i feel the same way.

Ditto

Eddie was amazing❗️

The kind of dude that could possibly think that EVH could play anything, is someone who knows nothing at all about guitar playing AND even less about music.

What are you talking about? Ritchie is one of the greatest!

@@zenica12 I agree bro. Ritchie Blackmore top 3 guitarist in my book. But we all have our opinion. Cheers

@@barryrammer7906 Of course, man. I liked Eddie too. Way more impressed with his rythm playing and tone than solos. And that is not a bad thing;) But I first started with Blackers and countined to Eddie, among others. So while I appreciated Eddie, Blackers was my number one regarding rock.

But doesn’t give you goosebumps like Eddie, Schenker, young, Frehley, Gallagher.

​@@studio-flashwell, he does too me everytime I listen made in Japan...

Page was terrible. Still is. Clapton.meh.

If composing and “making songs” for a long time is what gets you, the guys you named have all done it for a long time. Many decades for each of them. Arguably, Page and Van Halen were the most successful (profitable). Maybe that’s not what you meant?

@@isaiahmarquez9717 LZ's output was tiny. And Page was a riff stealer, song thief. Many of the VH songs were written by Alex and M. Anthony. Page is a terrible guitarist. Truly crappy and truly overrated. Now a prolific composer would be Yngwie Malmsteen, a guitarist much better standing far above all those mentioned. Clapton was mentioned in the OP. Clapton was a cover song guitarist. Any originals were written by others for him.

No need to be sad. He's better off without the earth's life struggles ❤🕊... R.I.P. ...

@@Marginal391 …agreed, the world has become weird.

But there's only one evh

Yes, but not a great lot of good songwriters. Blackmore, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Jimmy Page... whoops! None of those are American!

Quincy Jones actually called Pete Townsend. Townsend didn't want to do it, so he recommended Eddie. But that's according to Townsend. Whether he was telling the truth is another story.

Quincy Jones doesn't think for me.

Many thanks, great pleasure!

Roy Clark, Jerry Reed, and Eddie were my inspirations, then I discovered Gary Moore, John Sykes, Malmsteen and countless others. Jake E. Lee was a monster guitarist. Jake absolutely does not get his due.

Many thanks Vince, great pleasure!! Have an awesome day!

Many thanks, great pleasure!

Ritchie's solo's in "Lazy" were mind-blowing at the time and still hold up -- he had far more sense of melody and jazz than Eddie, to me; Eddie played scales and sound effects basically.

Made in Japan...one of the best live albums ever and that record set the bar for guitarists live and many guitarists point to it as a seminal moment of Rock guitar.... Epic!

Another classic live album from that time was by Ten Years After "Recorded live" with Alvin Lee on the lead ax. @@autk

I thought he was partially inspired by Jimmy Page's solo in Heartbreaker

@@joaquinlezcano2372 Could be. I believe in some ways Iommi, Page and Blackmore sorta fed off each other. They pushed each other.

Nope!

Many thanks, much appreciated!!

Many thanks!!!

Uli and Schenker were way superior technically and musically as soloists to Blackmore. THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M SAYING I DON'T LIKE BLACKMORE BECAUSE I DO!!! What it means is that Uli Jon Roth and Michael Schenker deserve wayyy more recognition then they get sometimes, although in the last 15 years they are being recognized to the degree they always deserved. The point I'm making is that Roth and Schenker should have been in the same sentence with Blackmore as early as the mid 1970's!!!

Those players you mention give you goosebumps, so does Frehley, Young, Rory Gallagher.. to me I’d listen to them over Blackmore any day.

They ALL give me goosebumps from time to time!@@studio-flash

​@@vbassoneIts much easier to imitate Schenker than Blackmore.

@@fk9277 Yeah, that's because Blackmore plays bullshit nonsensical harmonic content in his solos half the time!! Michael Schenker is FAR beyond Blackmore technically and as a soloist, and that's OBVIOUS, or at least it should be, and I like Blackmore.....

I want to see you happier dear Eddie 💖 You just can't imagine how big your contribution to human civilization is. Cheer up, beautiful soul. This way, we all (including you) will feel better and you'll eventually whisper new tunes and guitar ideas to the chosen guitar players. 🎸🫶👍🙃

Not all of what you said is true. Analog synthesizer technology exploded during the 80's. Everyone was into synthesizers. Eddie followed the trend. He did not initiate it. He was actually late to the game. But because of the attention he was attracting already, when he produced songs using a synthesizer people noticed and liked it. Like many of us we tried them out in a music store and loved the sound but Eddie could afford to take one home with him. There was a live video of him covering the guitar solo on synth performing Jump and he sucked. So he was not as good with a synth as it appears because of the official releases. But they are what has gone done in history. Also, his tone was nothing new. He used an MXR Phase 90 in a very dated manner. His playing style made more of what he sounded like than the gear. But everyone always thinks it is the gear. NO ONE sounds anything like David Gilmour using identical gear. These two guys are good examples of how it is the player and their hands producing their signature sound. Granted, those taps, hammer-ons and dive bombs benefit from an overdriven amp. But his "brown sound" was a tone which already existed with many earlier guitarists. He just boosted it a little and did his Eddie thing when playing, similar to the SRV Strat on steroids tone. Eddie's guitars looked more unique than the average guitarist's. A Les Paul or Strat in hand and you look like countless guitarists. That Eddie paint job had Eddie all over it. Bent headstock? woopee doo! There were 1000 Fender and Gibson headstocks to every Charvel or Kramer.

​@@SM-bm6jowho else had a brown sound close to Van Halen prior to EVH.

I got to see b b king playing in a casino on the oregon coast. He was sitting down the entire time he was very old. And what can you say he's the godfather of blues.

@@barryrammer7906 yep.

@sconni666 To me, it was an honor to see him. I was so impressed. He wore his full zoot suite and hat. After the show signed all autographs. He is a great man and a legend. It was one of the best times I had at a concert. Rip BB

@@barryrammer7906 totally. Saw him in NYC in the 80’s. Not a chord was played or needed. 🎸

I saw BB (just once) 1994 and he has one older guitar player who plays all wonderful jazz chords through BB's blues gig. It was perfect. BB plays brilliant solo's.

yes,,,,Alex Cleminson is as great..

Except I’d listen to young anyway and Blackmore I’d fall asleep after a while.

I appreciate that but Kar is the mastermind behind all of this, he does a lot of research.

@@ShawnStaplesFreeGuitarLessons I know Shawn but it’s a Great ride with you showing us the way too .. Thx.

Many thanks Scott!! Have an awesome day!

Apinch of salt says a mouthful

In 1981 Kerang magazine Townshend and Clapton was ranked better than Blackmore! Oh because their music and playing were better and in style!!

@@kevinstimelsky673 Kerrang! Reader's Poll 1981. Best Guitarist. 1 Ritchie Blackmore 2 Angus Young 3 Michael Schenker 4 Alex Lifeson 5 Jimmy Page 6 Fast Eddie Clarke 7 Tony Iommi 8 Bernie Torme 9 Rick Parfitt 10 Eddie Van Halen

@@kevinstimelsky673 What's Richie doing now , playing Viking Songs at that restaurant where you call the waitress a winch and eat with your hands wait hell with Richie What's the name of that restaurant

@@delorangeade Is this poll credible/relevant when they have Angus at 2 and EVH at 10? Obviously Van Halen was much bigger in the US than UK.

That's really weird. I noticed that also. Joe and Don are great.

Stranger in us all is a beautiful album. I bought it and listened in autumn 1999. Great days!

There's a lot more to that story. Ritchie had given an unknown EVH his phone number at the Rainbow while out with John Bonham. Unfortunately, EVH would drunk dial Ritchie constantly and that's why he iced Eddie.

Who Eddie? 😂😂😂😂 he was loved from his first album and makes Blackmore seem boring.

I noticed that also. They never say anything when the person is alive. Same with Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix all the others. Everyone loves you when your dead and gone.

Jeff Beck was a major game changer! He was a major influence on an entire generation of players and beyond. Just to give you one example; no one was using natural, artificial, and pinch harmonics. Natural harmonics were used occasionally in Classical Music but that was it. By 1963 (pre-Yardbirds), natural and artificial harmonics became part of his playing. Then he invented the pinch harmonic. All three types of harmonics became a mainstay of his style of playing. Other guitarist started to use harmonics here and there. It was not until EVH came along that there was the “explosion” of there use. They are a great “tool” to use. JB always had great things to say about EVH from the beginning! But Jeff always had his on path and continued to play the type of music that inspired him at that moment. In 1989, Jeff was asked if he was aware of how much two-hand tapping was in all types of rock music and how he felt about it. His reply: Eddie is a phenomenal guitarist that inspired new life into guitar playing with his two-hand (tapping) technique. It is not his fault that thousands of horrendous players came after him trying to use his style and failing miserably. It is too bad EVH never had anything nice to say about Jeff. You know, since Eddie was using harmonics as part of his style. RIP Jeff Beck / RIP Eddie Van Halen

@@Notes-From-Underground66 You say it! I was rethinking what I've written. I thought: I forgot Jeff Beck! Thanx for completing the thing so far. I am shure there are some more on that list. John McLaughling for instance; he also was ahead of his time.

@@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi Definitely John/Mahavishnu Orchestra. There is some heavy Indian influence there. Jeff started using Indian influence with the Yardbirds version of “Shapes of Things”. Wes Montgomery is another guitarist I would put on the list; Michael Hedges (game changer for the acoustic guitar), and Les Paul.

@@Notes-From-Underground66 Paco de Lucia is another name for our list. He definitely had a big influence on electric guitar players, even when he just played the nylon guitar.

@@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi I was thinking about him when I was writing my reply to you this morning. In my head I was balancing whether he was a game changer or just a phenomenal acoustic guitarist. The all acoustic live album “Friday Night In San Francisco” alone was a game changer with Paco De Lucia (RIP), Al DiMeola, and John McLaughlin. The level of improvisation between the 3 guitarists and ridiculous speed on acoustic guitars was never done before like that. The employing of “straight” jazz, jazz fusion, and with Paco a unique flamingo style made many guitarists want to “pull there hair out”. Great addition my friend!

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If your old enough you'll discern the pioneers from the others Rick players generally can't compare to fluent jazz oriented players now I don't like comparing musicians john mcglaughin is an guitarist pat metheny john Scofield al dimeola can play circles atiund your rock players now that don't mean I enjoy that music more oe less but these types or more fluent in the language of music my opinion only van Halens albums I felt were stupid the lyrics were juvenile and Roth was a fool even eddie wanted out Stevie ray ac dc sorry every song sounded the same so that's why we have chocolate and vanilla now if you want to see a great player check out Lenny breau whether you like his music is secondary this mans fingers and fret board were as one a,mercurial talent jo Diario as well the list never ends

​@user-xb1jr5ju5t are you familiar with punctuation?

Richie did same though...think of the neo-classical guitarists...

Thank you

I rate Blackmore far above the hilariously over rated Clapton. Clapton is like an intermediate player, compared with many kids under 20 nowadays. There are teenage girls now who can out play Claptrap with their eyes closed nowadays. I really don't get where this fan audulation over rating comes from for the racist Eric Clapton, other than everyone just repeats what they hear others say.

Carbon copies 😂 They all Love Blackmore. Especially YM I think he has a man crush on Ritchie😂. YM It's so bad it's actually embarrassing. He looks like hum acts like him. He got all Ricthie's lead singers. God damn then he said he never heard of scallop guitars before. He copied that from BlackLord he is such a liar.😂

Richie complimented Jeff Beck many times over the years. He has said many times that Jeff Beck is his favorite guitar player. Mr. Blackmore is the one who said: “Jeff has notes on his fretboard that the rest of us don’t have”. The only negative thing he has ever said concerning JB, and JB would agree, is that Jeff is not a good song writer.

SRV’s most famous work are covers of other people’s work. Voodoo Child, Little Wing, Texas Flood are all somebody else’s stuff. And not better than the originals.

SRV was extremely repetitive. And most of his licks (by his own admission) were lifted from Albert Collins and Albert King. For my money, no one beats Johnny Winter in his prime.

​@@leogoliveum pride and joy?

@@leogolivehis versions of those songs are iconic and masterful. not even to mention his original songs are masterpieces. texas flood, lenny, riviera paradise, pride and joy, and literally so many more. you couldn’t be more wrong, it’s ok to not prefer him but to say he’s not done anything special is outlandish

Difference in opinion if you grew up and blackmore was your hero in early 70s when i saw deep purple on tv when they head line California Jam the show he put on blackmore I was hooked that's when started listening to hard rock then saw rainbow with Dio July of 76 to me rainbow rising album just out in small joint in Asbury Park NJ matter of fact thin Lizzy was supposed to open phil lynott had hepatitis so any way Henry gross Opened show saw ritchie out back of hall hidden i saw him and he was cool me and two friends he let me tack photo i was 16 so he was my first guitar hero no doubt Eddie is great war out mean street album if you look it up ritchie was way ahead in his day he set the standard ask Steve Luther k Robert fripp Brian may