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[jdier]

Fletcher,

Although I read a lot of your posts, I am not 100% sure I get where your musical preferences lie, but for bad assed guitar work some of my favorite (and in some cases dated) guitar sounds include:

24-7 Spyz - first two albums: Harder than You and Gumbo Millennium.
David Lee Roth - Skyscraper
Black Crowes - Amorica
Drive-by Truckers - Dirty South (and to a lesser extent Decoration day, however for the song Marry Me, Decoration Day is worth the purchase)

These last two may be a bit too light or pop sounding for you, but I love the guitar work on all of the Bottle Rocket albums and Slobberbone albums.

Bottle Rockets - 24 Hours a Day - Brooklyn Side
Slobberbone - Everything you thought was right

I would think any of the above albums would do you right in filling up the old ipod.

Jim

[Tim L]

Here'a few more...

Eruption - Van Halen (ok so the whole damn thing's an intro )
Beatin' Around the Bush - ACDC
Diary of a Madman - Ozzy (Randy Rhoads)

[littlehat]

aerophone -

aerophone wrote on Wed, 20 September 2006 14:02

QOTSA - Song for the dead.

it's "Song for the Deaf"

[max cooper]

Hud Hudson wrote on Tue, 22 August 2006 11:12

Fletcher wrote on Tue, 22 August 2006 07:13 Hud Hudson wrote on Mon, 21 August 2006 21:12 "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" takes the cake for raw, grab yer bollocks and pull you into the song riffing. Go Keef! Mick Taylor according to Jimmy Miller... Wow, that riff sounds so Keefesque, I feel bad that I've credited the wrong player for the past 35 years!

That's nothing!

Next time you listen to "You Can't Always Get What You Want" consider that it's Jimmy Miller on the kit and not Charlie.

I've always thought this had to do with Charlie thinking the groove was defined by the Guiro part and decided he ought to play it himself and let Miller on the kit.

I think Miller did a bang-up job, especially on the fills.  Total Charlie turnarounds.

[Strummer]

Alice Cooper's band.

No More Mr. Nice Guy
Schools Out
Be My Lover

All are memorable for those who were there.

As for bad ass I'd say Martin Barre always stepped up when Ian had him open up a Tull tune.

Someone mentioned Joe Walsh, oh yeah.....

[Socrates]

Strummer wrote on Sat, 04 November 2006 20:06

Alice Cooper's band. No More Mr. Nice Guy Schools Out Be My Lover All are memorable for those who were there. As for bad ass I'd say Martin Barre always stepped up when Ian had him open up a Tull tune. Someone mentioned Joe Walsh, oh yeah.....

You could prepare that list and leave out the intro to Billion Dollar Babies?

[Guthrie Saunders]

I can't beleive this thread is so long yet still no mention of "satisfaction" which has got to go down as one of the best guitar intros of all time.  I beleive it was the first time as distorted guitar was on a recording.
Also worth a mention:
Van Halen-Eruption
 

[Kurt Foster]

Has anyone mentioned "DO YA" by ELO? "Brown Sugar" by the Stones ...comes to mind as well .....

[Rasmuth]

I bet this is one not mentioned but the intro is Killer...

Tony Carey - "I won't be home tonight"

Not very well known in the States except for a few tunes on MTV in the early/mid 80's...but the intro to that tune kicks royal fanny.

[Strummer]

Kurt,

I thought of "Do Ya", but didn't post it.

"Billion Dollar Babies" should be on that list, but so should "Halo of Flies" and many others. Cooper's productions had some very cool arrangements and progressions and most all were guitar based. A better band live than the studio mixes, imo.

I guess "bad ass" to me means a couple of things. One is that during the first phrase you "know" what's coming, and two is that you're "glad" it's coming.

Three is that you go home and figure out how to play it.

For those of you in the Phoenix area, Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding this year is billing the "original band" together for the first time in 30 years, but unfortunately Glen Buxton won't be there.

[flwehr]

"Highway to Hell", AC/DC

Gets em every time.

[RKrizman]

Fletcher wrote on Mon, 21 August 2006 17:03

There was an Earl Slick thing on a Bowie song that had just about as much "Fuck You" to it... [if anyone knows the song I'm talking about I'd seriously appreciate it if you'd share the name of the song with my brain cell deprived memory!!].

Are you thinking of "It's No Game", from Scary Monster?  (or was that Fripp on guitar?)

-R

[Neon Noodle]

I think Funk #48 is a close second to Funk #49, but you'll never hear it on any Clearchannel station.. and Walk Away is another classic Joe Walsh "Fuck You" riff. Hell, the whole song is just one big middle finger.

[Neon Noodle]

Actually Joe Walsh riffs are not exactly "fuck you" .. i think they are more like "fuck yeah" or even "FUCKIN'-A DUDE"