How about two?
One:
1971.
Live in Cook County Jail, by B. B. King.
Track 3: "How Blue Can You Get?"
Two:
New Year's, 1969-70.
Live at the Fillmore East, by Band of Gypsies.
Track 1: "Who Knows?"
Both of those blow doors on the opening for Gimme Shelter, which is pretty much a minor modification off the song's basic three chord progression, palm-muted, and played on, I'm guessing, a Tele straight through maybe a Fender Twin with some reverb on it.
Need more?
McCartney . . . the Beatles' bass player, ripping through a multitude of bizarre chord formations up and down the neck and fingerpicking the opening to Blackbird. Or how about John Lennon's Epiphone Casino feeding back before he cooks off the signature line of I Feel Fine, the first time distortion was used as an intentional part of a recording's palette?
More?
Any Robert Johnson recording.
More?
Johnny Marr's incredible droning effect on the Smith's How Soon Is Now?
More? Joe Moretti's work on Johnny Kidd's Shakin' All Over AND on Vince Taylor's Brand New Cadillac, the latter covered decades later by the Clash.
You get the point.
And I'm a Stones fan. Keith is a riff master in open tuning. His best lick opening by far can be found in Can't You Hear Me Knocking.
Proud to say Moretti is a Scot.
Nice to see an American who knows Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. One of the two great UK pop/rock bands pre-Beatles.
The other of course being The Shadows.
It is widely held that there are two great British rock and roll records pre-Beatles (ie 1956-1962): Shakin All Over and the first in 1958 being Cliff Richard and ‘Move It’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLba5Ld4VhE