15 Glam Metal Riffs You Gotta Know!

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

What's your favorite riff here? What other 80's riffs would you like to see? 1) Firehouse "All She Wrote 0:00-0:19 2) Shotgun Messiah "Heartbreak Blvd" 0:20-0:48 3) Ratt "Lay It Down" 0:49-1:12 4) Faster Pussycat "Where There's A Whip" 1:13-1:55 5) Motley Crue "Too Young To Fall In Love" 1:56-2:31 6) Quiet Riot "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)" 2:32-3:12 7) WASP "Wild Child" 3:13-3:46 8) LA Guns "Electric Gypsy" 3:47-4:13 9) Poison "Nothin' But A Good Time" 4:14-4:46 10) White Lion "Hungry" 4:47-5:00 11) TNT "10,00 Lovers (In One)" 5:01-5:30 12) XYZ "Inside Out" 5:31-5:52 13) Cinderella "Somebody Save Me" 5:53-6:24 14) Skid Row "Youth Gone Wild" 6:25-6:56 15) Winger "Time To Surrender" 6:57-7:20

[@michaelmetal71]

to me the 80’s and early 90’s has some of the best metal/hard rock music ever,so glad i was born in 1971 and got to grow up in hay day of the shred guitar hero 🎸🎶🤘🏼 and i absolutely love your guitar collection especially being a fellow lefty rock on 🤘🏼 chris

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Thanks man! Yeah, I’ll do that video soon talking about my guitars.

[@FunkymetalBL]

Awesome Nick! I grew up on all these bands and WASP is the only one of the 15 I never got to see live. All killer riffs and you played them great! 🎸👌🏼🔥🤘🏼

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Awesome! Thanks for watching, as always!

[@freemanmt1]

What a super fun video!

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@adamparks6244]

Great video. You make it look so easy.

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Thx!

[@chapmanfx8104]

This is gold thx

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Thank you!

[@dallasbiggz7007]

Dang, for LA Guns you used your MAB Sawtooth. I have 1 of those! 🤘🎸

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Cool guitar!

[@jamesforrest7637]

Awesome job Nick. Thank you for this great post and for the gift of the free tabs, etc. Very much appreciated!

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

My pleasure!

[@keithcourneyea1609]

I grew with these band as well. Love the music. So fun to try and play.

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Yes, they are a blast. Enjoy!

[@MarkHarrop]

Heartbreak Boulevard - What a great track!

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Agreed!

[@IronCrossStudiosNoRegret]

Really awesome job. Enjoyed the video... see you in a few short weeks

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Thanks Barry, can't wait man!

[@RiffLordExegesis]

Inside out Riff from XYz is my favorite. I love there 1st album

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Yes, great album!

[@daviddougher8637]

Born in the early 1970s so all these brings back memories 😊😊

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Good ones hopefully!

[@carlosloera6686]

Shotgun Messiah second coming no skips 👍

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

No joke!

[@Scott__C]

Great stuff, Nick. I noticed different gear in different clips - some looked like you were using the JJ Jr, some the Headrush, is that right or was it all just one amp? Also, what's that red Kramer HSS model? Not sure I've seen that one.

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

You are correct different amps. I did some of these brand new and used the JJ, but several are older and I used the Headrush on those…also used the Marshall DSL 2000 50 watt on one of the riffs. The Kramer is a newer model…rerelease of the Striker.

[@Scott__C]

@@NickLaytonGuitar Thanks, Nick. Great tones. Forgot they'd re-released the Striker. How is it/was it out of the box?

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

@@Scott__C It was so so out of the box. Needed some new pick ups...also had the nut shaved down a bit by my guitar tech, action was a little high. Plays and sounds great now...but it did turn a 400 dollar guitar into a 700 guitar with the upgrades. Also would like to swap out the Floyd with an Original Floyd. But that red IS cool right? 🙂

[@Scott__C]

@@NickLaytonGuitar It is. Glad to hear they're OK. You never know when the price is that low. Those Floyd Specials I've never had any luck with, so yeah, I'd replace that too.

[@saadshah7857]

Bass sounds great. Is that a plugin?

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Thanks, yup EZ bass.

[@dallasbiggz7007]

Kick a##!! 🤘🎸 Thank you so much! 😊

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

My pleasure!

[@Brooklyn_Powers]

Nick, I signed up and got to the page where the riffs were and then somehow I went another page...Now I can't access the riffs page. How I get back to that page?

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Send me an email to: [e-mail] and I'll get it to you.

[@saadshah7857]

Seventeen and Lay It Down are sorely missed here!

[@jlmcgrot]

Lay it down is like the 3rd song he plays.

[@saadshah7857]

@@jlmcgrot oh I missed that! Will watch again, thanks!

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Stay tuned for Seventeen coming soon!

[@saadshah7857]

@@NickLaytonGuitar awesome, thanks!

[@dacun2734]

Mega 🎸

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Thanks! 🎸

[@RedFlyRuledByTheRiff]

I’m so sick of this. You know who started the “glam metal” tag? VH1. I’m from the 80’s. We did not call these bands glam metal or metal for that matter. They are hard rock or glam rock. There is almost nothing metal about them. Hell these bands don’t even call themselves metal when they’re asked in interviews.

[@NickLaytonGuitar]

Hey, no reason to get all bent out of shape. This video is about having fun and celebrating this music. Call it what you want. This is my channel and I'll call it what I want. Are some of these bands closer to hard rock than metal? Sure, but it's only a matter of degrees. Plus I'm sure we can agree the term "Glam Hard Rock" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Riffs like "All She Wrote", "Too Young To Fall In Love", "Lay It Down", "Heartbreak Blvd", "Youth Gone Wild", "Time To Surrender", etc are pretty heavy if you ask me...definitely metal, especially by 80's standards.

[@dmitch1983]

Cool Story Bro

[@DirtyBlues8]

Agreed. Hate that they call it glam metal too. It’s like calling it “hair metal”…..lol 🙄