Rockers Play the First Riffs They Ever Wrote 

50% of the video: Plays the crappiest teenage riff ever Other 50%: First riff ever was our number one song to date

"...jealous of all the kids on the subway, and shit." I felt that.

The 'Cold Beer' riff is a solid banger tho.

\m/ 0:09 Lzzy Hale 1:20 Satchel 2:18 Jim Root 3:23 Mark Tremonti & Myles Kennedy 4:39 William Duvall 5:14 Ben Bruce 6:15 Michael Paget 7:13 Mark Morton 7:54 Bill Kelliher 8:31 Buzz Osborne 9:25 Kenny Hickey 9:50 Kirk Windstein

7:33 "i play it till it sounds cool and then i see if i can do it again" thats cold

4:39 William Duvall was probably the only one who actually showed the real first one. The rest of them just chose early riffs.

Jim root mic quality sounds like he’s calling from Mars

Mark Tremonti writing With Arms Wide Open as one of his first riffs is just amazing.

You can tell who is being honest and who isn’t.

My first riff was 3 power chords right next to each other into a bad groove. I called it a song, “Smut.” It totally sucked. But I was just so happy I could make some kind of sound come out of my guitar. A start. I was on my way.

In reality, pretty much nobody (myself included) remembers the first riff they ever wrote.

"Cold Beer" did not disappiont. Validation. We are Kenny.

COLD BEER! 💚🖤🤘

2:53 I understand Randy Rhoads was exactly the same way. He used to snarl at his, apparently. RIP RR.

I saw Crowbar open up for Pantera on the Vulgar Display tour. I wasn't familiar with them when I walked in, but I was an instantly a fan.

"not much has changed," LOL

Kirk Windstein with the most honest answer on this video lol

i remember the first riff i wrote. no fucking clue how i used to be able to down pick that fast lmao.

I was watching this video and then my neighbor came and we watched it together. He said that this video changed his life and touched his heart. I then went and rented a projector in a big field and all my neighbors watched it and it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful. Thank You for this video…

Cold Beer is a hit!!!🤘

Type O Negative guy with “COLD BEER!” wins so far

DuVall makes me think Lenny Kravits and Phil Lynott had a kid.

This video needs to gain ground! Underrated! I still remember the first song my drummer and I wrote. Open string Dtuning, harmonic 3, 3rd fret to 1st fret ha. Epic.

It’s crazy hearing some famous musicians home setups 🤘🏼

1:50 gotta keep en separated into the pit

Imagine writing your very first riff as a band, and it was the final episode, that song was mind blowing back in the day

Thank you LDub. This is good stuff.

Cold Beer is exactly the kind of song I have been searching out lately. I want that whole song, and some other slow but heavy stuff like that.

I think it’s interesting that a lot of guitarists when playing or demonstrating, they will shorten the empty space almost as if skipping a beat. Probably just to not bore people and to get to the point. Cool video.

Mark Morton seems to be such a sweetheart !! 😊 His riff is great btw ❤

Cold Beer is the best one. Rocks!

The boy is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he is still absolutely broken

As always, the firsts things a band makes is what defines it.

Cold Beer!!!

So William Duvall wrote Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones - got it 😎

I don't know why, but now I need a cold Beer.

That "It's Not You" thing is cool and I don't even know the song.

It would be great make an album with all first riff songs from these people.

Very Metal Riff Awesome

I still remember the first riff I ever wrote and it was only two chords. I guess that makes it memorable! It sounded flamenco yet I had never heard that style. Music is about feeling and spirit not what makes sense. Some times it Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Was Jim Root underwater or something? Lmao

1:50 Sounds to me like Johnny Blade from Sabbath 😈

I remember mine. It was one string. In fact I’m gonna record it as a song for fun

The first riff I can remember writing was based on the idea that "hey, I can basically due what Chet Atkins did, except in rock" and I basically was playing a bass line while picking a melody. Everything I ever wrote before that was just strumming chords..basic strumming patterns. I showed off that riff tons of times, over the years, but never really used it until a good decade later, when it ended up on a band's album.

Same assignment, interesting how some folks go back to the beginning & others only go back as far as their egos allow them too.

I remember the first riff I wrote was back in 2017 when I was 18 was to a song that I called Inhuman and thought that it sounded really cool with this melodic droning tone over it, but it didn't take me until a couple years later to realize that I just took the main riff (and subsequently the main chord progression) from Pictures of Matchstick Men by Status Quo

Wow, I had no idea William Duvall wrote the Up & Go protein jingle.

Cold beer sounds like the riff from 'Simulation' by Avenged Sevenfold

I came for Lzzy Hale.

very humble guitar players :)

I ran sound for that crowbar guy. 🤘

I have no clue what the first riff I wrote was but I remember liking it lmao

Kirk's Tonight song is a total hit!!! Ramones style

Satchel definitely almost said "get girls".

Yeeeeah 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Not gonna lie, Cold Beer is an absolute banger.

was Jim Root a part of JSOC? couldn't find any relation in my searches. spotted the blackbeard on his wall and its not very common to come across as a decorative piece in someone's home.

Buzz ozbornes camera is straight out of 90s xd

The first riff I ever wrote gets better each time I play it

Crazy how many musicians don't have the most basic setup for recording in their PC

cool

Moral of the story. Jim root and mark tremonti are naturals.

You should have talked to Dany Villarreal

Calling total bullshit on Jim Root's story lmao

I'm not myself no musician or have any skills or doesn't understand a lot of playing guitar but my riff wasn't ever that good but it was heavy. Only grabbing the guitar from up the neck and playing the first two strings and maybe using only one chord? And my friend back then said "Wow, just wow" and I said "Sounds shit, right?". Think I was 13 years old and started to think that I'll never be a guitarist or rock star whatsoever so I only wanted to smash my acoustic to the floor. Never did, tho. And still my head is running full of riffs like it used to be back when I was teenager. But hey, I love that COLD BEER!

I can do that cuz I still play it to this day… nothing fantastic but it was when I first was learning and I wrote it in 6/8. It’s kind of an entire song but no lyrics behind it just what I played on guitar. Really minor and I was in my emo phase musically (no skinny jeans or anything, just mcr and what not ) I wish I could play it, but I kind of want my band to use it at some point.

the alter bridge riff sounded like dust in the wind by kansas

That last riff from Kirk Windstein doesn't sound so bad actually..

tHOUGHT IT WAS jUSTIN hAWKINS IN THE THUMBNAIL

Isn’t Satchel Ben Stiller with a wig?!

Accirding to RB, Thank Roger Glover for Smoke on the Water riff.

I'm stealing COLD BEER. I highly suggest you all do the same too 😁👍

which riff is that? 4:15

Everybody is their own worst critic😂

lol I found a tape from highschool that had a song I completely forgot I wrote, whole band in my parents garage lol it was pretty solid, I was like damn…….. I was a lot better back then, sounded like zeppelin mixed with sabbath guitar wise, vocals were incubus and not poppy incubus but aggressive incubus, lol still hang out with the drummer and showed him the tape and he forgot about it too lol

Paget is a beast

The first riff that Jim Root wrote it sounds like old school Megadeth!!! It almost seems it belongs on Killing is my business... or in Peace Sells!!!!!

COLD BEER!!

Anyone know the song from the band that Myles was playing?🙏

you can tell buzz is like 'this is how good i was, i showed kurt everything" lol. his attitude has always stank

Lizzy ❤ a hometown hero

Cool video but I don't believe for a second that the first riff Mark Tremonti ever wrote was Arms Wide Opoooown.

Michael Paget reminds me so much of Ser Davos from GoT... 😂

The setup on Myles' guitar is all over the place - what's going on?

So William Duval just made "Paint in Black"ish intro

From the thumbnail, I thought that was Justin Hawkins holding the white Firebird

shoulda got Tim or Scotty on here

Kenny rules

So Kurt Cobain really did jisy rip off the Melvins...sounded exactly like the chorus of Nirvana's "Blew" and also "Aneurysm"

cold beer 9:25

idk, i'm kinda down with "Cold Beer"

Im just gonna put 9:25 here so everyone can have quick access to "Cold Beer"😂

The only one being honest is the guy from crowbar. The rest are like oh yeah I remember the first time I touched a guitar I picked it up and instantly played this (plays epic tapping van haylen solo)

First thing I learned was the star spangled banner, like a true patriot

The first lady holds the guitar and plays it like she's 3 weeks in... Question is, why?

Kirk Windstein = George R. R. Martin's stoner-rock cousin

After hearing most of that shite I don't feel so bad about myself.

Do metallica

Steel Panther dude playing a surf rock riff. 😅

Lzzy Hale 🤘🏼♥️⚡️