Back street Crawler Paul Kossoff especially the jam on 2nd disc
Eric - 2 years ago
So many left out. I would of picked Frank Marino & Mahagony Rush Live or Derringer Live
Mike - 2 years ago
Jeff Beck my pick. But so were all the rest! Stupid Question. Like Zappa Eddie Brian Eric Mick Ronson and every other master on your list? And the ones your didn't mention? You left out DEEP PURPLE? HUH?MY REAL PICK WAS ALL!
JJ - 2 years ago
Highway to hell by dc, without doubt the most polished rock guitar album of the 70s, by the time this album came out both young brothers had found their groove and mastered it, metronmic malcolm chugging away on rhythm with the power of a herd of bison, and Angus feverishly doing Angus things.
Saddly it's bons last album but what an absolute cracker it is.
Philip Pogue - 2 years ago
You also left out Foghat, Bad Company, Wishbone Ash, Edgar winter, Johnny Winter, DeepPurple MadeInJapan&Machine head all had rocking albums,also Jethro Tull-Agulung.
Philip Pogue - 2 years ago
Where's Grand Funk Railroad Live, Uriah heep Stelin,BTO NOTFRAGILE,J-GeilsLive, Humble Pie Rocking the Fillmore, GrandFunkRailroad rocked the most live and need more Recognition period!
Rees - 2 years ago
Robert Fripp @ King Crimson would have gotten my vote!
Yuri Doroshenko - 2 years ago
Deep Purple In Rock, Black Sabbath "Paranoid", Led Zeppelin IV, AC/DC "Let There Be Rock", Van Halen. But my vote is QUEEN "Sheer Heart Attack". Brian May is the best guitarist of all time. Isn't he?
Glenn - 2 years ago
Van Halen 1 turned the guitar world on it ear. Easily VH 1 is the best guitar album of the 70’s. Love many of the albums listed tho
TJ - 2 years ago
There's no debate here. Eddie Van Halen re-invented not only the guitar as an instrument, but opened up a new style of playing that has not been duplicated since.
Gary - 2 years ago
This survey was for the best GUITAR album of the era, not best band, genre, or album - Guitar. Frank Zappa's "Shut Up and Play" should be on the list. For me, from the list, Santana, Robin Trower, Jeff Beck are all up there, but Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive" is a live sampling of all his work, culminating in "Do You Feel Like We Do?". Frampton still plays today, but will never play the solos or supplemented melodies the same. "Frampton Comes Alive" is a one off that deserves the title.
Mike - 2 years ago
Rainbow and Rush.
Buddy - 2 years ago
Montrose hands down
Craggy - 2 years ago
Zeppelin is the winner , any of their albums, why bother doing surveys? Beatles r best Pop. Elvis best pre Pop rock. Zep best guitar ever rock. After 1980 it's just a crapshoot of wannabes.
Marco - 2 years ago
The best album among the album you listed. The best Led zeppelin album and most influential is led zeppelin III. Was not in the list... This is a caged options poll, it's value is nothing.
Granted - 2 years ago
While I was torn between Black Sabbath's first album (arguably the first Heavy Metal album) and Van Halen's first (incredibly influential then and now), I had to go with something from AC/DC since they ripped it up on so many 70's albums. Highway to Hell came out on top and I still regard it as a masterpiece. Sadly, that opinion also brings on frustrations since it was Bon Scott's last and the band would never be the same without him.
They forgot/overlooked Tommy Bolin!: James Gang "Bang", Deep Purple "Come Taste the Band" and Tommy Bolin "Teaser".
Merlin - 2 years ago
Come on guys... please listen to Powerage by AC/DC before you make your choice
Andy Rivera - 2 years ago
Nothing comes close to Rising from Rainbow to me this is the best guitar album from the 70's people we're talking Ritchie Blackmore one of the best guitar players ever...
Andy Rivera - 2 years ago
Nothing comes close to Rising from Rainbow to me this is the best guitar album from the 70's people we're talking Ritchie Blackmore one of the best guitar players ever...
David Cabana - 2 years ago
My personal favorite - Sunburst Finish by Be Bop Deluxe. I also
had most of the albums on this list in my collection at the time as well. But as a guitar player, this was it.
Steve - 2 years ago
No UFO "Strangers in the Night" but Blondie's "Eat to the Beat?" Come on!
Gil Stiller - 2 years ago
I voted for Derek & the Dominoes. It's one of the quintessential guitar albums: Dwayne Allman and Eric Clapton. The interplay between them at times is amazing. If the question is best guitar album, that has to be in consideration for the best answer.
But this is a tough category. Van Halen and Led Zeppelin are good choices, as is something like Marquee Moon from Television.
RIP Duane Allman - 2 years ago
I chose Derek and the Dominoes because it is the quintessential guitar album. Many of the choices had excellent playing on them but were not exactly guitar albums. As an aside, kudos to the commenter who chose Television's Marquee Moon. That is another great guitar album.
Mink - 2 years ago
Obviously, it’s Marquee Moon.
However, there are also several worthy contenders for a very close second place.
Eugene Brady - 2 years ago
Tough call, I chose Layla because it's a double disc epic with Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, glad to see Rory Gallagher, Santana and the Dead on the list too
mike - 2 years ago
What about Nazareth Hair of the Dog Album??
Edward Guy - 2 years ago
Erm, Santana is - rightly - ON the list with Abraxas, a tremendously accomplished guitar-led album which has influenced many guitarists since it appeared. Lyrical AND heavy lead guitar licks!
I do agree with the comments about Steve Hackett's playing on "Selling England". That is one incredible album. Ditto for "The Lamb Lies Down". The classical musical training of Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford enabled them to perform complicated pieces like this on disc and in concert.
Lastly, Robert Fripp/King Crimson are a major omission from this list.
Joe Cogan - 2 years ago
My favorite guitar solo of all time is Steve Hackett's epic, soaring lead on Firth of Fifth, from Genesis's Selling England By The Pound, but Van Halen's debut is far and away the most important and influential guitar album of the decade, so if it doesn't win by a huge margin, I'd be very surprised. Oh, and Who's Next is listed twice in the poll, you might want to fix that.
Boris - 2 years ago
The best guitar album? In the list there are only few of them (Genesis albums are regarded as "guitar" albums?!!!). But among those no doubt the best are Boston, The Marquee Moon and Hot Rats.
David E.Collins - 2 years ago
No Doubt Van Halen 1 . Eddie changed everything. Many great ones here though . Eddie setoff the Virtuoso movement . Single Handedly . Self Taught Master at that . Except
Piano lessons . Sound , style , look , personality, Eddie changed everything .
70's? Easy. I was there for the whole decade. It's Derek and the Dominos.
Shawn - 2 years ago
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys album should be on this list. Machine Gun and Power to Love are epic guitar tracks.
Shawn - 2 years ago
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys album should be on this list. Machine Gun and Power to Love are epic guitar tracks.
Derek - 2 years ago
Pink Floyd - ANIMALS
Greg Vouros - 2 years ago
Something from Jethro Tull???
Rayzer59 - 2 years ago
Frank Marino could run circles around all of them.
Scrobbles - 2 years ago
Tough question, although I agree with Jedward. DSotM, for example, is one of the finest albums of the 70s and has great guitar playing, but I wouldn't label it a "guitar rock" album like Led Zeppelin IV or something.
Also, a personal favorite of mine is Entertainment! by Gang of Four. Andy Gil's playing was incredibly unique for the time and remains very influential. It has a real broken-glass dance punk vibe. I know it wouldn't win the poll but it's a classic and probably deserves a spot anyway.
Jedward - 2 years ago
Let's be real here, plenty of unworshipped bands wont get on here but the most notably known bands will... and honestly despite the large assortment of albums I think the title best guitar album should be reserved to a guitar centric band. This really in my opinion leveling music down to van halen, black sabbath, AC/DC, Kiss, Yes, and Led Zeppelin. I find that bands like the who are close but the guitarist doesn't compare to titans like Eddie or Toni Iommi, bands like pink floyd and rush have a more wide array and don't reach peak guitar focus. Other candidates like cheap trick funkadelic and deep purple either stray from the genre or don't compete on the same guitar level. Honestly my favorite guitarists consist of Toni Iommi, Steve Howe, and Jimmy Paige but Kiss and ACDC totally kill in style too.
My overall vote is for Paranoid though since it was really the birth of a genre despite black sabbath self titled being my favorite album of my favorite band of all time.
Kurt - 2 years ago
what, no Grand Funk Railroad??
paul - 2 years ago
Who's Next is on the list twice, and there was another duplicate
Malcolm Kettering - 2 years ago
Specifically for guitar solos only, my favorite 70's album is Journey "Infinity". Every one of Schon's solos on that album is perfect. Van Halen is so super close second with regard to the solos-only criteria and is the better guitar album overall because of the riffs, but give "Infinity" credit for best solos.
Jon Bong Jovi - 2 years ago
I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK....(too many criteria)....
....and NOTHING jumped out at me.....
.....til i saw DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK.......
....which is the BIBLE of all heavy metal (ALL the metal legends from Motorhead to Yngwie to Van
Halen to Metallica to Iron Maiden to Judas Priest to KISS (!) to ALMOST ALL GUITARISTS......say DEEP PURPLE, DEEP PURPLE, DEEP PURPLE. Not Zep. Not Sabbath. PURPLE, PURPLE, PURPLE. MOST say "IAN GILLAN", most say "RITCHIE!"
PLUS....IN ROCK is 1970, the START of the 1970s...meaning IT CREATED / INSPIRED HALF THE ALBUMS YOU NAME LATER....
JIMMY DIDN'T DO FLASH GUITAR.
IOMMI DIDN'T DO FLASH GUITAR.
RITCHIE DID FLASH GUITAR and influenced 900000% more guitarists than Page and Iommi combined (just for his poses and antics!).
THERE IS NO VAN HALEN ONE WITHOUT RITCHIE AND "IN ROCK", the BIBLE of metal.
(Even DLR is imitating Ian Gillan and admits it!)
And IN ROCK (1970) is STILL more shocking than VH 1!
(PLUS, Eddie's INFLUENCE was USELESS: A billion guitarists IMITATING HIS TAPPING made the world better in NO WAY. Sorry. LOVE EVH. But he created a billion USELESS COPYCATS.)
SO FAR, NONE OF THE ALBUMS LISTED COME EVEN CLOSE TO IN ROCK.
(At first, I was gonna say "something by Jeff Beck, like the Live W Jan Hammer Record"?)
Christina - 2 years ago
Why is Santana not on this list????
nishi - 2 years ago
It's not even close--it's got to be Van Halen. That album sent shockwaves in the rock world.
IP Ace Freely - 2 years ago
So many greats but it has to be Van Halen 1.
Eddie turned the 70's guitarist into the 80's modern single handedly and changed the way everyone played.
Kourada - 2 years ago
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" and "Paranoid"
AW - 2 years ago
Has to be VH, hands down. It changed the way people approached guitar on every level.
hubba hubba - 2 years ago
I agree with another commentator, if you're going to include an Allman Brothers album on greatest guitar album of the 70s, it has to be Filmore East. Also, you should replace Blow by Blow with Wired for the Jeff Beck selection.
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", "Master of Reality" and "Volume 4" ALL the songs on ALL 4 of those albums are awesome. All that is played on the radio stations are the same rotation of songs, Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man. So many other songs, actually TOO many. Only true Sabbath fans will agree,
Maurice Peabody - 2 years ago
Not one 70s King Crimson album in this list? Does Total Guitar not know Robert Fripp? (Hint: He’s not just one half of a YouTube covers lunch hour sensation)
Red
Rumiante - 2 years ago
Also, why isn't At Fillmore East by the Allmans there? Are you crazy?
Rumiante - 2 years ago
Hot Rats is also on the 60s list, when it was actually released. And why can't we suggest other albums this time? Because Master of Reality should be there
Back street Crawler Paul Kossoff especially the jam on 2nd disc
So many left out. I would of picked Frank Marino & Mahagony Rush Live or Derringer Live
Jeff Beck my pick. But so were all the rest! Stupid Question. Like Zappa Eddie Brian Eric Mick Ronson and every other master on your list? And the ones your didn't mention? You left out DEEP PURPLE? HUH?MY REAL PICK WAS ALL!
Highway to hell by dc, without doubt the most polished rock guitar album of the 70s, by the time this album came out both young brothers had found their groove and mastered it, metronmic malcolm chugging away on rhythm with the power of a herd of bison, and Angus feverishly doing Angus things.
Saddly it's bons last album but what an absolute cracker it is.
You also left out Foghat, Bad Company, Wishbone Ash, Edgar winter, Johnny Winter, DeepPurple MadeInJapan&Machine head all had rocking albums,also Jethro Tull-Agulung.
Where's Grand Funk Railroad Live, Uriah heep Stelin,BTO NOTFRAGILE,J-GeilsLive, Humble Pie Rocking the Fillmore, GrandFunkRailroad rocked the most live and need more Recognition period!
Robert Fripp @ King Crimson would have gotten my vote!
Deep Purple In Rock, Black Sabbath "Paranoid", Led Zeppelin IV, AC/DC "Let There Be Rock", Van Halen. But my vote is QUEEN "Sheer Heart Attack". Brian May is the best guitarist of all time. Isn't he?
Van Halen 1 turned the guitar world on it ear. Easily VH 1 is the best guitar album of the 70’s. Love many of the albums listed tho
There's no debate here. Eddie Van Halen re-invented not only the guitar as an instrument, but opened up a new style of playing that has not been duplicated since.
This survey was for the best GUITAR album of the era, not best band, genre, or album - Guitar. Frank Zappa's "Shut Up and Play" should be on the list. For me, from the list, Santana, Robin Trower, Jeff Beck are all up there, but Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive" is a live sampling of all his work, culminating in "Do You Feel Like We Do?". Frampton still plays today, but will never play the solos or supplemented melodies the same. "Frampton Comes Alive" is a one off that deserves the title.
Rainbow and Rush.
Montrose hands down
Zeppelin is the winner , any of their albums, why bother doing surveys? Beatles r best Pop. Elvis best pre Pop rock. Zep best guitar ever rock. After 1980 it's just a crapshoot of wannabes.
The best album among the album you listed. The best Led zeppelin album and most influential is led zeppelin III. Was not in the list... This is a caged options poll, it's value is nothing.
While I was torn between Black Sabbath's first album (arguably the first Heavy Metal album) and Van Halen's first (incredibly influential then and now), I had to go with something from AC/DC since they ripped it up on so many 70's albums. Highway to Hell came out on top and I still regard it as a masterpiece. Sadly, that opinion also brings on frustrations since it was Bon Scott's last and the band would never be the same without him.
They forgot/overlooked Tommy Bolin!: James Gang "Bang", Deep Purple "Come Taste the Band" and Tommy Bolin "Teaser".
Come on guys... please listen to Powerage by AC/DC before you make your choice
Nothing comes close to Rising from Rainbow to me this is the best guitar album from the 70's people we're talking Ritchie Blackmore one of the best guitar players ever...
Nothing comes close to Rising from Rainbow to me this is the best guitar album from the 70's people we're talking Ritchie Blackmore one of the best guitar players ever...
My personal favorite - Sunburst Finish by Be Bop Deluxe. I also
had most of the albums on this list in my collection at the time as well. But as a guitar player, this was it.
No UFO "Strangers in the Night" but Blondie's "Eat to the Beat?" Come on!
I voted for Derek & the Dominoes. It's one of the quintessential guitar albums: Dwayne Allman and Eric Clapton. The interplay between them at times is amazing. If the question is best guitar album, that has to be in consideration for the best answer.
But this is a tough category. Van Halen and Led Zeppelin are good choices, as is something like Marquee Moon from Television.
I chose Derek and the Dominoes because it is the quintessential guitar album. Many of the choices had excellent playing on them but were not exactly guitar albums. As an aside, kudos to the commenter who chose Television's Marquee Moon. That is another great guitar album.
Obviously, it’s Marquee Moon.
However, there are also several worthy contenders for a very close second place.
Tough call, I chose Layla because it's a double disc epic with Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, glad to see Rory Gallagher, Santana and the Dead on the list too
What about Nazareth Hair of the Dog Album??
Erm, Santana is - rightly - ON the list with Abraxas, a tremendously accomplished guitar-led album which has influenced many guitarists since it appeared. Lyrical AND heavy lead guitar licks!
I do agree with the comments about Steve Hackett's playing on "Selling England". That is one incredible album. Ditto for "The Lamb Lies Down". The classical musical training of Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford enabled them to perform complicated pieces like this on disc and in concert.
Lastly, Robert Fripp/King Crimson are a major omission from this list.
My favorite guitar solo of all time is Steve Hackett's epic, soaring lead on Firth of Fifth, from Genesis's Selling England By The Pound, but Van Halen's debut is far and away the most important and influential guitar album of the decade, so if it doesn't win by a huge margin, I'd be very surprised. Oh, and Who's Next is listed twice in the poll, you might want to fix that.
The best guitar album? In the list there are only few of them (Genesis albums are regarded as "guitar" albums?!!!). But among those no doubt the best are Boston, The Marquee Moon and Hot Rats.
No Doubt Van Halen 1 . Eddie changed everything. Many great ones here though . Eddie setoff the Virtuoso movement . Single Handedly . Self Taught Master at that . Except
Piano lessons . Sound , style , look , personality, Eddie changed everything .
70's? Easy. I was there for the whole decade. It's Derek and the Dominos.
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys album should be on this list. Machine Gun and Power to Love are epic guitar tracks.
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys album should be on this list. Machine Gun and Power to Love are epic guitar tracks.
Pink Floyd - ANIMALS
Something from Jethro Tull???
Frank Marino could run circles around all of them.
Tough question, although I agree with Jedward. DSotM, for example, is one of the finest albums of the 70s and has great guitar playing, but I wouldn't label it a "guitar rock" album like Led Zeppelin IV or something.
Also, a personal favorite of mine is Entertainment! by Gang of Four. Andy Gil's playing was incredibly unique for the time and remains very influential. It has a real broken-glass dance punk vibe. I know it wouldn't win the poll but it's a classic and probably deserves a spot anyway.
Let's be real here, plenty of unworshipped bands wont get on here but the most notably known bands will... and honestly despite the large assortment of albums I think the title best guitar album should be reserved to a guitar centric band. This really in my opinion leveling music down to van halen, black sabbath, AC/DC, Kiss, Yes, and Led Zeppelin. I find that bands like the who are close but the guitarist doesn't compare to titans like Eddie or Toni Iommi, bands like pink floyd and rush have a more wide array and don't reach peak guitar focus. Other candidates like cheap trick funkadelic and deep purple either stray from the genre or don't compete on the same guitar level. Honestly my favorite guitarists consist of Toni Iommi, Steve Howe, and Jimmy Paige but Kiss and ACDC totally kill in style too.
My overall vote is for Paranoid though since it was really the birth of a genre despite black sabbath self titled being my favorite album of my favorite band of all time.
what, no Grand Funk Railroad??
Who's Next is on the list twice, and there was another duplicate
Specifically for guitar solos only, my favorite 70's album is Journey "Infinity". Every one of Schon's solos on that album is perfect. Van Halen is so super close second with regard to the solos-only criteria and is the better guitar album overall because of the riffs, but give "Infinity" credit for best solos.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK....(too many criteria)....
....and NOTHING jumped out at me.....
.....til i saw DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK.......
....which is the BIBLE of all heavy metal (ALL the metal legends from Motorhead to Yngwie to Van
Halen to Metallica to Iron Maiden to Judas Priest to KISS (!) to ALMOST ALL GUITARISTS......say DEEP PURPLE, DEEP PURPLE, DEEP PURPLE. Not Zep. Not Sabbath. PURPLE, PURPLE, PURPLE. MOST say "IAN GILLAN", most say "RITCHIE!"
PLUS....IN ROCK is 1970, the START of the 1970s...meaning IT CREATED / INSPIRED HALF THE ALBUMS YOU NAME LATER....
JIMMY DIDN'T DO FLASH GUITAR.
IOMMI DIDN'T DO FLASH GUITAR.
RITCHIE DID FLASH GUITAR and influenced 900000% more guitarists than Page and Iommi combined (just for his poses and antics!).
THERE IS NO VAN HALEN ONE WITHOUT RITCHIE AND "IN ROCK", the BIBLE of metal.
(Even DLR is imitating Ian Gillan and admits it!)
And IN ROCK (1970) is STILL more shocking than VH 1!
(PLUS, Eddie's INFLUENCE was USELESS: A billion guitarists IMITATING HIS TAPPING made the world better in NO WAY. Sorry. LOVE EVH. But he created a billion USELESS COPYCATS.)
SO FAR, NONE OF THE ALBUMS LISTED COME EVEN CLOSE TO IN ROCK.
(At first, I was gonna say "something by Jeff Beck, like the Live W Jan Hammer Record"?)
Why is Santana not on this list????
It's not even close--it's got to be Van Halen. That album sent shockwaves in the rock world.
So many greats but it has to be Van Halen 1.
Eddie turned the 70's guitarist into the 80's modern single handedly and changed the way everyone played.
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" and "Paranoid"
Has to be VH, hands down. It changed the way people approached guitar on every level.
I agree with another commentator, if you're going to include an Allman Brothers album on greatest guitar album of the 70s, it has to be Filmore East. Also, you should replace Blow by Blow with Wired for the Jeff Beck selection.
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", "Master of Reality" and "Volume 4" ALL the songs on ALL 4 of those albums are awesome. All that is played on the radio stations are the same rotation of songs, Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man. So many other songs, actually TOO many. Only true Sabbath fans will agree,
Not one 70s King Crimson album in this list? Does Total Guitar not know Robert Fripp? (Hint: He’s not just one half of a YouTube covers lunch hour sensation)
Red
Also, why isn't At Fillmore East by the Allmans there? Are you crazy?
Hot Rats is also on the 60s list, when it was actually released. And why can't we suggest other albums this time? Because Master of Reality should be there