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Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:57 pm
by numberthirty
Two pages, and this ain't even come up.


Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:04 pm
by numberthirty
So I can save Randy Prime the trouble of having to mention this one...


Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:49 am
by jakethesnake
The one that kicks in after roughly 35 seconds or so in P-funk all stars Hydaulic Pump is awesome; reminds me of Kraftwerks "Man machine":

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:07 am
by Nate Dort

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:14 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:25 am
by atomjackfuser
enframed wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:18 pm



Side bar. This was used as the theme of Saturday Nights Main Event and below was they played over the intro interview bits.



Not rock, but old cycling videos used the crap out of the synth.

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:30 am
by Nate Dort

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:30 am
by jimmy spako

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:38 am
by pldms
Late 70s / early 80s is full of them.



(Although is that really a synth?)

And where is Numan?!



The Pleasure Principle in particular is wall-to-wall synth riff bangers.

Re: The best SYNTH riffs of all time

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:50 am
by rsmurphy
Not to flatter, but do synth guitars or whatever the heck FM Penningtron is abusing on Lardo's Gunmetal Eyes count? "Run Away" was always the business.