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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. I'm not really sure how many people are going to be reading this blog post because Twitter have decided to suspend my account. Hopefully this will be resolved over the next few days. Anyway lets have a look at this weeks cracking riff. It comes from a band that formed in 1967 and a band that I often think are underrated as a guitar band. Again this weeks choice has been influenced by watching the current BBC program, "Guitar Heroes at the BBC." The band are fronted by two guitarists that also sing;[...]

Well hello there everyone and welcome to another smashing riff. This weeks riff comes from a band that formed in the late 70's and to be honest a band and guitarist that I have not listened too much. In fact the main reason I have chose this particular riff this week is because I was watching a program the other week called Guitar Heroes At The BBC, and this song was on it. It was then I remembered how good a riff it was. I suppose the reason I have always backed away from this band in the past, is because I'm not really Sting's biggest fan.[...]