The lamest "top 100" list ever? Rolling Stones' 100 Greatest Guitarists.

[Drake Tungsten]

Tom Morello is 9 spots beyond the dude from the White Stripes? WTF?

[Drake Tungsten]

Why not? If you can really do power cords well, you are doing good rock, if basic power cords are the lifeblood of rock.

To be considered great, one must move beyond mere mastery of the fundamentals.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yet there is something to be said for those who master the fundamentals (because many do not). And I do think Cobain goes past just the fundamentals.

[Drake Tungsten]

And I do think Cobain goes past just the fundamentals.

Can you name any badass Cobain guitar solos? I can't...

Cobain was a great songwriter, but his guitar skills were mediocre at best. I don't think he would've denied this, either.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Guitar solos are the biggest waste of egotistical BS ever... and that's nice compared to what Snapcase would say about this.

I didn't care about Nivana's songwriting as much as I liked their music (and most of that had to with the guitar work).

[Agathon]

Re: The lamest "top 100" list ever? Rolling Stones' 100 Greatest Guitarists.

Originally posted by JohnT

They are ranking the greatest guitarists (not just rock, but all forms of music), and to give you an idea as to how craptacular this list is, let me give you some entries:

Why are you taking this seriously? Rolling Stone's lists are generally a joke. I mean they had the classically dull "OK Computer" as the greatest album of all time even though it's by those talentless ****s Radiohead.

1. Hendrix. The obvious choice, so obvious that Sophie could've chosen Jimi.

That guy put the guitar back 20 years! No seriously, he's good, but hardly a great guitarist.

2. Duane Allman

Good, but not great.

3. BB King

The guy can't play chords.

4. Eric Clapton

A pointless, talentless piece of ****e who made one good album (with John Mayall).

5. Robert Johnson

He's good, but they only put him in the list to look like they knew what they were talking about.

12. Kurt Cobain. The 12th greatest guitarist? Ever??
13. Jerry Garcia. Oh, gimme a friggin' break!
16. Johnny Ramone. Because bar chord songs that drunk 16 year olds can play just ROCK!!!

None of these guys could really play. Cobain sounds like he's got a pneumatic hammer up his ass.

21. George Harrison. Huh? Are you serious?

Yes, but these are the people who'll tell you that Ringo was a great drummer.

70. Eddie Van Halen? 70th!?!?!? Every friggin' kid who learned to play guitar during the entire decade of the 80's wanted to be Eddie Van Halen!

This is ridiculous. This man is one of the few rock players who deserves to be in the top 20.

72. Joni Mitchell. As to why the hell she is on this list, I can't even begin to fathom.

Neither can I.

Joe Satriani
Andres Segovia
Al Demolia

Agreed.

Slash
The guitarist(s) for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Are you on ****ing drugs or something?

Chet Atkins
Django Reinhardt
Charlie Christian
Pat Methany
Joe Pass
Steve Vai

Agreed.

And also:

Barney Kessell
George Benson
Wes Montgomery
Johnny Smith
Julian Bream

and the most technically gifted player

John Williams

And

There's a couple of Australian guitarists, the Emmanuel Brothers. I recommend their CD "Terra Firma" to anyone who cares about the guitar (I've seen them play live - they are technically unsurpassed). These guys can play the pants off anyone on RS's list.

[Drake Tungsten]

Guitar solos are the biggest waste of egotistical BS ever...

Most great performers are egotistical bastards.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The only solos I could really stand were from Jimmy Page .

[Drake Tungsten]

The only solos I could really stand were from Jimmy Page

At least we can agree that Jimmy Page is god.

[Dis]

ahh I forgot about Joe Satrioni. This guy was great.

Steve Vai and Yngvie Malmsteen weren't bad either

[St Leo]

Re: The lamest "top 100" list ever? Rolling Stones' 100 Greatest Guitarists.

Originally posted by JohnT
87. Joan Jett. *JohnT drops dead in horror, revives, and then drops dead again*

Do you know something about Joan that I don't? Her mp3s are quite good.

[Asher]

How the **** could you leave out Joe Satriani?

Somebody needs to listen to Borg Sex, Surfing with Alien, Rubina, Ceremony, etc.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: The lamest "top 100" list ever? Rolling Stones' 100 Greatest Guitarists.

Originally posted by JohnT
To be quite honest, a lot of the newer guitarists I've never heard of (I pretty much fell out of the music scene around 1992). But to think that they are better than Iommi, Segovia, Reinhardt, or Van Halen is pretty damned ignorant.

That's a funny paragraph.

On a serious point, the poll is "Greatest". Not "Best". The semantic point is significant, because it places more weighting on historical impact rather than technical accomplishment.

Still, it's nice to see Kevin Shields and Richard Thompson on the list. Pity they missed off Nick Drake, however.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Actually, by my reckoning only one guitarist on the list (Jack White) started recording later than 1992.

[Buck Birdseed]

What a ****ed-up list! It's not even factually accurate!

The correct list should be:

1. Keith Richards
2. Brian Jones
3. Mick Taylor
4. Ron Wood
5. er...
6. that's it