What are your favorite song intros?

IrishEyes said:
Canned Heat was not a band I really cared for at that time is probably why I didn't know. Guess I was in a much calmer state of mind when they came out :ROFLMAO:
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To explore further, Canned Heat took the boogie intro from Johnny Lee Hooker. From his album Whiskey and Wimmen :devilish:, to Canned Heats, Fried :poop: Boogie, to Spirit in the Sky 😇. I think we can all agree on this intro being versatile. :LOL:

 
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Deya said:
To explore further, Canned Heat took the boogie intro from Johnny Lee Hooker.

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That's funny in a way. I used to listen to Hooker at times but he had this believable tone to his voice that he felt his songs.
Maybe that was more what drew me to some singers over others back then, Maybe that tribal felt respect my Granny
taught us when young... to listen, always listen not just to words and sounds but the heart of them.
 
This Harmonica takes me back when my Grandpa used to jam out on his.
I didn't realize how good he was until I heard this.

Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
 
Timewise 60+ said:
The electric guitar instrumental "Pipeline"! The intro was basically a scale played hotly on the guitar!

the ventures pipeline - Search Videos
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The Ventures were VERY popular in Japan. Why you ask ? NO lyrics. Just instrumentals, which the Japanese fans bought by the millions. No need for the fans to try to understand words in English. In later years, the Ventures members learned basic phrases in Japanese, and spoke to the fans, between songs. My fave Ventures record was the theme from Hawaii 50 super powerful sounds. JIMB>
 
Best Canadian rock song intro............American Woman by the Guess Who. Starts out slow and low, then breaks out into a heavy guitar riff, and the classic lines about....." Don't need your ghetto scenes, don't need your drug filled eyes, no more war machines, no more political lies. "

Burton Cummings made up the lines on stage, after Randy Bachman broke a guitar string, and the band took a break while he put on a new one. Randy started playing a 4 bar riff, to get the other band members to come back into the auditorium. The crowd in Waterloo, Ontario went wild, and "American Woman " went to number one in Canada in less than 2 months.

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In 1967 Gordon Lightfoot was commissioned by the CBC TV network, to write a song about the building of the Trans Canada railway. He wrote the "Canadian Railway Trilogy ". It is a three part poem set to his music melody. Here is a great video which has the lines of the poem on the screen, along with period photographs of the men who built the railway "From Sea to Sea".

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Gordon Lightfoot is revered in Canada as our premium song writer and singer. He had a 50 year long career and his music products number over 350 original compositions. Enjoy this epic song. JIMB>
 
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