Big Guitar Nuts
 

Vote on the guitar riff you think has the biggest goddamn balls in the world!

Some examples of big-balls riffs:
- Sad but true, Metallica
- Walk, Pantera
- Back in Black, AC DC
- Smoke on the Water, Deep purple

My vote goes to Sad but True.

"Dogman", Kings X. Anyone else familiar with this? If not, you owe it to yourself.

lamb of god - laid to rest (opening)
pantera - this love (mid-song)
alice in chains - them bones (opening)

Ill go with Alice in Chains' Them Bones, Again, Dam that River, We Die Young, and maybe Man in the Box.

No Quarter--Zep
Kashmir--zep
In My Time Of Dying--Zep
In the Light--Zep
Ironman--Sabbath
Fairies Wear Boots--Sabbath

Just to many to remember

Ironman is probably the best ever. But I've always thought Purple Haze and Sunshine Of Your Love were pretty fuckin memorable. Theres a million riffs out there that just kick ass.

Asta!!

Ironman is awesome. I just recently learned that Tony Iommi played his guitar with it tuned really low because of a factory accident where he lost the tips of two of his fingers. If not for that, they would have never had that low, edgy sound that inspired millions of would-be rockers.

Also, Poundcake - Van Halen. You have to have balls to take a power-drill to Frankenstein.

mmm, Fairies Wear Boots. good pick

i hate Iron Man, though. blasphemus for a metalhead? oh well

Cowboys From Hell - Pantera

Ozzy's singing in that song isn't the best it's ever been so that turned me off for a little while but then I REALLY listened to the riffs and it all came together and now I think the song kicks serious ass.

Asta!!

i say back in black.

I also like "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica. That intro guitar part is pretty sweet.

any classic Joe Perry aerosmith riffs. Walk this way. Sweet Emotion.
Ted Nugent Cat scratch fever or Wang dang... are purty catchy as well.

With a little help from my friends--Joe Cocker (Page on guitar)
The bitch is back--Elton John
Live and let die--McCartney or GNR
Eruption--Van Halen
Panama-- Van Halen
Dear Mr. Fantasy--Traffic

Some less obvious ones:

Steve Vai - Erotic Nightmares, Die to Live
Dave Lee Roth - It's Showtime (so doesn't sound like Jason Becker)
Extreme - L'il Jack Horny

supernaut is a much cooler riff-tune than iron man, i think.
so is wheels of confusion.
so is sweet leaf
so is the middle part of sabbath bloddy sabbath
so is the entire recorded history of killing joke (through their mid 1980s hiatus)
so is much of the recorded history of prong.
so is most of the 1970s electric miles davis stuff.
so is everything sonny sharrock recorded.

i could go on and on

Birds of Fire--Mahavishnu Orchestra
Led Boots--Jeff Beck
Helter Skelter--The Beatles

ozzy - mr crowley
pantera - mouth of war (pretty much everything of VDOP)
metallica - master of puppets
slayer - war essemble

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Beat It - Michael JAckson (feat. Eddie Van Halen)

Children of Bodom - Silent Night Bodom Night
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
And anything Dragonforce(valley of the damned if you want somethins specific)

i'll definitely agree with you there

dream theater - glass prison
symphony x - inferno (unleash the fire)
cacophony - speed metal symphony
zero hour - strategem
etc.

Smoke on the water - Deep purple
Child in time - Deep Purple
Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana


My vote goes to Child in Time