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Posted: August 17 2006 at 17:19 |
Jimmy Page, he's my favorite guitarist outside of prog and I've always felt he was at least a step ahead of the other 70s guitar heros.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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N Ellingworth
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Posted: August 17 2006 at 16:42 |
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I voted Jimmy Page simply because it was his riffs that made me want to learn to play the guitar.
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lucas
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Posted: August 17 2006 at 16:40 |
No Alvin Lee here ?
And what about the other Lee : Albert Lee ?
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Cristi
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Posted: August 17 2006 at 10:50 |
Tough choice indeed. The biggest names are here. I'll go for David Gilmour, his guitar playing has always amazed me. I love his 2006 album, biggest, most pleasant surprise for me. 
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NutterAlert
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Posted: August 17 2006 at 10:42 |
Ollie Halsall, Mike Oldfield and Shaun Baxter should really be on this list
Richie Blackmore..8 votes..is this your doing Rafaella?  
Mick Box..top guitarist....your having a larf
Edited by NutterAlert - August 17 2006 at 10:47
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Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005
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Philéas
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Posted: August 17 2006 at 10:38 |
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A hard choice. Jimmy Page gets my vote, though Brian May is a close second.
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martinprog77
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Posted: August 17 2006 at 02:52 |
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BLACKMORE
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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.
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Raff
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 09:56 |
 mystic fred wrote:
CLAPTON IS GOD!!
(voted for RB, though JP, BM and TI are up there with the best!)
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And this shows you've got excellent taste - The Man in Black even has my same initials!  
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Sacred 22
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 04:00 |
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Brian May is pretty good, so I will give him my vote.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 02:52 |
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Gilmour, ahead of Brian May.
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Blog this:
http://artrock2006.blogspot.com
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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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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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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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JJLehto
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:36 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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