Steve Cradock, guitarist
I came up with the Riverboat riff during a jam in 1994. It’s just three notes – a child could have written it, and maybe that’s the appeal. It’s not at all “muso” yet it’s very memorable. A favourite tune of mine is Green Onions which is similarly basic but effective. The other thing the riff reminds me of is Ray Charles’s What’d I Say. To extend it, the chorus came from a demo that our bassist Damon Minchella had made. It’s basically the same set of chords as House of the Rising Sun.
