Thanks for watching everyone! I've had some great suggestions of heavy '60s riffs that weren't included here (keep those coming!) So I'm thinking of doing a 'part 2' or maybe even a 'heavy '60s riffs you may not have heard' video, as I've had some pretty obscure ones thrown at me and it would be good to explore that further.

@thekivster

8 ай бұрын

Please do obscure ones

@ffemto4

8 ай бұрын

Any iron butterfly riff……..

@trevorbrown625

8 ай бұрын

Excuse me, I really want to know what model Fender you're playing that looks offset is a cream color with dark red tortoiseshell pickguard?? Stunning looking guitar, and you make it sound top-notch!

@naskivik

8 ай бұрын

Check out farandole by love sculpture, neoclassical metal from 1968

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thank you. It's a Fender Cyclone. It's far from perfect to be honest but it's unique and I stuck with it. Thanks!

Props for including "The Nile Song" and "21st Century Schizoid Man".

@rickwilliams967

8 ай бұрын

People tend to forget the Floyd and Crimson influence on metal.

@callixvision6481

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for spoiling the video 😊

@juvnal

8 ай бұрын

@@callixvision6481 thank yourself

@vuzkoth

8 ай бұрын

Nile song! So underrated

I strongly miss I Want You (She's so Heavy) and Whole Lotta Love

@LukaszVT40k

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely, I was expecting I Want You!

@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek

8 ай бұрын

Whole lotta love not close to being the heaviest zeppelin long of 1969

@thepleb5652

8 ай бұрын

Whole lotta love is pretty mid compared to riffs like dazed and confused, communication breakdown or moby dick

@markhill9275

8 ай бұрын

Actually How Many More Times is a lot heavier.

@devinthierault

8 ай бұрын

​@@markhill9275I was gonna say Heartbreaker but that's mostly the bass that's heavy.

Major props for having Interstellar Overdrive on here, definitely one of the best Syd Barrett-era Floyd songs with one of the most badass riffs ever and while I do agree with Helter Skelter since it was one of the first heavy riffs I’d have also included I Want You (She’s So Heavy) because of that main riff as well as I Can See For Miles by The Who (which actually inspired Paul to write HS) or (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones since that’s one of the first fuzz/distorted guitar riffs as well but great vid as always dude

@haiderman1610

8 ай бұрын

She’s so heavy was basically the first ever doom tune

@andrewpappas9311

8 ай бұрын

@@haiderman1610 Yup

@kevinsebastian120

3 ай бұрын

@@haiderman1610 Exactly, the first doom metal song.

@kevinsebastian120

3 ай бұрын

All true, but I Can See For Miles by The Who did not inspire The Beatles to write Helter Skelter because Paul McCartney didn’t even know what song The Who were referring to when they said they had made the heaviest song in their catalogue. Helter Skelter was not done so much in inspiration, but it was rather made in competition to outdo The Who.

@andrewpappas9311

3 ай бұрын

@@kevinsebastian120 I mean yeah, but it’s still a cool backstory regardless

Black Sabbath's first album was actually recorded in the studio in October 1969, even though it was released in February 1970, so it's 1960s technically. Some songs of the Paranoid album were also written and performs live in late 1969. Anyway a couple of overlooked ones from the 1960s are Long Gone Geek by Procol Harum and High Time Baby by The Spencer Davis Group.

All great choices, but the absolute heaviest riff of the 1960s was Doctor Please by Blue Cheer. The distortion at the beginning of the song is earth-shattering.

@lukehenderson436

8 ай бұрын

Glad someone mentioned Blue Cheer 😊

@Nick-qf7vt

8 ай бұрын

Glad someone mentioned that song in particular. Forget Summertime Blues, Doctor Please is their masterpiece.

@korfrag6865

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@fullmetalguy8357

8 ай бұрын

@@Nick-qf7vt 100%. The blues covers on Vincebus Eruptum were great, but the 2 originals (Doctor Please and Out of Focus) were the best songs on that release. The most fuzzed-out downer blues you've ever heard, laying the bedrock for heavy metal. Outsideinside is probably their best album overall, maybe a bit less heavy than VE, but with even better songs overall. If anyone doubts their claim to heaviness, ask any of the members of Pentagram, who have been disciples of Blue Cheer their whole lives.

@AlaxyGalaxy2

8 ай бұрын

I hear ya! The sound is just everything going bad: the tubes, the speakers and probably even the baffle. I can just imagine how loud that must've been. It's worth mentioning that when this came out, the Beatles had just put out such songs as The Fool on the Hill and Your Mother Should Know... The heaviness of this album must've been like a kick in the nuts.

Pretty damn good for a headless guitar man. Glad to see you included the Stooges and King Crimson. A very well curated selection

All Day and All of the Night is from 1964. It is, IMHO, still the greatest riff in Rock ‘n’ Roll history. Play it loud. It’s absolutely BRUTAL.

Nice you included the Kinks. Songs for a part 2: Foxy Lady, Sunshine of your Love, Summertime Blues, Communication Breakdown

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Part 2 would be good.

@emiliomontesdeocagonzalez681

8 ай бұрын

​@@bloxsy_you better do! This was amazing but lacked so many good ones, as the fella up here said, and some others like Beatles' Revolution, Birthday, Everybody's Got Sumdina Hide 'Xcept Me & Monkey, Taxman, Savoy Truffle (the guitar part is perfection), the intro to It's All Too Much or the bass part of Think For Yourself. Some Who's and Sabbath's tunes would fit in perfectly too.

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah a lot of people have recommended other songs so it would be worth doing. There’s some pretty heavy stuff on the White Album. Sabbath are more 70s I think. The Who had a powerful sound for sure.

@davidreed6264

8 ай бұрын

Darkness darkness by the youngbloods

@davidreed6264

8 ай бұрын

Traffic dear Mr fantasy

It's simultaneously amazing how far heavy guitar music has come while also still being able to go back to the 60's and say "dang this is really heavy stuff". Kick Out The Jams was a great choice; too many people overlook MC5. Maybe the heaviest track of the 60's I've heard is "We All Love Him" by an incredibly obscure group called Brother Fox & The Tar Baby who I think were out of Baltimore or Boston or somewhere along those lines. Sounds like something six or seven years ahead of its time and used to be a pretty sought-after find for prog rock collectors.

Love the inclusion of Interstellar Overdrive! The 1st riff I ever played on my 1st guitar (1st guitar that I saved money for and bought with my own cash a green tele) and I remember just awesome it felt playing it in the guitar store.

@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970

8 ай бұрын

Indeed...

I think since the late '80s, "heavy" guitar riffs in rock and metal have gradually sounded less and less heavy over time. Maybe fans of more modern bands are hearing something else that sounds "heavy" to their ears, but to me today's preference for drop tunings, massive saturation and compression takes all the impact out of a riff. It sounds kind of mushy and soft.

The late 60s sure is when things got heavy! Great riffs! 🎸🤘

The Who's I Can See For Miles, Boris The Spider, The Ox and their versions of Summertime Blues and Young Man Blues are a must have on any heavy 60s riffs compilation video

@bluesrocker91

8 ай бұрын

The Ox always gets overlooked... It's a monster riff.

Lots of great examples but I'd have added a few more like Blue Cheer's rendition of Summertime Blues, Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Hendrix's Foxey Lady and Purple Haze, Davie Allan and the Arrows' Blues Theme, Magic Me by The Nazz(the demo version is the best) and a lesser known band The Pretty Things did a super heavy duty tune called Old Man Going.

Paul Revere and the Raiders - "It's Just Like Me" Iron Butterfly - "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" Cream - "Sunshine of Your Love" There were a lot of heavy riffs in the 60s.

Other songs that I would have considered: Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown The Who - I Can See For Miles Dick Dale - Misirlou Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child Bo Diddley - Mumblin Guitar The Standells - Riot On Sunset Strip Monks - Complication The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray Shocking Blue - Send Me A Postcard Can - Father Cannot Yell The Sonics - The Witch 13th Floor Elevators - Reverberation Count Five - Psychotic Reaction Electric Prunes- I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night The Seeds - Evil Hoodoo The Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go Love - Seven And Seven Is Lonnie Mack - Wham! The Troggs - Wild Thing Nazz - Open Your Eyes

I think Paperback Writer has a proper heavy riff, especially for a song written in 1966.

That Tele sounds great.

@LukaszVT40k

8 ай бұрын

Mustang!

@pierrepierre8920

8 ай бұрын

@@LukaszVT40kcyclone

@LukaszVT40k

8 ай бұрын

@@pierrepierre8920 Ooo, you're right, hadn't heard of them before :)

@jonncockrell3606

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like sh....t

Thanks for this refresher Mr Bloxy! I well remember posing in front of a mirror learning the simple chords to ‘All of the day and all of the Night’ on my Rossetti guitar that I got for Christmas in 1964😄! I saw the Kinks playing at Eltham Baths at around the same time, the girls screams are still ringing in my ears 😂! Will attempt the other great riffs you’ve shown as well- thanks👍

Fantastic video as always. Is it possible if you could do a Manic Street Preachers riffs video one day please?

@AlmiNia

8 ай бұрын

oooooh i second that!

@jan_Travis

8 ай бұрын

Yesssss would love to see them on here! This is Yesterday and Yes would be great to see him play.

1969- Any song off Spooky Tooth Two, especially "Evil Woman" and "Better by you better than me". Spooky Tooth was a great band.

Blue cheer’s cover of “summertime blues” deserves an honorable mention here too. That song had a heavy drive behind it and I love it

@Duck_Dodgers

8 ай бұрын

Honorable mention it's between cream and them who was the first metal band. Sorry it was black sabbath

@shaebryant1916

8 ай бұрын

@@Duck_Dodgersthe who were playing very heavy stuff maybe before them. Their version of summertime blues is great

Jimi Hendrix Top10 riffs please‼️

Amazing legendary riffs. Thanks. Please , do part 2. Purple Haze , and .....Greetings from Finland🎸🤘.

The heaviest ones I'm aware of High Tide - Futilist’s Lament Clear Light - Street Singer Iron Butterfly - Are You Happy? Head Machine - You Must Come With Me Stone Garden - Oceans Inside Me The Amboy Dukes - Prodigal Man Vanilla Fudge - Shotgun Spooky - Clear Blue Sky

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks. I haven't heard these. I wish I'd put a call out for suggestions first!

@cancercentral9997

8 ай бұрын

Really, you could take any of the many riffs on Vincebus Eruptum

@shaebryant1916

8 ай бұрын

Magic potion - open mind

the TONE on i wanna be your dog is so perfect

It doesn't matter what era it comes from it has to have that certain vibe about it that makes me want to listen to it over and over again.

👉 The Yardbirds - Stroll On (1966) One for next time.

The intro to The House At Pooneil Corners by Jefferson Airplane is HEAVY af tbh. I know it's mostly on the organ there but when I think of the "Heaviest songs of the 60s" that one is near the top of my list. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida would be my #1 though. I know it's not very heavy in a tone sense but it sounds evil af.

You are spot on with the tone for I Wanna Be Your Dog

Will forever love the dazed and confused riff

I just saw a student band today play All Day and All of the Night live and saw this video in my feed. Wondered instantly if they’d include that song and I was not disappointed lol

This channel is right up my alley and you play everything great

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

Really excellent inclusions, though my only criticism would be “I Feel Free” It’s a great tune; one of my favorite Cream songs, but it never felt heavy to me. “Bring It On Home” was definitely a surprise; I truly expected “Communication Breakdown” because it’s heavy af!

@SteveBluescemi

8 ай бұрын

Agreed

@bluesrocker91

8 ай бұрын

I suppose Sunshine of Your Love is the obvious heavy Cream riff, but maybe too obvious... SWLABR would be a good one.

@vitodoria7894

8 ай бұрын

I must say that Bloxsy made his version sound heavy than the original. Aside from all the psychedelic sounds, I reckon "I Feel Free" is unintentionally punky.

I mean how couldn’t Helter-Skelter be included!

Great selection

All this Tracks are pure jewels perfectly executed 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🏼✌🏼😎

I was waiting for Helter Skelter, thinking "surely, he can't leave that one out." 😅

Never realized how similar Interstellar Overdrive sounds to some of Bernard Sumner's early Joy Division riffs.

Fantastic! All excellent choices. I would also add Iron Butterfly Theme

interstellar overdrive 😍

@coolmasterjochem941

8 ай бұрын

Aww yeah I love death grips

Don't forget "House of the Rising Sun" by Frijid Pink!

How cool isolating those riffs you can hear the drums just kicking it in the back ground

Mandrake Root by Deep Purple is an honourable mention.

Futililists Lament by High Tide should be in here. Heaviest riff of the 60s, 70s and 80s combined and it was before Sabbath in 68

The 1960s is full of great music and experimentation.

AWEOME AWESOME AWESOME!!! I learned so many of my favorite songs!!!!

Your tone is spectacular! Great assortment of riffs. Cheers

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

I was perplexed by some of your choices, but including the Kinks, Neil Young, LZ and Helter Skelter made up for them.

Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground deserves a mention as well. 😎😎😎

@tinchocabj1053

7 ай бұрын

The Velvet Underground is most important band in the music history.

Damn, I Wanna Be Your Dog sounds perfect.

Sunshine Of Your Love!

Absolutely amazing job

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy.

The Who - Boris the Spider had some quite heavy riffs (and early growl vocals).

Blue Cheer had some heavy riffs.

You could've put he also riffs from some "proto-metal" bands like Blue Cheer and High Tide, the last one was as heavy as King Crimson on "21st century schizoid man"

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

I may do another video with these

if you do a part two...blue cheer - summertime blues...beatles - revolution...count five - psychotic reaction...the seeds - pushin too hard...monkees - circle sky...any sabbath...amboy dukes - journey to the center of the mind...cream - politician

@juanarellano5714

8 ай бұрын

sabbath was 70'

@bradpittiful7288

8 ай бұрын

@@juanarellano5714 technically a decade runs from 1 to 0 (lets say the 60s since thats the theme here) so the 60s decade goes from 61 to 70

@juanarellano5714

8 ай бұрын

@@bradpittiful7288 no one calls any sabbath album or led zeppelin III a 60s album

@beezlus_

8 ай бұрын

yessss circle sky by the monkees is such an overlooked tune

Sounds killer! You influenced me to pick up an electric guitar and I’ve been playing since April but still struggling to get the exact tones of songs even with the Boss Katana which I purchased. Would it be possible for you to upload a Boss Katana amp setup or run through some pedals which helped you get these heavy 60’s riff tones? Would mean the word to me thanks! Keeping the spirit of rock n roll alive, the best guitar channel on KZread along with MartyMusic without a doubt!

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thank you. I have a video on my Patreon that I did a while back that shows how I record my guitar through the Boss Katana. I may do a new one at some point as I'm still tweaking my sound. For this video I used the 'crunch' channel with Bass at about '10 o'clock', mids '12 o'clock, and high about '2 o'clock'. It really depends on the guitar you're using though as they're all different.

Also: The Troggs - I Want You (1966), Cromagnon - Caledonia (1969), many songs of Blue Cheer (like Gypsy Ball, etc), many songs of Alice Cooper, Deep Purple songs, Cream - Spoonful, Blossom Toes, Bob Seger System, Omega - Tuzvihar. Oh, so many songs I know. I have to creat a video about it.

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! You should do the video. It's interesting how punk and metal already existed in the 1960s but hadn't fully been established.

Interstellar Overdrive Got To Be One Of My Favorite Riffs Edit: Dazed And Confused

Can really see hints of what was to come in the following decades

Come on! Come on! Come on! Let's go Space Truckin'

This is very cool. Thank you. I knew most of them. Perhaps Sunshine of Your Love for Part 2? Very cool to end with Helter Skelter. 8) Oh yes--and Shakin' All Over (mainly the Guess Who version--Chad Allan died a few days ago. RIP)

Other heaviest riffs of the 60's: Gun - Race With The Devil Hide Tide - Futilist's Lament Deep Purple - And The Address Dragonfly - Blue Monday Grad Funk - Got This Thing On The Move Thunder And Roses - White Lace And Strange Blue Cheer - Doctor Please Andromeda - Too Old Leslie West - Blood Of The Sun Jeff Beck - Shapes of Things Vanilla Fudge - Need Love The Edgar Broughton Band - Evil

@bloxsy_

7 ай бұрын

Some more outstanding suggestions here. Thank you!

will there be a hardest riffs of the 50s? space guitar by johnny guitar watson and rumble by link wray are pretty heavy for the time

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Maybe. If we can think of enough heavy riffs. Maybellene by Chuck Berry is another one

3:11 my soul completely bristled

I would love to see you do 10 Johnny Thunders riffs, nyc original rocknroller

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Any song suggestions?

@matthewjdouglas6471

8 ай бұрын

@@bloxsy_ pipeline, pirate love, too much junkie business, in cold blood ?? I even one would be cool. Not enough love in the world for Johnny Thunders, and you cover so many cool bands, 😎 no pressure. Sometime in the future. Anything of L.A.M.F

Your playing simultaneously makes me want to pick up my guitar, but also throw it out the window because of how far ahead you are. Also, huge respect for including Bring It On Home!

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Nooo I'm not that far ahead at all. Pick up your guitar and you can do this!

4:02 His fingers are in the exact same position as one of my all time favorite guitarists (and one of my biggest influences) Django Reinhardt. 👍🎸

Two very important riffs for part 2; Misirlou and I want you she's so heavy. I want you is a contender for the heaviest of all time imo.

Thanks for including Death Grips on this one!

Some were 70s, but great job. 🎉

The Beatles "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is also a good choice

Great pick. I like how you picked bring it on home for zep. Also stooges was a good choice too

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Oddly, I was expecting Louie Louie and specially I Want You (She's so Heavy)

Two Led Zeppelin tracks featured here but neither are Whole Lotta Love (1969)!? C'mon, that's one of the heaviest riffs EVER never mind the 60's...

Solid list

I tend to overlook Cinnamon Girl but damn, that’s a great one.

I'd have to add the legendary Peter Green's 'Curly' with Mayall's Bluesbreakers - a cut that might predate every one that you singled out here except 'All Day.... by the Kinks. Greeny had performed it live and then recorded it in late '66, but many fans didn't get their hands on it until 'Through The Years' - a compilation of early Mayall that became available in 1968. It's almost never mentioned among the usual suspects on any 'roots of metal' lists on YT - even though the chord structure was echoed by Hendrix a year later on 'Purple Haze' Also from '66, the other early candidate - at least to my ears - is the opening stomp of Them's 'I Can Only Give You Everything' - a riff famously covered by the MC5 live and on record a few years afterward.

Nice to see another cyclone player

HELTER SKELTER! THANK YOU!

Man if some of those 60's guys knew what was coming......what they were laying the groundwork for.

White light white heat (basically the whole album) by the velvet underground!

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Ahh how could I forget. Maybe a part 2 is in order

@bobbystereo936

8 ай бұрын

Where the hell is American woman? Or is that1970? I thought cinnamon girl was 70?

@willsmith3787

8 ай бұрын

@@bobbystereo936 american woman just missed the cut as a january 1970 release, cinnamon girl was '69 but didnt come out as a single until '70

@bobbystereo936

8 ай бұрын

@@willsmith3787 Not just American woman but also sunshine of your love. When people 1st heard those back in the day it sounded heavy as f#€£! Everyone was like - This is heavy metal!

@willsmith3787

8 ай бұрын

@@bobbystereo936 was truly an exciting time for music, I often wish I was there to witness it

At Helter Skelter I literally thought my Spotify had started playing it lol

The thumbnail had me thinking this was an "In Utero" era Kurt Cobain impersonator lol The white shirt, black jacket, the white fender with the brown marbled pick guard. Obviously not every single detail about your jacket / clothes and all that is perfectly identical, but yeah... I thought this was going to be like a Nirvana in utero cover video lol still a cool video though. I love '60s era rock and pop 🤙🏿

Do Black Sabbath songs count for 60's riffs? I know their debut album was released in januari 1970 but they we're already performing and played live on the radio.

now you've got to do a best of king crimson!

Hands down it’s the Stooges, it’s very hard to believe this song was made in 60’s

Molto bravo, complimenti!!!

Good Golly Miss Molly covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival is actually Very heavy in its main riff. It goes under appreciated.

King Crimson FTW! Thanks.

Great stuff

The Nile Song! Awesome pick. Here are my additional choices if you care: Rolling Stones - Jumpin Jack Flack AND Satisfaction Grand Funk.- Are You Ready? Small Faces - Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am Deep Purple - Hush Yardbirds - Stroll On Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm compiling a list currently. Some great choices here.

I wanna be your dog is so fun to play! One of my favorite songs I know, fun to play live too :)

If you do one for the 70s, it could easily just be Sabbath Master if Reality.

Nice! That Tokai Mustang is a beauty btw.

@bloxsy_

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! It's actually a Fender Cyclone. Never seen a Tokai Mustang though, will check it out.

Very cool video!

How about the heavy riffs of the 1950s?

@AlmiNia

8 ай бұрын

yespls!

@CentipedeMKDS

8 ай бұрын

Rumble by Link Wray

@canesvenatici4259

8 ай бұрын

How Many More Years by Howlin' Wolf (1951), The Train Kept A Rollin' by Johnny Burnette (1956), Something Else by Eddie Cochran (1959) would be excellent in there

The comment section on these types of videos usually: "Cool, but you should have included x" This comment section: "Oh props for including x, dude!"