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…And it’s not Ritchie Blackmore
Louder Sound previews interview with Glenn Hughes slated to appear in issue #344 of the Classic Rock magazine.
In the interview, Hughes is asked to say who is the greatest guitarist he’s ever worked with – and his answer is surprising.
“Oh god, that’s really difficult,” he tells Classic Rock. “I don’t want people to be upset with me because I don’t mention Ritchie or Tommy or Mel or Pat, but I have to say it’s a tie between Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa.
“I’m talking about the fever it has given me working with them. Gary coming to my house at three in the morning and just blowing my mind – it’s incredible what a guitar player he was.
“And Joe Bonamassa is blowing my mind every night. Bonamassa is the greatest right now.”
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The timing of this article is impeccable, it really is. We want Moore, we want Moore. We all wait for a response with bated breath, from your royal highness. Cheers.
August 17th, 2025 at 00:15He‘s been naming Gary Moore for a long time in answer to questions like this.
That both original G-Force and his later stint with Gary (Run For Clver) led to him being fired by same before things really got ever off the ground doesn’t really seem to be bothering Glenn too much. He knows that he was unreliable in his coke daze back then and generally doesn‘t dwell on the past. The ‘ere and now, you know.
Questions like that are in any case inane, because Blackmore, Iommi, Thrall, Galley, Bolin, Moore and Bonamassa have vastly different strengths (and weaknesses) and each of them excels at something the others cannot nearly do as well.
August 17th, 2025 at 03:51😄😄
He can choose whatever guitarist he likes!
Personal preference is, well personal..
I would prefer RB at all times. When I think how he played when he was in Purple, I don’t think a lot of guitarists could do the same.
Looking past his attitude, there wasn’t many like him.
If I could have one wish it would be this:
The Purple-people would be in their 50s, they would all get along, they would give concerts in Denmark (Randers actually) a couple of times a year – ohh wait a minute, I need to get all the flying pigs out of my house, well where was I?
But I really am happy they chose to make this wonderful music 🎵
In a world where confusing things happen on a daily basis, it is comforting that the music still is here.
When the leaders of the world act like badly behaved children, it is so warming to seek refuge in a beautiful voice and very well played tunes 💜
Oh sorry this was a post about Glenn H, well, he was mentioned in the beginning, wasn’t he? ☺️
August 17th, 2025 at 05:52GH can talk lots of nonsenses something but no one can deny that Joe Bonamassa is the best guitarist at the moment so he is spot on.
August 17th, 2025 at 08:22Peace ✌️
tout cela n’a aucun interet!
August 17th, 2025 at 12:22What’s a bullshit.
August 17th, 2025 at 13:27Much as I never got the excitement about Gary, let’s give credit where credit‘s due: DP bassists seem to be in agreement about him:
https://blabbermouth.net/news/deep-purples-roger-glover-picks-gary-moore-as-his-rock-god-he-was-just-an-absolute-force-of-nature
And Jack Bruce agrees so there must be something wrong with me:
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jack-bruce-on-the-brilliance-of-gary-moore
I‘d prefer Clapton‘s elegant and sometimes introvert melodicism to Moore‘s continuously tense passion anytime. Gary was like a dinner guest who wants to take the lead for the whole evening, Eric is more the type who listens attentively to the other guests and interjects something deep and meaningful now and then.
JoBo is a lot more Eric than Gary to me. And I was pleasantly surprised to hear some Tommy Bolin mannerisms in his playing during his more lengthy improvisations with BCC when I saw them in Cologne recently. As his – ultimately successful – decade-long quest for Tommy‘s Gibson Les Paul with the Bigsby vibrato shows, he seems to take some interest in the man.
August 17th, 2025 at 15:09What I mean is …
This is contrived, musically and songwriting-wise as well as vocally, let’s not even talk about the hilariously overwrought guitar solo as sensitive as a Churchill Mk IV tank ploughing through a wild flower field:
https://youtu.be/c0gg4zY0oZ0
And this is effortlessly beautiful, organic and inherently musical:
https://youtu.be/qako94KrCV0
Unless you are 15 and sold your Star Wars figurines only recently, it is beyond me how you can rate Gary Moore a more accomplished and consummate musician than Tommy Bolin. He might have been technically the better, or let’s just say “more determined” guitarist though, but technically excellent guitarists are a dime a dozen.
August 17th, 2025 at 17:13