Ritchie Blackmore

To my mind Ritchie is the singularly most influential guitar player from the seventies on - tat should discount your complaints that I've forgotten Hendrix. Regrettably Blackmore's penchant for upsetting people means that journalists in particular tend to leave him off their best of lists.
But ask a guitar player of the seventies or eighties how important he is.

Blackmore was king of rock Guitar but then literally threw it all away.



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