Now that the outrage around the Rolling Stone top 200 guitarists list is dying down a little, it's time for a new debate: is the art of the guitar riff dying? When it comes to great examples there was only one remotely recent riff that made the top 20 in a new Sky Arts survey.
Jack White's Seven Nation Army riff was the only example to be chosen by enough of the 2,000 listeners and players who responded to make the top choices, and even that is 20 years old.
