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Poll Question: Who´s your most favourite guitarist in Deep Purple and why?
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    Posted: September 23 2014 at 08:21
Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

Originally posted by clarkpegasus4001 clarkpegasus4001 wrote:

Tommy Bolin - when he was clean! an incredibly underrated guitarist. I'm not a Purple fan but my fave Purple album is Come Taste The Band. Sorry guy's I can't stand Blackmore, moody and overrated.
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Bolin really surprised me on Billy Cobham;s Spectrum. Musically the album was based more on jamming and it was a letdown for me, but I loved some of Bolin's solos. 
Bolin did do some nice guitar work on Spectrum but I also think the album is a let down and is not as good as people tend to rate it.
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Originally posted by Intruder Intruder wrote:

Tommy Bolin was a great guitarist, especially on that Billy Cobham LP Crosswinds.  Richie Blackmore is a great Deep Purple guitarist - the band built their sound and reputation on his riffs.....thus, Blackmore is the best Puple guitarist.  Bolin might have been more diverse (that James Gang album he was on saved the band).
 
 
There was no saving James Gang after Joe Walsh left.........
 
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Originally posted by clarkpegasus4001 clarkpegasus4001 wrote:

Tommy Bolin - when he was clean! an incredibly underrated guitarist. I'm not a Purple fan but my fave Purple album is Come Taste The Band. Sorry guy's I can't stand Blackmore, moody and overrated.
Tony C.

Bolin really surprised me on Billy Cobham;s Spectrum. Musically the album was based more on jamming and it was a letdown for me, but I loved some of Bolin's solos. 
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only a "basic" fan of these days, and i can still tell Blackmore gets my vote.
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as far as I'm concerned the formula for Deep Purple is "The Lord + Blackmore"
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Putting Mr. Blackmore in a poll that too against other Deep Purple guitarists...decided the result of the poll even before it begun.
As for evidence.,"In Rock" & "Machine Head"...thats more than enuf to decide..
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Blackmore and who?
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Tommy Bolin was a great guitarist, especially on that Billy Cobham LP Crosswinds.  Richie Blackmore is a great Deep Purple guitarist - the band built their sound and reputation on his riffs.....thus, Blackmore is the best Puple guitarist.  Bolin might have been more diverse (that James Gang album he was on saved the band).
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Purple without Blackmore arre not the Purple. imo.
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I like all three.
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Blackmore by farrrrrrrrrr!!!
One of the top 10 guitarists of all time.
 
I love his guitar work in Rainbow as well.
 
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Ritchie Blackmore because he was more fitting to the sound of the band. Not a fully developed Classical player that incorporated his past studies into rock along with Jon Lord. Blackmore was diverse in other styles but for a long time stuck to using a pick and occasionally played fingerstyle. Tommy Bolin on Billy Cobham's Spectrum displays a fusion guitar style. He sounded like he was still developing , but had capabilities to play extensive note passages rapidly and clean. For example the lead guitar in Miles Beyond by John McLaughlin. Bolin could have played that solo and worked it to perfection. It was sad how drugs destroyed the balance of his 2 hands. The picking technique of the right hand and the beautiful phrasing of the left. While on tour with Deep Purple he was unable to use one of his arms. He was lost by then. I wasn't fond of his writing, but I could tell he was taking the guitar seriously.
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Ritchie Blackmore. Even outside Deep Purple he is still 10x better than Bolin and Morse no offense to them they are good as well

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Tommy Bolin - when he was clean! an incredibly underrated guitarist. I'm not a Purple fan but my fave Purple album is Come Taste The Band. Sorry guy's I can't stand Blackmore, moody and overrated.
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This poll is a joke, it can't be serious.
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I should change the options and include: "all three"!
 
Surely I should vote Blackmore, historic (and first) DP axeman. But I have seen Morse in concert. Bolin like me a mess but it was a meteor.
 
So... Blackmore or Morse? Difficult. But I vote for Morse becaiuse I have seen Morse in Concert!
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Points: 4214 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2011 at 02:13
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Seriously? You've placed Ritchie along the other two? Why don't you make a poll where the results are not the obvious? I'm telling you this as a suggestion, I mean, be honest here, don't you REALLY know that at least 80% will vote for Ritchie?

Maybe having placed Steve Morse against Tommy Bolin would be more interesting.
 
BTW, I'm a bigger fan of Tommy than of Ritchie.
 
 
I know they were long time ago, just showing the obvious results.
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Enjoyed Ritchie Blackmore in the band and all through the 70's of course. I loved his guitar playing on "Pictures Of Home" which doesn't seem to be mentioned too much on this site. He plays some really interesting improvisation in the center and ending jam. My vote is Blackmore but seriously.....Tommy Bolin was a monster player and surprisingly diverse. I think maybe Blackmore respected his playing.
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