- by Jason Gregory
- Wednesday, April 02, 2008
- filed in: Rock Metal
The guitar riff in Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke On The Water’ has been voted the best ever written by students from guitar schools across London.
The riff beat Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ into second place, while Aerosmith’s ‘Walk This Way’ was third.
In a list dominated by veteran acts, The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’ is the most current entry.
Released in 2003, the simple riff came in at number nineteen in the poll.
Guns N’ Roses feature twice on the rundown, with ‘Sweet Child O Mine’ and ‘Paradise City’ charting at number five and six respectively.
The rest of the top-five is completed by Jimi Hendrix, whose guitar riff ‘Purple Haze’ was voted the fourth best of all time.
What do you think about the number one? Would you have chosen something different? Why not let us know by posting a comment below...
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- I think the riff in any Babyshambles song should be ahead of Deep Purple!
- Hendrix’s ’Purple Haze’ or ’Voodoo Child’ for me
- Fucking hell, it’s like punk rock never happened.
- Deep Purple is a good riff...... but not THE best riff of ALL time!!!!!
Blatantly Sweet child...... best riff EVER!!!!!
- Fuck Punk! It was nothing but pure garbage, performed by simple minded morons that couldn’t write decent lyrics and could barely play their instruments! Punk was more pop culture and a movement then anything of any true relevance to music!
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