldn’t fake a sitar, man - this was new weird stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/39 "2011-09-21T14:11:44Z")
Two more… The beginning to Yes’s _Roundabout_ Styx’s _Prelude 12_ (instrumental that comes right before _Suite Madame Blue_ on Equinox) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964/40 "2011-09-21T14:12:17Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Yeah, Beck was clearly demonstrating his chops on the Yardbirds version…amazing stuff. I love the fact that on [Heart Full of Soul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mQkFpkShg), they brought these sitar players in to play the main hook since sitar players were all the rage. But the players they brought in couldn’t work with the rock idiom and find the groove - so Beck just faked it on his Esquire. Hank Marvin of The Shadows couldn’t fake a sitar, man - this was new weird stuff! Exactly - seems hard to grasp today if you weren’t around in those days, but rock music and especially rock guitar was evolving at warp speed in those days! When you think how much happened just between 1965 and 1967 - and we hadn’t _heard_ Hendrix yet! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-guitar-parts-in-rock-music/596964.md?page=3)