[death2tyrants]

Most guitarists will agree that TI wasn’t all that good of a player.

Like who? I've never heard anyone make such claims. All I've heard has been praise for Iommi.

Actually I once saw Van Halen...

Van Halen is pop-rock. Toni Iommi is heavy metal. You're comparing apples to oranges.

Iommi is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential guitarists in rock music: according to Allmusic, "Iommi is one of only two guitarists (the other being Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page) that can take full credit for pioneering the mammoth riffs of heavy metal."[1] In 2003, Iommi was ranked 86th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"[2] and, in 2004, number one on Guitar World's "100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time".[3]

[jfkcv67bt]

Iommi is OK but as usual, no one realizes Ritchie Blackmore gets stiffed and he is one of the pioneers of hard rock-Malmsteen basically admitted in the ‘80s that he copied him, scalloped fretboard and all. He never gets credit for basically inventing classicaly based rock.