Posted on 10/31/2018 10:26:26 PM PDT by A Navy Vet
Another vote for “Telegraph Road”...as well as its ending guitar solo.
Spencer Davis Group...
* I’m a Man (not for the #MeToo pansies, though)
* Gimme Some Lovin
Baba O’Reily
In a Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4v1w
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI
The Gates of Babylon from Rainbow
Wasted Years from Maiden
Hell Awaits from Slayer
So many good ones out there.
Uhhhhh.....Papa was a rolling stone...by the Temptations...the strings...funky guitar...drums...brass...well done..too many others already mentioned...
Smoke on the Water
Deep Purple
Money.
Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane”. Anything else is a distant second. Except maybe Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”.
Help.
I know this isn’t technically an opening as it is titles as a different song but for me the best Rock combo ever is FOREPLAY/LONG TIME by Boston.
Many of Tom Petty’s songs have great intros (”Runnin’ Down A Dream”; “American Girl”; “Listen to Her Heart”; etc.)
Some great 80s intros:
Prince - 1999
Def Lepard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
After the Fire - Der Kommissar
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
Billy Idol - White Wedding
1970s:
Blue Oyster Cult - The Reaper
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
I saw them last year, and they changed up the intro. Ratyer than the drums, a little piano solo that nobody recognized, and then the unexpected blast of that first Mellotron chord hit like a ton of bricks. Fantastic.
‘Sweet Jane’ - Live version on Rock & Roll Animal LP (Wagner and Hunter knew their way around a guitar)
‘Purple Haze’ - Hendrix of course
‘All The Young Dudes’ - Mott The Hoople
“Magic Bus” by The Who.
Make me Smile-Chicago.
The horn intro is awesome. The single is from one part of a 12 minute rock opera called Ballad for a girl in Buchannon. Make me Smile and Color my World were both part of the long for m song. Jimmy Pankow, the trumpeter for Chicago wrote it and said the horn arrangement was moved to the beginning by the producers.
Here’s a version of Make me smile by cover band Leonid and Friends from Russia. The Russian mobster lead singer basically attacks the mic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJzlHBN3BT4
Don’t watch the video. You’ll spend the morning watching Leonid and Friends outdo Chicago with about a dozen songs.
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