Your favorite non-guitar riff?

[suthol]

 

[basher]

 

[Aldus Bunbury]

The first one I remember grabbing my ear and not letting go was that organ riff in the chorus of “Point of Know Return.”

 

[trev333]

the flute solo 1:20..

 

[Flyboy]

 

[Lonn]

Frankenstein. The whole thing. I'll admit until maybe 10 years ago I didn't realize it wasn't a processed guitar. Duh.

 

[Stratohacker]

The pedal steel intro played by Jerry Garcia.

 

[KyAnne]

Beginning of "Funeral for a Friend" by Elton John

 

[Mark617]

Up n Down by the Cars. The mini Moog on the intro….simple, but recognizable
To me anyway

 

[arlum]

The Keyboard intro to The Doors, "Light My Fire".
Ed's Keyboard work on Van Halen's "Jump".
The Synth work on The Who's "Baba O'Riley".
If you count bass as a separate instrument then the bass on The Beatles "Come Together".
Jon Lord's organ work on Deep Purples "Hush".
Doug Ingle's organ work on Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".

 

[Chuckster]

 

[TokyoPortrait]

Hi.



Pax/
Dean

 

[Tricone]

Paul Chamber's(RIP) acoustic bass riff on the opening of the Miles Davis tune "So What"


Berry Oakley's(RIP) electric bass intro for The Allman Brothers Band's "Whipping Post"


Butch Trucks' fading kettle drum outro on The Allman Brothers Band tune "Whipping Post" on the "Live at Fillmore East" album


and Butch's kettle drum intro on the tune "Mountain Jam" on The ABB's album "Eat A Peach" (recorded same night at the Fillmore East, segue between WP and MJ)

 

[Boreas]

The Musitron solo in "Runaway". Pretty interesting for 1961.

The Story of Max Crook’s Keyboard Solo from Del Shannon’s Runaway - Louis Magnifico

Two years before the Mellotron and more than five years before the Moog, Max Crook invented his own monophonic synthesizer - which he called the Musitron - using a modified clavioline, household appliance parts, resistors, television tubes, an amplifier, and a reel to reel tape deck. The...

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[Engine Swap]

Take yr pick..

 

[smoothrecluse]

MCA’s distorted bass on the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage, especially at around 2:15. It’s a little better on the studio version.

 

[nojazzhere]

Which riff or riffs do you love, that aren’t played on guitar?

I especially love riffs from electronic from the 90s that aren’t guitars, but would make sick guitar riffs, and I always thought Breathe from The Prodigy was an epic riff.

What’s yours?

A couple come to mind.......


P.S......I do a trio arrangement of Take on Me, with the keyboard licks all on guitar.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Time for some Electric Pow Wow?



And here's a cover by a ... string quartet. Whaaaa?!

 

[brookdalebill]

The harmonica intro in Billy Joel’s Piano Man.
The fiddle/violin Novi plays on the Doobie Brothers’ Black Water.
Jeff Baxter’s PSG on The Doobies’ South City Midnight Lady.

 

[Manual Slim]