Deep Purple - Favourite Guitarist?
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Topic: Deep Purple - Favourite Guitarist?
Posted By: Gandalff
Subject: Deep Purple - Favourite Guitarist?
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 02:13
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Notice: Joe Satriani due to his short appearance in the band and not recording with them isn´t included. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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Posted By: poslednijat_colobar
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 02:23
| I'm with Ritchie! |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 02:46
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There are many Ritchie´s haters. (I´m one of them.) Therefore I´m very curious to rate of all Deep Purple guitarists. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 04:27
| One is above the others and he is Ritchie! Without doubt the best ever Purple guitarist! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 04:36
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I really love Steve Morse and he has injected new vitality in the band and he is a sh*t hot plank spanker......but It has to be Blackmore. The man is a legend! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 07:57
This. If only I had £10 for every ridiculously straightforward question like this, I would be a rich man by now. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: ThinLizzy
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 08:15
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Blackmore by far.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 12:36
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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.
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24150&KW=Deep+Purple+Guitar&title=deep-purple-guitar-player" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24150&KW=Deep+Purple+Guitar&title=deep-purple-guitar-player
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19849&KW=Deep+Purple+Guitar&title=deep-purple-guitarists" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19849&KW=Deep+Purple+Guitar&title=deep-purple-guitarists
I know they were long time ago, just showing the obvious results.
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Posted By: Mastosis
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 12:39
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To my ears, its not Deep Purple without Ritchie Blackmore.
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 12:52
| Steve morse!Because he has strong sound. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 13:34
And Blackmore didn't?  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 13:36
And neither sang in Italian.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 13:44
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I personally like Tommy the best of these three guitarists, and I voted for him just to keep things interesting.
But his Purple work is not his best, and Ritchie's define the band. But I've spent much more of my life listening to Tommy play guitar than Ritchie.
Steve's good but I just haven't spent that much time listening to him. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 14:06
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Of course I like Ritchie Blackmore more than the other two and I would like to be with Deep purple.But I voted Morse because I like his style and he fits with Deep purple.And I think that his sound is more thick than Blackmore's. And I know that he doesn't sing in Italian. 
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: January 11 2011 at 08:58
| 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. |
Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: January 11 2011 at 09:33
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Blackmore
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 02:13
You´ve got me! I´m going to perish to the bush!  ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: 1967/ 1976
Date Posted: January 15 2011 at 02:33
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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! -------------  |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: January 17 2011 at 19:47
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This poll is a joke, it can't be serious.
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Posted By: clarkpegasus4001
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 18:10
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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. Tony C. |
Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: September 14 2011 at 19:28
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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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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: September 19 2011 at 12:10
| 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. |
Posted By: GoldenGod2112
Date Posted: September 19 2011 at 12:13
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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.
------------- The future's uncertain and the end is always near. - Jim Morrison |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: September 20 2011 at 01:48
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Ritchie Blackmore ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: September 20 2011 at 13:34
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I like all three. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: charles_ryder
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 13:23
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Purple without Blackmore arre not the Purple. imo. ------------- om mani padme hum |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:14
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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). ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:18
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Blackmore and who?
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 14:22
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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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Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 18:34
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as far as I'm concerned the formula for Deep Purple is "The Lord + Blackmore" ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 19:01
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only a "basic" fan of these days, and i can still tell Blackmore gets my vote. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 20:29
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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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 08:20
There was no saving James Gang after Joe Walsh left.........
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 08:21
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |