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..........is Teenage Riot by Sonic Youth.

So what would be next best?

In reply to mick taylor:

Guns n roses~ Sweet Child o'Mine.

Stones ~ Gimme shelter.

B B King~ The thrill is gone.

In reply to mick taylor:

AC/DC - Hells Bells. Nothing else even comes close!

CB

In reply to mick taylor:

Again,

Chuck Berry, Johnny B Goode.

In reply to mick taylor:

Layla - Derek and the Dominoes

In reply to mick taylor:

A few more,

The Animals, House of the Rising Sun
Blue Oyster Cult, Don't Fear the Reaper
Blondie, Heart of Glass
Queen, One Vision
Queens of the Stone Age, No One Knows
Simon and Garfunkel, Mrs Robinson
Richard Thompson, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

In reply to mick taylor:

Gimme Shelter

In reply to Hat Dude:

Small Faces - Tin Soldier

In reply to Tom Valentine:


One of my all time favourites, but the intro is more about Ian MacLagan's keyboard

In reply to mick taylor:

Surprised nobody has mentioned Purple Haze yet, but agreed on Gimme Shelter.

In reply to mick taylor:
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
Pearl Jam - Alive
Rage against the Machine - Know your Enemy
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Tool - 42 and 6

Andy F

Oh, how could I forget Rush - Spirit of Radio

In reply to mick taylor:

Whiskey in the jar , Thin Lizzy.

In reply to mick taylor:

Money for nothing is pretty memorable

In reply to mick taylor:

ah so many to choose, Queen - Hammer to fall

In reply to mick taylor:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Simple but powerful.

In reply to mick taylor:


I really can't even rate that as a good intro never mind the best....different tastes and all that!

I'm not sure what I'd vote for, there's too many to choose from. Also a lot of mine would be from the proggier kinda of songs where defining the end of the intro is tricky.

Maybe Trial of Tears by Dream Theater....I'm sure a few of theirs would be in my list anyway.
ooh....the 'live at the Budokan' version of Hollow Years, nearly forgot that one.
youtube.com/watch?v=V6k1VdgNeKE&

for a simpler one, more groove than technical, probably would include some Hendrix (Purple Haze?), some Stones, some Led Zep.

Yeah if I wasn't just taking 5 from a nightmare day of work I could probably have quite a fun afternoon now listening to a load of songs for this :-p

edit - whoops forgot Floyd!

In reply to mick taylor:

Voodoo Child - Jimi

In reply to soularch:

Correct!

In reply to Jacob Ram:

thats third

In reply to greylag:

thats fourth

In reply to mick taylor:

Good choice. Sets the shimmering, dreamy tone of the album nicely

I used to like widdly-diddly metal intros but I'm not so fussed now. Instead I'd pick:
Gift by Sugar. Could almost be Kevin Shields for a bit.
Autre Temps by Alcest. Nice cheesy Celtic feel to it.

In reply to mick taylor:

Sonic Youth....yes...how about Dirty Boots or for a similar dreamy intro Sweet Jane by The Velvet Underground?

In reply to dek: Blowing Free. Wishbone Ash

In reply to mick taylor:

Nothing comes close to Muse's 'Plugin Baby'

youtube.com/watch?v=dbB-mICjkQM&

In reply to cb294: Just so.

There's plenty others to choose from too. Waterfall by The Stone Roses is good. It isn't Gimme Shelter by the Stones though; not saying it's bad, far from it, it just sounds nothing like the rest of the song so it isn't really an introduction to it.

T.

In reply to mick taylor:

Lou Reed: Intro.
youtube.com/watch?v=YoytmVwcsB4&

Dinosaur Jr: Grab it
youtube.com/watch?v=6O7DH8STK8Q&

In reply to mick taylor:

These 'Best guitar intro' and 'Best riff' threads are pointless. All we get is a random list of classic rock tracks. They're classic for a reason....cos they have great intro's and riffs!

It's actually impossible to choose the 'best'



Having said that, the best guitar intro is Symptom Of The Universe by Black Sabbath.

Der der der der der der der DERRRR!

In reply to mick taylor:

Hendrix - Hey Joe

In reply to mick taylor:

Sabbra Caddabra by Black Sabbath or perhaps Motorbikin' by Chris Spedding.

In reply to Stefan Kruger:


That's been my phone ringtone since forever. I love it, though the feedback at the start gets me some odd looks when the phone rings in public.

In reply to mick taylor:

Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins

In reply to mick taylor:

Horizons - Genesis - as an intro to the rest..... of Suppers Ready

In reply to Dave:
SLF nicked that from Montrose, riff at 0:50
youtube.com/watch?v=s6BTTJo1KmM&

In reply to mick taylor:
Teenage Riot is a great call - very atmospheric build up to a great song. For something totally different how about a guitar intro thats not even on a guitar - Maggie May's intro is something else (and I'm not a RS fan). Ian

In reply to mick taylor:

Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols. And then there's the debate about whoes actually playing.......

In reply to mick taylor:

How about mower liberation front by lawnmower death

In reply to mick taylor:

Nah, much better is TYA Love Like a Man;

youtube.com/watch?v=XBM6wdMq8CI&

In reply to Dave:



plus 1

In reply to climber34neil:

Good call

Good call, but it is Deth not death!

In reply to lostcat:

Of course , sorry, was more a fan of metal duck

In reply to climber34neil:

Gimme shelter.

Way before my time, but still head and shoulders above everything since.

In fact, not just the best intro, a good shout for the best song of all time.

The atmosphere of menace, the sense that mayhem and madness were/are just below the surface of society. Apocalyptic.