Gibson's top 50 guitarists of all time - Progressive Rock Music Forum

No offense, but even Petrucci doesn't belong on a top 50 guitarists list

NecronCommander wrote:

But then again, if people like Jack White, John Frusciante, Kurt Kobain, and The Edge can make this list, where the hell are John Petrucci, Steve Howe, Kirk Hammett, and Alex Lifeson? Hell, I bet Steve Wilson is a better guitarist than a lot of people on this list.

I'll take John Frusciante over Kirk any day. John is a damn good guitarist, and an interesting one to boot.

chrisk wrote:

Alvin Lee plays a mean Gibson -see Ten Years After at Woodstock

Above average.

Follix wrote:

The fact that Keith Richards is infront of Fripp, Zappa, Gilmour and B.B. King, is quite a joke...

The fact that Keith Richards is in front of B.B. King would probably make Keef laugh in disbelief.

Remember folks, "best" doesn't mean "fastest" or "most technically complicated".

"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."

Okay first off this list is a total joke and so are the monkeys that made it. Understanding that guitar playing is 50% subjective is fine, but there still has to be a parameter that is used to judge. Otherwise I could easily say that I am the greatest guitarist of all time and it would be valid in some ways.

That said, I don’t think anyone who has half a brain is putting Cobain and the dude from the Sex Pistols or Jack Black in a serious conversation or on a serious list.

I love Keith Richards but honestly he wasn’t even the greatest Stones guitarist. Harrison was fun as well but top 10???

And David Gilmore not top 5 or 6??? Who made this list??? 5th graders????

Also, to all of you jack holes crying about Prince being number 14 stop it. You either know dick about playing a guitar and have never really picked one up or you just don’t know jack about music and probably couldn’t tell the difference between A, and A# if you heard it. Either that or you just never really listed to Prince play, but either way you should shut the eff up because you obviously have no clue as to what you are talking about.

Good place to start, go to YouTube and watch Prince, Tom Petty, and others on a live tribute performance of George Harrison’s well my guitar gently weeps. Prince is every bit a top 15 and maybe higher, don’t let your own music bias fool you. The could play with the greatest of them.

1. It's of course going to be popular guitar players from well-selling bands.

2. A more accurate title would be "Top 50 Guitarists from Bands That The Massive Record Labels have The Money to Promote, Advertise, and Push Down Your Throat, Irrationally Making you Think this is All There is for Guitar Players"

Edited by Frenetic Zetetic - January 26 2018 at 10:51

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

I am still trying to figure out who and in what other dimension ever said that Lou Reed was a great guitarist? I have not, ever, in almost six decades on this planet playing in bands and listening to music ever heard anyone say "Man, that Lou Reed dude can really jam on guitar."

And to have Lou Reed on a list of 50 greats that excludes folks like Steve Howe, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Robin Trower, Peter Green or Carlos Santana? Bollocks.

Seriously, I'd like to see half the guitarists on that list pick up an acoustic guitar and try to follow along with this Wink

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Edited by The Dark Elf - January 26 2018 at 18:19

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At first I assumed these are top guitarists who play Gibsons. I can see that's not the case.

Jeff Beck (who does sometimes play a Les Paul .. but again, not the point)

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

What do you expect from a list published by a manufacturer
Pandering to the masses

Lil Wayne just nosed out at #52

Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.