Famous guitar riffs

What is the most known guitar riffs??

Im guessing for guitar it would have to Be the intro from "Smells like teen spirit" bY Nirvana.

And for bass..well id have to say its one of our favs..Money!

Agree? disagree?

Iron Man, Black Sabbath, War Pigs

'Master of Puppets' by Metallica.

Some that come to mind:

Love Stuck Baby -- SRV
Day Tripper -- Beatles
Sunshine Of Your Love -- Cream
The Last Time - Stones
Over Under Sideways Down -- Yardbirds
Heart Full Of Soul -- Yardbirds
Green River -- CCR
Born On The Bayou -- CCR
Satisfaction -- Stones
All day and all of the night -- Kinks
I Feel Fine -- Beatles
Carol -- Chuck Berry (or most any other CB song)

Best Bass line songs:

My City Was Gone -- The Pretenders
Steam -- Peter Gabriel

I second you, red-baron, on the comment of the bass line with Money. I play it every time I get the chance. It's good fun to play, something that you can't say about all the great riffs. Bass is pretty fun stuff. I like playing the bass line from...if I recall correctly, "Cannonball" by The Breeders.

I'm afraid I don't have a wide variety in my music listening...when the Floyd isn't playing, Led Zeppelin has dominion over my CD player. I've always had an affinity for the riff of "When The Levee Breaks".

I really dislike Nirvana...But i think that that is something that every single person has heard at least once....

Nirvana made some great songs, but did little to back it up. "In Utero" is four good songs (two of them retreads on past songs, which always peeved me) and a lot of filler. I like "Nevermind", though. I can see why people would dislike Nirvana.

And yeah, I've heard it quite a few times.

the first thing i thought of was 'iron man'

Ohhh so many to choose from...

Guitar:
Smoke on the Water ~ Deep Purple
VooDoo Chile Slight Return ~ Hendrix
Motherless Children ~ Eric Clapton
Iron Man ~ Sabbath
Crazy Train ~ Ozzy
Sultans of Swing ~ Dire Straits
On Broadway ~ George Benson
While My Guitar Gently Weeps ~ Beatles (Harrison/Clapton really)
Jessica ~ Allman Bros.
FREEBIRD ! ~ Skynyrd
Green Grass and High Tides ~ The Outlaws


Bass Lines:
Ode to a Black Man ~ Phillip Lynott
Anything by Thin Lizzy ~ Phillip Lynott
My Wife ~ The Who
Anything by The Who ~ John Entwistle
Ob La Di, Ob La Da ~ The Beatles
Anything by Bootsy Collins

STAIRWAY! Nobody mentioned STAIRWAY!

I was gonna mention it but i just got here so it'd be pointless

I don't think there is one most famous giutar riff. It's like trying to say who's the best guitarist of all time, there really is no answer. Different people grow up different ways. But i'd have to say the standard blues riff, whoever started that, it caught on.

I found Freebird pretty awesome. I also liked the bass/guitar part in Achilles Last Stand by Led Zep.

I don't know if the freebird riff is as much famous as just the name of the song

I was at a Dave Matthews Band concert this summer and between songs I shouted "FREEBIRD" at the stage... Matthews actually laughed.

Wow, you could be a god in some foreign country