BRITISH Heavy Metal vs Heavy Metal USA (Guitar Riffs Battle)

What's about Canada?


Even Gretzky approves! (y)
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Based solely on these riffs, the UK for sure. But, I don't think this video even comes close to the coolest riffs from each band represented. And, Ozzy might be from the UK, but pretty sure most of his music was written by American players.

Would be cool to see a year by year comparison. Like the best riffs of 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014 etc... and, expand it beyond just the two countries:

Aces High vs Creeping Death
The Tempter vs Into Crypts of Rays
SMF vs Iron Fist

etc...
 
smitty_p said:
Yeah, I get what you mean. I actually listen to very little hard rock or metal these days. Somewhere over the last couple of years, I just lost my interest in it.
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Wow, is there any kind of therapy for that disorder???

I can't remember when I wasn't listening to hard rock/metal....well, maybe 6 months ago I listened to a Herb Alpert full album on You Tube.

LOL Nothing wrong with that...I'm just pokin' fun.

I think perhaps, for some of us, hard rock became a way of life from a very early age. You don't shake what has been a part of you since you were 15...

Me in 1980...

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Robert Herndon said:
Wow, is there any kind of therapy for that disorder???

I can't remember when I wasn't listening to hard rock/metal....well, maybe 6 months ago I listened to a Herb Alpert full album on You Tube.
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Ha! Oh, I’ll still play it and have fun with it! You bet!

But, in my personal listening, I’m usually more likely to listen to classical or Motown or something like that.
 
smitty_p said:
Ha! Oh, I’ll still play it and have fun with it! But, in my personal listening, I’m usually more likely to listen to classical or Motown or something like that.
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Interesting...

My first exposure to music was in church and tagging along to my Mom's TV show recordings. Then, I was probably about 5 years old IIRC, Mom and Pop gave me their record collection. Things like "Baby, It's You," "If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody" (James Ray) "Smokestack Lightning," "Black Snake Moan" (Blind lemon Jefferson) "Mr. Moto" (The Ventures) were all a part of that collection...


 
The very first 'hard rock' song I ever heard was "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain probably around 1971 when I was 6. I mean, I saw Hendrix on Dick Cavett when I was 5, but Leslie West's playing slapped me in the face!!!

After that, it was 'War Pigs," and then "Ol Black Betty," then "Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo" about 1973 (a live performance with Johnny Winter wearing a spacesuit) then "Its A Long Way Down From The Top" by Back Street Crawler in 1975 and the "Hair of The Dog" around 1976.

(Keep in mind I was not allowed to listen to rock n roll/metal in our home, so I had to go to friend's homes or go into the hay loft and listen on a battery powered cassette player. )

Then, in the summer of 1976, a school chum had a relative visiting from Australia. She had an AC/DC album. It was not yet available in the U.S. That album just blew my mind. All the previously mentioned songs were like my musical "Gateway Drugs," so to speak, but after "High Voltage," there was no stopping the addiction...

 
Robert Herndon said:
Interesting...

My first exposure to music was in church and tagging along to my Mom's TV show recordings. Then, I was probably about 5 years old IIRC, Mom and Pop gave me their record collection. Things like "Baby, It's You," "If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody" (James Ray) "Smokestack Lightning," "Black Snake Moan" (Blind lemon Jefferson) "Mr. Moto" (The Ventures) were all a part of that collection...
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Yes. Very interesting.

My first exposure to music was church, as well. When I was very young, we went to a church that had a massive pipe organ and I was so fascinated with that. I still love organ music (hence, part of my appreciation for Deep Purple - Jon Lord’s organ work). I used to want to sit in a pew close to the organist so I could watch what she was doing.

My mother used to take me to see concerts performed by the local symphony orchestra when I was just a kid. I was so amazed by it all - how all these instruments could combine to create what I was hearing. I used to pepper her with questions after a concert! To this day, that’s what I listen for in music - the layering of instruments and the nuances and subtleties. Beethoven is great for that!

She also played a lot of classical records and took us to see musical movies, like Camelot and Fiddler on the Roof. I never pushed back on any of this or felt restricted by this sort of upbringing. I embraced it and it just became part of who I am. I am actually grateful.

Oddly, the instrument I really wanted to play as a young boy was the violin. But, I never told anyone because, even as a little kid growing up in a single-parent household, I knew there would be no money for that.
 
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