Greatest Riffmaster ever???

[sheed]

Who is for you the best riffmaster in heavy-rock music history?
For me:
1.Tony Iommi
2.James Hetfield

[wyldechild]

Iommi
Wylde
Dimebag

[Slipdisc]

People responsible for some of the greatest/epic riffs in my book would be

Ritchie Blackmore
Keith Richards
Jimmy Page
Ron Thal
Buckethead
Jimi Hendrix
Duane Allman
Izzy Stradlin

[Menelaos]

Who is for you the best riffmaster in heavy-rock music history?
For me:
1.Tony Iommi
2.James Hetfield

No one could possibly beat Dave Mustaine in this category.

[ruthie]

No one could possibly beat Dave Mustaine in this category.

it probably won't surprise anyone that i was thinking the exact same thing

[The Spaghetti Incident?]

Wow, 3 in a row, I was going to say him too

[Modzilla]

People responsible for some of the greatest/epic riffs in my book would be

Ritchie Blackmore
Keith Richards
Jimmy Page
Ron Thal
Buckethead
Jimi Hendrix
Duane Allman
Izzy Stradlin

If you're going to say Keith Richards or Jimmy Page or even Duane Allman, you have to list all of the delta blues musicians (Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, etc.) they "borrowed" half of their most famous riffs from.

And most of the others derived from them, in some form or another.  I love Slash and Izzy, but to me they derived from that family, even if they are the tops in it.  So, hmm... I guess I'll have to think on.  Maybe I'll pick later.

[abaraxas]

Mister Anthony Frank Iommi.

[Chaser™]

Dave Mustaine.
Lizzy Devine...
Zakk Wylde (In his Black Label Society work)
X-Factor (guitarist on Warrior Soul's Space Age Playboys album)
KK Downing
Mick Mars
Johnny Thunders
Ace Frehley
Eddie Van Halen
Chris Holmes
Vivian Campbell
Andy McCoy
Randy Casova

How do ya pick just one?

[abaraxas]

easily- his name is Tony Iommi.

[Slipdisc]

If you're going to say Keith Richards or Jimmy Page or even Duane Allman, you have to list all of the delta blues musicians (Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, etc.) they "borrowed" half of their most famous riffs from.

And most of the others derived from them, in some form or another.  I love Slash and Izzy, but to me they derived from that family, even if they are the tops in it.  So, hmm... I guess I'll have to think on.  Maybe I'll pick later.

I don't go by that assbackwards untold rule to always go a layer deeper in time, just because there's an almost unseperable characteristic to music called "inspiration". Why stop at Son House and Muddy Waters and not mention Willie Wilson? If you take that flawed logic far enough, you eventually arrive at some medieval priest singing a monophonic liturgical plainsong, who should be mentioned everytime (modern western) music in any shape or form is discussed.

I would never mention Slash in this context though. He already was given disproportionate amounts of credit for being Izzy's musical parasite.

-PEACE-

[Chaser™]

easily- his name is Tony Iommi.

 
I love Tony but he's not the best at anything.

[wyldechild]

I love Tony but he's not the best at anything.

so I guess you havent listened much sabbath then :P

the guy hasnt wrote a bad riff yet

[Modzilla]

I don't go by that assbackwards untold rule to always go a layer deeper in time, just because there's an almost unseperable characteristic to music called "inspiration". Why stop at Son House and Muddy Waters and not mention Willie Wilson? If you take that flawed logic far enough, you eventually arrive at some medieval priest singing a monophonic liturgical plainsong, who should be mentioned everytime (modern western) music in any shape or form is discussed.

I would never mention Slash in this context though. He already was given disproportionate amounts of credit for being Izzy's musical parasite.

-PEACE-

It's not assbackwards in this case though.  The Stones and Zeppelin lifted riffs directly from some of the artists I mentioned, often not even crediting them.  So how could Jimmy Page be listed as a great riff writer when he didn't even write some of his most famous riffs?

[Chaser™]

so I guess you havent listened much sabbath then :P

the guy hasnt wrote a bad riff yet

 

Actually I love Sabbath just some of his riffs bore me, or don't impress me.