Top 100 guitarists....you be the judge.

avelanchefan
avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
edited October 2003 in Music & Movies
http://www.rollingstone.com/features/coverstory/featuregen.asp?pid=1924

This list is a joke. They got a few guys right, but I will leave it to you fellas to tell me what they got wrong, and who was left out. I have my own opinions about it, and I will keep it to myself at this time. But I want to see what everyone else thinks about this pile of monkey toss.
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  • Loud & Clear
    Loud & Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited September 2003
    That was hilarious.

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  • burdette
    burdette Posts: 1,194
    edited September 2003
    I think they must've put the list together based on their favorite bands/players/songs rather than some objective criteria. Give morons a little power and this is what you get.

    Of course, readers are probably biased against bands/players they don't like.
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited September 2003
    I think it's a good list. Maybe not in the order that I would have put them in, but a damn good list.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited September 2003
    Whats wrong with this picture?

    12. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana

    70. Eddie Van Halen

    96. Angus Young of AC/DC

    You have got to be kidding me! Cobain at #12 and these guys all the way down the list.

    F-ed up list all around!
    No excuses!
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited September 2003
    Agree... order is popularity (and youth) weighted... SRV at #7???

    Was pleasantly surprised to see Dick Dale on the list.

    Omissions.... Peter Frampton comes to mind....
    More later,
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,772
    edited September 2003
    Originally posted by john d. strong
    Whats wrong with this picture?

    12. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana

    70. Eddie Van Halen

    96. Angus Young of AC/DC

    You have got to be kidding me! Cobain at #12 and these guys all the way down the list.

    F-ed up list all around!

    Agreed. EVH and Angus should be in the top 10-15 at the very least. Eddie reinvented (IMO) the way the guitar was played, now everyone does it. His politics and ego destroyed one of the greatest American bands not once but twice (I don't count the 3rd)
    Overall, a lot of great guitarists, just WAY out of order. Still trying to figure out how Joan Jett and Joni Mitchell ended up on the list. Nothing against female guitarists, Nancy Wilson should be on there.
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  • Dr. Spec
    Dr. Spec Posts: 3,780
    edited September 2003
    2 quick looks - didn't see Al Di Meola.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited September 2003
    Some good names, but a **** up list for sure.

    Is this list a bit, or for real? I suck, and I can play better than 1/3rd of the list.

    Lots of omissions, how about Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Big Dick Sambora, Charlie Byrd, Muddy Waters, Tim Reynolds...etc etc etc.

    Joan Effin Jett? Are you kidding me? Great tunes, but nothing to write home to mom about - guitar wise.

    What a crock.

    Cheers,
    Russ
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  • Charles Rose
    Charles Rose Posts: 24
    edited September 2003
    Yeah, I'd have put EVH much higher and included Joe Satriani....That man really rocks. Not so sure Hendrix is number one any more. Steve Vai... Stevie Ray should have at least been 3

    CR
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited September 2003
    Aha,

    Glad people caught the EVH and Angus tragedy. And Cobain at 12 is a sham. He did nothing on guiotar worth noting. Remember when Van Halen 1 came out, and people were like "what the freak was that?" Ediie should be a top 25 guitarist minimum. Having Les paul near 50 was a damn shame. The only thing they may have had right was Hendrix.

    Oh yeah glad to see someone else caught the Joan Jett, & Mitchell got on the list. Especially Mitchell. If you have her on it then where is Simon and Garfunkel?
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited September 2003
    Oh yeah two others that befuddled me.....Jonny Ramon at 16???WTF???

    And Jack White of the White stripes at 17??? Are you effing kidding me?? I am sorry but you place these tool's over the likes of Gilmore and Howe. I just do not get it.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited September 2003
    George Lynch
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  • wlrandall
    wlrandall Posts: 440
    edited September 2003
    What about Eric Johnson?? Too young and long forgotten?
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited September 2003
    Just went back through again and no Rory Gallagher, no Alvin Lee, no Pat Travers and no, (ohmygod) JOE WALSH!

    Well, guess it's as good as any Playboy music poll... :)
    More later,
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited September 2003
    This just confirms how worthless Rolling Stone magazine is. Some kid from some worthless band called White Stripes. I've heard their music. OH MAN....TOTAL TRASH! Horrible!

    I never read it and will continue to not read it. It's bad enough I clicked the link to their site.

    They did me in years back when they had a poll on the most overrated albums of all time. They put Pink Floyd The Wall in the top 10.
    No excuses!
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  • mhw58
    mhw58 Posts: 359
    edited September 2003
    Any list of best guitarists that includes Joan Jett and doesn't
    include Chet Atkins is a joke. I'd also put Stevie Ray Vaughan
    at #2.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2003
    :rolleyes:
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited September 2003
    Steve Stevens Billy Idol's guitarist.. no where on the list.

    this is effed up bad.. :mad:
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  • Big Dan R
    Big Dan R Posts: 131
    edited September 2003
    It sure looks like they effin picked names out of a hat with a hole in it!
    BDR

    BTW it might be fun to see what the responses to this will be in the Letters section of the next issue.;)
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited September 2003
    Oh man. Jerry Garcia at 13? Top 100...maybe, but top twenty?
    What else - Mark Knopfler at 27 (much too low IMO)
    Joni Mitchell and Joan Jett - Their names must have crossed over from some other list on the writer's hard drive.

    Some omissions worth noting -
    Michael Hedges
    Al Di Meola
    Leo Kottke
    Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick)
    Neil Schon (Journey - can't rember how to spell it)
    Alex Lifeson (Rush)
    Adrian Bellew

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  • -justin-
    -justin- Posts: 891
    edited September 2003
    73 Trey Anastasio of Phish

    I wonder if these guys have ever heard Phish? The guy is sick.

    This is the worst-ordered list I've ever seen.

    ~JB
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  • redhouse
    redhouse Posts: 78
    edited September 2003
    Rolling Stone once again proving why thier idiots.
    My top five.....

    1. Jimi Hendrix, the God himself, it's by his guitar playing all others are judged even his idols, Buddy Guy, BB, John Lee, Eric-- **** just about anybody from that time to now say that they can't even begin to touch his ****.

    2. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi's white son, the ONLY guitar player who not only heard Jimi, felt Jimi but could play Jimi as if Jimi was playing through him. Don't agree, then go pick up a version of Stevie playing Jimi's Lil' Wing and Voodoo Chile.

    3. Buddy Guy, for more then 50 years, is still playing, still teaching and is and always will be a guitar God. In 1990, in his club in the south side of Chicago, Eric Clapton and SRV sat at his feet playing while looking like little kids who heard a guitar for the first time. In the more then 10 years of Legends doors being open, all most every well known guitar player has gone there to play with Buddy. There is no one who can touch his style.

    4.Tony Iommi, with out his power cords there would be no heavy metal, every metal guitar player knows who thier grand father is.

    5. A toss up between Eric Clapton or Jimi Page.

    Look guys, it's these guitarist's music that has every guitar player trying so hard and inspiring a world full of wannabes.
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  • hljones821
    hljones821 Posts: 35
    edited October 2003
    I would have to have put Mark Knopler higher for sure. Where were Wes Montgomery, Prince, and George Benson and Earl Klugh. They could beat half of the people on that list.
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  • Polk-a-nizer
    Polk-a-nizer Posts: 225
    edited October 2003
    With a list like that, they might as well have said that Micheal Jackson was the "greatest heavy metalist of all time". half of these guys "suck balls".:D Psssssst..... Hey, Rolling Stone.... come here, step into my office. CUZ YOU'RE EFFFFIN FIRED!:mad:
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  • rlightfoot
    rlightfoot Posts: 87
    edited October 2003
    Shows how useless and idiotic RS is.

    I agree that any list w/o Chet Atkins is F'd. He invented a style all his own.

    Also, any list w/e Joe Pass in the top 10 is F'd.
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