This riff is brought to you by the good people of Maxwell House!  Okay, it's actually brought to you by Helix. And it's a bit more than a riff. I was asked to do a bit of this song, maybe just the Intro or something. So I did up to the first Chorus (Intro, Verse, Chorus). Since it was a partial tab, I thought I'd post it here. The song is from Helix' 1990 Back For Another Taste CD.

When I was asked to do it, I didn't know the song. It's a good song, although I noticed immediately that it reminded me a lot of another song that was a very big hit back in the 1980's, done by a very well known band. It's mostly the Chorus that I find similar, not so much the verses. And if you click on the bottom link of this post to the page where the Helix song is, and take a look at the short credits list for that album, you'll even find a fairly obvious clue as to what other band I'm referring to. So I don't think it's totally accidental that the two songs sound similar.

"Last Drop" requires some retuning. You'll need to tune to Eb. It can be played in standard tuning, of course, but it will sound half a tone higher than the recording.

HELIX - "Good To the Last Drop"       (B. Vollmer/M. Ribler)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/canriffs.txt

You can hear the whole song on this page of Helix' site (scroll down the menu to Track #9):

http://www.planethelix.com/Albums/Album08.htm

I was starting to think I was never going to get going on the next tab. It seems something was putting it off every night. Part of the problem is that all the shows are back into their seasons now that we're well past the holidays. (I think I even heard today that the TV writers' strike is over.) I only watch three dramas regularly ("Lost", "Heroes", "Sarah Connor Chronicles"), but then I'll find myself losing time to watching "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?" and stuff like that.  

Still, I finally made a good start on a tab tonight, getting a song done all the way up to the solo so far. But for today's riff, it's 1980's power ballad time again. The song is from Dokken's Tooth And Nail (1984) album. The Intro features some nice George Lynch acoustic arpeggio playing.

DOKKEN - "Alone Again"     (D. Dokken, J. Pilson)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/varriffs.txt

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LWnSfpON0

Most-viewed tabs for the month of January 2008 (w/ view numbers):

8 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
6 - April Wine - Say Hello
6 - Toronto - Even the Score
5 - Doobie Brothers - China Grove
5 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
5 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
5 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
5 - Helix - Deep Cuts the Knife
5 - Kim Mitchell - All We Are
5 - Toronto - Lookin' For Trouble
5 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
5 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

Total tab views for January: 139   (By section: Girlschool-8, Canadian-107, Various-24)

Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct. 3/07 to Jan. 31/08):

23 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
12 - Trooper - Two For the Show
11 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
9 - Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes
8 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
8 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
8 - Bad Company - Shooting Star
8 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
8 - Kim Mitchell - All We Are
8 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
8 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.

Okay, Willie, what's the verdict? Early Spring or more Winter? After yesterday's heavy snowfall, I think we can take a pretty good guess. Will you agree with your cousin Phil in Punxatawney, or will the groundhogs be at odds? Oh, the suspense!

Happy Groundhog Day!


     Wiarton Willie  (Wiarton, Ontario)