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Post by motorcitymetalhead on Dec 6, 2010 19:27:00 GMT -5
All right shredders!!!, i picked up a gutar and learned to play because of 80s era metal, aka., hair metal, radio metal, whatever the hell they wanna call it. If you had to pick the coolest most catchy riff from an 80s song, keeping in mind tonality, "brownness" for lack of a better descriptive word, and just downright "punch yer gramma in the mouth LesPaul through a marshall sound", what would it be? I wanna know who Im hangin out with! For me its a no brainer, its the main riff right at the end of the solo in Dokken's, "In My Dreams". I take a lot of crap @ work for being 47yrs old and playing "gay Hair Metal", with different bands around the Motor City but I dont care, every time I hear George Lynch play that riff after the solo the hair stands up on the back of my neck! So whats your favorite riffs?!!
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Post by DonaldDemon on Dec 6, 2010 20:59:30 GMT -5
You've come to the right place, lol.
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Post by Lewis on Dec 6, 2010 21:37:33 GMT -5
They call "gray hair metal" now... ;D
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Post by shreder75 on Dec 7, 2010 8:40:54 GMT -5
wow..the coolest riff from the 80s, keeping tone in mind....hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
I think probably the most prototypical hot rodded marhsall tone from that era was Vivian's tone on Rainbow in the Dark...
then you have Accept's Balls to the Wall..another killer intro/tone...
Any one of a number of early VH songs..lol....when he hits the open G 4th at the beginning of Mean Streets...Light Up the Sky.....
Then there's Dokken's Lightning Strikes...lol..or pretty much anything off Back for the Attack..now that's some raw and angry dry marshall tone
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Post by metaltronixmike on Dec 7, 2010 10:31:34 GMT -5
Bestest? This could be a long list...
Lynch in "The Hunter"..." Kiss of Death"
Takasaki..."Crazy Nights"...
Gilbert in Racer X...
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Post by Dirrty Craig on Dec 7, 2010 10:38:33 GMT -5
Oooooohhh.. 80's riffage!
Ratt - Lay it Down. That riff still floors me..
VH -Unchained - Best riff ever?
VH - House of Pain - sick tone and when the drums kick in its bad ass.
Racer X - Gone Too far - one of the sickest riffs ever!
Loudness - Let it Go
Ozzy - Never - I still have no idea what Jake is doing on that one,,
Dokken - everything off Back for the attack
Extreme - everything off the 1st 2 records.
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Post by shreder75 on Dec 7, 2010 10:45:25 GMT -5
Oooooohhh.. 80's riffage! Ratt - Lay it Down. That riff still floors me.. VH -Unchained - Best riff ever? VH - House of Pain - sick tone and when the drums kick in its bad ass. Racer X - Gone Too far - one of the sickest riffs ever! Loudness - Let it Go Ozzy - Never - I still have no idea what Jake is doing on that one,, Dokken - everything off Back for the attack Extreme - everything off the 1st 2 records. +1000 on House of Pain and Never... firs ttime I heard that intro I'm like,'huh'?? years later and I'm still 'huh'?? LOL |
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Post by Dirrty Craig on Dec 7, 2010 10:53:30 GMT -5
yeah no sh!t.. I still play it for people at partys and stuff and am like WTF!? so crazy..
I know Voodoo Highway was technically 90's.. but Jakes riff on Soul Stealer friggin' still gives me goosebumps too.
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Post by shreder75 on Dec 7, 2010 10:58:23 GMT -5
yeah no sh!t.. I still play it for people at partys and stuff and am like WTF!? so crazy.. I know Voodoo Highway was technically 90's.. but Jakes riff on Soul Stealer friggin' still gives me goosebumps too. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..some good stuff on that CD...Silver Horses..Whiskey Dust..Last Time |
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Post by Dirrty Craig on Dec 7, 2010 11:05:42 GMT -5
IMO one of the best non-modded Marshall tones ever.. Plexi and a tube screamer,, BOOM!
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Post by shreder75 on Dec 7, 2010 12:59:33 GMT -5
IMO one of the best non-modded Marshall tones ever.. Plexi and a tube screamer,, BOOM! yeah, doesn't get much more bare bones than that for sure..isn't that what back for the attack mostly was too? Or something similar |
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Post by motorcitymetalhead on Dec 7, 2010 15:50:42 GMT -5
Yea I totaly forgot about "balls to the wall" and vivivans tone in the Dio days. I get erect when I hear those palm muted notes in the very begining of "Eruption", right before the A chord that rings. Def Leppards" Too Late", has a kick butt riff, and so does Whitesnake's, Judjement Day", I always warm up with that or " Mean Streets",...."Party on Wayne!"
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Post by MetalHeart on Dec 7, 2010 16:43:23 GMT -5
TURN ME ON Accept WE COULD BE TOGETHER Loudness LACK OF COMMUNICATION Ratt LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN Dokken Man , I could go on and on!  |
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Post by jcortez on Dec 7, 2010 16:58:36 GMT -5
Dio/Viv Campbell- Last in Line
Slayer/ Kerry King- Raining Blood
Testament/ Alex Skolnick-Practice what you Preach
John Sykes/Whitesnake -Still of the Night era
Mick Mars-Theater of Pain -Dr. Feelgood
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Post by splawndude on Dec 7, 2010 23:58:54 GMT -5
wow....really hard to say, here is 5 off the top of my head
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Ratt - Lay It Down
Dokken - It's Not Love
Van Halen - Unchained
Guns n Roses - Double Talkin' Jive (that might have actually been 90's but was one of those last great gritty GnR tunes)
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