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Poll Question: The best in your opinion...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:21
Jimi is the man! Van Halen next...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 20:42

My three favorites are:

Townshend

Page

Iommi

And i votet for Townshend.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2006 at 18:16
You left one great name off the list, Terry Kath. Guitarist for the original Chicago, he died in a gun accident (rumored to be Russian Roulette) in 1976. Great great guitarist.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 17:38
The Great JIMI HENDRIX
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 20:08

I like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton.  I also like Townsend's powerful playing. 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 23:03
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2006 at 11:36

JIMMY PAGE IS THE GREATEST GUITARIST IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:28
For pure hard rock it's Eddie Van Halen.  Hendrix, Page, SRV, Blackmore, Clapton and others were and are terrific but are graduates from the school of blues or R&B.  I've never really heard Eddie play a blues riff (doesn't mean he hasn't, I just haven't heard it yet) and he really changed the direction of lead guitar when he "erupted" (pardon the pun) on the scene.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2006 at 21:20
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2006 at 21:26
Blackmore, with Van Halen a close second.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2006 at 21:31
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2006 at 08:49
Jimmy Page out of these, but some great Hard Rock guitarrists you forgot are Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Brian May of Queen, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy and also Alex Lifeson of Rush. Steve Vai is an extremely proficient guitarrist aswell, though not my personal favourite.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2006 at 16:01
Pete Townsend and Rory gallagher are not hard rock guitarists (respectively pop/psychedelic and blues) !
Jimi hendrix is probably the best in the list, but I am not an expert. Once more, he is not a hard rock guitarist, but rather blues/psychedelic. Rory Gallagher impressed me a lot with his soloing in the band TASTE, and his first solo album is sheer perfection.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2006 at 19:40
Ritchie Blackmore...the man is a guitar god!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2006 at 22:38
Page wins it for me, Blackmore a close second.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2006 at 23:25
Van Halen and that tappy thing man!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2006 at 23:38
Of the guitarists in the poll, the most singularly talented was probably Michael Schenker.

Not listed is the incomparable Randy Rhoads and the inhumanly gifted Uli Jon Roth.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2006 at 11:43
Oh gosh, I wonder how I missed this one...Confused

Do I really have to say it? Do I really have to?....Wink

The Man in Black for me.. The incomparable Ritchie Blackmore Heart... Gary Moore as a close second, then tie between Page and Iommi. Hendrix is in a class of his own IMHO. Michael Schenker was also a great guitarist, though he managed to ruin his career due to his drinking habits and unpredictability.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2006 at 12:39
Debatable labelling and short memories. What about Jeff Beck? Truth and Cosa Nostra Beckola laid the ground rules for 'heavy', revisited when Beck joined up with that pioneering heavy rhythm section, Bogert & Appice.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2006 at 12:47
Beck was fine but not a match the panache or swagger of a Blackmore or a Page. Heavy rock guitar is about showmanship as well as skill.

That said,Gary Moore for me, out of that lot.

Any doubters please check out the title track from Lizzy's "Black Rose"...

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