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- From: hannon@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Scott Hannon; PHYS (GRAD))
- Subject: Re: Tony Iommi vs. Randy Rhoads
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.151347.4244@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:13:47 GMT
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- In article <1h7us6INNi3n@male.EBay.Sun.COM> warriors@eb5ts4.EBay.Sun.COM
- (Dave Maycon) writes:
- >I think Tony Iommi's guitar work in Black Sabbath's Heaven
- >and Hell is better than Randy Rhoads guitar work in Diary of a Maddman.
-
- I'd agree with Dave...Sab's Heaven and Hell has perhaps Tonys best guitar
- work on a lot of good songs, while Ozzy's Diary of a Madman has so many
- weak/dull songs [only 2-3 good ones] its easy to overlook Randys playing.
- Weak songs with excellent guitar playing are still weak music.
-
- As a soloist, I'd rank Randy above Tony. Tony tends to ramble aimlessly
- with many of his solos. On songs like Neon Knights, his solos have some
- structure and are quite memorable, but quite often his solos are very
- forgetable. Guitar solos are NOT Tonys strong point.
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- Randys playing on songs like Mr Crowley, Suicide Solition, and Flying High
- Again is fantastic. But Randy lacked Tonys ability to play a simple riff
- and add color using subtle variations in intensity and tone [check out
- Tonys playing on Zero the Hero...an extremely simple riff that builds and
- sounds amazing without much "flash" guitar playing]. Randys method was
- much more from the "flash" guitarist school: variations based on speedy fills
- and gimmicks [finger tapping, harmonics, etc]. A little bit of flash is
- great, but if used consistently gets boring pretty quick.
-
- And Gary Moore is a better than both of them combined [so there, Leonid!] :^)
-
- Scott.
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- Scott Hannon, Wed Dec 23 1992 (hannon@umbc4.umbc.edu)
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