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WoW or Class...
Location: UWW
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The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All-Time
(According to the morons at Rolling Stone)
1 Jimi Hendrix 2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band 3 B.B. King 4 Eric Clapton 5 Robert Johnson 6 Chuck Berry 7 Stevie Ray Vaughan 8 Ry Cooder 9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin 10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones 11Kirk Hammett of Metallica 12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana 13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead 14 Jeff Beck 15 Carlos Santana 16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones 17 Jack White of the White Stripes 18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers 19 Richard Thompson 20 James Burton 21 George Harrison 22 Mike Bloomfield 23 Warren Haynes 24 The Edge of U2 25 Freddy King 26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave 27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits 28 Stephen Stills 29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges 30 Buddy Guy 31 Dick Dale 32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service 33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth 35 John Fahey 36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's 37 Bo Diddley 38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac 39 Brian May of Queen 40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival 41 Clarence White of the Byrds 42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson 43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic 44 Scotty Moore 45 Frank Zappa 46 Les Paul 47 T-Bone Walker 48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith 49 John McLaughlin 50 Pete Townshend 51 Paul Kossoff of Free 52 Lou Reed 53 Mickey Baker 54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane 55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple 56 Tom Verlaine of Television 57 Roy Buchanan 58 Dickey Betts 59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead 61 Ike Turner 62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band 63 Danny Gatton 64 Mick Ronson 65 Hubert Sumlin 66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour 67 Link Wray 68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape 69 Steve Howe of Yes 70 Eddie Van Halen 71 Lightnin' Hopkins 72 Joni Mitchell 73 Trey Anastasio of Phish 74 Johnny Winter 75 Adam Jones of Tool 76 Ali Farka Toure 77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat 78 Robbie Robertson of the Band 79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997) 80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids 81 Derek Trucks 82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd 83 Neil Young 84 Eddie Cochran 85 Randy Rhoads 86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath 87 Joan Jett 88 Dave Davies of the Kinks 89 D. Boon of the Minutemen 90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper 91 Robby Krieger of the Doors 92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5 94 Bert Jansch 95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine 96 Angus Young of AC/DC 97 Robert Randolph 98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer 99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag 100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden |
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Existentialist
Location: New York City
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12 -> no
16 -> no 17 -> no I stopped looking after that... one of the worst lists ever. They're trying to say Kurt Cobain was better than Jeff Beck? HAHAHA
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Location: New Mexico
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11> no
12> yes 26> needs to be moved up i think Kurt Cobain is great. Kirk Hammet is alright but not better than Tom Morello by a long shot
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Insane
Location: ND
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Kieth Richards ahead of Carlos Santana is a little sketchy. Im not even going to comment on Jack white being that high. But I do agree with a lot of those, maybe not exactly but in the general area.
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Gentlemen Farmer
Location: Middle of nowhere, Jersey
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Speaking of Yngvie....how about Paco Delucia or Al Di Meola?
Not including them on a list of the great guitarists to me means your list is worthless. Quote:
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Location: Taxachussetts
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This List is Horible!! How can Eddie Van Halen not be top 5!
And there are people like Yngvie J. Malmsteen, Steve Vai, George Lynch and even Lita Ford that deserve to be on there before plenty of others.
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alpaca lunch for the trip
Location: in my computer
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RS has hit an all-time low with this. How stupid can they get? They are obviously polling four 12-year-old girls and 8 40-something's to get this list. Eddie Van Halen is lower on the list than Lou Reed? WTF? OF course I need to add: where is Rik Emmett? Where is Pat Metheney? What about Wes Montgomery or any historically significant jazz players? What a joke.
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Conspiracy Realist
Location: The Event Horizon
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Speaking of Yngwie, Delucia, and Dimeola; what about Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Steve Morse, John Petrucci, Allan Holdsworth, Paul Gilbert, and not to mention a few killer slide guitarists that rock. Each to their own I guess and opinions vary.
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Now a registered fossil
Location: Home of the shrinking Kodak
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C'mon, give me a fuckin' break! Those guys had no finesse! |
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Now a registered fossil
Location: Home of the shrinking Kodak
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.....and what about Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford from Genesis? .... and my favorite female guitar player, Bonnie Raitt!
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Location: The Land Down Under
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When it was published in RS, that list was in no particular order. But whether that's true or not, there is absolutely no way you can seriously write a list of the best ever guitarists and not include Steve Vai.
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This Space For Rent
Location: Davenport, Iowa
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I agree, and with David Gilmour in 80's?!!? My opinion my be clouded by the fact that I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, but he's atleast got to be in the top 50! ![]() |
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Now a registered fossil
Location: Home of the shrinking Kodak
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I am going to start an underrated guitar players list in a new thread, please help out! .......Freakin' Johnny Ramone on the list, and no Neil Schon? Ugh!
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Psycho
Location: The Tip of the Boot
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How about Steve Morse of the Dixie Dregs?
Steve Vai? And who exactly is Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band? I agree with a lot of the selections on this list, but some are just inconceivable. There's probably a reason that I stopped reading Rolling Stone a long time ago.
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