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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:49 pm
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The intro to La Villa Strangiato - Rush, is pretty sweet.

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:29 pm
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The intro to "Badge", by Cream.

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:34 pm
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First of all, half of what people have listed here aren't intros, but repeating riffs which happen to also start a song. People here should know the difference?

I think it's impossible for me to name a favorite. The best I can do is list some of the most memorable intros. In no particular order:

The Who: Baba O'Riley
Genesis: Firth of Fifth
Blue Oyster Cult: Joan Crawford
Eagles: Hotel California
Murray Head: One Night in Bangkok
Deep Purple: Knocking at Your Back Door
Mike Oldfield: Intro to Tubular Bells
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Judas Priest: Dissident Aggressor
Survivor: Eye of the Tiger
Scorpions: Still Loving You

But to be honest, the most memorable rock intro for me has no musical instruments at all, just 200,000 people going stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap.


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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:55 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:53 am
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One of my favorites is the intro to the song Slip Kid by The Who. Pretty unique when you think about it.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:14 pm
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O'Jays - BackStabbers.....classic


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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:39 pm
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Good choice John. I'll raise another O'Jays classic intro. Listen up bass guitar players:

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:32 pm
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arth1 wrote:
First of all, half of what people have listed here aren't intros, but repeating riffs which happen to also start a song. People here should know the difference?

But to be honest, the most memorable rock intro for me has no musical instruments at all, just 200,000 people going stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap.

Actually, stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap isn't the intro, it's pretty much the whole song...


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Highline wrote:
Actually, stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap isn't the intro, it's pretty much the whole song...

Depends on how you look at it - if so, it has an impressive guitar outro!


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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:47 pm
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arth1 wrote:
if so, it has an impressive guitar outro!

No doubt!

I remember when "We Will Rock You" came out. I was in the sixth grade and all the kids would go out to the dumpsters on the playground and bang on them Boom-Boom-Bang, Boom-Boom-Bang, Boom-Boom-Bang! Quite loud and impressive. No guitars were handy for the outro so in that case, the Boom-Boom-Bang was the song!


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Something a bit more recent.



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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:27 pm
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I'm gonna go with:
Led Zeppelin's "You Shook Me". I still remember the place and day I first heard it.
Black Sabbath "Iron Man".
Derek and the Dominos "Layla"
Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"
(any version of ) "Pipeline". That one-octave glissando and palm-muted bass riff.
The Cars' "Good Times Roll"
The Kinks' "Lola"
The Tragically Hip's "Little Bones"
Daikaiju's "Zombie Harem" (see http://daikaiju.bandcamp.com/track/zombie-harem )
Claude Debussy's "Cello Sonata". The first five notes from the cello just swoop down over the piano.
The Smiths' "How Soon is Now?" with those sightly out of sync vibratos.

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As to how the distinctive resonant sound was achieved, Marr gave the following account to Guitar Player magazine in 1990:

The vibrato sound is f***ing incredible, and it took a long time. I put down the rhythm track on an Epiphone Casino through a Fender Twin Reverb without vibrato. Then we played the track back through four old Twins, one on each side. We had to keep all the amps vibrating in time to the track and each other, so we had to keep stopping and starting the track, recording it in 10-second bursts... I wish I could remember exactly how we did the slide part – not writing it down is one of the banes of my life! We did it in three passes through a harmonizer, set to some weird interval, like a sixth. There was a different harmonization for each pass. For the line in harmonics, I retuned the guitar so that I could play it all at the 12th fret with natural harmonics. It's doubled several times.
- from wikipedia

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Oh yeah - David Lindley's Mercury Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHY0YxdswyY

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Jimi Hendrix - Red House

I just love that D7th chord shape sound sliding down from the 11th fret to the 10th fret in the intro! Eeerie and mysterious!
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