Reading the comments, I thought I would point out this is about Iommis' FAVORITE guitarists not influences. Two entirely different subjects. Just because EVH came much later doesn't mean Tony can't rank him as a favorite guitarist.
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.
EXACTLY - - the great gypsy guitarist - DJANGO REINHARDT was said by TONY IOMMI to be his really first ever inspiration on the guitar - due to the fact that DJANGO REINHARDT and Tony both shared a hand injury - !
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 . 😁
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.
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.
This is bullshit....the most important influence in Iommi's career is Django Reinhardt as he has repeated numerous time throughout his career. When Iommi lost the tip of his right hand index in a manufacture accident, it was Reinhardt music that convinced him that he could still be a guitar player.
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.
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
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
@@DV8-q6n Ehhh that is your opinion. When you break down what a guitar is, it is an easy choice. All a guitar is , is a tool for making sounds. No one made more sounds with their guitar in such a short time than Hendrix. Now you might not like those sounds. But when you look at 95% of any guitarist of all time list. There is a reason why Hendrix sits at the top. Just listen to the ones that knew and played with Hendrix. Townsend said you had to witness Hendrix. You can listen to recordings and see videos and that is great. But if you did not witness and see Hendrix live. Then i am sorry. Clapton has said that he wouldn't want to be Hendrix. Because Hendrix was far and away the best. Said he had to be a very lonely person. Because he had no one to turn to for ideas or to talk to about guitar. Those are some strong words by 2 of the best.
@@suzie9874 I don't deny that Hendrix was a great player but he was just another step in the chain. He was influenced by and copied a lot of players that were just as good as he was, like Buddy Guy and Albert King, to just name two. Had those people not done what they did, Hendrix would have never materialized. Again, Hendrix was great, but to say he or anyone else is the best that ever played is going too far. Anyone that plays the guitar owes what they are to someone else. Had Hendrix not died, he would have likely faded into obscurity. We wouldn't even be talking about him.
@@DV8-q6n Again that is your opinion. I take the opinion of the ones that knew and were around him. When his peers say he was the best. Their opinion means more than peoples opinion in a comment on youtube.
@@suzie9874 Hendrix is what he is today because he died. There were so many talented guitarists during that era that you have never heard of. Hendrix really wasn't doing anything that brand new. Yes, he took things up a notch, but he wasn't the first one playing through a loud Marshall or using a distortion, fuzz or wah pedal. I'm not saying Hendrix wasn't a great player. I'm just saying his passing made him a legend. Had he not died, he would have almost certainly faded into obscurity. Btw, I was alive in the sixties.
So many phenomenal guitar players (in many genre's). In no particular order for me: Tommy Emmanuel, Guthrie Govan, Steve Howe, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Alex Lifeson, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Andy Summers, Robin Trower, Allan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, Steve Stevens, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Nile Rodgers & Tony Iommi . . . (however) There is No Best / There is No Greatest = it's who moves and inspires you.
@@ronaldmorgan7632 Howe was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in Guitar Player magazine five years in a row (1977-1981) and in 1981 was the first rock guitar player inducted into the Guitar Player Hall of Fame.
If this was from the man himself, I’d believe it. As it is, I think it’s rubbish! I know that both Hank Marvin and Joe Pass were very influential to him.
I'm very happy and proud to say.I'm a left-handed guitar player.Just like Tony iommi and Jimi Hendrix.And yes I do have a broken finger on my right hand that I could barely use
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.
Well, supposedly this video was based on an interview Tony did in 2020, so if Django, Hank Marvin, and Joe Pass weren't mentioned in the interview I wouldn't expect them to be in this video. I doubt he said anything that would suggest his journey to stardom was inspired by Eddie Van Halen , since he already had a decade of successful albums before the first Van Halen album. Tony may well have complimented Eddie in 2020. I haven't read the interview, so this video may be completely off-base. Some direct quotes would have made a difference, but I'm giving it a thumbs down.
I honestly think Hendrix is the most OVERRATED GUITAR PLAYER IN HISTORY!! Has 6 okay songs. The rest is just crappy noise. Ozzy was known for ditching those guitar players that brought that stuff for rehearsal. Thank God he sent them home. 🙏
@@davesaenz3732 Your right Beavis ! Hendrix is overrated with like only six okay songs and only one song about Fire.......yeah......yeah.....and stuff..........
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.
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.
Gallup , Moore , Janes are probably the real heavyweights of pure rock guitar players , without these 3 there would probably be no guitar groups from the 60s onwards albeit watered down versions !
God I wish you people would get led Zeppelin's dick out of your mouth man you can't make a statement about any guitars without bringing Jimmy Page's sloppy no good ass into the equation he is nowhere near the level Tony iommi or these other guitarists
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.
I can see some of VH and Randy Rhoads influence on Tony in late 80's early 90's. Take "Disturbing the Priest" and "The shining". His guitar solos got better after 1980. Less bluesy and better structured. In 1987 Eternal Idol and after his guitar solos were a lot better.
@@reynoldsparrow834 no your right, no one was like Hendrix and they'd ALL tell you that. It wasn't about comparing Townsend to Hendrix, it was about acknowledging ANOTHER genius that's been around since the 60's and had a very powerful impact on music and is still. The Who was a very successful band with many hits and Townsend pretty much wrote it all. He's not a technical genius on guitar but he's very powerful an unique and a great song writer and singer I believe has more than earned his place on the mountain of greats.
I seem to remember he really liked jazz and heavy blues guitar.. if he was ever enamored with Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry, I'd have to say he was a little kid at the time. This video appears pat & contrived.🫨
@@dannyzuehlsdorf3697 if Lucifer is meant as a reference to the devil Lucifer and the devil are 2 seperate entities. Lucifer often gets associated with the devil however they are not the same
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.
@@jimDaifotis-m2x my point was Iommi was a Shredder Way b4 most of the above mentioned were you just need to listen to the right albums to see that, not trying to downplay others but Who else does Double Trills for example... just one of the things that separates him from the pack
Wise very wise..so I went to.the Louvre and saw Mona Lisa...it's crap...beauty in eyes and ears of beholder..for me a boomer of 72 it is always Peter Green
@@penelopeoates511 LOL! You must have never saw Michael Schenker, Tony Iommi, Pete Townsend, Jimmy Page Eddie Van Halen, John McGlaughlin Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Ritchie Blackmore live. I did in their prime, and you can have your opinion but it is dead wrong, sorry for you if you were not there when legends showed how it is done.
@@chriscoughlin9289 Van Halen opened for Black Sabboth in 1978 on Black Sabboths 10th anniversary tour. I saw the show at Madison Square Garden in NYC . Interesting fact :: Van Halen was the only opening act that I have seen that did an encore, they played the whole 1st album and DLR said they didn't have any other songs so they did Mississippi Queen as the encore
What, Iommi was at his peak in the 1950s when Eddie Van Halen was a toddler? Please enlighten us as to what a peak 9 year old Iommi's catalogue was in the 50s rock n roll era when little Eddie was toddling around seeing as he's only 7 years older than Van Halen. It hasn't come to light after all these years
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.
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?
Jimmy Page sucks man he might be good in the studio but the man cannot pick up a guitar and just free-hand it you people need to get this through your skulls Man Jimmy Page is the most overly rated guitars in the history of rock and roll man as a matter of fact the whole f****** band is
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.....
@roboi2241 What would be the point in trying? Who’s stupid enough to want to build a career on the claim of being ‘The Next Charlie Parker’ or ‘The Next Art Tatum’? You - or your management team - would have to be brain dead.
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
Yep - Steve's tapping is on display throughout his fretwork on Genesis Live - as it was during the performance that I caught of the 1975 tour of 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'
@@chriscoughlin9289 Van Halen sounds nothing like Steve Hackett, regardless of whether Hackett tapped or not. In fact a lot of people tapped before both Van Halen and Hackett. But Van Halen's style was widely copied.
@@zemlidrakona2915 And Iommi sounds nothing like Greeny - another player that Iommi - and virtually everybody else on the British Blues revival scene - cites as a profound influence. Just ask the guys in Priest - who have covered 'Green Manalishi' for decades. What's your point?
@@zemlidrakona2915 If there are 'a lot' then it should be no problem to cite them and their popularity. Popularity on a scale of, say, Genesis circa 1974-75 - whose 'Lamb' tour sold out in minutes. Quit with the idiocy - I never contended that the guy INVENTED the technique - as countless critics assert without a backward glance when talking about Eddie and his legacy.
As of recently saw Brian May talk about going to a gig Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath in Munich (?). Tony and Brian seem to get along pretty well 👍
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
Reading the comments, I thought I would point out this is about Iommis' FAVORITE guitarists not influences. Two entirely different subjects. Just because EVH came much later doesn't mean Tony can't rank him as a favorite guitarist.
I always remember Iommi voting for Alvin Lee (1st) and Blackmore (2nd) in an early 70's musicians poll (Melody Maker I think)
I know him, been knowing him since 1968 and have drank and got high with him. I know exactly who influenced him the most. I'm 78 and was there.
Tony Iommi's first and favorite guitarist was Hank Marvin of the shadows
Correct!
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.
EXACTLY - - the great gypsy guitarist - DJANGO REINHARDT was said by TONY IOMMI to be his really first ever inspiration on the guitar - due to the fact that DJANGO REINHARDT and Tony both shared a hand injury - !
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 . 😁
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.
Love Tony's guitar in the Gypsy
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.
THANKS TONY I.....you showed the way
No one, and I mean NO ONE, sounds like Tony. What a great guitarists.
This is bullshit....the most important influence in Iommi's career is Django Reinhardt as he has repeated numerous time throughout his career. When Iommi lost the tip of his right hand index in a manufacture accident, it was Reinhardt music that convinced him that he could still be a guitar player.
He lost the tips of his right middle and ring fingers, not the index.
@@AlbertoJorgeSoares he probably said digits lol
@@shipsahoy1793 lol
And certainly not Van Halen who was a generation behind Iommi.
Yes in a way. But not in sense that you can hear it from his music.
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.
You are Spot On, Tony Iommi is Black Sabbath. If you have not, try some Tony Martin Black Sabbath, do Headless Cross and be surprised.
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
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
Tony was well established before EVH ffs
Jimi opened the door for the rest of them. No more discussion needed here.
Jimi was a great player, but the end all be all of guitarists he was not. Had Hendrix not died, we wouldn't even be talking about him.
@@DV8-q6n Ehhh that is your opinion. When you break down what a guitar is, it is an easy choice. All a guitar is , is a tool for making sounds. No one made more sounds with their guitar in such a short time than Hendrix. Now you might not like those sounds. But when you look at 95% of any guitarist of all time list. There is a reason why Hendrix sits at the top. Just listen to the ones that knew and played with Hendrix. Townsend said you had to witness Hendrix. You can listen to recordings and see videos and that is great. But if you did not witness and see Hendrix live. Then i am sorry. Clapton has said that he wouldn't want to be Hendrix. Because Hendrix was far and away the best. Said he had to be a very lonely person. Because he had no one to turn to for ideas or to talk to about guitar. Those are some strong words by 2 of the best.
@@suzie9874
I don't deny that Hendrix was a great player but he was just another step in the chain. He was influenced by and copied a lot of players that were just as good as he was, like Buddy Guy and Albert King, to just name two. Had those people not done what they did, Hendrix would have never materialized. Again, Hendrix was great, but to say he or anyone else is the best that ever played is going too far. Anyone that plays the guitar owes what they are to someone else. Had Hendrix not died, he would have likely faded into obscurity. We wouldn't even be talking about him.
@@DV8-q6n Again that is your opinion. I take the opinion of the ones that knew and were around him. When his peers say he was the best. Their opinion means more than peoples opinion in a comment on youtube.
@@suzie9874
Hendrix is what he is today because he died. There were so many talented guitarists during that era that you have never heard of. Hendrix really wasn't doing anything that brand new. Yes, he took things up a notch, but he wasn't the first one playing through a loud Marshall or using a distortion, fuzz or wah pedal. I'm not saying Hendrix wasn't a great player. I'm just saying his passing made him a legend. Had he not died, he would have almost certainly faded into obscurity. Btw, I was alive in the sixties.
Wes Montgomery -- Tony's jazz live solo's!
So many phenomenal guitar players (in many genre's). In no particular order for me: Tommy Emmanuel, Guthrie Govan, Steve Howe, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Alex Lifeson, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Andy Summers, Robin Trower, Allan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, Steve Stevens, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Nile Rodgers & Tony Iommi . . . (however) There is No Best / There is No Greatest = it's who moves and inspires you.
A bunch of my all time faves in that group. And a whole bunch more.
Please throw in Glen Campbell Roy Clark and Jerry Reed
Shout out to Steve Howe.
Peter Greene
@@ronaldmorgan7632 Howe was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in Guitar Player magazine five years in a row (1977-1981) and in 1981 was the first rock guitar player inducted into the Guitar Player Hall of Fame.
I was lucky enough to see Van Halen on their first British gigs supporting Sabbath. What a gig two rows from the front.
Me too. I remember it well. Those were the days.
@@bobfrankish8883 they sure were, the bands they now call classic rock. Great times but it has left my hearing impaired but it was worth it.😀😀😀👍👍
@@Southbound63 Yes, same here. There's a down side to everything I'm afraid.
Fantastic guitar player he created a unique and influenci 2:06 al sound
Sepultura farewell concert, Palladium, New York City
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If this was from the man himself, I’d believe it. As it is, I think it’s rubbish! I know that both Hank Marvin and Joe Pass were very influential to him.
Tony has mentioned joe pass many times in interviews.
I'm very happy and proud to say.I'm a left-handed guitar player.Just like Tony iommi and Jimi Hendrix.And yes I do have a broken finger on my right hand that I could barely use
No 2 guitar players gave me as much pleasure, though Page and Gilmour are in the conversation...
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.
Had a Strat as a kid. Lucky young man
Well, supposedly this video was based on an interview Tony did in 2020, so if Django, Hank Marvin, and Joe Pass weren't mentioned in the interview I wouldn't expect them to be in this video. I doubt he said anything that would suggest his journey to stardom was inspired by Eddie Van Halen , since he already had a decade of successful albums before the first Van Halen album. Tony may well have complimented Eddie in 2020. I haven't read the interview, so this video may be completely off-base. Some direct quotes would have made a difference, but I'm giving it a thumbs down.
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......
I honestly think Hendrix is the most OVERRATED GUITAR PLAYER IN HISTORY!! Has 6 okay songs. The rest is just crappy noise. Ozzy was known for ditching those guitar players that brought that stuff for rehearsal. Thank God he sent them home. 🙏
@@davesaenz3732 Your right Beavis ! Hendrix is overrated with like only six okay songs and only one song about Fire.......yeah......yeah.....and stuff..........
You have missed out the greatest of them all.RORY GALLAGHER!
Also Michael Schenker. 🎸
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.
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.
Chuck Berry
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Beck .
Where is Jimmy Page😊😊😊.
Come on man Jimmy Page is nowhere in the mix because he was a shity guitarist man
Gallup , Moore , Janes are probably the real heavyweights of pure rock guitar players , without these 3 there would probably be no guitar groups from the 60s onwards albeit watered down versions !
Really would have been more compelling coming from Tony himself instead of this dumb AI voice.
Eddie Vann Halen is one of the great guitarist but no amd influence on Tony Iommi
GATTON, BREAU, DJANGO, WEST, SCOTTY ANDERSON.
Correction Wes M
Jimmy page solo on no quarter live will never be beaten
Agree..it's fecking beautiful and sublime
Also, almost all of 'Zep I' had to have been a big influence on the Sab sound.
I've said that for years THE BEST.
God I wish you people would get led Zeppelin's dick out of your mouth man you can't make a statement about any guitars without bringing Jimmy Page's sloppy no good ass into the equation he is nowhere near the level Tony iommi or these other guitarists
Heart like a Wheel.....
say no more say no more.... even Eric Idle agrees
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.
I can see some of VH and Randy Rhoads influence on Tony in late 80's early 90's. Take "Disturbing the Priest" and "The shining". His guitar solos got better after 1980. Less bluesy and better structured. In 1987 Eternal Idol and after his guitar solos were a lot better.
As long as Hendrixis on the list I’m in!
Mick Box. Doing similar, but miles apart.
Pete Townsend influenced them all, especially Jimi Hendrix.
Pete never gets the credit he's more than earned he's very powerful and a song writing genius! Love Pete
I like Pete Townsend but he is nowhere close to what Jimi Hendrix was and he would probably tell you that
@@reynoldsparrow834 no your right, no one was like Hendrix and they'd ALL tell you that. It wasn't about comparing Townsend to Hendrix, it was about acknowledging ANOTHER genius that's been around since the 60's and had a very powerful impact on music and is still. The Who was a very successful band with many hits and Townsend pretty much wrote it all. He's not a technical genius on guitar but he's very powerful an unique and a great song writer and singer I believe has more than earned his place on the mountain of greats.
I seem to remember he really liked jazz and heavy blues guitar.. if he was ever enamored with Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry, I'd have to say he was a little kid at the time. This video appears pat & contrived.🫨
Where was Django and Hank?
Hands of God, it can only be Jeff Beck………..
buddy holly? NO. Lucifer? YES
@@dannyzuehlsdorf3697 if Lucifer is meant as a reference to the devil Lucifer and the devil are 2 seperate entities. Lucifer often gets associated with the devil however they are not the same
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.
Iommi hits the right notes,a very melodic player,dramatic,but not a shredder deluxe
Listen to Heart like a Wheel, from the 7th star Lp..... and thats just a blues number...
@@jimDaifotis-m2x my point was Iommi was a Shredder Way b4 most of the above mentioned were you just need to listen to the right albums to see that, not trying to downplay others but Who else does Double Trills for example... just one of the things that separates him from the pack
Whoever mad this video knew very little about Iommi . Why do this without doing research?
I know these 5 guys but don't know Tony...
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1. jimi 2. jimmy 3. srv 4.evh 5. prince
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Wise very wise..so I went to.the Louvre and saw Mona Lisa...it's crap...beauty in eyes and ears of beholder..for me a boomer of 72 it is always Peter Green
What, no Django Reinhardt! Bad form.
Rory Gallagher would blow all these guitarist off the stage wake up man
Michael Schenker. 🎸
Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 wipes the floor with them all
@@penelopeoates511 LOL! You must have never saw Michael Schenker, Tony Iommi, Pete Townsend, Jimmy Page Eddie Van Halen, John McGlaughlin Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Ritchie Blackmore live. I did in their prime, and you can have your opinion but it is dead wrong, sorry for you if you were not there when legends showed how it is done.
@@vicprovost2561 I have met some of them have you open your mind listen to rory
van halen was a toddler when iommi was in his peak.
And your point ?
WTF?
Eddie was 14,15 when Sabbath broke. Perhaps a year or two younger during Iommi's brief Tenure with Tull.
What nonsense
@@chriscoughlin9289right Eddie was likley in the beginnings of the Holdsworth meets Blackmore style of his
@@chriscoughlin9289 Van Halen opened for Black Sabboth in 1978 on Black Sabboths 10th anniversary tour. I saw the show at Madison Square Garden in NYC . Interesting fact :: Van Halen was the only opening act that I have seen that did an encore, they played the whole 1st album and DLR said they didn't have any other songs so they did Mississippi Queen as the encore
What, Iommi was at his peak in the 1950s when Eddie Van Halen was a toddler? Please enlighten us as to what a peak 9 year old Iommi's catalogue was in the 50s rock n roll era when little Eddie was toddling around seeing as he's only 7 years older than Van Halen. It hasn't come to light after all these years
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.
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?
Hendrix immersed himself in music and played uninhibited.
Bullsht !! where this is getting his info from ! !!
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Tonino Baliardo
Classic clickbait. Thumbs down!
Where's Jimmy Page?! 😡
Jimmy Page sucks man he might be good in the studio but the man cannot pick up a guitar and just free-hand it you people need to get this through your skulls Man Jimmy Page is the most overly rated guitars in the history of rock and roll man as a matter of fact the whole f****** band is
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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.....
No one can touch Django. Ever.
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What would be the point in trying?
Who’s stupid enough to want to build a career on the claim of being ‘The Next Charlie Parker’ or ‘The Next Art Tatum’?
You - or your management team - would have to be brain dead.
This channel is AI generated garbage, and so is this video. If Tony saw it he would be laughing.
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
AI-generated text. Zzzzzzz
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Van Halen copied Steve Hackett.
What? LOL!
Yep - Steve's tapping is on display throughout his fretwork on Genesis Live - as it was during the performance that I caught of the 1975 tour of 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'
@@chriscoughlin9289 Van Halen sounds nothing like Steve Hackett, regardless of whether Hackett tapped or not. In fact a lot of people tapped before both Van Halen and Hackett. But Van Halen's style was widely copied.
@@zemlidrakona2915 And Iommi sounds nothing like Greeny - another player that Iommi - and virtually everybody else on the British Blues revival scene - cites as a profound influence. Just ask the guys in Priest - who have covered 'Green Manalishi' for decades.
What's your point?
@@zemlidrakona2915 If there are 'a lot' then it should be no problem to cite them and their popularity. Popularity on a scale of, say, Genesis circa 1974-75 - whose 'Lamb' tour sold out in minutes.
Quit with the idiocy - I never contended that the guy INVENTED the technique - as countless critics assert without a backward glance when talking about Eddie and his legacy.
As of recently saw Brian May talk about going to a gig Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath in Munich (?).
Tony and Brian seem to get along pretty well 👍
Yes...and May said they had given a hard time to Sabbath...lol.
Tony and Brian are very good friends
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
LOL , stop it . Everybody knows the exact opposite is true .