10 Greatest Guitar Duos In Rock Music History

9. Scott Garham and Brian Robertson - Thin Lizzy

Note: GORHAM, not Garham

Not every band at the dawn of rock and roll needed to have two guitar players. Even when you did decide to have the twin guitar attack on some songs, the guitar players almost seemed disassociated with each other whenever they decided to take to the stage. When you have two of you onstage though, that opens up a world of possibilities for what you can do with your lead playing.

Outside of the amazing lyrics that Thin Lizzy had to work with under Phil Lynott, the way that Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson played together was what really got people talking. Aside from the trademark style that each of them played in, there was also a lot of interplay between their lead lines, often playing together to create one gigantic harmony part.

As if inheriting vocal harmonies wasn't enough for our precious ears, here we had two different guitarists going bar for bar on every solo, almost creating a dueling banjos effect when you're trying to make out who is playing what part on each of the records. While there may have been a few different virtuosos who had tried something like this at the time, this is where the harmony guitars stopped being just a gimmick to toy around with. It's now a style, and you'd better believe that the rest of rock and roll was taking notes.

 
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