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I recently read that Ray Davies opened up an amplifier, took a razor blade and cut lines into the speaker cone to get this rough, raw, overdriven sound

Dave Davies, not Ray I believe. Ray was keys, while Dave was guitar. He was also responsible for changing the riff from piano to guitar. Ray originally wrote it as a jazz or blues song, but Dave thought it sounded better as a guitar led rock song.

Two Kinks songs in the thread tho! W00T!

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Originally posted by Pyker:

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I recently read that Ray Davies opened up an amplifier, took a razor blade and cut lines into the speaker cone to get this rough, raw, overdriven sound

Dave Davies, not Ray I believe. Ray was keys, while Dave was guitar. He was also responsible for changing the riff from piano to guitar. Ray originally wrote it as a jazz or blues song, but Dave thought it sounded better as a guitar led rock song.

Two Kinks songs in the thread tho! W00T!

I stand corrected, thank you

I think the OP intended his "best intro" to be Peter Wolf's famous introduction monolog before tearing into the song. So I'll play along the same lines, here Pete Townshend used to have a lengthy monolog introducing "A Quick One While He's Away". It seems to be different every time, I like the one in Live At Leeds, but I'll post this one. And the song has one of my favorite musical openings.

Some greats already posted. Let me add to the festivities...

Also sprach Zarathustra

Crazy Train

Another iconic song with a very recognizable and interesting intro.

Rush-Xanadu.

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Good song, great intro!

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Figured Beato would have something along these lines on his channel. You can get pretty deep down the rabbit hole looking at this stuff he produces.

Yep. I've spent many an hour on his channel. He's one of my favorite channels; he has some great content.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
THIS is the greatest intro ever.

[/FLASH_VIDEO][/QUOTE] good choice, I'll be honest, I prefer the album version of that tune better than that vid, and from that album, a damn good intro for a damn good song [FLASH_VIDEO]

Something about the Elton John song made me think of this.

5:30 for the longest so far.

ETA: OOOOPs! didn't see lastmanstandings post before entry.

A short but good one:

Up until Don Henley Takes it down:

There are just so many:

Rush: Broone's Bane . A one and a half minute intro that's actually a separate track before introducing The Trees. It takes the opposite approach of hooking you in with a relaxing tune before introducing a progressive song.



And although short, who can deny YES with Owner of a Lonely Heart


Tony.

Lou...


...Reed