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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