This poll was a couple of months ago!

Why dont you print it here so we can all have a look?

Figures don't it?

This is probably the same people who thought the guitarists from Korn should go one space higher than John Petrucci on that "Top 100 Guitarists" list a while back.

In any case , I am a regular reader of Classic Rock (I also refer to to them as Classy Crock of ___) , but they are not to be trusted much for seriousness about rock.

They love to print dirt and create tensions between bands but that is hardly anything new to Britsh music press. Most of the writers are very knowledgeable (spent years in weekly Brutish tabloid weeklies such as MM & NME: Welch , Barton , Ling and others.....) but I believe they are encouraged in promoting certain bands only to fit their redaction line of of the mag (see the most written about bands below)

They have pet bands which appears regularly and those are the one doing more noise than playing. Their faves among the active ones: Aerosmith, Velvet revolver, Bon Jovi, 80's Hair Metal in general

Typical regular returns even for no real motive: Skid Row and Loud Mouth Seb Bach , Def Leppard , Motorhead, AC DC (latest on 25 years for Hells Bells two months after the new revelations on the death of Bon Scott - fascinating stuff as you see....), Motley Crue , Judas Priest , Ozzy

Among the dead bands : Zep some three times a year, an article, Guns And Roses . In this regard , they are a bit like Mojo with Stones and Beatles articles.

If I still read them (I buy roughly about  half of their issues) , it is because they do have the odd article about old groups , I never had a chance to read anything about. One of the most instructive article was about Ten Years After and the tensions in that group (the new TYA group is actually better than Alvin Lee solo of late. but in the 80's Alvin live was always a treat) . Generally fairly well written articles with sometimes challenging vocabulary , humour and literate intrigues.

They sometimes touch over to prog , they did a special on it about a year ago, but skimmed the surface and only talked about Britsh groups old and new. They do not hate prog , but some writers cannot help to shoot an arrow at the style.

As I once wrote to them, their moto should be Sex , Drugs , Sex, Drugs and a bit of Rock'N roll. A bit of  T & A (tits ans ass) and drunken annecdotes always make fun reading , but too often , the music is absent of barely present in their feature articles.

Jim Garten wrote: You have to remember the list was compiled (I believe ) by the drummer of Velvet Revolver... Says a lot

No it wasn't, he just kinda hosted the article and gave his opinion!

I used to read Classic Rock myself. I discovered Dream Theater and Spocks Beard and The Flower Kings through it, but it became a boring read so I stopped.