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WaywardSon 
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 11:09 |
Well I think I have most of the big names there (see "other" option if your favourite isnīt listed)
Anyway for me it was Blackmore 
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stonebeard
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 11:12 |
I'll go with Mr. Gilmour, only because Petrucci isn't English. 
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 11:57 |
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I'M SO SORRY DAVE! Ritchie gets my vote here. Very tough one!
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 12:09 |
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I voted Jimmy Page because of his powerful and inventive rock guitar sound and the fact that he also plays great acoustic guitar. A few weeks ago I saw a documentary about rock guitarplayers and most musicians noticed that Jimmy Page is superior to Blackmore, simply because he plays more varied and is more creative.
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Raff
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 12:14 |
RITCHIE!!!  No surprises here.... Out of this list, I also like Jeff Beck ("Blow by Blow" cooks and should be here on PA), Tony Iommi and Dave Gilmour. Murray and Smith are also great (but where's poor, neglected Janick Gers?), but you forgot to mention their mighty inspirators, Judas Priest's KK Downing and Glenn Tipton. Especially the latter is one hell of a guitarist... BTW, this is my 3000th post... which better way to celebrate such an important mark than with praise for the Man in Black? 
Edited by Ghost Rider - August 15 2006 at 12:21
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WaywardSon
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 12:58 |
Congrats on your 3000th post!
Janick who?!
Edited by WaywardSon - August 15 2006 at 12:58
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:09 |
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Tie between Page and Clapton.I will pick Page,Zeppelin is my all time favorite band.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:09 |
And where is Pete Townsend? 
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WaywardSon
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:12 |
 TheProgtologist wrote:
And where is Pete Townsend? |
Damn, I forgot about him completely, he definitely needs to be on that list.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:50 |
And what about Brian Setzer, one of the most underrated rock guitar players and he also plays great acoustic guitar and even banjo  !
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Tony R
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:53 |
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I vote Page just ahead of Blackmore.
Jimmy virtually invented every riff and heavy rock phrase in the book. I think it is sad that people under-estimate him on this forum...
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:57 |
I'd say out of those Jeff Beck is the most impressive. 
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Raff
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:58 |
Tony R wrote:
I vote Page just ahead of Blackmore.
Jimmy virtually invented every riff and heavy rock phrase in the book. I think it is sad that people under-estimate him on this forum... |
I, for one, don't underestimate him at all... so much that I'm listening to Led Zep at this precise moment! It's just that, for some reason or the other, Blackmore does something more for me...
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Tony R
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:01 |
Ghost Rider wrote:
Tony R wrote:
I vote Page just ahead of Blackmore.
Jimmy virtually invented every riff and heavy rock phrase in the book. I think it is sad that people under-estimate him on this forum... |
I, for one, don't underestimate him at all... so much that I'm listening to Led Zep at this precise moment! It's just that, for some reason or the other, Blackmore does something more for me... |
Dont get me wrong Ritchie is awesome and also under-rated by people on this forum. Also not British but from the British Isles one musnt forget the greatest of them all: Gary Moore
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WaywardSon
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:04 |
Cygnus X-2 wrote:
I'd say out of those Jeff Beck is the most impressive. |
Ritchie Blackmore also thinks Beck is the best. I must really investigate some of his albums.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:18 |
Just check out Wired and There And Back by Jeff Beck featuring Max Middleton on the unique Hohner D6 clavinet, almost as underrated as Jeff Beck !
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JJLehto
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 20:09 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Just check out Wired and There And Back by Jeff
Beck featuring Max Middleton on the unique Hohner D6 clavinet, almost
as underrated as Jeff Beck ! |
Erik
I would definitiely say more underrated and closer to being forgotten
than Mr Beck. Can't remember if it was here or one of the jazz rock
fusion sites that recently there was a comparison of Hummingbird albums (the residual members of the former Jeff Beck Group plus Robert Awai) - I only have the band's Diamond Nights which has a stonking jazz funk version of the Max Middleton composition (Got My) Led Boots (On)
- I note with some amusement at the recent Moog Festival in NYC, Jan
Hammer backed by the Mahavishnu Project did a cover of this tune too. Max Middleton did an album with Robert Awai
for Harvest Records short lived jazz rock speciality label Harvest
Fusion in 1978 or '9. And he has seemed to have been the musical
arranger for a number of bands since, most notably Chris Rea's.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 20:16 |
Obviously there are lot more. Having purchased an album recently by the
guitarist I would suggest Chris Spedding - who's creditials range from
Nucleus, to the Sharks, to the Sex Pistols to more recently joining the
guitar of Phil Manzanera in a reformed Roxy Music. And then
there is Peter Green who was in the top 3 of Mojo's 100 guitarist list
some tme ago.
Hank Marvin..... who most of the listed guitarists have acknowledged as an influence  .
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mystic fred
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 02:51 |
CLAPTON IS GOD!! 
(voted for RB, though JP, BM and TI are up there with the best!)
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