Player No. 043hard-rock
Ritchie Blackmore
Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist whose 1968 maple-neck Stratocaster through a 200W Marshall Major head wrote the rule book for British hard rock. Blackmore's classical-meets-blues lead phrasing on Highway Star, Lazy and Smoke on the Water turned the Strat-into-Marshall combo into a metal-adjacent platform years before metal had a name.
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