Whooa! Your fave very brief moment in a song!

[That Cal Webway]

I'm talking a sliver of a lick, something super brief... drum etc etc could even be vocal...

Mine is just one guitar note at the beginning of, "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash.

At 7 sec, one single gtr note grabs me amidst the raucous loud guitars!

 

[Engine Swap]

The thing that happens @3:59

 

[ReverendRevolver]

The 9 notes in the solo where everything else stops in Buddy Holly by Weezer.

Times artists slip in funny wrong words during live shows (a small regional pop punk band called Nothingless had a line of "I know i miss her and I feel kinda bad" in a song. After returning to Ohio after a short tour, the singer slipped in "I fkkkkd her sister and I feel kinda bad" instead. I think only the people who knew them caught it.)

 

[That Cal Webway]

The thing that happens @3:59

Yea!!

 

[Tommy Biggs]

In the last Chorus of Under Cover of Darkness (the Strokes) the singer (Julian Casablancas) changes the phrasing/notes on the line
So Long... my Friend
at the 3:52 mark

Just so perfect.
Nice video and a really cool guitar song too.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

This Lynyrd Skynyrd song has become a recent obsession of mine. I think it just fantastic, emotional, and the guitars are so intense and serious. Ed, Allen, and Gary really worked on their guitar craft...

Which is why I love Ronnie's funny little 'hiccup' on the 3rd beat of the intro- listen!

 

[Frisco 57]

"Okay (okay, okay) just a little pin *****"-(ding!) The tiniest little percussion hit @ 2:50 Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd.

 

[Marc Morfei]

A few come to mind...

The break at the end of Won't Get Fooled Again, when Daltrey brings it home -7:45. I mean, come on. It's one of the most iconic moments in the history of rock music.


Levon Helm's fill at the end of The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, 3:02-3:06. I don-t know why this gets me every time. It is the sparest possible fill you could ever imagine. It just fits.


John Bonham's snare drum in Kashmir. 7:43-46. How did they get that sound?!?

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

For me, it is Ed King's little slide-up at the ende of the intro lick to Skynyrd's Swamp Music.

 

[CCK1]

For me, it is Ed King's little slide-up at the end of the intro lick to Skynyrd's Swamp Music.

I've always loved that lick too. SO many "Ed King-isms" on that album.

 

[oldunc]

The little reentry at 3:28 always gets me:

 

[CCK1]

That guttural, Leslie West P-90 scream at 1:46-1:48 in "Mississippi Queen"...


That brief, perfect, probably unintended, moment of feedback at about 25 seconds into "It's Not My Cross To Bear"...


That extremely fluid run starting at 4:02 in "So Into You"...


Mick Jagger's way in the background "Whoo" after Merry Clayton's third "Rape, Murder" in "Gimme Shelter" at about 3:01...

 

[David Barnett]

Donovan goes "YEP!" in the last verse:

 

[CCK1]

Terry Kath's fill starting at 3:47 in "25 or 6 to 4"...


Roy Nichol's (I think) descending note from a ghost bend at 1:21 in "Mama Tried"...

 

[Dave Hicks]

Charlie's dink-dink on the cymbals just before the vocal tag!

 

[CCK1]

The little Grace Potter squeal at 3:57, and although not audible, well worth mentioning, Grace licking her lips at 4:15 in "Sugar"...

 

[getbent]

this song is full of the little things.... the guitar thudding is singular,

but the little part as they head to the middle 8 when Tom says, 'watch her walk'

tom and bruce s. sound great together. the part is at 2:14.

 

[CCK1]

This Lynyrd Skynyrd song has become a recent obsession of mine. I think it just fantastic, emotional, and the guitars are so intense and serious. Ed, Allen, and Gary really worked on their guitar craft...

Which is why I love Ronnie's funny little 'hiccup' on the 3rd beat of the intro- listen!

No one else can do it like Ed. From the man himself...

 

[basher]

IMHO the organ break and guitar solo on "Let it Be" is one of the most thrilling moments in the history of rock.

 

[68tele]

The last 4 notes of the guitar solo (04:13)...sound just like a sax: