Ritchie Blackmore Biography

Ritchie Blackmore was known as the deep purple and rainbow guitarist, but now ritchie was on the band with her wife Candice Night on Blackmore's Night a Renaissance-themed folk rock band. Ritchie blackmore was one of the greatest fender stratocaster user in the world.

Ritchie Blackmore uses Fendre Stratocaster as his primary guitar, he is also the first rock guitarist who use a scalloped neck fender stratocaster which is also used by Yngwie Malmsteen. Personally I Love Ritchie Blackmores Improvised Solo when he do a live performance.

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Birth name : Richard Hugh Blackmore
Born : 14 April 1945 (age 65)
Weston-super-Mare, England
Genres : Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, progressive rock, medieval folk rock
Occupations : Musician, songwriter
Instruments : Guitar, mandolin, mandola
Associated acts : The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore’s Night

Ritchie Blackmore’s Soloing Style, In his soloing, Blackmore combines blues scales and phrasing with dominant minor scales and ideas from European classical music. While playing he would often put the pick in his mouth to play with his fingers.

He has two guitar solos ranked on Guitar World magazine’s “Top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos” (“Highway Star” at #19 and “Lazy” at #74, both from the album Machine Head).

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Jimmy Page biography

Jimmy page was one of the biggest name in Rock Guitar History, he was known as the lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin. Jimmy page was famous with his Gibson guitar series such as Les paul gibson, SG series Gibson and Double Neck SG Guitar from Gibson. Well you know there's so many awards and achievements of Jimmy Page, he listed as one of the best guitarist in this decade. Ranked #2 in Gibson’s list of “Top 50 Guitarists of All Time” and, in 2007, #4 on Classic Rock Magazine’s “100 Wildest Guitar Heroes”. Page was ranked ninth in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” in 2003.

Birth name James Patrick Page
Born 9 January 1944 (1944-01-09) (age 67)
Heston, Middlesex, England
Genres Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, rock and roll, folk rock
Occupations Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments Guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, theremin, bass, banjo, harmonica, dobro, sitar, keyboards, tambourine, tamboura, hurdy gurdy, pedal steel guitar
Years active 1962–present
Labels Swan Song, Atlantic, Geffen, Fontana, Mercury
Associated acts The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Honeydrippers, The Firm, Coverdale and Page, Page and Plant, Herman’s Hermits, XYZ, Joe Cocker, The Edge, Jack White, Donovan

From the report it was known that Jimmy Page has more than 2000 guitar collection. How about Jimmy page gear and equipment? Well you can find more further information about Jimmy Page Guitar and Amps from his own Website.

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Richie Kotzen Biography

Richie Kotzen was known as a Rock Guitarist, He was famous as Poison Guitarist and replace paul gilbert as the Guitarist of MR.BIG. Richie mainly use fender telecaster and stratocaster on his performance. I'm sure that richie kotzen fans would familiar with richie warm guitar tone. He was a fast guitar player who are good on Arpeggio and Sweeping technique. You can hear his fast arpeggio and sweeping while he playing burn from Deep Purple together with MR.BIG.

Kotzen has a unique style, which he has described as a mix of rock, blues, jazz, fusion, and soul music. Of his albums, he claims he is most proud of Vertú. Kotzen utilizes a heavy amount of legato and sweeping in his playing

Kotzen prefers not to use many pedals (effects in general) when playing live. However, when not playing with the Cornford, he's been using over the years several versions of Sobbat Drivebraker and Glowvibe pedals on top of marshall amps. He also uses reverb and delay effects of his signature series Zoom G2R effects processor, which is connected in the effects loop of the amplifier.

Born February 3, 1970 (age 41)
Reading, Pennsylvania
United States
Genres Hard rock, Jazz fusion, Soul, Blues
Occupations Musician, Songwriter
Instruments Guitar, piano, bass, drums
Years active 1988–present
Labels DGC Records
Associated acts

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Randy Rhoads Biography

Randy Rhoads a legendary guitarist for ozzy osbourne. unfortunately he only has a short career due to the accident that cost his life. Randy Rhoads has a neo classical influence on his guitar playing. his polkadot flying V Signature was famous until today. He use many gibson guitar series on his performance.

Rhoads used a relatively small setup, with few guitars and a small set of effects and amplifiers. He preferred .010-.011 strings

You can hear randy rhoads legendary solo guitar on Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train song. Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley placed 9th and 28th respectively on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos readers poll. beside that Randy Rhoads was also listed as one of the 50 fastest guitarist in the world. you can see more awards and recognition of Randy Rhoads on Wikipedia.

Birth name Randall William Rhoads
Born December 6, 1956(1956-12-06)
Santa Monica, California, USA
Died March 19, 1982(1982-03-19) (aged 25)
Leesburg, Florida, USA
Genres Heavy metal, hard rock, neo-classical metal
Occupations Musician, songwriter, producer, music teacher
Instruments Guitar, keyboards
Years active 1972–1982
Labels Epic, Sony
Associated acts Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot

Many famous guitarist in the world made Rhandy Rhoads as their musical influence, let’s say Michael Romeo, Tom Morello, Michael Angelo Batio, Zakk Wylde, George Lynch, Alexi Laiho, Mick Thomson, Paul Gilbert, and Buckethead.

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