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One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.
'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
