[Steve_Seattle]

"Gimme Shelter"

That's actually a real good choice. That guitar intro was a classic.

Back in the day, I was an Animals fan, and a lot of their hits had bass hooks that grabbed your attention: "It's My Life," "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", and "Inside Looking Out" all had that opening bass riff that said, "This is a song with a message." And, of course, "The Housing of the Rising Sun" had that opening guitar arpeggio that hooked every 15 year-old guitarist in the country, and probably drove their mothers crazy.

[A Navy Vet]

"The Housing of the Rising Sun"

I can still play that. It starts with an A-minor. Used to do the upbeat Vanilla Fudge version in our enlisted club in Rota, Spain. They loved it.