An idea for a fun game: Name That Riff!

[PelliX]

Sounds very familiar, but I can’t name it

Perhaps you should imagine it with less electric guitar and boogie shuffle, but with a more mariachi style arrangement...

Spoiler: [spoiler]

"El Jarabe Tapatio", which apparently means something like 'the thick sauce', aka the Mexican Hat Dance.

 

[iblive]

No clue but , Deep Purple comes to mind..

Me either Mitch…. And can’t even come up with a best guess at band.

 

[iblive]

Sounds very familiar, but I can’t name it

I’m even worse Mitch. I know the song. And do you think I can come up with the title or band. Nope!!!!

 

[iblive]

Perhaps you should imagine it with less electric guitar and boogie shuffle, but with a more mariachi style arrangement...

Spoiler: [spoiler]

"El Jarabe Tapatio", which apparently means something like 'the thick sauce', aka the Mexican Hat Dance.

Had to check out “Spoiler.” Among other things…. Used in Loony Tunes shorts. I believe in a few commercials.

 

[Headache]

One of the coolest and most simple riffs ever.

4 kids from Brazil. 3:09 mark...

 

[PelliX]

Nope, I drew a blank there and wouldn't have guessed this. The band rings a bell, but only because an old friend used to listen to them.

 

[PelliX]

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Not entirely "like the record", but I think it's recognizable.

 

[iblive]

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Not entirely "like the record", but I think it's recognizable.

Norman Greenbaum. "Spirit in the Sky." Knew the song with the first note, so ya done good. Had to google who did it. Even then, I don't remember the artist, just the song.

 

[PelliX]

Norman Greenbaum. "Spirit in the Sky." Knew the song with he first note, so ya done good.

Absolutely right, of course! When the first note gives it away, I guess I must have done something right - thanks! While I can't remember what Norman supposedly used, I had a Tele and AC15. IIRC there's some heated debate about the distortion he used. The 'fuzzed out' tone on this is just the VOX being squeezed to within an inch of its life through a closed 1x12 GB cab.

 

[PelliX]

How about this one then?

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[Thatbastarddon]

What’s Goin On? I let the Spirit in the Sky slip on by….

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Lunch break is over…back to the grind…

 

[PelliX]

What’s Goin On? I let the Spirit in the Sky slip on by….

Eh.... I'm going to give someone another shot here. No artist and not quite the right title... you clearly know it, though.

As for Spirit In The Sky, yes...

 

[Thatbastarddon]

The sky was my directional vector…super subtle, and stupidly wrought…I know.
Funny story…kid I grew up with…talented guitarist…moved out to Cali to make it…living with this girl…he’s not having the success he’d hoped for, and is getting fed up with the scene…the girl asks him to play for her band…he says no way, you’re never gonna make it, and he moves home…supposedly that girl was the singer in that band.

Edit: I can not personally confirm the above story, as it was told to me by a mutual friend of the guitarist that moved home. If nothing, it’s an entertaining scenario. I can confirm that he was involved in that scene, at that time, the right age, doing some studio work and in a working band that had an ugly split…causing his exodus. Also, it fits with his temperament, and personality.