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The 3 founding fathers of Metal !
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:45 pm
by Stiltzkin
For me, it's a tie between Iommi and Blackmore.
Well, to be honest, I'll cast my vote on Ritchie,
mainly because he's a better leadplayer than Iommi(Highway Star anyone?
)
but if it were about riffs, nobody can touch Iommi
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:11 pm
by randyrhoadsfan1
I have to go with Iommi because they were the first to ever play dark metalish music as Page played rock and blues,and Blackmore was more like Page with the rock/blues style.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:35 pm
by Stiltzkin
randyrhoadsfan1 wrote:Blackmore was more like Page with the rock/blues style.
Yeah, not to mention he practically invented neoclassical shredding
by himself
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:49 pm
by SixPounder
Iommi hands down
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:00 pm
by Tommy
Yeah, Iommi for sure
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:13 pm
by Stiltzkin
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:57 pm
by RhoadsOliva
Blackmore wasn't Metal though.. Neither was Page... But id go with Iommi.
Cause every riff and solo he busted out I loved no matter how simple!
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:44 am
by deansolo
Founding Father of Metal...Which do I prefer?
IMO the only FF of metal listed is Tony Iommi.
....So I guess I have to go with Iommi....Yeah, Iommi.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:11 pm
by Trigger
I love Iommi's riffs I only wish we had had a chance to hear Randy play more Sabbath tracks.
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:30 am
by Ell
Definately Iommi, I don't think of either of the other two as metal though.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:03 am
by Paul Wolfe
RhoadsOliva wrote:Blackmore wasn't Metal though.. Neither was Page... But id go with Iommi.
Cause every riff and solo he busted out I loved no matter how simple!
Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin paved the way for metal as wee know it. Even Sabbath was basically a loud blues band when they started. The first
real metal band in the modern sense ot the term was probably Judas Priest (who started in '73), Black Sabbath gave then the blueprint and they perfected it and showed the others how to get 'er done!
I picked Iommi out of these three, because I really like his soloing, he was different in that he was a lot more jazzy than the others. I love Blackmore and Page as songwriters, but not so much as soloists.
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:41 pm
by Count Jonah
Jimi Hendrix should have been in this poll, but either way, I still vote for Tony. Black Sabbath were nothing but metal, BTW. Song after song, track after track...even the lighter stuff had a dark, or epic feel to it. So Black Sabbath were the first true metal band.
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:55 pm
by Stiltzkin
Trigger wrote:I only wish we had had a chance to hear Randy play more Sabbath tracks.
somethings tells me that they wouldn't have done that
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:06 pm
by Count Jonah
Not when there were sooo many DOAM songs yet to have been played live.
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:53 pm
by Supernaut
Gotta be Tony! just got got to be!
