Fave guitar intro?
 

This can really set the tone and mood of a song....I was just listening to the opening bit of the song 'Magic Man' by Heart and found that guitar intro just so incredibly sexy.

Surely there's others.....

Aces High by Iron Maiden

Revolution, by the beatles

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

"Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" - Van Halen

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Sweet Child O Mine!

Intro-Sweet Jane, from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal album.

Jeez, basically the beginning of any Jimi Hendrix song kicks a lot of ass (well, the entirety of the songs live up to the intros without a doubt). The beginning of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is wicked good fun - the forshadowing wicka-wicka-wicka giving way to the simple but raw openning riffs. Ooh yeah!

Try listening to the version by Children of Bodom. I very much prefer it to the original.

i second this one
also Rammsteins "Teir" intro is nice
and although im not much of a fun of the whole song, i love the intro to Pinball Wizard by the Who

the whole intro to Radiohead's B-side Polyethelyne is just great. I recommend you all find that song and listen to it.

Opeth - Bleak

Start Me Up - Rolling Stones

Blackened - Metallica. Hands down. Not a big fan of Metallica though.

"All right now" Free

I concur with Stompy....Sweet Child O mine.

Can't You Hear Me Knockin' - Rolling Stones

rock and roll...led zepplin
any bb king song (that dude is fucking amazing)
sweet child o' mine.....guns 'n roses
any hendrix


wait no i changed my mind..
BACK IN BLACK....AC/DC

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

That song is fucking amazing.

There's about a dozen early Alice Cooper riffs that are absolute classics. Simple lines like Caught in a Dream, or Eighteen, or burners like School's Out. Pick up any of his early albums and you'll see what I mean. My favorite is Love it to Death.

There aren't really any riffs or anything, but I think the alltime coolest intro for a song would have to be the live version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck.

Damn thats a good song.
/me listens

I think Collin James - "Why'd you Lie?" has a pretty cool guitar intro.

I second Metallica's Blackened. I think One is awsome too.

Ditto. The intro to this song is what made me want to learn guitar

"waiting" from over it

I have to go with the opening to Thunderstruck off of Ac/DC's live album also.

"Waterfall" by the Stone Roses

Tesla "Hang tough"

Metallica - Enter Sandman, Fade to Black
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You

Some more I saw:
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads - Cream
Space Oddity - David Bowie
A Change of Seasons, The Glass Prison, Misunderstood - Dream Theater
Beck's Bolero - Jeff Beck
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
In My Time of Dying, Moby Dick, The Wanton Song - Led Zeppelin
You Really Got Me Now, Eruption - Van Halen

Funk #49 by The James Gang

As well as Whole Lotta Love, The Rover and Hotdog

Forgot The Ocean, Tea for One and Achilles Last Stand. Oh yeah and The Song Remains The Same and The Rain Song.

metallica - fight fire with fire

the acoustic guitars in that intro sound so cool and have such a contrast to the rest of the song.

"Modern Man" by Bad Religion

Its got a great moment before the song really starts where you hear guitar noise that is cause by just touching the strings on a live amp. Usually that kind of thing is produced out of recordings. Thats why I love this into.

There are so many, but the one that immediately comes to my mind is Mayonaise's intro, by The Smashing Pumpkins.

And The Trooper

barracuda - heart

Love Hurts - Nazareth
Beautiful Girls - Van Halen
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Day Tripper - The Beatles
Change It - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Slow Ride - Kenny Wayne Shephard

it's really short but i love the intro to
Holiday - weezer

I'm a believer-Giant

Hot for Teacher - Van Halen

It actually starts with drums but then there's a guitar intro. Does that count?

Welcome Home (Sanatarium) - Metallica
Thunderstruck - AC / DC

"One" - Metallica

My absolute favorite also. That was Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. Lou Reed got so sick of them stealing the show he got rid of them and to this day he hates questions about that album and their guitar contributions. They also played for Alice Cooper and they played the solos on Train Kept A-Rollin' and some other songs by Aerosmith. Thought it was all Joe Perry? Wrong.

For just good ole straight up kick-ass rock and roll I gotta go with Summer Nights by Van Halen. Turn that one up loud and see what I mean.

Now the Sparks are Gonna Fly, by Catherine Wheel


and oooooh, the Summer Nights intro is fun! Good times.

I like Thunderstruck by AC/DC alot.

i second that

fire and ice by Yngwie Malmsteen... actually, anything by Yngwie Malmsteen

Stratovarius - Black Diamond

Children of Bodom - Silent Night, Bodom Night

I didn't think anyone else would pick that.
I guess my second would be "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" by Pink Floyd although "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead is also very good.

I think the intro into "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd is great. The radio dial being manipulated into the (far away sounding) acoustic guitar into the second acoustic guitar. Great stuff.

By the way, I'm a newbie, this is my first post on this great board.

Yellow Led Better - Pearl Jam

I think VH1 or someone did a list on this and Sweet Child of Mine by GNR won. I don't know if I concur or not

Oh man... This is like the survey they had in the newspaper... Best guitar riff. Heh.
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Not sure if it's my fave, but it's pretty damn good.
Oh yea, and pretty much anything AC/DC.

"43% Percent Burnt" by The Dillinger Escape Plan and "Incipid Flock" by Anaal Nathrakh.

Lots of good ones here. Right on on Zeppelin, Hendrix, and the Beatles.

Pretty much all of Maiden's opening riffs are classic: Powerslave, Phantom of the Opera, Back in the Villiage, Revelations, Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast, Flash of the Blade, they're all golden.

Buck Dharma's lead ins to BÖC's tunes are fantastic: The Reaper was Mentioned, but Godzilla, ETI, pretty much everything on Secret Treaties, Dancin' in the Ruins, Secret Water. I get all shivery just thinking about them.

However, there are a couple that I bet no one else would mention if I didn't, but which are truly astounding:
Frank Zappa - Po'Jama People. In which Zappa Proves that, if he hasn't got the soul of an old time blues god, he is pleanty good enough to fake it.
Walter Becker in Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive. Showing that Jazz Guitar can still rock the house.
Robert Fripp in King Crimson - Great Deciever. He may be a prissy, perfectionist old fart now, but man alive could that boy rip it up in his youth (and he's still pretty hot in his dotage.)

I always loved the intro to Hotel California (Live) by the Eagles...

Shine On You Crazy Diamond of course (props to Derwood)
Also Sorrow by Pink Floyd as well

Eagles - Hotel California (live)

Justin Hayward - Blue Guitar

But THE most crazy intro I've heard yet has to be the way Steve Howe starts off Close To The Edge by Yes. I dunno what the hell he's playing but it's all over the place and yet it's not really all over the place it's hard to explain it.

Asta!!

I forgot Eric Clapton - Layla, Wonderful Tonight

Asta!!

alice cooper billion dollar babies
joe walsh lifes been good...
stevie ray vaughan anything
kiss (ace frehly) detroit rock city

Limelight by RUSH!.

Crazy Train - Ozzy

Into the Void - Black Sabbath

Opening to Cumbersome by 7mary3. Simple and effective

I've always loved the sound of Brian May's home-made guitar so my favourites are
Procession
Now I'm Here
Nothing But Blue
Gimme The Prize

So many great ones listed here, I wish all my cd's weren't in storage.

Heart of the Sunrise - Yes: the louder, the better!

(Anyone know if the intro to Magic Man was played by one of the Wilson sisters or by Howard Leese?)