Deep Purple Guitarists
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Topic: Deep Purple Guitarists
Posted By: Dr Know
Subject: Deep Purple Guitarists
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 16:45
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Who do you think is the best choice or fits in the band perfectly. Yes, Joe Satriani was a member for a little while but didn´t record an album with them. I enjoyed some of Purpendicular with Morse, but after that I find his style just lacks something, so my vote goes to Ritchie B. |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 03:08
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I really have a problem with anyone else than Blackmore or Morse >> Blackmorse That Bolin album is awful (no matter how good a guitarist Bolin was) Come And Puke over the band ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 03:15
| Blackmore is the ultimative guiitarist for Purple. Steve Morse is great,but fits the band's less perfectly. From the personal side Steve Morse is the better choice. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 05:48
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Is this a joke? Ritchie Blackmore IS Deep Purple. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 06:55
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Ritchie Blackmore will always be the ultimate guitarist of Deep Purple!! ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 08:58
| Ritchie, no doubt about it. Morse is great, but he's not the Man in Black... |
Posted By: Yito
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 09:16
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I agree with you guys, Morse is a great guitarist but Blackmore is Blackmore. ------------- Psalm 96 1 Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 09:16
| Ritchie Blackmore of course, although Morse is an excellent guitarist!!! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 09:17
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I'm going to buck the trend and say Morse. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 09:21
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Kudos for Snowie! Morse it is! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: S Lang
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 13:27
| Blackmore is a legend while Morse is an ACTIVE legend. So there, I'd say Morse. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 13:48
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Blackmore. Without him there wouldn't have been a Deep Purple. ------------- "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: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 13:54
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Blackmore. But Morse is no slouch either. -------------  |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 14:04
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Purpendicular is a remarkable album ... but Blackmore is THE Deep Purple guitarist. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 14:26
| Only Ritchie Blackmore. Deep Purple without R.B. is like Led Zeppelin without Jimmy Page. I know that other guitarists of DP are very good, but... only Ritchie! |
Posted By: adamw
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 14:34
| Blackmore is the guitarist, with whom they made their best works, so my vote goes to him. Two years ago I attended a great show of them with Stevie Morse and it was great too... But even then, the best moments were when he was playing old Blackmore pieces (which he made great). |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 19:23
I saw them live during the Pistoia Blues Festival a few years ago, i was really impressed, especially for Gillan's performance (he has still a splendid voice). Steve Morse is an excellent guitarist but Blackmore is Blackmore!!!
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 19:49
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Blackmore is one of the greatest guitarists ever Morse is great, I even like Morse era more than Blackmore from Perfect Strangers - Battle Rages On. Slaves and Masters and BRO are VERY weak albums Bolin is good also, but he only played on one album (and I love Come Taste The Band!) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 20:09
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1-BLACKMORE!!! 2-morse t3-he other ones -------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 16:38
I loved 'Come Taste The Band' to be fair, and Bolin's playing was so excellent that he carved out his own identity- he put far more effort in than Blackmore's lacklustre show on 'Stormbringer'. Yet, it's hard to separate Deep Purple from Ritchie Blackmore- he will always be their pivotal guitarist for me. No matter how good Steve Morse is or Tommy Bolin was, they'll never match Blackmore in the context of the band. |
Sean Trane wrote:
- harsh!!Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 17:30
| Blackmore is the legend but I like Steve Morese style he's a very fluid guitar player which shows on the 'raptures of the Deep' |
Posted By: Minkia
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 18:35
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It seems that you guys missed the point: did you not notice that Purple with Tommy Bolin (in fact, to a certain extent, since Coverdale and Hughes joined them)were a different kettle of fish?
I mean, the band assumed a more funky and R&B(i.e. as Rhythm and Blues) edge from Burn onwards. Therefore Bolin was the dog's bollocks for that musical direction. No matter how technical Blackmore and Morse are, they lack the funk which clearly Bolin had in abundance, bearing in mind that Bolin had learned his funk/jazz chops while playing on Billy Cobham and others' work. So Deep Purple had their lead guitarists according to their direction, and on 'Come Taste the Band' no other guitarist would have done a better job than the late great Tommy Bolin, for the same reason that no other guitarist could have played on stuff like In Rock, Machine Head. So there. MORE BALLS, LESS BOLLOCKS! |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 18:49
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I agree with your comments 100% Blackmore is Guitar God from a time when you had to be special to be above the rest of the greats from that time and he was.I wish he would get back to playing rock instead of the medieval folk stuff he is so engrossed in. Raptures of the Deep is a very good album I wholey endorse it |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 08 2006 at 19:00
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Blackmore by a country mile. Without a doubt one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His fluid style always seems so effortless and he was the No1 hard rock guitarist of the 70s even eclipsing Page.
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 02:59
| after Ritchie left the band they thought they would have to settle for a lesser talent to replace him, until Tommy Bolin walked in and played everything that Ritchie could. They knew they had a winner and recount that they were blown away! If you ever saw Tommy live on solo or with the James Gang you would understand what they saw. I was backstage with a former bandmate of Glenn Hughes on several locations on the Burn tour, and noticed that Tommy was not playing his material in general and wasnt as much of a monster on a leash as he was with his original material. Truly one of the legendary American RnR guitarists, gone before it all came out, sadly. |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 03:34
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I've chosen Mr. Blackmore. Have you heard "This Time Around Live in Tokyo '75"? Mr. Bolin played the guitar really, really well, although he was a bit "off form" ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 03:36
In Spain, the version of "Raptures of the Deep" in stores does not include the song "MTV", that I like a lot. Is it so everywhere? ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: OT Räihälä
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 04:32
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I can't think of Deep Purple without Blackmore. It's as strange idea as King Crimson without Bob Fripp. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/osmotapioraihala/sets" rel="nofollow - Composer - Click to listen to my works! |
Posted By: wolf0621
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 16:55
True, he is. The vast majority of their hits, and their output in general, involved him. Just for that reason he's a better fit for the band...That doesn't mean he's a better player than Morse (he's not), but does have a different feel that suits the band's classic material better (maybe 'cause he played on it originally?)...
When Morse plays the old stuff to a great extent he's copying Blackmore's licks, and fans of that material really want to hear those specific licks, not something else that Morse could add (good or not)...Bolin found that out the hard way when he wasn't exactly copying the great one's solos in concert...
So it's Blackmore...
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Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 17:56
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Blackmore is a very soulful guitarist. I can hear the cry in his solos. He's old now, nut he was truly the best player in the whole hard rock/heavy metal circuit in the seventies (the hardest era to competition in this matter), both in deep Purple or in Rainbow's three spectacular albums with Dio.
PS: I think Rainbow is at least Prog Related, and it's a shame this band isn't here while a lot of pseudo-metal/pesudo prog cr*p fills spaces that could be better occupied. ------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: An old fart
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 20:04
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Blackmore is my choice as well, for several reasons, but especially for his songwriting ability, the most important quality for a musician in my opinion. When he left Deep Purple the quality of the songs dropped, both times, even though they didn't completely lose the band's magic. Tommy Bolin, judging from what I have heard (not much), was also a remarkable guitarist.
To be honest, Morse's playing makes me annoyed. It's pointlessly technical, even cold. That's also a major reason for me to losing interest in Deep Purple as it is now. Blackmore, even though obviously not a very pleasant person, often has a lot of beauty in his playing, maybe paradoxically, maybe not, I am not sure. ------------- "Make tea, not love" |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: May 01 2006 at 19:00
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^^^^
I also think Steve Morse is cold and technical. I liked some stuff on Purpendicular but after that it was the same quick runs he did all the time, lacks emotion completely.
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Posted By: Sibbe
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 14:38
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I prefer Morse. ------------- "I came here for a party and what do I get? Nothing. Not even ice cream." |
Posted By: Nakatira
Date Posted: May 20 2006 at 20:15
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My vote is for Ritchie.
I think Steve Morse playing in purple is sacreligious  ------------- http://daccord-music.com/home.cfm |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 09:07
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IMHO DP without Blackmore were just never the same. It is pretty hard to go past DP's classic line up with Lord & Blackmore trading musical blows. ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Daydreamyng
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 17:37
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I did like what Tommy Bolin did but come on here. Blackmore IS Deep Purple. This poll is like saying who's the best guitar player for Guns-n-Roses.....is it Slash or the 12 other guys that Axl Rose has worked with and failed to put out an album with. Oh I guess Buckethead's better?? Yeah right. Long live Ritchie. |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: January 27 2007 at 16:45
| Blackmore ,and I BELIEVE that the list have the order. |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: January 28 2007 at 17:14
I see Steve Morse with Purple in Pordenone during "Purpendicular Tour" and I listen this in the compilation "Prime Cuts". He is the second Blackmore, The only Blackmore substitute, The new Blackmore... ...But Blackmore... Is Blackmore!!!... ------------- 
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Posted By: Modrigue
Date Posted: January 28 2007 at 17:16
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Ritchie Blackmore made black blues guitarists take note !
He's my favorite in Deep Purple.
I'm not fond of Steve Morse's works
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Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: January 29 2007 at 13:19
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Without Blackmore DP woudln't have been DP but still I think that Steve Morse is better for them NOW... ------------- ...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock ! |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: January 29 2007 at 19:24
THE MAN IN BLACK, without a doubt!! What a great gutarist!! But what a pity he does not rock anymore... (Blackmore's Night  )However, I haven't heard Satriani playing a single note with DP... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Barla/?chartstyle=LastfmMyspace">  
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Posted By: ZowieZiggy
Date Posted: January 29 2007 at 19:49
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It is too obvious. Ritchie of course.
What a pity tht he was such a P.I.T.A. !
Cheers. ------------- ZowieZiggy |