The history of guitar-based music has existed for centuries, but it is only since the late 1890s that music was able to be recorded.
The first such music widely recorded featuring guitars was country, or film acts using ukuleles and other string-based instruments, and of course American Blues.
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So, now looking at the past and coming forward we have a wealth of Killer Guitar Riffs that not only survive the test of time but are the best of the best of riffs.
Many of the famous and well-known guitar riffs have been inspired by generations before, so having influences can result in a whole plethora of future killer guitar riffs being created and either being streamed or waving through the airwaves.
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The Top Ten Killer Guitar Riffs #1
Voodoo Child (slight return) - Electric Ladyland Album
- The top guitar player of all time since the late 1960s when he finally broke through in England, UK was American Jimi Hendrix.
- Nirvana were another bunch of musicians from Aberdeen, Seattle, that started a new music movement with Grunge during the mid-1980s.
- British Blues based band The Rolling Stones have a whole catalogue of killer guitar riffs, but their 1960s classic still sounds fresh and is continuously used in films and adverts.
- Another great British band Deep Purple wrote this classic hit about a casino catching fire in Switzerland and the plumes of smoke drifting over the water on the lake. While it was tragic that the casino burnt down, the world is a better place for this killer guitar riff.
- Dutch American guitarist Eddie and his drummer brother Alex formed their band and used their double barrel surname Van Halen, but what a guitarist he was and this song made this group and they ended up filling stadiums, until the untimely death of band leader and guitarists due to throat cancer.
- This song that featured on their debut album was a guitar riff that Slash dismissed as not 'good' enough? What! Well, we've heard of high standards, but vocalist Axl Rose is reported as to work this guitar riff and became killer status throughout the early 1990s and is one of the most played songs of this glam rock group.
- Unrated and not promoted by their record companies British Heavy Metal group of the 1970s, formed and fronted by the late great bassists Shelley Burke, this is one of the most iconic and poignant self-explanatory song.
- Beastie Boys were a trio of white oriented rap and hip-hop entered the mainstream with their debut album of about the right to party! However, a decade after their breakthrough they released this bass driven killer riff, which has gained popularity due to their comic music video and countless inclusion in films and adverts.
- Motörhead founder and lead vocalist and bass player the late great Lemmy, got kicked out of the space rock group Hawkwind and was soon on top with their debut single release of fine loud 'n' brash heavy rock music.
- Though Blur a British indie group they did get their quite heavy metal wings and status by releasing this song in the 1990s, though this song has got the parody tag as a joke against the grunge scene of the time, which many reject as this track kicks ass!
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Electric Ladyland album available on CD
Electric Ladyland album available on Cassette
Electric Ladyland available on Vinyl
50th Anniversary Electric Ladyland available on (x6) Vinyl
Collectable Jimi Hendrix Monterey Hand Painted Guitar (Full Size)
Jimi Hendrix Poster Buy 2 get 2 Free
Electric Ladyland Official T-shirt
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind Album
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Nevermind album available on CD
Nevermind rare BMG ollectable album available on Cassette
Nevermind album available on Vinyl
Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed
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Let It Bleed album available on CD
Let It Bleed album available on Cassette
Let It Bleed album available on Vinyl
50th Anniversary Let It Bleed album available on Vinyl
Smoke on the Water - Machine head
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Machine Head album available on CD
Machine Head rare album available on Cassette
Machine Head album available on Vinyl
50th Anniversary Machine Head album available on Vinyl
1984 - Jump
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1984 rare collectable album available on Cassette
1984 30th Edition album available on Vinyl
Appetite for Destruction Sweet Child 'o Mine -
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Appetite for Destruction album available on CD
Appetite for Destruction 2x disc album available on CD
Appetite for Destruction album available on Cassette
Appetite for Destruction album available on Vinyl
Appetite for Destruction 'banned' artwork album available on Vinyl
Parents - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
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Never Turn Your Back on a Friend album available on CD
The MCA Years 1973-1975 album available on CD
Never Turn Your Back on a Friend album available on Vinyl
Ill Communication - Sabotage
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Ill Communication album available on CD
Ill Communication album available on Cassette
Ill Communication album available on Vinyl
Ace of Spades - Ace of Spades
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Ace of Spades album available on CD
Ace of Spades 2x disc album available on CD
Ace of Spades rare UK collectable album available on Cassette
Ace of Spades album available on Vinyl
Blur - Song 2
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Blur album available on Cassette
