+ SECTION I, PAGE 10 THE BLADE: TOLEDO, OHIO t SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2008 + Can’t Get Enough — Bad Company Disorder in the House — Warren Zevon Free For All — Ted Nugent Hotel California — The Eagles Can’t You Hear Me Knocking — Rolling (riff by Bruce Springsteen) Freeway Jam — Jeff Beck I Ain’t Superstitious — The Jeff Beck Stones Do Ya — Electric Light Orchestra Funk #49 — James Gang Group Readers’ riffs Cat Scratch Fever — Ted Nugent Dogs — Pink Floyd Gates of Babylon — Ritchie Blackmore I Can’t Drive 55 — Sammy Hagar Caught Up In You — 38 Special Don’t Fear the Reaper — Blue Oyster Cult Get It On (Bang a Gong) — T. Rex I Don’t Need No Doctor — Humble Pie The following riffs were sent to The Blade by readers. If you’d Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers — Jeff Beck Don’t Tell Me You Love Me — Nightranger Girls, Girls, Girls — Motley Crue I Need to Know — Tom Petty and the like to add one, send an e-mail to [email protected] and Cherry Pie — Warrant Double Vision — Foreigner Go All The Way — The Raspberries Heartbreakers we’ll update the list at www.toledoblade.com. China Grove — Doobie Brothers Draw The Line — Aerosmith Gloria — Them In My Dreams — Dokken Cinnamon Girl — Neil Young Dr. Feelgood — Motley Crue Glory Days — Bruce Springsteen In the Mood — Rush Cities on Flame — Blue Oyster Cult Dream On — Aerosmith Godzilla — Blue Oyster Cult It’s a Long Way to the Top.... — AC/DC A Girl Like You — The Smithereens Bargain — The Who Cocaine — Eric Clapton Dreams I’ll Never See — Molly Hatchet Golden Country — REO Speedwagon Jessica — Allman Brothers Band (Ain’t Nothin’ But A) Houseparty — J. Barracuda — Heart Come Again — Damn Yankees Easy Living — Uriah Heep Going Down — Jeff Beck Group Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry Geils Band Bat Out of Hell — Meat Loaf Come As You Are — Nirvana Enter Sandman — Metallica Go Your Own Way — Fleetwood Mac Journey to the Center of the Mind Aint’ Talkin’ Bout Love — Van Halen Bawitdaba — Kid Rock Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Europa — Santana Happy Jack — The Who — Amboy Dukes Alive — Pearl Jam Big City Nights — Scorpions Communication Breakdown — Led Eye of the Tiger — Survivor Hair of the Dog — Nazareth Just Like You — Three Days Grace All Right Now — Free Black Hole Sun — Soundgarden Zeppelin Fantasy Girl — 38 Special Hang on Loosely — 38 Special Just What I Needed — The Cars American Woman — The Guess Who Bodhisattva — Steely Dan Couldn’t Stand the Weather — Stevie Feel Like Making Love — Bad Company Hell’s Bells — AC/DC Kashmir — Led Zeppelin And Your Bird Can Sing — The Beatles Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen Ray Vaughan Fight for Your Right — Beastie Boys Hey, Hey, My, My — Neil Young and Keep On Loving You — REO Speed- Aqualung — Jethro Tull Boom Boom (Out Goes the Lights) Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne Flirting With Disaster — Molly Hatchet Crazy Horse wagon Are You Experienced? — Jimi Hendrix — Pat Travers Crossroads — Cream Float On — Modest Mouse Highway Star — Deep Purple Keep Pushin’ — REO Speedwagon Back in Black — AC/DC Born on the Bayou — John Fogerty Cum on Feel the Noize — Quiet Riot Fly High Michelle — Enuff Z’Nuff Highway To Hell — AC/DC Keep Yourself Alive — Queen Back in the Saddle — Aerosmith Born to Be Wild — Steppenwolf Custard Pie — Led Zeppelin Flying High Again — Ozzy Osbourne Hocus Pocus — Focus Kid Charlemagne — Steely Dan Bang Bang — Danger Danger Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen Day of the Eagle — Robin Trower Fool for the City — Foghat Hold Your Head Up — Argent Lady Love — Robin Trower Bad Motor Scooter — Montrose Brown Eyed Girl — Van Morrison Day Tripper — Beatles Foreplay-Long Time — Boston Home Sweet Home — Motley Crue Lagrange — ZZ Top Bad To The Bone — George Thorogood Brown Sugar — Rolling Stones Detroit Rock City — KISS For Whom The Bell Tolls — Metallica Honky Tonk Woman — Rolling Stones and the Destroyers Burnin’ For You — Blue Oyster Cult Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap — AC/DC Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd Hot Blooded — Foreigner See READERS, Page 11

“It’s about an emotional con- “When you’re on the listening ionated about their riffs. We Roses, “Smoke on the Water” by tact,” he concludes. end it just doesn’t matter, good is asked them to send in their fa- Deep Purple, “You Shook Me All Riff s All that really matters good,” says Desi Serna, Toledo vorites and got several hundred Night Long” by AC/DC, and her Continued from Page 1 musician, guitar instructor, and suggestions, ranging from pre- favorite, “Layla,” Eric Clapton’s So there you have it. Trying author of several guitar instruc- dictable choices from artists like epic Derek and the Dominoes beauty. Please, give us a defi ni- to defi ne riffs, no matter how tion books, including Fretboard AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, and jam that included Duane Allman tive explanation. much music you’ve played, isn’t Theory. Eric Clapton, to some pretty far- sharing guitar duties. “It’s all about a visceral, emo- easy. But to paraphrase Supreme “To [listeners] it’s just, how out offerings like King Crimson’s Rieger, a 52-year-old Sylvania tional reaction,” he says in a Court Justice Potter Stewart’s does it fl ow into the ear. Is it an “Lark’s Tongue In Aspic.” resident, didn’t have any trouble phone interview while on break famous defi nition of pornogra- identifi able, followable hook Karen Rieger’s picks were “Bad at all explaining why she likes from the current Springsteen tour phy — “I know it when I see it” that sounds good? That’s all that to the Bone,” by George Thoro- riff rock. before talking awhile about how — we know a good one when we really matters.” good and the Destroyers,” “Sweet “It’s just a great feeling to hear simplicity trumps complexity. hear it. Blade readers are pretty opin- Child O’ Mine” from Guns N that kind of music. I just love it. To me what describes a good riff is when someone is moving their head to it or playing air guitar to it. You can’t help it.” Quick and catchy

But there has to be a theoreti- THE BLADE/ANDY MORRISON cal defi nition of a riff, something a bit more scientifi c, right? (And Joe Boes plays guitar at Dur- for the sake of argument, it is del’s Music Center in Toledo. stipulated that we’re talking about rock riffs on the guitar and “One and two-note melodies no other instrument. Also, we’re weaving through some chords leaving out all the great jazz and having some visceral impact runs, country licks, funk riffs, is music at its best,” he says. “It’s and blues vamps, which would all been done so it’s how you be a much tougher task.) package it emotionally and the In his book Riffs: How to Cre- guitar is the perfect instrument ate and Play Great Guitar Riffs for that.” (Backbeat Books, 176 pages), Rikky Rooksby says that the term ‘One cool riff’ originated in the 1920s as slang If it’s all been done, then how for a “short repeated phrase in does anyone do something new? jazz and similar music.” He ex- Or, put another way, is another pands it a bit for rock as this: generation churning out great “A riff is a short, repeated, riffs now? Because, let’s face it, memorable musical phrase, most of those in the popular often pitched low on the guitar, canon are 30 or 40 years old. which focuses much of the en- Joe Boes, a Toledo musician ergy and excitement of a rock who teaches at Durdel’s Mu- song.” sic Center, says the popular- Rooksby, the author of a ity of hip-hop and even grunge number of music books, then — which had heavy guitars breaks down dozens of riffs in but generally isn’t considered his “Riff Gallery” and explains riff rock — have changed the how they’re played. If you’re in- musical landscape. Jimi Hen- terested in things like intervals, drix, Clapton, Deep Purple, the semitones, and scales, you’ll Stones were all bands you heard get somewhere with his book. If on the radio, which made their not, it’s a fun skim, if for no other music become more memo- reason than the fascinating cata- rable, he said. loging of songs he provides from So while there are bands mak- groups as diverse as Whitesnake ing cool new riffs, they’re not and Nirvana. part of the popular culture the Rooksby pegs 1964 as “year way, say “Sunshine of Your Love” zero” for the development of the became after it was released in rock riff, thanks to the Beatles, 1967. Boes said he has 8-year- the Rolling Stones, The Who, old students who recognize the The Kinks, The Animals, and Cream song. Them. All were bands that were “I think that they are out there, capable of raw, down-and-dirty but it’s just that the prime ’60s rock songs that punctuated their and ’70s riff rock stuff was more emotions with quick, catchy gui- popular, or at least that we think tar fi gures. of it as popular,” Boes says. 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