It is too difficult to speak about it.Regarging technical achievments of Ritchie-they cannot be denied.But tell me one better than Page in composittion."Rain Song"--absolute example of Page's tallent of an arranger and composer.Who had so largely used eastern music-Kashmir,In the evening?His achievments in bluse-Since i've been...,I gonna crowl-classical,and at the same time very new.Shufle."New orlean sound"-The grounge.
Broken rithmes,five,six and more guitars.Isn't it Page?On the over side-Ritchie(i don't have anything against him,like him very much and considr him one of the best).Ritchie's songs do not bear so many emotional colours.He borrowed too much from Bach and Vivaldi to consider his music trully his.He did not experimented so much,he is not so strong in composittion.His strong point are hard ryths.but it is not so good.Oh,it's also Pages invention(in the big part)
Concerning Gillan and Plant-they both are fantastic!They are different,but no one can say that one is better than another.
What do you have against Child in Time?Ritchie\s solo,Gillan's vocal-pizdet!!!I\ve listened it for million times!