I am in fact Jimmy Page!

The other day I was twiddling around, just riffing a bit, not with any purposeful intent, other than to pass some time in a nice sounding way, when I came upon this, in my opinion, quite good riff. To cut a long story short I wrote a song around it, and then left it for a bit.

A few days later, I reluctantly sat down to do my maths homework, and when I do I always put on some tunes to keep me breathing, so I settled on a fairly good classic hard rock playlist, and thought nothing of it, however ten minutes later a song came on, and I thought; hey that's my riff!!!

Turns out I accidentally wrote Whole Lotta Love.

And earlier this year the BBC named Whole Lotta Love the best riff of all time, so I guess I'm some kind of genius?

Also whole lotta love, is good but it's not the best, what would you say the best riff of all time is?

Turns out I accidentally wrote Whole Lotta Love.

I hate when that happens, I accidentally let a song slip onto an actual album release without realizing the verse riff was more or less stolen from one of my favorite 90s bands... it wasn't lawsuit worthy, not that similar, but close enough for a few people to comment that I had stolen it, which I really didn't mean to... at the time I thought I was knocking off an idea of a cool way to use wound string harmonics in drop D from a recent verruca salt release, but in my huge effort to write a non-verucasalt riff around the distorted harmonics I accidentally knocked off a big chunk of a better known riff... the guitar playing on that record was hailed in my local music press as highly original and unique, so when a few friends and colleagues noticed my gaff I was really put out and felt like I didn't deserve the only spot of good press I ever got when I played professionally

it all seems really foolish now because I think we only sold like 100 copies of that record before splitting up in a cloud of label and management trouble... no one cares and I don't know why I am sharing this, I'll fuck off now

Also whole lotta love, is good but it's not the best, what would you say the best riff of all time is?

anything by Bo Didley with that African conga rhythm on guitar.... primal, iconic and influential and one only needs to know a single chord in order to start writing with that... plus the 'chord' part of whole lotta love riff uses that basic rhythm idea too.... the tendrils of early Americana reach deep into every rocker's psyche, particularly you limeys