Why we voted "0" for Tracy G

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

Rainbowinthdrk · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 286 Location: Rochester,NY

"Here's To You" is the only song off those two discs I can even remember. Is

Is Tracy a good guitarist? Yes.

Is Tracy a good Dio guitarist? Probably not.

Personally, I prefer when a guitarist in his position interjects a bit of their personality into material that predates them. In my opinion, Tracy went in directions that were not suitable to the material.
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ryuhi2 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:

I agree with most here, I like Strange Highways and Angry Machines alot, and his playing on both, but when he tries to play the classics he just CANT. Every time I hear Dont Talk To Strangers off of inferno I just want to cry when I hear him TRY to play it.

Pkshields · Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 100

I think it is just isn't The sound of Dio, so their work together just never got noticed by the fans as much. Those songs wth another band and singer probably would be more popular

Note: Shamefully, The first Dio album that I actually listen to was Inferno.... Shocked

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#75race · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:11 am Post subject:

I for one, happen to think that Tracy is an awesome guitarist. And he was just right for the two studio albums he did with Ronnie. The live album, ehh... not as much. Inferno is still a decent live album, I just think that Tracy's playing doesn't really show when he plays the older songs. But he shines more on the songs that he did with Ronnie on the Strange Highways and Angry Machines albums.

So to sum this all up, I really think that some people didn't vote for Tracy probably because he's just different. He is by no means a bad guitarist or whatever others may call him. Just different. Wink

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ryuhi2 · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:49 am Post subject:

I love parts of both SH & AM, traci is great for both of those albums.....BUT to hear him play some of the classic DIO songs live was like nails on a chalkboard....

olivious the drummer · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:53 pm Post subject:

Dont think anyone can fault him as a musician - but I dont thing he was/is a straight enough rock player for DIO. Doug, Rowan and Craig are all more classic rock guitarists and I think that works best for the Dio sound..........So I am not knocking Tracy at all - I like the unusual timing/tone etc he has but for me it just wasnt right for Dio.
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Rhinosaur · Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 455

He was perfect for Strange Highways.

Coincidentally one of my favorite Dio albums.

LindaJeanne · Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 186

I didn't vote in the guitarist poll, because I couldn't make up my mind.

But the title of this poll is missleading. No one "voted 0" for Tracy G. They had to pick a single favorite guitarist-- all "0" means is that everyone had someone they liked at least a tiny bit more.

Any single-vote poll for the single-best anything is going to have things like that happen. The results for "who is your favorite....." can NOT be taken to be a reflection of how well each of the candidates is liked in general.

(For instance: imagine a poll with 20 candidates. Say the first-choices are spread among ten of them, but everyone has another of the candidates as a close second. The "close second" could be argued to be the most popular, but would still have zero votes in the poll).

When looking at statistics, remember what they are and are not saying Cool

If you want to discover the relative popularity of the guitarists (rather than just who people's single favorite is), a different kind of poll is needed.

Jeffrey · Killing The Dragon Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 324

I think we need to remember when the albums came out, too. BAck in the mid 1990s, grunge was taking over. As a metal fan from the 1980s, I was hard pressed to find ANY good metal coming out from any of my favorite bands. No one seemed to want our music anymore. Again, the metal fan was alone in the music world. I think Tracy G and Dio did the best that could for the struggle that the music world was going through at the time.

I remember starting to listen to Bluegrass music during that time. While not heavy metal, that were at least good musicians playing tolerable music, and they played fast and clean. Bluegrass songs had solos, too. I missed those in the 1990s.

Jeffrey
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DioInfinitum · Joined: 21 May 2010 Posts: 262 Location: Denver, CO

I would have to say that Tracy fit well in his stint with Dio. It was a certain style departure indeed. Heavier and more modern, and I think that interestingly in terms of style it was a good bridge from doing Dehumanizer to Strange Highways.

Olivious probably said it best: