Best Rock & Roll Riffs

[Photon440]

Pretty amazing that he was still a teenager (18) when recording Rock Bottom.

 

[Sahara]

Yeah, he was super young when he was in Scorpions, too. Fifty years later there is still a grudge in that he thinks his older brother Rudolph screwed him in that deal.
Lights Out is my fave UFO song with him but there are many. Uli Jon Roth was another phenomenal Scorps guitarist from that era.

 

[Don Frelier]

 

[Richard Cranium]

Great song, but the lyrics are wacked. But then again, a lot of the songs are like that.

So this ain't the end, I saw you again today
I had to turn my heart away
Smile like the sun, kisses for everyone
And tales, it never fails
You lyin' so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn't you?
Barracuda, oh
Back over time, we were all tryin' for free
You met the porpoise and me, oh, oh, oh
No right, no wrong, selling a song
A name, whisper game
And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick
Ooh, barracuda, oh, yeah
"Sell me, sell you" the porpoise said
"Dive down deep, now, save my head"
You
I think that you got the blues, too
All that night and all the next
Swam without lookin' back
Made for the western pools
Silly, silly fools
The real thing don't do the trick
No, you better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it to the wick
Ohh, barra-barracuda, yeah
Ooh, hey

 

[Sahara]

Great song, but the lyrics are wacked. But then again, a lot of the songs are like that.

So this ain't the end, I saw you again today
I had to turn my heart away
Smile like the sun, kisses for everyone
And tales, it never fails
You lyin' so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn't you?
Barracuda, oh
Back over time, we were all tryin' for free
You met the porpoise and me, oh, oh, oh
No right, no wrong, selling a song
A name, whisper game
And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick
Ooh, barracuda, oh, yeah
"Sell me, sell you" the porpoise said
"Dive down deep, now, save my head"
You
I think that you got the blues, too
All that night and all the next
Swam without lookin' back
Made for the western pools
Silly, silly fools
The real thing don't do the trick
No, you better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it to the wick
Ohh, barra-barracuda, yeah
Ooh, hey

Saw them twice back around ‘81 or so. Great shows. One featured Heart, Ted Nugent, Blue Oyster Cult and Loverboy. Heart headlined, and closed the night with Led Zep’s Rock ‘n Roll. All of the guitarists from the other bands came out and jammed with them and they blew the roof off of the place. Must have played that song for twenty minutes, trading solos. What a show!

 

[YY1]

Schenker is the house band on a Metal podcast now.
Previously (or possibly still) was the house band for Dean Guitars.
I've always wanted a Gibson Schenker V.

Barracuda is about a record exec that thought he could trade a record contract for sex.
Fairly well documented.
Lyrics are skewey, but it's in there.

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[YY1]

Obviously where (Steve Harris) Iron Maiden was influenced.

 

[3sloppydogs]

Los lobos

 

[3sloppydogs]

This is cool

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Triplegreen500]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

this is in the top 5 of all time.....

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Richard Cranium]

How about a bass as the lead ….