Top 10 Sleazy Guitar Riffs.

[@jessiej1746]

Can’t You Hear Me Knockin sounds so fresh even 50 years after it’s release. Never gets old.

[@tomhenninger4153]

Great video. LOVE "Can't You Hear Me Knocking". Right there with it is "Tumbling Dice"! Rock on!

[@biffbifford402]

We could also toss in: Love Spreads - Stone Roses Horsehead- Black Crows So Hott - Kidd Rock Bad Seamstress Blues/Falling Apart at the Seams - Cinderella Gotta Keep a Runnin - The Godz Get it while it’s hot - Kix Space Lord - Monster Magnet

[@snowdog202]

Some good picks there

[@if6turnedouttobe9]

Very good...Horsehead is my favorite Crow song...and no one knows the song but u...

[@walkingdirt138]

Yes! On the Hunt! Check out Corrosion of Conformity cover of that song. Soooo good! Killer video as always!

[@nealatthecrossfishing]

Dang straight! I wondered if anyone else knew about their version.

[@if6turnedouttobe9]

Right on Right on...

[@raycioe1799]

Amazing! Great choices!

[@CC-qb9sm]

Pretty sleazy KDA!!! I did watch the video till the end, who wouldn’t??? 🤠 Good stuff!!!

[@dryter]

Great list and playing. Van Halen - Drop dead legs.

[@if6turnedouttobe9]

Great job...All my favorite songs...

[@chosenone2964]

On the hunt, one of my favorite songs . You'd be missing out , never a more badass song to ever be created

[@rcieszkowski]

OK. In one of your other recent posts you mention Fastway’s Say What You Will. And now you’re opening with Lit up?! Subscriber for life. 🤘

[@ensidfkgnur]

Hilarious! Everyone's gonna have their own list but yours was great and your adjectives are perfect!

[@BooleanError9]

Link Wray, Rumble would be my number one pick

[@ROKRmarc]

Brilliant riff selection... awesome guitar playin'...You are one talented musician...Thank you for sharing your skill. 🤘🎸🤘

[@jasoncampbell3955]

Great list! I thought of a more obscure one... "Rock Candy," Montrose?

[@cerclesvicieux]

Nice collection of riffs.

[@jamesf5963]

Great choices, great playing, great sound/mix

[@holtrain81]

My pick is Frank Zappa 'Willie the Pimp'....its the only way I can describe that riff! Love the concept by the way...I've definitely thought about the concept of sleazy guitar playing, but never been able to define it or what makes me think it sounds sleazy!

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Willie the Pimp is a good one for sure. Yeah, with regards to "Sleazy", I had a hard time finalizing this video with that title. I didn't want it to sound negative, because these riffs are all awesome for sure. The terms Filthy and raunchy didn't quite work on their own however, so I went with sleazy.

[@thebluesrockers]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar My Zappa pick would probably be "Crew Slut" but I love the guitar solo on "Water Mellon In Easter Hay." But Wendy O Williams "Bump & Grind" sure filled the tittle on this video. I'm not sure if you're aware of this but Ace Frehley, played lead guitar on the album version of that song, and Gene Simmons did the backup vocals. Great song too. If you hadn't heard it I'd recommend giving that one a listen sometime. Thanks again for getting me back into guitar. Take good care Kelly. & as for you holtrain, that was awesome seeing you bring up Zappa. I've always been picky on my Zappa, but when he puts out a killer riff, it's legendary. Peace..

[@jasondorsey7110]

One thing that characterizes raunch rock is over-the-top swagger, the type that just makes you wanna move

[@scooterfoust4361]

Thanks, enjoyed your video. Subbed. A couple more: Feel Your Love Tonight - Van Halen Still of the Night - Whitesnake Lay It Down - Ratt Walk This Way - Aerosmith

[@MrMotome]

Good Choices Kelly, I Love all those Riffs !!!!!

[@aholmes46]

That was hella fun to listen to. Every song had me nodding in agreement. I was especially pleased to hear the Black Crows on there. Love that whole album!

[@dougvolinski5824]

Great stuff Kelly. Lots of fun!

[@slimbeauharpo4687]

Thank you sir !!! Outstanding.

[@LS-kl6bj]

Great choices. It might be fun for you to do the "ten greatest funky riffs" of all time in the future. Maybe feature at least one Trapeze riff. Best.

[@patrickhartmann1540]

I kept saying to myself no “K Richards?” Then BAM you delivered my favorite riff of his! Thank you!

[@robertsuszek2327]

This was a good one, thanks Kelly!

[@centerlaneband-columbiasc6285]

Wow, great list and I agree with your selections. 🔥

[@davidwright9550]

Great video Kelly, and an awesome list. Just subscribed Brother.

[@jperryfan]

Great Job! love em all. I would also add Live Wire, Motley, Get The Led Out Aerosmith, And to bring it all back to the root. Hip Shake by Slim Harpo. Sleaze long before they coined the term!

[@the_pathologist]

Man, I knew it! When I clicked on this I could hear the opening riff to number one in my head immediately!

[@jimiaxe]

Great List and I agree with the order though I may have had Aerosmith a bit higher.. Some additions - ROCK CANDY - MONTROSE, SLIDE IT IN - WHITESNAKE, DRAW THE LINE - AEROSMITH, DISCOUNT DOGS - JOE PERRY PROJECT, JEALOUS - GENE LOVES JEZEBEL

[@jamespitman3357]

great playing as always

[@Lauren42Allison]

Great list, and, as usual, great playing! I can't argue with your placements either. Mr. Brownstone is my favourite of them, but it's hard to disagree that Heartbreaker and Can't You Hear Me Knocking are a bit sleazier.

[@stevewooten2157]

Loved this!

[@artheriford]

So many other great ones. I could fill up pages listing all of them. My personal favorites....Gilby Clarke "Tijuana Jail", Winger "Junkyard Dog" UFO "The Writer"

[@ubertocreote3198]

awesome list. I thought for sure when you started talking about ZZTOP it would be Tush. but i’m still satisfied with the pick you made.

[@anthonyangelis1094]

Great video Kelly ! enjoyed watching your phenomenal playing as always. I love the little trick you did on Lagrange, I noticed you had a pick tucked in the neck pick-up , waiting to grab. That was a pretty cool trick. 👍👍

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Noticed that huh? Haha. I have trouble hybrid picking WITH the pick. Prefer my thumb. This was my workaround.

[@sauletto1]

Great list, great video !

[@youshaveice]

Hilarious stuff. All great selections as well. 😁

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

well put together!

[@jeffhartman5166]

Great list. I’d love to see “Stay With Me” by the Faces and “Train Kept A Rollin’” by the Yardbirds on a part 2 list. Great riffs and precursors/ influencers/ future members of The Stones, Zeppelljn, Aerosmith, and the Black Crowes!

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

I actually had Stay With Me on my initial list of 20 or so.

[@RK-kp9xs]

Awesome video, and great choice of tunes ! What are you playing through ? Thats some incredibly thick midrange, and the perfect tone for these riffs. Your tuning / intonation is spot on too.

[@boatdetective]

100% with Can't you hear me knockin'. Swagger, swing, space- nothing comes close. I might suggest that his brother, Ronnie Woods's work with the Faces certainly would be in the same category. Great call with the Black Crowes. Anyone can play shred- but coming up with a truly Paleolithic riff is what makes your music immortal.

[@kraggsmash9413]

Totally agree with your number 1 choice, its just so dirty and nasty! Great video, and like always great playing! 👍👍

[@grantwilcox3738]

Love it! Thanks

[@bradleymier2167]

I got excited at number 8 - it’s always been a favorite of mine! Beautiful playing 😊

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Thanks mate!

[@rockitmorton]

Lumberjack by Jackal & Come along by Salty Dog for a sleazy one hit wonders version. Great job, nice playing.

[@jayartz8562]

I really enjoyed that!

[@EliseandDanchannel]

If I may: Robin Trower, Bridge of Sighs and/or Day of the Eagle. Blue Oyster Cult: Cities on Flame. And, Fleetwood Mac: Oh Well But, Alvin Lee: Goin Home and Richie Blackmore: Lazy for the blues licks For me personally, when it comes to such "top" stuff, I just can't do it. It's simple did I like it. Cause there is so much out there to hear and enjoy. But yeah, you picked some good one. Mike Taylor is the only era of the Stone's I liked.

[@mofost1]

I’m all in on remedy too

[@davidrees1840]

Geez, for a second I thought your 6th choice was "Twice as Hard as My Pick". Great video, as always! I really don't understand YT's algorithm...

[@markwilber9028]

Nice, and you're an amazing player. When you got to the last song, I was thinking it was going to be, Joe Walsh * Life's Been Good *

[@ththejackjumper]

Good list, with one major missing piece. George Throroghgood's Bad to the Bone has to be in there somewhere.

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

How the hell did I miss that! Definite oversight. I think this video needs a part 2.

[@ththejackjumper]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitarLooking forward to it!

[@Pedro_MVS_Lima]

One 100% agreed!

[@eddiejr540]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar….part 2….yea please !!!!!

[@MrMotome]

PS, I used your Aerosmith Mama Kin vid, good one ! Also Love that one !!

[@PJCobi]

That opening Buck Cherry riff sounded a lot like Shock Me by KISS. Cool video! 🤘🎸

[@InfiniteRiffs]

Yep!. I came here checking to see if someone else thought that too.

[@arthurrendbeau6782]

absolutely!

[@localresident996]

Great list. I would say Black Betty or Mississippi Queen or Cold Gin should be here. The problem is what songs would you take away to add them. Lol.

[@frigginaires4020]

Cool list.

[@garyt3hsna1l82]

subbed awesome list thanks for sharing all of these jams are killer. some other great sleazy riffs - too young to fall in love motley crue, poison - alice cooper drop dead legs - evh those shoes - eagles. ❤

[@matallen9791]

Great picks off the cuff lumberjack by jackal

[@buckbryant8599]

I love Skynyrd and that tune is one of my favorites.

[@garyh.238]

Love 'em!! Feeling fretboard-filthy now!!

[@kaleb41833]

Very good guitar lessons

[@TheUncleshoes]

Took me 3x to figure out where your pic was on LaGrange....you rule!

[@antonioortiz4544]

To me the sleaziest guitar sound I have ever heard is the opening to David Bowie's "Cracked Actor". The sound and attitude Mick Ronson got on that is pure filth!

[@carlospauly5648]

THANKS ALOT KELLY! After watching this video my wife insists I go get a penicillin shot.....

[@JIMJAMSC]

EVH and Warren DeMartini alone could fill up a entire list. Somebody give me a doctor/Unchained......... Round and round/Your're in love and on and on..... Still the all time KING and everyone's first sleazy riff...... Smoke on the water. Close 2nd..... Cat scratch fever!

[@ChrisBansak]

"Come Along" By the Short Lived Powerhouse "Salty🧂Dog🐕".... One of My All Time Faves.... Matter Fact.... the Whole Album Kicks Ass.... and OOZES SLEAZY with a Capital "S"....

[@tommysgaragetvshow8336]

Gotta hand it to this guy... Can't argue with any pick. Plenty of other great riffs... But it's tough to argue with any of 'em.

[@renecents]

Whoa Dude! Slow and Easy was by Micky Moody-with Mel Galley-not John Sykes. Fun video. 👍👍

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Seriously? Oops. Thought for sure it was Sykes.

[@renecents]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar Hey Kelly, no mate. The guitarists on the album were original Whitesnake-slide specialist-guitarist Micky Moody and debutante former Trapeze-with the marvellous Glenn Hughes-guitarist Mel Galley. Micky left the band after the album was recorded, due to disagreements with Coverdale, and Sykes joined the band, but for the US remix he apocryphally added a lick here or there, but it was written and performed by Micky, Mel, and DC, of course. Once 1987 became a hit they have tried to promote Slide It In as featuring Sykes, but it was more marketing than fact. No big deal, mate. Just an FYI. 😁 Have a wonderful weekend when it arrives for you. 🤞

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

@@renecents yeah, just looked that up because I was curious. Sykes is in the video and listed on the American release, so I just assumed that it was him.

[@renecents]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar Hiya, like I said Marketing, Kelly. If you listen to original UK release and then the US Remix version, I think you’d struggle to see where Sykes added anything. Apart from the mix, it is the exact same album as far as i can tell. I think DC had his eyes set on the US market, and as much as I love Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden they weren’t pretty like John. As someone who lived in that world I’m sure you know that image in the US in the 80s was pretty much everything. DC, of course, did the same thing to Sykes after 1987. The guys in the videos weren’t the guys who played on the album.

[@renecents]

@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar oooh P.S. I hear John wasn’t pissed about being replaced in the 1987 videos at all! 😉😉

[@999gremlins]

Can't you hear me knockin was the song that made me change from piano to rock guitar. First time I heard it was at a laser show at the Boston Museum of science

[@i5150v1]

Pretty good list, I would put dirty movies by Van Halen, but that’s just my opinion.

[@BlpBud]

Great episode! Suggest Night Prowler by you know who!

[@johnmenna7391]

Rocket queen was sleazier by gnr but great vid either way😊

[@RB216220]

That was the first song I thought of as well

[@JuanDeSoCal]

Dum Dum Boys by Iggy Pop has an extraordinarily sleazy main riff. It doesn't kick in until a little bit after the song starts though because there's a sort of spoken intro.

[@TT-kf3pk]

Great list, nice playing. I am wondering where you get the backing tracks you use? Do you make them or can they be purchased online? Thank you.

[@donmason3382]

You nailed #1 I would have liked Monkey Man somewhere in there as well

[@OlafShiel]

Question from someone who has just picked up an electric guitar for the first time. What is the process you go through to make your guitar sound the same as the song you cover? Is it pedals, pickups, tuning or a combination of all of them? On that topic I’d love to see a video on the entire process and your thoughts on the process. In a side note, when I first saw the title of your video, the very first song that entered my mind was ‘can’t you hear me knocking’. Maybe a guitar cover of ‘Sway’ off the same album? Personally, I love Mick Taylor’s guitar playing style.

[@airxxxwolf]

When I saw the title of this video, the first thing that came to my mind was "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf.

[@davedecker1725]

I said GODDAMN!!

[@dannykeding1874]

Thank the algorithm for bringing me to you this morning, you sleazy bastard you fukin ROCK! love what you are doing here, what a way to start my day! Rock the House!!! 🎶😎🎶

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Thanks Danny! Algorithm has all but ignored me for years. Nice to see that it's giving me a bit of love lately.

[@dannykeding1874]

Dude just keep on Rocking the tutorials, and let the music do the talking!!! 🎶😎🎶

[@aghostofthenow7135]

I would add two sleazy riffs.. Nazareth. From Hair of the Dog album. Whiskey Drinkin' Woman. Humble Pie, Rock On album... Stone Cold Fever. Cool list you have here. Skynyrd choice was Great! Rock On! 😎

[@jdemarco]

"Red Light Mama", also by Humble Pie...

[@jasondorsey7110]

​@@jdemarcoAlso "Lick It Up" by Kiss and "Wango Tango" by Ted Nugent

[@jdemarco]

@@jasondorsey7110 Combination by Aerosmith.

[@robertphelps1574]

The riff for Whitesnake slow & easy was originally play by Micky Moody

[@mofost1]

My Michelle, and yeah buckcherry is pretty rauch, good shizz

[@biffbifford402]

Love me some SLEAZE ROCK. I could have comprised the entire list with just Faster Pussycat and LA Guns alone!

[@jasondorsey7110]

Raunch rock is the distilled essence of rock'n'roll

[@5150JAM]

IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT is their best song.......agree with the Skynyrd choice 100%

[@pandafangaming5543]

Great playing and song choices. But no room for Purple Haze?? OOH...........AHH!

[@youshaveice]

For Canadiana maybe Slow Poke by April Wine and Ridin' High by Moxy. Aaaand I love the pick in the pickup trick. Genius.

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Caught that pick in the pickup huh? Haha.

[@floydcouncil1690]

Slowpoke is a killer tune.

[@bixby9797]

Interesting stuff. No Allman Brothers, SRV or Motley Crue? Quiet Riot Bang Your Head? Uncle Ted's Strangle Hold or Cat Scratch Fever?

[@Monsterdrumma]

Good you got Billy Gibbons only I was thinking waiting for he bus.

[@randyherbrechtsmeier4796]

Okay I guess Ima Sleeze. Nazareth, Hair of The Dog Tommy Bolin, Teaser Theory of a Dead man, Bad Girl Friend Kid Rock, So Hott Judas Priest, You've Gotta another thing Comin Robin Trower. A little bit of Sympathy. Love the Video

[@KellyDeanAllenGuitar]

Hair of the dog! Great one. And thanks!

[@Salvatore-1980]

Like my rock like I like my women, sleazy & dirty! LOL Great picks and playing.👍

[@mofost1]

Yeah foghat, what a under appreciated rock band

[@lnhislmage]

Sleazy and raunchy…… fricken’ beautiful ! 😂

[@Pedro_MVS_Lima]

"It had to be La Grange"... dam'right! Great selection! And as much as I love LZ, I agree, the Stones had to be first in this category. Incidentally, on Heartbreaker, shouldn't that be a chromatic ascent on the 4th string?

[@timothymchugh1926]

Good sleazy list, hard to disagree with much here, though I'd have personally worked in an Alice Cooper riff (Billion $ Babies, Muscle of Love, School's Out, et al).

[@tobiasdog100]

I don't know man...If you go with The Stones in the number one spot, "Monkey Man" is pretty raunchy.

[@mofost1]

I'm gonna say sweet emotion, need you tonight by inxs, kiss by prince(tho these latter two are more pop, I’m aware )

[@Dan-zq5wt]

These are great. There are a bunch of prime Stones riffs to choose from too: Monkey Man, Bitch, Tumbling Dice etc. Lots of Aerosmith, AC/DC and Zep. How about Nugent and Cat Scratch Fever? Mr. Brownstone sounds directly influenced by Aerosmith Rocks. Lots of sleaze and filthy sounds!

[@mrpotato4441]

My dad has that same guitar, same color. I told him if he gets a professional set up it may become his favorite. It’s collecting dust right now

[@allboutthemojo]

Ted Nugent- Stranglehold and probably many of AcDc's riffs would have made my list as well , ah but there's so many. The list can go to 💯

[@briansbrain426]

I've been on a Blue Oyster Cult kick lately, so the title of the vid made me click!! Good stuff!!

[@MrMotome]

Skynyrd On the Hunt is amazing to this day, Long Live Skynyrd's Music