Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists

[68X426]

Rolling Stone just released their top 100 list. Quite the elite group of musicians made up the panel who selected. It's an enjoyable trip down memory lane: lots of bluesmens and old timers get plenty of recogition. The list will certainly piss some people off.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123

[TK73]

Cool with the list... not a fan of some of the top ones but Gilmour got #14 so I'm happy...

[69bronzeT5]

Meh.....just another list with Jimi Hendrix as #1. Surprise surprise.

[Todd Wilson]

Surpised I didnt see Uncle Ted in the list...............


Todd

[zoecube]

It was nice to see Robby Krieger get some recognition for his work.

[maxwellwedge]

Wow - I am reading this right - No Roy Buchanon? Gotta print this off and study it.

[b5blue]

Stevie at 12 and Les at 18?  WTF? 

[chargermike]

so many of these guys are good song writers but guitar players. john lennon sucked on guitar. notice not many metal players. seems to be 100 best blues players. some of the best came from the 80s. hair bands gave us so many great players. thats when the guitar player got his chance to shine. so many great solos. back then. the guitar has come along way since jimmy. he was good for his time. but no1. never got the jimmy craze. he had a great drummer. mitch mitchell was what got me into jimmy. oh well thats music. everyone has there own best list.

[BrianShaughnessy]

It's a list created by Rolling Stone...   it doesn't mean anything.   Same crowd that votes on the RRHOF inductees.

Some choices are obvious,   and some you wonder wtf they're smoking.

[NHCharger]

It's a list created by Rolling Stone...   it doesn't mean anything.   Same crowd that votes on the RRHOF inductees.

Some choices are obvious,   and some you wonder wtf they're smoking.

I had the misfortune of reading that rag while waiting for some tires to be mounted on my p/u the other day. I would have been better off reading the magazine on feminine hygiene.

[General_01]

WTF? No Steve Gaines? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4B7PB87qE

[Musicman]

Seems to be 100 best blues players. some of the best came from the 80s. hair bands gave us so many great players. thats when the guitar player got his chance to shine. so many great solos. back then. the guitar has come along way since jimmy. he was good for his time. but no1. never got the jimmy craze.

Odd statement when you consider the fact that most of the technical guitarist of the 80's would give their left nut just to be able to play one note like Jimmi or Stevie.

It the words of the late great Louis Armstrong... Tain't what'cha do, its the way that'cha do it, that's what catches on.

Any computer can bang out a million perfect notes a second, play any musical score with absolute technical perfection, and it will always end up sounding just like electronic elevator music. You can go to any music store on the planet, on any given day of the week, and find 100 guys that can play guitar faster than a jackrabbit on a date, but none of the them can "play" guitar. They can play songs on a guitar, and they can play scales on guitar, but they are not guitar players.... they bore me to tears.




P.S.: Who gives a F*** what Roll'n Stone has to say about anything anyway... I mean really!

[Budnicks]

  I did like seeing Eric Clapton near the top 

[spoolinhard]

Seems to be 100 best blues players. some of the best came from the 80s. hair bands gave us so many great players. thats when the guitar player got his chance to shine. so many great solos. back then. the guitar has come along way since jimmy. he was good for his time. but no1. never got the jimmy craze.

Odd statement when you consider the fact that most of the technical guitarist of the 80's would give their left nut just to be able to play one note like Jimmi or Stevie.

It the words of the late great Louis Armstrong... Tain't what'cha do, its the way that'cha do it, that's what catches on.

Any computer can bang out a million perfect notes a second, play any musical score with absolute technical perfection, and it will always end up sounding just like electronic elevator music. You can go to any music store on the planet, on any given day of the week, and find 100 guys that can play guitar faster than a jackrabbit on a date, but none of the them can "play" guitar. They can play songs on a guitar, and they can play scales on guitar, but they are not guitar players.... they bore me to tears.




P.S.: Who gives a F*** what Roll'n Stone has to say about anything anyway... I mean really!

I disagree with your last statement about "real" guitar players. Not everyone in the world sets out to be the world's greatest guitar player. It doesn't mean that they don't have hundreds or even thousands of hours into their skill. I am as of recently turning back the brainwashing from past teachers and instructors. I always found it offensive that they could teach and yet insult other guitar players that were at a much higher level than their students. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
This reminds me of restoring your car yourself, and then someone comes along, pics it apart, and refuses to acknolwdge that you have any talent or put forth any hard work in the first place because it isn't perfect. I find this equally enfuriating as well!

I do agree with your last statement, who gives a f**k about what rolling stone thinks. Ultimately You have to not give a f**k what anyone thinks and achieve your own goals.
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[Big Sugar]

I would saw it's a pretty good list BUT It's really unfair to actually try to put them in a ranking. They are all tremendously talanted players and to say one is better than another is pointless.

Good to see Iommi and Blackmore in the grouping.

Ron

[Musicman]

I disagree with your last statement about "real" guitar players. Not everyone in the world sets out to be the world's greatest guitar player. It doesn't mean that they don't have hundreds or even thousands of hours into their skill.

Your right, I shouldn't have made such a blanket statement. The intent was to point out that every once in a while, perhaps only once in a lifetime, you will come across someone who is truely gifted. These are the people that time never forgets. Which brings us to your next point of view...

I am as of recently turning back the brainwashing from past teachers and instructors.

Funny, I saw a video on Youtube once with Joe Sitriani talking about how Jimmi Hendrix affected his life. Long story short, it was Jimmi Hendrix that got him into music in the first place, and it was at the time of Jimmi's death that he told his parents that he was going to dedicate his life to music. He spent his entire life learning everything he could about music, music structure, guitars, techniques, etc, etc,etc... so that one day he would be skilled enough to play the way Jimmi did. Of course, along the way, all of his teachings eventually led him to discover that Jimmi knew absolutely nothing about music or musical structure, or proper guitar technique etc,etc,etc... He was just making it up as he went along. It took Joe a long time to come to grips with the fact that a guy like Jimmi Hendrix, who obviously knew nothing about what he was doing, could at the same time be an absolute Master, effortlessly creating an endless musical montage with every stroke. The music just flowed out of him.
It was also at this time that Joe finally realized that he would never be able to play the way Jimmi did, because he was now carrying around to much baggage… baggage in the form of musical knowledge and years and years of lessons which could not be untaught. All this baggage now holds him back, preventing him from ever becoming the kind of player he originally wanted to be.

[chargerboy69]

Meh.....just another list with Jimi Hendrix as #1. Surprise surprise.

I knew he would be at the top without even looking.

Vai not even in the top 10? 

some of the best came from the 80s. hair bands gave us so many great players. thats when the guitar player got his chance to shine. so many great solos. back then.

I agree. I doubt many from that era will ever make the list though.  At least Eddie made it into the top 10, kinda in that era.

[Musicman]

Ok... I just took a look at that stupid list... call it curiosity...
Maybe they intended it to be a list of the top 100 most influential guitar players.... but even then    

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