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    Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:15
Okay, that joke of a magazine Rolling Stone just published a new best guitarist list-http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123. I know I shouldn't let it bother me, but they've really out done themselves this time around as far as I'm concerned. We will all have major problems with their choices-and I look forward to reading your comments. For me there are 3 enormous problems with the list:

1-Steve Howe is totally omitted
2-Alex Lifeson is ranked 98th
3-Robert Fripp is ranked 62nd

I'm not even going to rant about others on the list, there are just so many ridiculous choices and omissions, but as a prog fan these 3 things really piss me off. 

So have fun and go at it.
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Keith Richards 4?
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Points: 679 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:34
John Lennon and the Edge are ranked above Robert Fripp!Angry
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:34
Nobody cares. And if anyone else in the entire world almost cared, they would not care enough to click 100 times through their goddamn slideshow.
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^ indeed  got to 96 and gave up. 
 
^^ of course KR is 4. 
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These lists have very little to do with skill, tone, or compositional ability.  It's about personality and fame- nothing more.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:41
That magazine should really start focusing more on what they are experts at: food.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:43
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

^ indeed  got to 96 and gave up

I actually spent a reasonable amount of time trying to get the full text list because I care about protesting slideshows more than I care about people caring about lists for no good reason, but I did not have any success.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Keith Richards 4?
Hey it's the Rolling Stones list, what did you expect? LOL
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just do what every frustrated Prog fan would do: start a poll/thread about the real best guitarists of all time!
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Points: 13351 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:50
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

These lists have very little to do with skill, tone, or compositional ability.  It's about personality and fame- nothing more.

Well said. Normally, a band or artist is rated according to their commercial success, not their skills at their instruments, or quality of their music. I never care for this lists, and will not take/waste my time to read through them, since I dont really care what these people say.
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Points: 22774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:52
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

These lists have very little to do with skill, tone, or compositional ability.  It's about personality and fame- nothing more.

Entirely the reason why I never read these things.
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Steve Morse not in the top 100?
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 16:53
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

^ indeed  got to 96 and gave up

I actually spent a reasonable amount of time trying to get the full text list because I care about protesting slideshows more than I care about people caring about lists for no good reason, but I did not have any success.

I used the ribbon thing on top and moused over each one so I could read all their names.
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Points: 65252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 17:13
But the voters are largely musicians, some of whom made the list itself, even some who are on PA (Lifeson, Santana), so you can't really blame Rolling Stone.   In fact I'd say there's more a conflict of interest among the voters than bad judgment by the magazine.    Rolling Stone sees itself as a bastion of "real" or "classic" rock, and probably in their eyes "quality rock", and in that light both the voters and the winners make sense.   No?
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Points: 8615 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 17:24
I hate that magazine
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Points: 952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 17:24
I checked the top ten and I liked that the tiny article was often written by a guitar player at least.
 
No Steve Howe on the list is bad stuff.
 
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Points: 220 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 17:32
Why does that magazine have to only talk about popular artists. I prefer Classic Rock presents: PROG
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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 17:39
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

It's about personality


Or lack thereof
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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2011 at 18:42
I didn't bother as I knew either these wouldn't make the list at all or would be rated far below what I thought they should be.  Steve Hackett, Steve Howe (saw he made it but he'd make my top 5), Robert Fripp (saw he made it too, top 10 for him), Andy Latimer, Jorma Kaukonen, Tommy Iommi (he had to make the list), Brian May (him too), Jorma Kaukonen (maybe), Ant Phillips.  Politics makes me angry enough, don't need some fad of the moment rag to make me angry. 
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