Hard Rock guitarists
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Topic: Hard Rock guitarists
Posted By: Dr Know
Subject: Hard Rock guitarists
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:27
| Of these 12, who is the best? |
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:32
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Jimmy Page- great riffs, solos- and so early on! ------------- |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:36
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Ok, from those that I know well enough:
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Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:38
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I voted for Blackmore As Malmsteen once quoted "There wasn´t a guitarist in the 70´s who even came close to Ritchie" |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:38
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Hendrix. Then Page and Eddie Van Halen.I remember when VH came out and we were all blown away by his playing,never heard anything like it. -------------  |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:06
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Page.
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:34
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Posted By: infinite adam
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 15:06
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Meh, - Van Halen brought the whole tapping triplet thing to the masses, but Steve Hackett invented it. - I love Zeppelin, but Page is/was a pretty sloppy guitar player.
Does anybody know who Jag Tanna is? Now that guy can play guitar.
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 02:39
| Jimi Hendrix, then Blackmore and Eddie Van Halen. |
Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 03:01
| Blackmore or Hendrix..... I'll need some time to think about this. |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 04:56
blackmoore the man!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 11:17
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Hendrix ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 11:56
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I'll go with my favourite, all of these are number one Tony Iommi |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 13:49
| Can't I have three ? Jimmy Page, Rory and Tony Iommi ! |
Posted By: Page to Squire
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 13:56
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Rory gallagher all the way ------------- I talk to the wind... It tells me to burn things |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 14:17
You dont know Gary Moore very well if you place him 8th. |
The Miracle wrote:Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 02:24
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Well, if you're looking for the best in Hard Rock, I'd vote for Page. On the other hand, Hendrix was the best overall, in my opinion, but what he played I wouldn't call Hard Rock, thus he doesn't belong into this list (same, btw, with Walsh and Gallagher). Hard Rock: 1. Jimmy Page 2. Eddie Van Halen 3. Ritchie Blackmore 4. Pete Townshend ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 15:14
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Angus Young for me though i do like early Gary Moore, White Knuckles etc. Rory Gallagher too but i didn't care too much for his lyrics but guitarist!! ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Karn Evil 9
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 16:48
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wow its hard to pick between these choices but i have to say, the best would have to be Hendrix, while he isnt as good as many guitarists today, no one came close to his talent while he was still alive but Blackmore comes in such a close second. the malmsteen quote says it best no one could compare to him. but then there's Tony Iommi who helped forge heavy metal and who doesnt like his riffs in black sabbath? as for Jimmy Page, i never even noticed anything remotely special about him, or any other Zeppelin member for that matter. it saddens me to see him rated almost as high as hendrix ------------- Watch out where the huskies go,dont you eat that yellow snow |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 03:48
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Eddie Van Halen! Not really too big a fan of anyone on that list though. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:21
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Jimi is the man! Van Halen next... -------------  |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 20:42
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My three favorites are: Townshend Page Iommi And i votet for Townshend. ------------- 
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Posted By: MattNYR
Date 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. |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 17:38
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The Great JIMI HENDRIX
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Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 20:08
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I like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton. I also like Townsend's powerful playing. ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants.  |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 23:03
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eddie van halen ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 11:36
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JIMMY PAGE IS THE GREATEST GUITARIST IN THE WHOLE WORLD. okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little. ------------- http://imageshack.us">  |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date 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.------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 21:20
| page |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 21:26
| Blackmore, with Van Halen a close second. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 21:31
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Page! -------------  
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 08:49
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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. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 16:01
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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. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: rainbow111
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 19:40
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Ritchie Blackmore...the man is a guitar god!!! ------------- It's got to be slow Taking love the only way It's got to just flow Making love and taking time to let it grow |
Posted By: East of Lyra
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 22:38
| Page wins it for me, Blackmore a close second. |
Posted By: Howe Protege
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 23:25
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Van Halen and that tappy thing man!!
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 23:38
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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. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 11:43
Oh gosh, I wonder how I missed this one... Do I really have to say it? Do I really have to?....  The Man in Black for me.. The incomparable Ritchie Blackmore  ... 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. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 12:39
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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. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 12:47
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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"... |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 13:00
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WOW what an amazing line-up! In the 19th Century there was a virtuoso Italian violin player called Nicolo Paganini whose skill was so phenomenal people believed he must have made a pact with the Devil - like today's rock stars he played to packed houses around Europe and played on the "Devil" story with a showpiece called "Devil's Trill" - this story draws some interesting parallels with one or two latter day masters of a different kind of stringed instrument!
 Back to the poll - all those artists listed have left a huge mark on the history of rock, though i'm sure they would all agree Hendrix is the man - he, Clapton , Blackmore and Townshend were the first to pioneer the development of stage amps due to their dealings with Jim Marshall, and Page, Iommi and Young developed the popularity of the riff, but none of it would have been quite the same without the phenomenal inventive skill of Jimi, though like Paginini his skill was honed through hard work and hours and hours of practice!
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 18:20
| Hendrix, though I love all the guitarists on this poll |
Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 19:30
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If I voted based on skill, I would've picked Hendrix or Page. However, there was a passion in the way Pete played his guitar, almost provocitive at times, that makes him my favorite. The Who are my favorite band, and he just captured their spirit in his guitar playing. He was completely wild and intriguing, but with a layer of depth behind it.
Neil Young could also be up there, that man can rock with the best of them! "Cortez The Killer", "Cowgirl In The Sand", and "Powderfinger". Dang. ------------- 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 23:39
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Probably Hendrix is more important... But i like Slash simple yet melodic style a lot
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