Alter Bridge's Mark Tremonti + Myles Kennedy Play Their Favorite Riffs

what's happened on March Ambani and I'm Myles Kennedy we're from alter bridge and you're watching Loudwire so when I was a kid my older brother Dan used to listen to metal upstairs and I always heard this song about a sanitarium and I would turn in one of my favorite songs from my favorite records Master of Puppets and welcome home sanitarium [Laughter] [Music] last time we were here I played that on the little Hello Kitty guitar but yeah that riff is one of my very first riffs I replayed well it was the second riff I ever learned to play which is Judas Priest I was at a friend of Mines house he was a drummer and he had to get up but he had a guitar and I remember I picked up the guitar and he's like you want to learn how to play breaking the law I was like well yeah I don't think it'll be awesome but I thought it would be way too hard I was like seems so intimidating so he showed it to me and and I I tell you what that was that might be one of outside the first time I had sex that might have been the best moment of my life one that gave me a little bit of trouble initially was the riff for rock and roll by by Led Zeppelin I think as I was still I don't IMPLAN for a few months at that point but it still felt pretty good to get it on I haven't even rehearsed this so this could be interesting [Music] when I was when I was a kid I would I had a four track recording device and the first time I wrote a song rose I got sick you know it's like I can write songs the first song I wrote I liked was [Music] someone was like that's just Purple Rain man that's just Purple Rain you're doing it but you know people repeat the same chord progressions all the time but that was kind of the first thing I was like you know it's it's something other than just a bunch of gibberish on the guitar so how about you Mouse how about me the song called lonely nights there's like a [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah that's a great first song that was that was like this I think it might have been a first or second song [Music] the Blackbird [Music] yeah I like that one too just to stay on that and they did probably the rift [Music] [Music] yeah it's interesting that two of our each of our favorite rips was that song I think the smoke on the water and the Iron Man riffs are the two most iconic most learned riffs of all time [Music] yeah they're simple stuff power cores but you never forget them once you're here I mean it's just a CD C's got every single ac/dc roof and we went back to this last night so when we were writing walking the sky we always try to come up with something a little different so you know we write in different ways but when I was writing I I tried to bring in some kind of strange loop so I'll go online and I'll find just loops and I and I came across some old 80s John Carpenter esque old-school synth wave stuff you know I fell into a loop that was that's really the engine of the song that the kind of the mood of the song and I kept on just trying to dive back into that and it just gave the song a different vibe than we normally go for and simple simple riff but but I dug it and it stuck and created a song from it pay no mind [Music] the story behind this riff is that we've been submitting demos and Elvis our producer is always looking for like a certain thing and he felt like we just didn't have that box checked yet so I remember sending him some demos and thinking oh we've got it good it's gonna be great because I need to talk to you oh my god this can't be good and so he's like look you guys aren't there yet he's got it you gotta go back to the drawing board so remember I hung up the phone and I was just like picked up the guitar and I was just like it was essentially the kind of the frustration that inspired inspired that yeah because it was just so angry but in the end I'm actually really glad that we had that conversation because you know sometimes that's what it takes is just a little nudge [Music] [Music]

Channel: Loudwire

Views: 554,979

Keywords: loudwire, gear factor, alter bridge, myles kennedy, mark tremonti, slash, riffs, walk the sky, new album, favorite riffs, interview

Id: oUMiXND_skg

Length: 7min 31sec (451 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019