Tony Iommi Names His Favourite Five Guitar Players

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buddy holly? NO. Lucifer? YES

Where was Django and Hank?

Mr. Iommi put the 'H' in heavy, and contrary to this video it was actually Blue Cheer's rendition of 'Summertime Blues' and 'Screaming Jay Hawkins "Put A Spell On You", that blew his mind. Blew mine too.

THANKS TONY I.....you showed the way

Pete Townsend influenced them all, especially Jimi Hendrix.

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Not sure if this video is about Tony's "influences" or just favorite guitar players but EVH wasn't someone Tony was even aware of until VH opened for BS on the Never Say Die tour at the very end of BS's time with Ozzy right before he was fired. I'm certain Tony was definitely impressed once he was aware who he was but Eddie was far too young to have been an influence on him to play obviously.

I don't know what is your source of information, i saw a lot of interviews with Tony Iommi about his influences, in all of them he mentioned Hank Marvin and the Shadows and of course Django Reinhardt, in one case he was asked to name the 5 best guitar players of all times and Tony mentioned Jimi Hendrix among the five and i asked myself what the heck? i can understand the influence of Eric Clapton from a logical point of view, he was more of a rocker in the sixties, i can also understand the influence of Eddie Van Halen, also David Gilmour said that Eddie Van Halen was a big influence on him, though they all play different styles and have different tone and sound, i believe that Tony Iommi mentioned Jimi Hendrix just as lip service, so people would not attack him with the question how he was not influenced by Jimi Hendrix? believe me that there are a lot of guitar players who are not influenced by Jimi Hendrix and some of them also believe that he was a boring guitar player.

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Love Tony's guitar in the Gypsy

GATTON, BREAU, DJANGO, WEST, SCOTTY ANDERSON.

Wes Montgomery -- Tony's jazz live solo's!

I always remember Iommi voting for Alvin Lee (1st) and Blackmore (2nd) in an early 70's musicians poll (Melody Maker I think)

I certainly agree with the comment that the guitarist who most influenced Tony Iommi was Django Reinhardt, the Jazz guitarist who played very fast despite not being able to use two of his fingers. Jazz is my first love, so the omission of Django Reinhardt in the video is very disappointing.

As for Van Halen being a major influence, that is quite likely. However, Van Halen's influence would have come after Iommi made his mark.

I'm a Tenor Sax player who got exposed to Heavy Metal by good friends. I came to like Ritchie Blackmore on my own, but Tony Iommi and Jeff Beck were two guitar players introduced to me by friends. I appreciated Jeff Beck for his Jazz / Rock playing. Ritchie Blackmore was much more exciting for me than Jimmy Page. Iommi's playing was fun to listen to. It was hard for me to admit that I was a Black Sabbath fan as a teenager, but I really got into their first 4 albums, and even liked what followed, including Never Say Die, which wasn't Heavy Metal, but was still a good album.

I did like the two albums with Ronnie James Dio, whom I had liked with Blackmore's Rainbow. The album with Ian Gillan surprisingly didn't appeal to me. Then life happened and I didn't pay attention to new Rock very much. But, I can say that, for me, Tony Iommi is Black.Sabbath. I can imagine others replacing the other three original members. However, no Iommi would be the end of Black Sabbath.

Lastly, until age 60, I though the first lines of Electric Funeral were "Three Specks in the sky warn you your gonna die ..." only to learn on the Internet that the first word was "reflex". That was a quite amusing piece of information.

I expected to see Django Reinhardt. Van Halen toured with Sabbath on the last studio album before Ozzy left, and Iommi was impressed with Eddie. I can hear a similarity to Clapton in Tony’s solos. Lots of blues. Holly, Berry and Hendrix were great players. I’m sure he was impressed with the Beatles too. Good list.

Rory Gallagher would blow all these guitarist off the stage wake up man

You have missed out the greatest of them all.RORY GALLAGHER!

It definitely is worth knowing these influences on Tony Iomi as a guitar player, not to mention his decision to give up playing the drums and choose the guitar for being a much simpler instrument to play and transport. I made the same decision when I was only a drummer for a year (1994) and wanted to become a front liner. I was originally going to play bass, but the guitar bug bit me. I had a lot of the same influences as Iomi had when I began learning.

All the Guitar Magazines and interviews I read in the 80's and 90's Tony had Hendrix primarily as his favorite and most influential guitarist......

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Had a Strat as a kid. Lucky young man

As long as Hendrixis on the list I’m in!

Bullsht !! where this is getting his info from ! !!

Tony was well established before EVH ffs

Whoever mad this video knew very little about Iommi . Why do this without doing research?

Tony admired Eddie's playing and they formed a friendship, but Eddie wasn't really an influence on his own playing.
Also Django Reinhardt and Hank Marvin were two of Tony's biggest influences.

Load of crap, tony iommi has said in his own words that he loved the shadows and was inspired to continue playing guitar after his unbelievably unfortunate hand injury by django, never heard this other nonsense

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Hands of God, it can only be Jeff Beck………..

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Well done. but you forgot to include two other guitarists that Tony himself mentions as big on his playing - the jazz great Joe Pass and proto metal great Leslie West.

Mick Box. Doing similar, but miles apart.

At the risk of incuring the wrath of a lot of fine people I have to express my opinion of Jimi Hendrix's style of playing the electric guitar. While he was a fine guitarist and musical genius his "stunts" of playing the guitar upside down, behind the back and esp with his teeth (!) shows (to me) a disrespect, an almost disdain for the electric guitar as an instrument of music. The fact that it comes up in this video about how it may have influenced Tony's playing was disappointing. Hendrix may have been great in some regards, but he was also a victim of his own flamboyance. Had he lived longer (a real regret) I would imagine he would have eventually left that type of stunt-playing far behind him and continued to grow his style to the limits of the instrument. Picking notes with his teeth were not done to coax the beauty out of the instrument so much as it was to shock and stimulate the audience as he attempted to reach further and further into the bizarre. This is not to say I disliked Hendrix nor discount Iommi's admiration for him but only to wonder at why he would think this was something he needed to allow as an influence to his own style. Those bits of bizarre playing techniques by Hendrix (and others) were not done for musical interpretation but for a certain showmanship on stage, the places they always occurred. I doubt they happened in the studio - why for would they?

I was hanging out with Tony many many years ago and I got him into a heavy guitar conversation. He told me he just loved the guy from The troggs. His name is Chris Britton. In fact the same producer that The troggs had went on to work for Black Sabbath and help give Sabbath their big wall of sound. I believe his name was Bain . 😁

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I had listened to many guitarists but when i heard Tony Iommi i had to pick up a guitar and play. Later Randy Rhoads and Van Halen solidified i was in the right direction. Amazing stuff! The best of Black Sabbath sounds nothing like any of these 4 duded exept Van Halen later on later albums.

Where's Jimmy Page?! 😡

Eddie Vann Halen is one of the great guitarist but no amd influence on Tony Iommi

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You're so full of f**** s*** dude Eddie Van Halen was a little boy when Tony I owe me was playing with Black Sabbath and 69 what are you talking about damn

About 40 years ago when I was a younger dude a teenager that is I was looking through a Hit parade or magazine which was a rock and roll magazine for you people who don't know back in the 80s and I distinctly remember seeing Tony iommi with a face of absolute rage and on the cover it says Tony iommi is ira because Eddie Van Halen rips off guitar licks so I know this is b*******and that's what Eddie Van Halen had a bad habit of doing is ripping off other guitarist materials

You might have most of this correct...But... as good as Van Halen was Lord Iommi was going long before little Eddie Munster ever picked up a Guitar, and saying He Influenced Iommi is Blasphemy.... if it was not for Tony, Eddie Van Halen would have been playing Lincoln Logs..... and No I am not Down playing EVH... just saying Iommi was out Way b4 him and even though the Title says favorite guitarists... these Dipshits are tryiing to make it sound like He was Influenced by Eddie..... Get your Commentary straight.....

The Van Halen stuff is bullshit because Black Sabbath was pretty much done by the time Van Halen came on the scene, I can see the others being influences and Hank Marvin but Van Halen, no. He influenced the 80's fret wankers like Malmsteen , Via and Satriani.

I know these 5 guys but don't know Tony...

What, no Django Reinhardt! Bad form.

Tony Iommi recently spoke with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. During their conversation, Tony reveals that there is a recorded version of “Evil Eye” with Eddie Van Halen

Jimi opened the door for the rest of them. No more discussion needed here.