Best guitarist Ronnie has ever worked with

Breathless · Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 399 Location: Netherlands

No votes for Tracy G, the poor guy
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Red_Burp · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 4 Location: I am not telling you

Tony, he lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand and still kicks arse
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Rockerista · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 113 Location: Kyoto, Jepen

Iommi is awesome but he's like robot just standing there, i like more viv's style when playing guitar so cool Laughing

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eiricd · Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 30

all due respect to vivian campell, but he's not in the same league as tony and ritchie...maybe techincally speaking, but writing wise?

Boxhed · Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 4

Alot of times I overlook peoples talents becuase of the kind of person they are. To me Richie Blackmoore comes off as an asshole and has to always have the attention of everyone at all times. In the past many guitarist solist have realized thier limatations and persued a solo career like Satriani and Steve Vai to just name a few. I mean it seems to me that he always tries to be a front man even at the cost of keeping a band together... Gimmie a break. When attitudes and management take this posture it leads to low fan base I feel.. In Ritchies case his fan base I believe is mostly Guitar enthusist not your run of the mill pop fans.. I play guitar myself and have found myself looking into his skills at one time or another for inspiration. This is the cliche' of bands, the standard dysfuction of most bands demise, its unfortunate thats all.

Not a Ritchie bashing just commentary... I cant vote him in on this pole is my point.

Feverdreams · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 3

..how can you not put Iommi at the top of this list?

All of them are great in their own rights, but listen to the progression of Iommi's guitar playing from early in his career, until now. He has adapted to the everchanging sound of Rock/Metal, and done it well. Blackmore hasn't, he still plays the same style as he always has, love him as I may. No hesitation to it imo. Iommi!

Sergey Mazurenko · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:09 am Post subject:

I and knew, that Vivian Campbell it is the best in voting at that it have very strongly liked my father when it played on a guitar in Amsterdam in 1983 on video to the cartridge. Cool

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Breathless · Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 399 Location: Netherlands

even the elf guitarist has more votes then Tracy G
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brotor · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 3

DIO has had the pleasure of working with several outstanding guitarists, but there is one that beats them all. The god of guitar, Ritchie Blackmore. I'm a semi-profesjonall musician/guitarist myself, and I have studied this guy for many years now, and the more i study him, the more i understand that there has never, and never will be a guitarist like him. he is far underrated. he has absolutely every element a guitarist should have, pluss a lot more. he has an enormous feel when he plays, he constantly improvises, has an astonishing tecnique, an a musical mind like a composor from the 18th century. When you hear live stuff from him, you will never hear what you heard on the records. when you heard a studio version of a blackie song, an you hear the solo, you think that it's the greatest solo anyone could have played, but then when you hear the live version of the song, he improvises a solo that is even greater. it's all dripping out of him, like he's some un-human music machine!
by underrated, i don't mean that few people know who he is etc. cause everyone interrested in rock knows who blackie is, but compared to Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and so on, he is far underrated. They are all amazing guitarist which I have enrmous respect for, but if you really study blackmore and his playing for a while, you will see that he is a notch above all of them guitarwise. I always get a bit annoyed when people talk about "the greatest guitarists of the world" and they mention age and Hendrix and so on, but never Ritchie. Rithie Did things in the early sixty's that hendrix and others got credit for "inventing" seven or eight years later. So it's sad that this amazing man i so underrated.
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Evil & Divine · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Sweden

I voted for Ritche Blackmore

(Yngwie Malmsten did not even get to be as a vote option?
They have worked together in both hear n aid and the cover of Aerosmiths "Dream on".)

ScotClayton · Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 527 Location: SabbathTown, USA

BEST, is a VERY subjective term, but I voted for my favorite, and that by far, is the Inventor of Heavy Metal, the Godfather of Riffs, the REAL man in Black, Tony Iommi!

My second favorite on the list is Craig Goldy, third would probably be Rowan...

...though, I LOVE Purple, Rainbow, and even Blackmore Nights, I think Ritchie is a bit overrated, he's too much of a 'Noodler' for my tastes, and his tone was never to my licking...guess, it's the Strat thing...

Lady Viv, though, his Dio work was cool...was too much of a Via, Malmstein, etc. shreeder, see how many notes, I can play, etc type player for my tastes...and his 'attitude' toward Ronnie and his 'heavy' pasts, irks me to NO end!
Him being in Lame Panther, is a fitting 'end' for him, IMNSHO! Twisted Evil

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no vote needed...

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dont vote... when it comes to metal...

Drain you · Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 41

Craig Goldy is the best, he defeats all the other guitarists! No doubt about it!
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KillTheKing · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 148

No question. Ritchie Blackmore. I love Iommi. He invented a new style of guitar playing. But he lost parts of his fingers in an industrial accident. He was never capable of doing the things Ritchie was able to do.