Top 100 Guitar player list.. Rolling Stone.... BWAHAHAHAH

[V-Type]

I don't put much value in lists like this. It's more of a popularity contest than a competition based in skill or musicality.

 

Yep also compiled by self proclaimed Hipsters,Scenesters and other Asshats.

Some of those folks are deservedly on the list while quite a few others have No business being on there at all.

Btw RS has been a absolute rubish mag for 20 years now and this latest list just cements their stupidity.

They should truly do a top 200 so they can add all their off the wall choices as well as have the folks that most of us know belong there.

What Crap.

[hardtdc]

This list is always pure horse {censored}. Just looking at some of these names is ridiculous. Ike Turner? Give me a break. He was a great promoter and wife beater but not a king of guitar. Now someone like Ernie Isley should be on there if they want to give a black man his due. He was a pioneer in his day when black guitar players couldn't get any notoriety.

And for the record: #1 always goes to Jeff Beck.

[stevenjuel]

i am glad that they have greg ginn up there. and zappa should for sure be in the top ten.

[m90guy]

WHAT? Im not on the list?

[Doctor49]

.................as well as have the folks that most of us know belong there......................

 

 

good sport indeed

[raine36]

Note my sig.

[DaleH]

{censored}ing stupid {censored}.

[Misha]

Where's Satch???? :|

[Misha]

Curt Cobain: 12

 

David Gilmour: 82

 

Well...

 

[tim gueguen]

All such lists are arbitrary, and any list any poster here came up would be seen as laughable by many of the other posters.

[faberbz]

It's a Rolling Stone list.

 

Is anyone really surprised?

[foppy]

Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!

 

54 40 or fight!

 

This list came out in 2003 fellas.

[Flintc]

Yes, very strange. Jazz is apparently unknown to Rolling Stone, as is classical. And even within the general rock genre, a list of the to 100 without Steve Morse is kind of like a baseball hall of fame without Pete Rose.

Even stretching things just a little, maybe someone at Rolling Stone should listen not only to Chet Atkins, but to Leo Kottke or Scott Henderson or Eric Johnson.

[Uma Floresta]

Im sure this has been covered hundreds of times.. but looking back on this list... Made me cry in laughter... Number 70, Number 85?.... Where's George Lynch or Warren Demartini ? ... How about John Sykes ?....

All of those guys suck ass. I hate to break it to you.

[Slave2TheAudio]

I don't see my name on there?! WTF!!!

[PrawnHeed]

 

37 Bod Diddley

 

 

Who he?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4VH7BBIg4

[CoqBelliqueux]

Someone cares?

[vikingrat]

The RS staff must be the same staff of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fail. David Fricke and the rest are beyond pathetic but i would be worse if i put any real care into their take on anything.

[blueballoon]

Someone cares?

 

 

 

this.

[vikingrat]

Yep also compiled by self proclaimed Hipsters,Scenesters and other Asshats. Some of those folks are deservedly on the list while quite a few others have No business being on there at all. Btw RS has been a absolute rubish mag for 20 years now and this latest list just cements their stupidity. They should truly do a top 200 so they can add all their off the wall choices as well as have the folks that most of us know belong there. What Crap.

Just 20 years now? A mag that was thought to be so cutting edge politically yet they never gave Zappa the time of day but would eat up anything that John Lennon said? Me thinks they sucked from day 1 me does. And they did.

[IdaCrue]

Randy Rhoads placed 13 below JONI MITCHELL??????

[Xenoanthropus]

Petrucci is absent, too.

[m90guy]

1 Jimi Hendrix 2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band 3 4 Eric Clapton 5 6 7 8 Ry Cooder 9 10 11 12 13 14 Jeff Beck 15 Carlos Santana 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits 28 Stephen Stills 29 30 31 Dick Dale 32 33 35 36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's 37 38 39 Brian May of Qeen 40 41 42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson 43 44 45 Frank Zappa 46 Les Paul 47 48 49 John McLaughlin 50 51 52 53 54 55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple 56 57 Roy Buchanan 58 Dickey Betts 59 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 Steve Howe of Yes 70 Eddie Van Halen 71 72 73 Trey Anastasio of Phish 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 Derek Trucks 82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd 83 84 85 Randy Rhoads 86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath 87 88 89 90 91 92 94 95 96 Angus Young of AC/DC 97 98 99 100

 

 

 

Now we can start over...

[humbuckerstrat]

I used to go to a music store (a Musicland, does anybody remember them? Or do they still exist, I haven't been to a music store in decades), and this really cool manager there (who could pick out records I might like and was usually right) said that Rolling Stone didn't know anything about real Rock 'n Roll. The magazine to get (according to him, at the time. Early 1980s) was Creem. They were really good as far as good rock reporting went.

I used to get angry at RS, for having people like the Jonas Brothers, Justin Timberlake, and people from American Idol on their covers, and always swore I wouldn't renew my subscription when the time came up. But I always do.

They do have some awesome pictures of pop stars sometimes, tho (like my avy, which I scanned from an RS), and some interesting articles.

I see them as some kind of social-political-gossip rag, and not really too concerned with rock 'n roll.

[ozcar95]

and wheres michael angelo batio?? its a good guitarrist and one of the fastest players.