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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[...]

Well hello there everybody. Hope you're all ok. Todays riff comes from the 90's and from a band that was caught up in a battle in the UK at the time. It was called Britpop. And the band, Blur. The verse of Song 2 is played with a clean guitar and the riff goes like this: Then the Chorus is played with a distorted guitar which Graham Coxon uses with his pedal : Here's how it should sound: Good Luck with this weeks riff guys, I think it should be relatively easy for you lot. Bye Subscribe in a[...]

Hello and welcome to another in the Hero Worship series. Hope you are all ok? Anyway, this weeks post takes us to 70's Glam Rock in the form of the legendary Marc Bolan. Big hair, big riffs and premature death all make this guitarist and frontman an icon. What Total Guitar Said: You Know Him By His: Corkscrew curls, pre-Slash top hat, feather boas and glam rock riffs. Greatest Moment: 20th Century Boy. Who said galm rock couldn't be heavy? David Bowie had more staying power and the New York Dolls' burnout tale is more[...]