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Hello everyone and welcome back to another weekly riff and one of my favourite songs of the late 70s and my favourite song from this particular band. It also comes from a band who I am really into at the minute, maybe you could already tell with yesterdays Hero Worship post. The song was released in 1979 and was put on the compilation album Boys Don't Cry which was released in 1980. It feels weird that such an amazing song could not make it onto any studio album but maybe that adds to its charm and stature. I think the first time I heard this[...]

Well hello there and welcome to another weekly riff! I know its been quite a few weeks but the World Cup was on, so you can't begrudge me that can ya? :-P This weeks riff comes from one of my favourite acoustic performances ever. The version that I have decided to do is from 1993 and an MTV Unplugged performance in New York, which was actually featured in my MTV Unplugged post a few months back. The original version of this song was released way back in the early 70's by the legendary David Bowie and then covered again in the MTV performance[...]

Hello everyone and welcome back to another weekly riff and back to a Guitarist that I have covered on here on several posts. I've already covered one of his riffs, Plug In Baby, back in April. He is considered one of the best guitarists of the last decade and a guitarist who promises a lot more. The guitarist? Matt Bellamy. He hails from the British trio called Muse and they have become one of the biggest bands in the UK, Europe and they're even making waves across the pond now. Personally I think their albums have slowly got worse as they've[...]

Hello and welcome to another weekly riff where I take usually take a classic rock riff and show you how to play it. This week will be slightly different as it won't be a rock riff. Instead I've picked one of the biggest television theme tunes of all time. Now I'm sure a few of you may be critical of this weeks riff as it shows a sign of a band selling out and cashing in, but I still think it is a spectacular riff, and one that is iconic of the 90's. It reminds me so much of my youth in the 90s and early 00's and also reminds me of the Friends[...]

Hello and welcome to another weekly riff where I look at a classic rock riff and show you guys how to play it. This weeks riff is a bit different from the last one I did which was a psyhcadelic 60s riff by Status Quo. Anyway I heard this riff the other day as many 15 and 16 year old's across the UK are finishing school this summer. This song is played every year on some sort of Holiday, Summer, Job or other advertisement as soon as the schools break up for summer. I always thought this was an overplayed song and that the riff was often a[...]