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Page for me.

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Watch TSRtS. Page.

Blackmore. Page is not getting on the nails of what Blackmore is doing. Far superior musician. But both guitarists have great riffs.

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Voted for Ritchie. Page has borrowed too many things and hasn't really impressed for many years now.

Blackmore

No one quite has Blackmore's bite

Blackmore x 100

Love Zep and Purple, and Page is a great player, but Blackmore had such amazing style and ability to play flawlessly, and not just shredding a million iles an hour in Space Truckin', he's able to do so much with less, like in Mistreated. Dude is awesome.

Love both of them but Jimmy Page certainly did for music much more.

Ludjak wrote:

Two great guitarists, one brilliant on acoustic, but sloppy on electric, and a great songwriter (and plagiarist), the other brilliant on electric, and fine on acoustic, but... not a really good songwriter. Page, even if Blackmore can play more notes per minute.

Very good post! Page's early electric playing prior to the Yardbirds was very clean. In the Yardbirds his playing wasn't too bad with the unfortunate exception thatf his future sloppy style of playing creeped in and out of the songs. If you listen to his playing on Yardbirds live at Anderson Theatre you can clearly hear that his left fingering hand was still up to par and although sections of it are sloppy , he makes attempts to cover the mistakes . In that sense it does not rank along side of the sloppy playing on Zeppelin II. Again, what happened to him? He was a studio musician, guitar teacher, writer. He played electric guitar very clean during this period in time. Jeff Beck who has a very melodic and clean style studied with Page. Then later he sounds like a student who is frustrated with the pentatonic scale which you can witness that on "Heartbreaker". So what the H happened? Was he hit in the head by a van or a bus? He owned or owns Crowley's castle and if that is an indication of his personal life then it could have been a reason for the decline in his electric playing.

Ritchie Blackmore had better technique than Page in the early 70's. He is an excellent electric player when he is in a good mood. Again this dressing in hooded robes and black on stage for years along with his interest in witchcraft like Page and then it just goes on and on and I hate it. At Deep Purple and Rainbow gigs, sometimes Blackmore would just stand on the stage banging his strings to make this awful noise that made no sense at all. When Hendrix did this sort of thing ....he had stops and versions of feedback memorized where you would hear trains, bombs, machine guns, sirens and one thing led to another. An improvised but pre-planned performance. Blackmore was just making noise. I used to think it was the influence of the darkside causing him to stand there for as long as he did producing noise. He was a fine guitarist on Machine Head and I especially enjoy his solo on "Pictures of Home". I thought he was really strange. I believe Page and Blackmore's flaws derive from their outside influences of the darkside. If you take on any religion while you are a full-time musician, it can have a deep affect on yout playing ability.

Jimmy Page.

Poll Question: Page vs Blackmore
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Ritchie Blackmore	43	[54.43%]
Jimmy Page	36	[45.57%]
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