Total Guitar and Guitar World magazines conducted a poll to figure out the greatest guitar riff of all time. The usual suspects were included in terms of artists/bands: Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Ozzy, Metallica, Hendrix.
Here’s the top 10:
- “Whole Lotta Love” – Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)
- “Crazy Train” – Ozzy Osbourne (Randy Rhoads
- “Back in Black” – AC/DC (Angus Young)
- “Smoke on the Water” – Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore)
- “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” – Van Halen (Eddie Van Halen)
- “Enter Sandman” – Metallica (Kirk Hammett)
- “Iron Man” – Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi)
- “Walk” – Pantera (Dimebag Darrell)
- “La Grange” – ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons)
- “Purple Haze” – Jimi Hendrix
Others in the list were:
- AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
- AC/DC “Highway to Hell”
- AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
- Guns n’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
- Derek and the Dominos “Layla”
- Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar”
- Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
- Chicago “25 or 6 to 4”
- The Kinks “You Really Got Me”
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