Best Classic Heavy Metal Band...

[Board Game Geek]

Gary Moore ?

Or was he just a one trick pony with Parisienne Walkways, which always gets an airing when GM's name is mentioned ?

[BOBJ]

Or was he just a one trick pony with Parisienne Walkways

But how can that be considered heavy metal? I don't deny he can play a guitar, has long hair and dresses a bit rock but...

[Alf W]

Gary Moore - Donington '84(?). Best beer / piss bottle fight I ever encountered. I imagine it was a modern day Agincourt. The skies darkened.

Nigel Tufnel anyone?

[Dundeegeorge]

Richie Blackmore? Mwahahaha

Is there a more over-rated, unoriginal, tedious dull uninspiring guitar player in the world?

Err, yes, Slash.

But for real guitar, you wanna be listening to that Rory Gallacher, mate. Blissful.
I thought Deke Leonard was gonna turn into a real rock-guitarist but he never seemed to hit his potential, sadly.
Rory Gallacher! Deke Leonard! You sad old git.

[VectraMan]

Deep Purple - just been listening to some again, Ritchie Blackmore was awesome, imo no one has come close to this guy.

Though I think he was at his very best in the early Rainbow days. So there, I'll go for Rainbow - fractionally better than Deep Purple.

He looks a bit like me as well.

[expat]

I agree. He's loads better than the other guitar greats simply because he is more musical and could bring a unique sound to his playing without building some sort of unique guitar (like May). Although the others are just as technically competent (or even faster, if that means the same thing)

Only faster players were Alvin Lee and Johnny Winter, neither "heavy metal". There was more to early Deep Purple than Metal, but Blackmore did that well: his trademark IMHO was never letting go of a solo once he had sunk his teeth into it, his solos always seemed to end with just a couple of dozen more notes than you might expect.

Saw Deep Purple at Monsters of Rock last year: strange that not one of them was on the first 2 Deep Purple albums I bought..

[VectraMan]

Saw Deep Purple at Monsters of Rock last year: strange that not one of them was on the first 2 Deep Purple albums I bought..

IIRC Ian Paice (drummer) is still in the band. He'd be the only one left from the original line up, as Jon Lord (keyboards) left a couple of years back and Ritchie long since went off in a sulk to write songs about pixies.

The original Deep Purple was almost like a pop band with a singer than can only be described as a "crooner". All a bit wierd and 60s ish (some of it's quite good though). Fortunately they changed.

At the risk of starting of a whole thing about the definitions of different genres, I've always felt "heavy metal" is what came from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, and spawned the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica, GnR and all those other lesser copycats, whereas both Led Zep and Deep Purple were unique and didn't belong to that at all.

Anyone remember Vim Fuego?

[pisces]

Led Zep themselves always hated being labelled heavy metal. They incorprated too many styles and influences into their music to be tied into a unique genre like that.

[foritisme]

Though I think he was at his very best in the early Rainbow days. So there, I'll go for Rainbow - fractionally better than Deep Purple.

He looks a bit like me as well.

Favourite Blackmore solo, Night in the Black - Rainbow Rising

(followed by Lazy - Deep Purple)


(I am stuck on here this time of night 'cos the family insist on watching F**king Joseph)

[wobbegong]

"Early Classics"
1. Led Zep
2. Uriah Heep
3. Black Sabbath

"Later Classics"
1. UFO
2. Rainbow
3. Scorpions

. . . erm, IMHO.