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    Posted: April 19 2011 at 14:13
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20070210041820/www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937559/the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time

Sorry if this has been brought up here before but it torques me whenever I see this list to look at #12 and all the greats below him. I'm not even talking about the great ones left off the list so that they could put #12 on it or some other trendy guitarists of average talent.


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wtf Rolling Stone?

This isnt helping your already tarnished image.
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That list is from 2003, of course we've talked about it before..

It torques me too. I am practically frothing at the mouth. In fact, I would even go so far as to saw that Rolling Stone's recognition of Kurt Cobain and Jack White over Robert Fripp and Steve Howe is the primary source of rage and frustration in my life. Why did you have to ruin my life, Rolling Stone? 
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These Rolling Stone lists get funnier and funnier every time.
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I play better than Kurt Cobain or Robert Johnson ever did.  I must be at least #5.

Yet I don't play better than Eric Johnson and he's not even on the list.  Neither are Joe Pass or John Petrucci.



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Edited by Epignosis - April 19 2011 at 18:01
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

 

Yet I don't play better than Eric Johnson and he's not even on the list.  Neither are Joe Pass or John Petrucci.



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And where is Steve Hackett on that list? Allan Holdsworth? Adrian Belew?
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Hasn't the world established that Rolling Stone has no idea what they're talking about?
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one redeeming quality is the 95 guitarists ahead of Angus Young

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This list is blah.
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Originally posted by andyman1125 andyman1125 wrote:

Hasn't the world established that Rolling Stone has no idea what they're talking about?


Don't you read it for the trendy music articles and the pictures?
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Is Johnny Ramone better than Rob Fripp, Steve Howe and  David Gilmour?

Ummmm... I don't think it.  Disapprove
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Though I agree that there are million better guitarists than many on this list, I don't understand the hate Cobain gets. Yes, technically he wasn't so gifted, so what, he had talent to come up with memorable ideas. The old "we're prog-rockers we hate Cobain" is getting old...
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Wait, Curt Cobain (basically a rhythm guitarist), Lou Reed (couldn't play his way out of a wet napkin -- while on heroin), Robbie Robertson (watch the Last Waltz and see how many leads he botches) and Jack White (I'm from Detroit and I still had to laugh) are on the list but Al Dimeola, Steve Hackett, Paco DeLucia and Martin Barre are not?
 
Well, what do you expect from a magazine that gives 5 star ratings to Kayne West albums? Disposable.


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Although most of the list can be crapped on, I do like to see Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic up there with the big boys.
 
Or big boys by this magazine's standards.
 
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Well Cobain is a favorite of mine because I enjoy listening to him play, and that's that for me

However, I assume Rolling Stone was going for proficiency, but if that's that case, why John Fogerty over Fripp?
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Happy Birthday Les Paul.

Sorry to see that you are only #46 on this list. Go figure that one out.
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I play better than Kurt Cobain or Robert Johnson ever did.  I must be at least #5.

Yet I don't play better than Eric Johnson and he's not even on the list.  Neither are Joe Pass or John Petrucci.



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I don't mean to doubt you.But Robert Johnson was exceptional.



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#52 Lou Reed

As much as I like him, anything he did on the guitar, Syd Barrett did better.

#87 Joan Jett

Really? Granted, she probably had more knowledge on the guitar than Elvis ever did, but as far as I know, she didn't so much with it. (Correct me if I'm wrong). Heck, at least Kurt Cobain managed to get some texture into his playing.
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My favorite guitarists typically have nothing to do with speed or virtuosity. Of course Malmsteen could play faster and more technically complicated material than either George Harrison or Marc Bolan or David Gilmour, but I don't care one bit.
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