English Rock Guitarists
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Topic: English Rock Guitarists
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: English Rock Guitarists
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 11:09
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Well I think I have most of the big names there (see "other" option if your favourite isn´t listed) Anyway for me it was Blackmore
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 11:12
I'll go with Mr. Gilmour, only because Petrucci isn't English. 
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Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 11:57
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I'M SO SORRY DAVE! Ritchie gets my vote here. Very tough one! -------------  You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 12:09
| 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. |
Posted By: Raff
Date 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?  |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 12:58
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Congrats on your 3000th post!
Janick who?!
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date 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. -------------  |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:09
And where is Pete Townsend?  ------------- |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:12
Damn, I forgot about him completely, he definitely needs to be on that list.
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TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date 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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Posted By: Tony R
Date 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... |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:57
I'd say out of those Jeff Beck is the most impressive.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 13:58
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... |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:01
Also not British but from the British Isles one musnt forget the greatest of them all: Gary Moore |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:04
Ritchie Blackmore also thinks Beck is the best. I must really investigate some of his albums.
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:18
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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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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 14:36
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Blackmore |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 20:09
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. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 20:16
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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  . |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: August 16 2006 at 02:51
CLAPTON IS GOD!!
(voted for RB, though JP, BM and TI are up there with the best!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B000002MFE/ref=dp_image_text_0/026-1648932-8184431?ie=UTF8">
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 16 2006 at 02:52
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Gilmour, ahead of Brian May. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: August 16 2006 at 04:00
| Brian May is pretty good, so I will give him my vote. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 16 2006 at 09:56
And this shows you've got excellent taste - The Man in Black even has my same initials!  |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 02:52
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BLACKMORE ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 10:38
| A hard choice. Jimmy Page gets my vote, though Brian May is a close second. |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 10:42
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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 ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Cristi
Date 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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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 16:40
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No Alvin Lee here ?
And what about the other Lee : Albert Lee ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 16:42
| I voted Jimmy Page simply because it was his riffs that made me want to learn to play the guitar. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 17:19
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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. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |