[JMedeiros]

In case anybody has not seen this yet, I promise you there is either someone on the list or missing from the list that will ruffle your feathers.

I'm glad they got Jimi Hendrix right.

My peeve is that Nils Lofgren didn't even make the list. He should be in the top 10 IMHO.

John

100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time

 

[DarkAngel]

Oh boy...........another list

Of course Rolling Stone list will deal with mainstream pop/rock type artists, but I amy really shocked how high:
12 - Kurt Cobain
16 - Johnny Ramone
are rated. Great songs/albums from these two but as far as "guitar skills" they really play very simple basic stuff. I realize that the entire song is what counts, but when you rank greatest guitar players of all time there must be very high skill level.

Then look at the slap in the face they give legends like:
86 - Tony Iommi (black sabbath)
85 - Randy Rhoads (ozzy)

 

[ServinginEcuador]

Since it is nothing more than their opinion on this, who really cares how inaccurate they are? (Just a vent for me, not anyone else in specific.)

I am curious why Duane Eddy isn't on the list. His innvations revolutionized the electronic guitar as we know it AND made some awesome music to boot.

 

[KR...]

well, no one takes these **** list seriously anyway, at least I sure hope not.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Quote:

Originally posted by DarkAngel Of course Rolling Stone list will deal with mainstream pop/rock type artists, but I amy really shocked how high: 12 - Kurt Cobain 16 - Johnny Ramone are rated. Great songs/albums from these two but as far as "guitar skills" they really play very simple basic stuff. I realize that the entire song is what counts, but when you rank greatest guitar players of all time there must be very high skill level. Then look at the slap in the face they give legends like: 86 - Tony Iommi (black sabbath) 85 - Randy Rhoads (ozzy)

I agree completely. Also, David Gilmour is way too low on the list, and a lot of non-rock guitarists are left completely off. I think they meant "rock" guitarists, but they left off that word. Sort of like a list of great people only listing Americans, forgetting that there are other people in the world. A very close-minded view, IMHO.

The only thing Rolling Stone is worth is the occasional glamour shot of a cute chick. Even their interviews don't "cut" like they used to, and the news is usually old by the time the rag is published.

 

[aeberbach]

Exactly right DarkAngel. Kurt Cobain played uninspired plodding melodies with plenty of distortion to hide his mistakes. Anyone who is wondering just how easy, if you've never played a guitar in your life borrow one and try any Nirvana song. Once you buy the right pedals just try to get approximately the right notes and scream - it will cover any mistakes the distortion pedals can't hide.

Ben Harper? Billy Corgan? Mike Stern isn't there - surely he plays better than Joan Jett! DJANGO REINHARDT isn't there. MARC RIBOT isn't there. It doesn't say "rock guitarists" it says "guitarists". HELLO! SEGOVIA!

Rolling Stone isn't about music, it's about selling crap to MTV-addled idiots.

 

[Tuberoller]

That list is a joke. It has to be. How could artists like Slash ,Kenny Burrell ,Wes Montgomery ,George Benson ,Albert King ,Stanley Jordan and Shuggie Otis not evn make the list. Rolling Stone is in serious trouble. I cancelled my subscribtion long ago but the rate of decline of that mag is astonishing. I'm looking at Buddy Guy at #30 and Eddie Hazel at #43 and thinking that these guys could'nt have actually listened to many of the artists on that list. How could these guys be ranked behind the likes of Jack White and Kurt Cobain . I think both these guys are talented but the are clearly not among the 100 Greatest Guitarists ,that's just rediculous to even say out loud.

One of the Guitar mags did a list a few years ago and it was much more entertaining and accurate. It was voted by real music lovers and artists.

 

[spaceman]

Kurt Cobain..hahahahah. I think those folks at RS were smoking some of Kurt's ****. Mark Knopfler and David Gilmour were too low on the list.

Yes, Hendrix was a great guitar player, but I have always thought that he was somewhat overrated, mainly due to his untimely death. Top 10, definitely, #1......?

 

[minya]

Why the hell do you guys read Rolling Stone for music information?

I read it for the articles. (Seriously, I enjoy them a lot.)

And, hey... the one time I've decided to pick something up that I heard about in RS I was absolutely wonderfully pleased (The Mars Volta).

- Chris

 

[jumpy]

Yeah, that list needs some serious rearrangements and additions.
Where's Slash btw?

 

[fractus2]

Rick Derringer?

 

[aeberbach]

In between the last post and realizing that Robert Cray isn't on the list either I worked it out.

It's like when Robert Metcalfe wrote his "Open Sores" article calling Linux a pile of crap and all open source projects a mess. He's the guy that invented ethernet at Xerox PARC years ago, but hasn't done anything to equal that.

It must be hard to be relevant and useful and then see yourself fading away. Could this RS article be a cheap attempt at gathering attention? I hadn't thought about them since I last heard that crappy song.

 

[grinch]

heh jack white is 17? of all time? i love jack white and all, and i LOVE his guitar sound. somehow this doesn't make me want to qualify him as in the top twenty people to ever pickup a guitar though.

this **** is fairly pathetic. i don't consider myself a genius of knowledge on music, especially when real skill/talen is concerned. but even i am seeing glaring holes in this list.

i also think that occasionally people let slip a guitarists skills by because their songs aren't all improvised solos and spotlight sort of things. ever see that special on the smashing pumpkins where they show clips of billy corgan soloing in high school? ****ing incredible, and this was when he was 17.

what about heavier stuff? no zakk wylde? no dimebag darrel? *sigh*

anyway, reguardless of rolling stone's flair for odd marketing jokes, i do think they have some decent stuff going on. their music review section has really taken an indie angle nowadays and i'm really happy to see stuff like that. i wonder if music magazines are hurting along with the industry? why else would they randomly dedicate a cover to a shoddy list of the best guitarists of all time?

oh well, damn marketing people.

 

[Magic77]

Quote:

Originally posted by KR... well, no one takes these **** list seriously anyway, at least I sure hope not.

I agree. There are probably another 1000 Guitarists that are just as good or even better than many on this list.

I'm not saying that most of them are NOT great; But who's to say that these are the greatest ever and that's it!! That's unrealistic.

 

[fyrfytrhoges]

kurt cobain better than brian may of queen, this has to be one of the bigger slaps in the face that I've ever seen. in my opinion it goes to the old dying young syndrome that alot of critics seem to catch when some supposed "rising star" dies before his time so to speak. I mean look what a big deal they make of the guy from "sublime" and the other guy from "blind melon" I mean lets be honest here, these bands would have been long forgotten by now but if you read rolling stone or watch vh1 you'd think they were legends who sold billions of records. just shows you what critics and opinions are like - ********, everybody's got one!