Rolling Stone 's top 100 guitarists

[funkendrenchman]

Discuss amongst yourselves.

1 The second best JH
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

[ October 03, 2003: Message edited by: funkendrenchman ]

[fez]

I have a couple issues with this.

Zappa? 45?

and fer christ sake, How did Steven Stills get 28 and Eddie freakin van halen gets 70?

[funkendrenchman]

and no Steve Vai!

[Pinner]

Joni Mitchell beats Trey Anastasio.

meh

[fez]

Originally posted by Pinner:
<STRONG>Joni Mitchell beats Trey Anastasio.

meh</STRONG>

I know! didnt joni mitchell teach steven stills how to play guitar?

[Beaver]

Frank Zappa at 45. This list is a bit of a joke there are too many guitar player's guitar players who are not even listed. It would seem they based thier choices on a criteria that may not have put much weight on the players ability to make thier guitars sing, ie: albums sold, $ generated,

I can only hope that "1 The second best JH" is Jimi.

[half-fast]

how about steve morse? david hidalgo (los lobos)? nils lofgren? #'s 12 & 13? they might belong on the list, but not that high

[Plakespear]

The number of guys on that list influenced by Eddie VH ranked higher than him is absurd.

Every other rock guitar list on the planet has his top 10 at LEAST

[Beaver]

Joe Satriani?

[Benny Profane]

Rolling Stone sucks a long hard one. The last month featured Britney and that fat black guy who won that stupid TV talent show on two different covers.
Fuck that.

Bo Diddley NOT in the top ten?! Fur krist's sake!

[Arty50]

I spit on that list. I don't even know where to begin.

But to not even have Mick Taylor...anywhere...dude...give me a fuckin' break.

[Benny Profane]

Originally posted by Arty50
I spit on that list. I don't even know where to begin.

But to not even have Mick Taylor...anywhere...dude...give me a fuckin' break.

Holy Shite, you're right! My oh my.

[Arty50]

Or how about John Mayall. Let's see...he only taught Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, Coco Montoya...

[half-fast]

how about Mike Campbell? Tom Petty's (and others) guitarist

[Ferniefreeheels]

How 'bout Alvin Lee from Ten Years After... he hasn't done anything for a while but neither has Hendrix!

[The Reverend Floater]

*Cough!* Johnny Lee Hooker, Mike McCreedy, Rich Robinson, Bob Wier, Keller Williams, Ben Harper, Steve Kimock *Cough!*

[dude_le_skibum]

slash !

[SkiDawg93546]

This truely is a tragic list. I realised this when they put Kieth at # 10.

I mean, I love Kieth, but #10??? Gimme a fuckin' break!!

No Miami Steve Van Zandt, No Albert King, No Dave Navarro...the list goes on.

[board]

I threw that piece of trash back in the junk bin as soon as I saw that Joan " 3 chord fucking " Jett was even listed ! ! ! okay music/art is subjective but some opinions are just plain moronic !

btw EVH at # 70 ????????????? that is so asinine I don't even know how to address it !?!?!?!?!?!?

he may be slightly obscure to non guitarists but any all time list CAN NOT be compiled without Al DiMeola the man was a FUCKING volcano of knowledge and chops from acoustic ( check out his LIVE album " a night in San Francisco " ) to his electric fire power ( "Race with the devil..", makes Yngwie look slow ! ) sorry but if he's not on the list, your list blows !


BTW - Funken where did you get the list from ? I swear ( fuck,shit damn ... ) that when I looked at the magazine Eddie was listed at # 44 ?

[Arty50]

Or how about Charlie Hunter!

[CantDog]

List sucks a fat one. Where are all the jazz players? Django, Hall,Pass,I can think of a list of 50 jazz players that blow all those guys away. I cant believe Derek Trucks and Trey are so low too. Yeah, and Slash? WTF

Segovia? Paco De Lucia? Satriani fucking taught Vai, where the hell is he?

[Xover]

? no Thin Lizzy

[CaddyDaddy77]

Read the article when I was getting my haircut and was moving around so much the guy asked me to put it down.

Most of everyone that was not mentioned that chimed in should be on that list.
As mentioned;
Albert King
Steve Vai
Satriani
Al Dimeola
Van Zandt
etc, etc..

A few definite gripings on the rankings. Explain Cobains "tremendous influence" on guitar in comparison to the
88 guys below him, or just try the next three, Jeff Beck, Jerry Garcia, and Carlos Santana, WTF?

It's a nice collection of who's who, but not in my opinion in any way a ranking.

[Canuk]

The biggest problem with the list is Cobain at #12. Sorry Curt, but you couldn't carry EVH's jock to a gig.

[flynsqurl]

the more i read this list, the more pissed i get. i have to agree that it is just a collection and not a ranking. how Kurt Cobain, Jack White, and Keith Richards got ahead of EVH, Trey, Zappa and Derek Trucks, i will never know. i've seen street guitarists with more emotion and raw talent than most of the guitarists on this list. where are all the old jazz and bluesmen? how about rewarding innovation and art instead of CD sales? now i remember why i never read Rolling Stone.

"Writing about music is like tap dancing about architecture." - Frank Zappa.

hope i got that quote right.