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TOP 80 GREATEST GUITAR INTROS
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- Published on Jul 25, 2022 veröffentlicht
- My take on the 80 most iconic guitar intros of all time, played through the years. All in one take, and all by heart (remembering the order was the hardest bit haha!) Hope you enjoy it :)
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I don't think people get how insanely impressive this is. The fact that he remembers 80 guitar intros and can do them all flawlessly blows my mind.
No One Knows is such a grimy, bad-ass song.
They are also in order by the year they came out.
@P M I've gone from playing 5 hours a day in the 80's, to just picking it up again after not playing for 3 years..I kaint remember shit, except my own blues music🤣🤣it'll come back
Message in a Bottle was spot on. The right tone. 👍
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Playing 80 intros in one take without making cuts or mistake is insane. People don't realise how great of a guitarist Paul is.
Yes we do
This is actually insane. You should get some sort of award seriously. One take, 80 iconic riffs, without a break. Holy shit. Hats off man. Incredible talent.
As a kid born in the 90’s I never realized how far back some of these familiar tunes went. Very happy both of my parents were into rock of all ages. Also it was very impressive to hear all of these intros back to back. Crazy to witness so much skill and technique.
I’m also thankful my mom raised me right regarding music.
A história toda resumida em 15 min.
Show! Parabéns.
This just inspired me to put everyone of these songs into a play list
It’s not just remembering the notes and rhythm, but getting each and every tone so perfectly balanced… what a performance 🫡
Hmmm.. perfectly? He did good.. very recognizable, but he even knows he makes mistakes. Look in his face, BUT it is 80 songs with 80 different tones on 1 guitar. It's 100% NOT going to be perfect. For what it is though? Did great.
The tone work was phenomenal
the sound of this strat matches only a few, it doesn't make sense for him to play rock with a strat even more without distortion
The fact Dave Mattews didn’t make this list is a travesty. I know he has a whole band playing all kinds of instruments, but him and timmy reynolds are two of the greatest guitarists ever.
Impressive to say the least. What made me feel kinda old is that most of my favorites of those are from before I was 20^^ Then again.. I do still listen to them, and am alive^^
Loved the list. Personally I would've liked to see Money For Nothing. Super impressive
This is soundtrack of my 49 years in this world summed up in 15 minutes. The memories each intro brought on had me bouncing from happy to sad and everywhere in between. Didn't know if I should be laughing or crying. Bravo!
Likewise.
Totally same here. Marvelous.
Great list! Can't stop watching it. I think Queen's Hammer to Fall would be perfect addition.
Songlist:
0:17 Me and the Devil Blues
0:25 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
0:32 I Walk the Line
0:39 Johnny B Goode
0:47 Apache
0:56 Boom Boom
1:07 Misirlou
1:17 The House of the Rising Sun
1:25 Oh, Pretty Woman
1:31 You Really Got Me
1:38 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
1:46 Day Tripper
1:56 Wild Thing
2:07 Sunshine of Your Love
2:15 Brown Eyed Girl
2:23 Little Wing
2:36 A Little Less Conversation
2:43 Fortunate Son
2:50 Roadhouse Blues
2:59 Paranoid
3:05 Black Dog
3:14 Hocus Pocus
3:24 Smoke on the Water
3:30 Long Cool Woman
3:38 Sweet Home Alabama
3:48 La Grange
3:56 Wish You Were Here
4:07 Walk This Way
4:18 Don't Fear the Reaper
4:25 Blitzkrieg Bop
4:35 Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
4:51 Le Freak
5:00 Sultans of Swing
5:13 Hold the Line
5:20 Should I Stay or Should I Go
5:29 Message in a Bottle
5:37 Crazy Train
5:46 Limelight
5:54 Eye of the Tiger
6:05 I Love Rock 'N' Roll
6:15 Beat It
6:23 Pride and Joy
6:39 2 Minutes to Midnight
6:50 Purple Rain
7:05 Glory Days
7:15 Master of Puppets
7:27 Big Love
7:40 Sweet Child o' Mine
7:48 Personal Jesus
7:56 Thunderstruck
8:03 Still Got the Blues
8:16 Smells Like Teen Spirit
8:24 Alive
8:34 One
8:46 Pull Me Under
8:55 Walk
9:04 Are You Gonna Go My Way
9:12 When I Come Around
9:26 Wonderwall
9:33 Song 2
9:40 The Kids Aren't Alright
9:52 What's My Age Again?
9:58 Drive
10:08 Kryptonite
10:19 Plug in Baby
10:27 Last Resort
10:38 One Step Closer
10:50 Chop Suey
11:02 Like a Stone
11:13 No One Knows
11:30 Seven Nation Army
11:42 Are You Gonna Be My Girl
11:55 Mr. Brightside
12:09 Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
12:23 Snow (Hey-oh)
12:33 The Pretender
12:45 I'm Yours
13:02 Sex on Fire
13:15 Do I Wanna Know?
13:26 G.O.A.T.
@Samuel Castañeda its like the 2nd one
The playlist is in the video you numpty 🤣
Bump 👌
Very Impressive also.
Thank You Very Much!
No Megadeth?
I always thought music became weak around the mid-nineties. This certainly proves it. Bang on with every intro. You're quite the talent!
Agreed 100%
This was absolutely amazing!
who ends 80 songs with the hardest and nails all of them.... legend...
That first chord of purple rain is INSTANTLY recognizable
I agree!!!
Great stuff. My kids say dont I ever finish a song... this topped it all over the mountain. Awesome memory
For those of you that think this is hard, you're wrong... It's actually way harder
Rage Against the Machine 🤘
@MCHiphopotamus
Not bragging but riffs come easy to me automatically , hard for me to pluck ..
Has somebody the list of songs?
I waited patiently for Funk 49. Still waiting. 😂
Every song intro made me smile...my dad would've loved listening to this if i showed this to him. He passed away 11 years ago, but his memory will forever stay. He's the reason i'm such a music lover. ❤️
I can't imagine how much work it is to remember so many introductions like that. How amazing, man! Congrats :)
I was surprised that AC/DC’s Back in Black didn’t make your list. Such an iconic intro…
I’m always surprised when someone is surprised that one specific song of billions isn’t on a list of 80
This is what Clip-Share is made for, perfect and very entertaining. Thanks for the upload dude
I'm not sure if you do this for a living or a hobby, but I must say I'm impressed. Excellent video.
No cuts and every riff is flawless. That’s talent. Practice and dedication is key.
The G.O.A.T. intro was far from flawless.
So, so good!
Its almost as good as the guy who did 100 riffs some years ago
@viralent It's both.
That makes it a skill.
Someone who hasn't heard these intros in his/her life time .... isn't in any position to judge about the music legacy of the past! This is collective music memory ....
only guitarist knows how difficult it really is what you did in this video with a suitable sound and without interruption and without a mistake, congratulations
This is beyond astounding!
Thank’s for putting this together. You’re an amazing musician!
Wow Paul. The sheer number of intros all performed back to back is very impressive. Thank you very much for sharing your playing with us. Btw, love that Fender Strat.
This was a lot of fun to watch, thank you for sharing and making this look a lot easier that it really was!
Let's be real. The 70s held it down so hard. That decade is so pivotal for rock / metal. Also it was cool to see the progression of the years. Well done
to me the best rock music came from between the late 60s to the middle 80s
Great work! Two obvious ones for me that are missing: The Eagles’ Hotel California (but probably because you don’t want to get sued 😂) and Boston’s More Than A Feeling. Van Halen alone could have probably taken 10 slots by themselves but Ain’t Talking ‘bout Love was a good choice. Songs were so recognizable back then…with the 70s-90s being my favourite three decades for rock guitar.
@Gruuvin1 Nirvana brought a whole new thing onto the map, it was the pure raw emotion that pushed away the sellout, celebrity status hair metal… Like them or not, they changed rock, gave more variety, and most importantly, it wasn’t some commercial bs
@testa da lordYeah but that doesn't change the fact that at least 90% of popular music is objectively garbage. Just because it sells doesn't mean it's quality.
And the 90s is when the party was over.
must be one of the best videos ive ever seen on yt! thanks for sharing your talent! 👍👏👏
Muito bom! Excelente!!!
I had literally the most incredible time listening to this. The sheer amount of time to do all 80 in a single cut is just mind-blowing
Very impressive!!! Well done and great selections! GnR Sweet Child of Mine is a personal favorite.
Holy!! Segues soooo smooth... Every song NAILED it!! You're beyond impressive!! Hafta share it!
Not only did he nail the riffs, but the tone for each riff was almost spot on. Thats crazy
@MysteryMeat 121 "I've been studying tone for quite a while now" jesus stop it man, dude played 80 intros to teach and entertain. Your not fooling anyone, youre no guitargod, just a troll.
@Nathan Wahl I was correcting the original commenter. He said the tones were perfect yet they were incredibly far from their originals. I've been studying tone for quite awhile now.
@MysteryMeat 121 Exact tones? Well of course not, sheesh. Close enough to give you the idea, for 80 songs/tones, in 15 minutes? Yup. Pretty freakin' awesome and close enough no matter what you say.
@Faceless and Nameless Yeah, but how much better and more fun was this than cutting together 80 video clips from music videos.
This reminds me of the old "How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall?" joke -- Practice! Practice! Practice! Yes, Mr. Davids has talent, but what he really needs to be admired for is his dedication to putting in long hours of practice toward his craft.
A 14 minute video that can evoke Passion, Emotions and Memories.
All true rockers will have feelings for EVERY riff. Great Job!
Over 60 years of music in less than 15 minutes :)
Wow! That’s awesome and totally amazing. Great job!
Well done - you nailed it!
Not even was he able to play these flawlessly, he nailed the tone on most of them. Very impressive considering it was all done in a single take.
It was edited
And with one guitar. Its not an exact match but its pretty close
Very impressive I will watch this over and over again spot-on licks
Amazing, almos unbelievable you did this all in one take. Such a beast. Hail to the king could be in there too!
I don't know how I am just seeing this on YT but WOW. Just WOW. You are Insanely awesome, that was Flawless, Epic, & so much fun to listen to!!! Mind Officially Blown 🎸❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥👏👏
As the great Jeff Spicoli once said, "Awesome! Totally awesome!"
Great video, only songs I think that deserve to be added are both from Megadeth, Tornado of Souls and Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, both from their 1990 Rust in Peace album
I didn’t even realize he was going In chronological order until minute 10 😂 this was so impressive !!
me neither
@X X ¿Pearl Jam crap? Ok, man
Everything after 1990 is a pure crap.
@German enjoyer The iconic part of Free Bird isn't the intro, though...
I was today years old when I realised that... it's amazing enough without appreciating they're in order.
Pretty much nailed it. Just to pick these songs, let alone play them flawlessly back to back! Must be a full-time artist. I will be researching!
I love how you went through the years!!! Love to hear the different progressions of the decades. Incredible 👊
Absolutely brilliant… I just wish there was pdf of them all to learn…at least some of them!!!
So many beautifully executed riffs here, so many of them memorable and iconic, and "You Really Got Me" leaves everything else feeling wan and lifeless by comparison.
Yes. This is difficult in many ways: digital dexterity and memorizing are just two obvious ones. But the really, REALLY impressive feat on display here is the mental facility with which this guitarist goes instantly from one key/time signature and style/technique to another. Truly incredible!
Dude you're a freakin legend for playing all of that flawlessly in a single take!
@Allen Newborn just needs more pedals
Flawlessly? Interesting. Listen to the songs from the artists. Quite a few flaws, but he did fantastic. Only so much he can do on 1 guitar with so many songs.
far from flaw free but indeed well done.
I'm looking forward to seeing more videos like this one 🕜⏩☺️🙂🤠😉😜
What a fantastic way of showing the evolution of guitar music over 7 decades or so. I really enjoyed listening. Thanks for the video.
Teared up hearing Like a stone, Beautiful work man!
Great list! Really thought Funk #49 would make the list, one of my favorites.
That was sick as hell. I’d have thrown in Purple Haze, Where The Streets Have No Name (especially on the Strat!), and, maybe for a curveball, Meant To Live by Switchfoot. But I can’t play like this, so you get to do whatever you want. 😂 This was fantastic.
Seeing the dates next to the songs is really surprising how old some of these songs are and are still played day in day out all over the world. Timeless classics
Bach has been played all over the world for about 300 years 🤣
Oh my gosh, I'm 62 and seeing the dates made me feel like Methuselah... terrific vid, well played! You said it, Timeless Classics...
Hey Hey, My My, Rock and roll will never die.
Awesome man! There is a popular song (1960/70s I believe) that is VERY similar intro wise to La Grange. It starts with a electric guitar that then merges with what sounds like a saxophone. I can't for the life of me find it :(
As a teenager starting guitar, I have to say you are one of the people I hope to play like one day!
That was impressive as hell. Thank you!
Absolutely Amazing - next level solidified!
По волнам моей памяти... On the waves of my memory. Bravo, Maestro 😊👍👍👍
Can’t tell if the pure happiness at the end was doing all 80 intros in a row or just absolutely nailing that Polyphia intro
I thought the same thing lmao
Wow! I've took a hard time trying to learn that intro, got it, but now I've just forgot because I've learnt Playing God, my braind can't support more than 1 Polyphia song, it's too difficult.
To have the skill to play/change the effects accordingly/do it in annual order proves one thing…YOU ROCK. I would love to see you do the “Black Sabbath Planet Caravan” solo, as it suits you to a T. God bless you Paul. 🙏🏻
Since I heard the lead guitar on Beat It when I was 15 years old, I was so fascinating with the it...
I keep listening to lead guitar masterpieces... prior & after 1983.
Greetings from Malaysia
This was awesome!! Thank you for your efforts...
I’m absolutely blown away by this, Paul! 🔥
How much practice and how many takes did it take to pull this one off?
Just amazing, slipping The pretender in there was perfect timing !
Playing 80 riffs in one take and choosing polyphia as the last one is a gutsy call 😄
Great job! 👍🏼
Agreed. Should've ended with Another World by Gojira, much better guitar intro. There's an excessive amount of rock intros on this video and not nearly enough metal.
@Devon Day usually I'd be the "don't read before watching" guy, but chilling in the comments is completely fair on this one
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Polyphia is the only band on the list formed in the last 20 years. We guitar 🎸 lovers are dinosaurs.
@Devon Day well of course there’s a risk. And that’s why you don’t “read the top few comments” while watching. Like I said, it’s fair game to comment on any aspect of any video.
That was fantastic, nice selection.
This cheered me up no end. Well done.
Maravilhoso
Put these songs in a playlist ,that's all we will ever need!
the arrangement is unreal seamless - some of those intros sound really good next to each other.
Damn not only did he get the riffs, tone and transitions but also all in chronological order?! Sick
hmmm... 🤔
I wonder, I wonder... could he, perchance, have resorted to using some modern day technological hack to say... prep a list of all the songs he was to play, in their proper chronological order, so as to use said list as a reference guide?... then maybe, just maybe, placing alluded list in position off-camera, so as to then induce the resulting effect of wondrous bewilderment within his audience's psyche...
oh, how I wonder... 🤔
@JP Fair enough, but i think we're splitting hairs at this point.
Dean Allison Good Point, Dean! You fuckin got me dude. However, I don't remember seeing a video on your page playing all of these intros note for note, or any guitar intro, or any content at all for that matter. Must've missed that. Have a good day, pal.
@JP and Plug In Baby by being from 2000, it was technically only released in 2001
Apart from Should I Stay by the Clash 82ish🤔
this is insanely impressive!
Cementery gates es mi favorito suena oscuro me encanta
amazing. everything from mid 90s and on you would always hear in all the teen films that came out so I was VERY familiar with them. definitely about to put some on these songs on my spotify.
I don't know how you remember that many, let alone play them! My favourite guitar intro of all time has got to be Steely Dan's 'Don't Take Me Alive', played by Larry Carlton. Genius!
This is one awesome Spotify playlist haha nicely done, man!
This is insanely impressive. 80 intros, different effects, different musical genres, seemingly from memory and all in one take without noticable mistakes. Not too many musicians around who could pull this off.
hmmm... 🤔
I wonder, I wonder... could he, perchance, have resorted to using some modern day technological hack to say... prep a list of all the songs he was to play, in their proper chronological order, so as to use said list as a reference guide?... then maybe, just maybe, placing alluded list in position off-camera, so as to then induce the resulting effect of wondrous bewilderment within his audience's psyche...
oh, how I wonder... 🤔
@TJM mate maybe you can send us a link to the video of you doing this?
Do it in 10 tunes chunks. It's WAY easier to do it like that. I'm SURE he had apprx 3 weeks to shed all that. Totally possible
This was fantastic. Good work
Just FANTASTIC man !! I litteraly have no words after this fabulous video !
Had me smiling the whole time thinking about all that great music. Well done sir! Bravo!
It’s stunning how you were able to play 80 intros with no list or more music, from memory, in chronological order, without any mistakes! How many weeks & takes did this take? Meanwhile I spent months during covid not mastering the ONE intro from G&R that you featured 😝
Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria is an iconic intro from the 2000s
So many things we can learn from this:
Paul is an absolute beast playing guitar.
Paul talent has no limits.
ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A STRAT, YOU CAN USE IT TO PLAY EVERYTHING.
@Crap Tacular You should try a MIDI pickup. 😃
@Erik Kraan, hush your mouth!
@Erik Kraan I was talking about how versatile is a Strat, I never said "don't ever buy any other guitar", just that with a Strat you can play anything. Yes, you can play anything with any guitar, if you have 35 guitars, that's awesome, if you can have a guitar for every genre, amazing, my comment is not about the Strat being the only guitar the worlds need, it's just a "wow dude, how versatile a Strat is".
@Pete Shegog Now THAT'S a good choice!
@Alan Alvarez I think that it doesn't have to be a strat. Guess you could play all this on a tele as well, with a good sound. But it does mean you don't need to own a couple of guitars to play a lot of different styles.
Brilliant. It would be fascinating to listen to your explanation of the selection process, what to include, exclude.
Great vid, variety and very well performed. I'd have had Gary Moore's Parisian Walkways instead of the one you played, personally, but that's just me. Really enjoyed the performance.
Thoroughly disappointed that not only was Funk #49 not at #49, but wasn’t even on the list at all!
On a serious note, damn impressive! I don’t think I could remember that many riffs at one given time, much less play them all perfectly in one take.
Is it just me or somehow the first two song kinda flowed into each other oddly well
'Do i wanna know' is still fresh in my mind when it's released, and that is 10 years ago. Time flies sure really fast
I had heard it somewhere before and then I rediscovered it watching Peaky Blinders. That guitar riff is something else.
Not only did you memorize 80 guitar intros and do it in one take, but you captured each songs guitar tone as best as you could as well. Absolutely incredible.
@Pyr0nEx I agree, there were a handful that I was like, "yeah, those are the notes, but it doesn't sound quite right because of the setup". Obviously, by doing it in one take certain sacrifices have to be made, and most of them sound very close to, if not exactly like, the original recordings.
@Luke Prov damn, thought I said I was impressed.
@Pyr0nEx lol cant please everyone 🤷♂️
@Luke Prov I am impressed but I disagree with the tones being accurate as you basically described. He could’ve had his Les Paul or SG next to him and we would have a perfect video.
@Pyr0nEx with what he had, he did a damn good job. He could of easily just plugged in his strat and played each intro on a clean channel, but he went the extra mile and plugged in his pedal board and tried to capture each tone as close as he could by switching pedals/pickups. Not to mention he had to remember 80 songs worth of guitar tones. You may not be impressed, but I damn sure was.
I was kinda shocked you didn't have Back in Black. That and Lay it Down by RATT. Overall a super representation of opening riffs.
If I could do that I would never stop….nice work.
Loved it, superb playing, would liked to have heard Day dream by Robin Trower ;)