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Originally Posted by Jnevill
Versatile? Noone was more versatile than Tony Iommi, his "shade and light" technique was hands above everyone else, creating a genre with Masters of Reality and still managing to squeeze in beautiful guitar passages on every one of the Ozzy albums.
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I could give him leeway given that he was at a time when metal was less developed at the time of most of Ozzy era Sabbath (the only Sabbath I enjoy tbh, although Mob Rules is decent), but that's faded and he seems more like a one trick pony than he may have at one time. However, with Page, even after rock has been evolving for so long, his ability to be more dynamic and throw in different ideas (or rip off, depending on who you ask) and styles into Zeppelin's music still holds pretty strong. That's why I put it that way.
I do think that Iommi did do more in the way of genre creation because he was in Sabbath, of course. But as far as range goes he doesn't even touch Page.
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