5/3/2023 0 Comments Tony iommi on jimi hendrix![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the hit-and-hope solo of Heartbreaker, or the clunky breaks on I Can’t Quit You Baby, represented the apogee back in 1969, but when I revisit them now – post-Vai and EVH – those bum notes don’t half put my teeth on edge. On another six-string matter – and at the risk of sounding like a joyless guitar-shop bore – Iommi’s touch and technical prowess often leave Page in the dust. By 1971’s Master Of Reality – his fingertips still smarting from that run-in with the industrial slicer – he was slackening the pitch of his SG one-and-a-half steps down from standard to a bowel-emptying C#, thus inventing the drop-tune concept that flowed into modern exponents from Machine Head to Slipknot (let’s skim over Limp Bizkit). But I’d argue that Iommi made greater ripples for the guitarists that followed. ![]() Granted, Page probably took the bolder stylistic leaps, bringing in folk, funk and so forth. ![]()
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