Gibson's top 50 guitarists of all time
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Topic: Gibson's top 50 guitarists of all time
Posted By: Klogg
Subject: Gibson's top 50 guitarists of all time
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 19:39
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Did some one saw this? This top 50 makes no sense:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) 3. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) 4. Eric Clapton (Cream, Derek and the Dominos) 5. Chuck Berry 6. Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group) 7. Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen) 8. Chet Atkins 9. Robert Johnson 10. Pete Townshend (The Who) 11. George Harrison (The Beatles) 12. Stevie Ray Vaughan 13. Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs) 14. Prince 15. Steve Cropper (Booker T. & The MGs) 16. Mike Bloomfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan) 17. B.B. King 18. Wes Montgomery 19. Mick Ronson (David Bowie, Ian Hunter) 20. Django Reinhardt 21. Johnny Marr (The Smiths) 22. Les Paul
23. The Edge (U2) 24. Ron Asheton (The Stooges) 25. Angus Young (AC/DC) 26. Neil Young 27. Danny Gatton 28. Ed O'Brien/Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) 29. Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominos) 30. Roy Buchanan 31. Bo Diddley 32. Ry Cooder 33. Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley) 34. Slash (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver) 35. Buddy Guy
36. Charlie Christian 37. Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 38. Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) 39. Frank Zappa 40. Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) 41. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) 42. Richard Thompson 43. John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 44. Rory Gallagher (Taste)
45. Clarence White (The Kentucky Colonels, The Byrds) 46. Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters)
47. Andrés Segovia 48. Robert Fripp (King Crimson) 49. Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) 50. Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) Prince in a better position than Zappa and Fripp? Blackmore in last? Kurt Cobain on the list?
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Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 19:47
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Dude, they never make sense.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 19:58
 Whew... THAT is f**king funny! Prince? 14th greatest guitarist ever? You've got to be kidding...  ------------- 
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Klogg wrote:Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 20:24
| Awful list. Eddie Van Halen 7? Angus Young 25? More like 7 000 and 25 000. Prince on the list? Let alone at 14? Kurt Cobain on the list? The Edge on the list? |
Posted By: Raredrumd
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 20:26
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That is utterly pathetic. I feel like smashing my computer. Will not accept!
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Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 20:48
Well said
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 21:04
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It's always been much more of a popularity contest than an actual "greatest" guitarist list. Don't get me wrong, there are guitarists that deserve their spot on the list, but seriously. Jack White at spot #13? What a joke. Then again, we can't be too critical of this list. Like I said, it's mostly a popularity contest. Prog isn't exactly the most popular genre, and as much as we all want Robert Fripp, Frank Zappa, and Steve Howe (who I am legitimately surprised isn't on this list) to be in the top numbers, not everyone is a progster. More people would cry foul if that were to happen than with the current list. 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.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 21:09
Prince is good. He is damn good. One of the best, in fact. |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 21:43
Eddie Van Halen really is a great guitarist and he fully deserves a spot in the top 10. Other than that, I completely agree with you. ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 22:21
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^ I completely disagree with you... the ability to tap is ridiculously overrated. Fripp anywhere near Cobain? Really!? And, I love Jack White and his style and persona, but for the love of God, 13? They should have definitely swapped White and Fripp! -------------  
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 22:22
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...And where's Omar?? He's at least better than Angus Young! -------------
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 22:59
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At least Robert Fripp is on there, I wouldn't have expected him to be This list is more or less typical of, say, radio stations or mainstream magazines |
Posted By: TwoOneOneTwo
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 00:11
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gag. ------------- Rush - Time Machine Tour - August 7th in Seattle! |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 00:59
Don't understand why you'd roll your eyes at that. It sounds like you've never actually heard any decent amount of the stuff Prince has done, because if you actually had you'd know he's actually seriously talented and skilled guitarist. And that's before you get into the fact he's also a talented producer, a multi-instrumentalist, great singer, arranger and composer. Put simply, far more talented than most humans will ever be, let alone you, and completely deserving of his spot in the list. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 01:13
I wouldn't be one to dismiss Prince. Just keep in mind that even if you accept the whole list or bemoan the missing ones and some of the included ones, the ranking is basically just a poll result of some sort. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: freudiana
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 01:53
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Replace Prince with Terry Kath. |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 03:19
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No use getting all worked up about this, people. Rolling Stone has been releasing lists like this for every single nook and cranny of rock history for years and years. They are not "questionable", they are not "a bit iffy", they're not even "a popularity contest". The adjective for these lists, my friends, is: "wrong". ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 17:27
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These lists are always very silly. For instance Pete Townsend regarded Leslie West (Mountain) a better guitarist than Hendrix (before the 'great one' passed away).Where is West on that list??
Steve Hackett obviously not good enough because he played in a 'poncy' ex English public school boy band. I'm sure Hackett went to Steve Jones in 1977 for lessons when he realised what he was missing something in his technique (like f*ck he did)
plus any list of top 50 guitarist without Jan Akkerman is plain daft anyway. Why do we always worry about these things?
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Posted By: smellyoldbums
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 18:29
| i hate van halen. why is angus young and prince on there?? |
Posted By: smellyoldbums
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 18:30
| not to mention kurt kobain and john fruciante....Ha!!!!! |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 18:59
Muhehehe ------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 19:27
My thoughts exactly. It just gets so ridiculously bland over time. |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 20:22
| Robert got robbed... |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 21:14
| Oh my. Lists like this make me wonder about the people who voted on them. There are many absolutely amazing players on this list, but I can't take a list too seriously that has Kurt Cobain, Steve Jones and The Edge, but doesn't have Steve Howe, Steve Morse, Steve Hackett Steve Vai(the saintly Steves). To name a few! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 21:42
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Prince is a very good guitarist. Top 50? No way. This list seems to be the most influential. Not the most talented. That's why Hendrix makes it to the top every time. I have friends who play better than Jimi ever did. Also, #26? Bullsh*t. That guy isn't that great a guitarist. Come on. Also, Steve Howe is even a huge Gibson player. Not on the list. Therefore, f**k this. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 23:31
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It's not even most influential, Epignosis, it's "most well known on the classic rock radio stations" |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 12 2010 at 00:51
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Hmmm....let's see....Steve Howe, Peter Banks, John McLaughlin, John Goodsall...the list is quite endless! I do agree with some that Prince is one hell of a great guitarist, but I wouldn't have included him on this list. More media blather, let thee not be troubled.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: June 12 2010 at 01:17
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Why do we even still care about these lists? But I would rather listen to this than anything from the top 25, if not the whole list, so I guess I'm more removed from this than most.
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 14:45
Exactly : where the hell is STEVE HOWE ?????????? -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: nordwind
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 15:21
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That list for the majority......is a joke .Missing in action ;
Frank Marino
Pat Travers
Steve Howe
Michael Schenker
Uli Roth
Buck Dharma
Brian May
Andy Scott
Mick Box
Steve Morse
Trevor Rabin
Glenn Tipton
Brian Robertson
Joe Satriani
Ian Crichton
Steve Vai
Tony Iommi
Manny Charlton
Zal Clemminson
Al Pitrelli
there's more....but this'll do for now
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 15:25
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My question: Who the f**k cares? Why are we getting all whiny about someone else's useless, stupid opinion? We know we're right and we also know that we can't convince the article that we're right so why try? Just keep going on knowing that you're more intelligent than a magazine and enjoy life.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 16:00
| We should just come up with our OWN damn list!! I can bet that Curt "Blimey, I lost me head!" Cobain wouldn't appear on it!! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 16:07
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Top lists always leave me at the bottom so to speak.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 16:24
They do what to your bottom now?   ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 17:53
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 18:10
What about this? Silly question I know. |
Posted By: javier0889
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 19:30
| This kind of lists are so predictable. |
Posted By: Follix
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 23:02
| The fact that Keith Richards is infront of Fripp, Zappa, Gilmour and B.B. King, is quite a joke... |
Posted By: Geizao
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 08:41
 Well, there's the quiet beatle.....the great Mr. George Harrison. Very well Weldone. |
Posted By: chrisk
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 15:34
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Alvin Lee plays a mean Gibson -see Ten Years After at Woodstock
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Posted By: Etneciv
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 17:18
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Where are Petrucci and Al Di Meola? oh yeah... they're not on this sh*tty list ------------- Imagination is the key to my lyrics, the rest is painted with a little science fiction - Jimi Hendrix |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 17:26
| No offense, but even Petrucci doesn't belong on a top 50 guitarists list |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 17:55
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^ Agree. -------------
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Posted By: TheClosing
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 19:36
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 20:38
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How about:
George Benson
Jan Akkerman Frank Gambale Larry Carlton Larry Coryell |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: June 18 2010 at 08:12
Above average.
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Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: June 18 2010 at 08:37
| I'm a prog guy but Chet Atkins and Les Paul 8 and 22? Are you sure this wasn't a Rolling Stone list? |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 13:48
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." |
Posted By: smbeck24
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 17:51
 I see the list is actually titled "Top" 50 guitarists, not "Best" 50. This distinction might allow for the likes of Jack White, Slash, Angus Young, Keith Richards, The Edge and even Neil Young. Not being a musician,but definitely knowing what I like and think of as excellent playing, each of these can certainly be said to be recognizable in style and playing, while not master technicians or speed-burners. I do agree that leaving the Steves, Hackett and Howe, off shows a definite bias against prog, at least they managed to leave complete butchers like Richie Sambora off the list.------------- sb24 |
Posted By: Aurelius72
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 09:24
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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. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 10:26
| No Steve Howe? WTF? |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 10:42
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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"  ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 14:58
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no Roman Bunka on the list, but then I'm not surprised. he gets overlooked here too, though he is absolutely phenomenal -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 18:11
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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 :------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 18:52
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^McLaughlin is too good to be discerned by the ears of your average listener, of which, this entire list is propagated ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 19:18
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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 |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 19:20
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Eddy Marron could blow them all away. I hate that list. |
Posted By: Jzrk
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 19:36
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What do you expect from a list published by a manufacturer Pandering to the masses |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 19:36
I strongly suspect this list was made with input from the idiots at Rolling Stone mag...I'm surprised they didn't put Lil Wayne on the list somewhere ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Frankh
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 23:52
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Lil Wayne just nosed out at #52 ------------- Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know. |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 00:02
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Where is Randy Rhoads? So Lou Reed was a better guitarist than Randy Rhoads or Steve Vai... or Carlos Santana!
Edit: Kurt Cobain was better than those guys too I see. Wow
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 02:31
He's right behind Fred Durst at #51 ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 03:37
| I agree the list makes no sense. How often does Gilmour play a Gibson? Doesn't he mainly play a Fender Stratocaster? And both Steve Howe and Steve Hackett should be high on the list as they both prefer their Gibsons. Also, while I think Prince should be on any guitar list I don't he plays Gibsons either, does he? He plays all those fancy custom guitars, doesn't he (or does Gibson make them for him do they)? |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 03:45
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Gibson are just about to go bankrupt. Mainly because they run their business with the same logic with which they construct polls. ------------- |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 06:25
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*spits coffee all over monitor* 29. Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominos) and who put this list together... Fender people... couldn't be GIBSON people... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 08:04
| While this (eight year old) list doesn't ultimately work either way, I'd have to know whether its creators were gauging talent or mere quality of music and influence. If the former, then this is purely irredeemable. If the latter, then the list becomes slightly less egregious. Is Lou Reed a better guitarist than Al Di Meola? Absolutely not. But would I pick The Velvet Underground over Return To Forever any day? Absolutely. Perhaps a tenuous argument could be made that Reed's playing was more effective, hence "better" artistically. Either way, some of these inclusions and many of the omissions remain unforgivable (in this list created eight freakin' years ago). |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 08:26
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pffff on amateurs.... here is the best you'll ever see... 1. Jimi Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix Experence, Band of Gypsys, session work)
2. Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, session work, solo) 3. Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen) 4. Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos, solo) 5. Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Firm, session work) 6. Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night) 7. Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, solo) 8. Chuck Berry (solo) 9. Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley) 10. Duane Allman (Allman Brothers Band, Derek & The Dominos, session work) 11. Robert Fripp (King Crimson, session work, solo) 12. Steve Howe (Yes, Asia, the Syndicats, solo) 13. Brian May (Queen, solo) 14. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd, solo) 15. Carlos Santana (Santana, solo) 16. Pete Townshend (The Who, solo) 17. Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MG's, Mar-Keys, Blues Brothers Band, session work) 18. Steve Vai (Frank Zappa, Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, solo) 19. Yngwie Malmsteen (Steeler, Alcatrazz, solo) 20. Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, solo) 21. Eric Johnson (The Electromagnets, solo) 22. Joe Satriani (solo, Chickenfoot) 23. Danny Gatton (solo, session work, Redneck Jazz Explosion) 24. Roy Buchanan (solo, session work) 25. Steve Hackett (Genesis, solo) 26. Phil Keaggy (Glass Harp, solo) 27. Jan Akkerman (Focus, solo) 28. Alex Lifeson (Rush) 29. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits, solo) 30. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones, solo) 31. George Harrison (The Beatles, solo) 32. Randy Rhoads (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne) 33. Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions, solo) 34. Michael Schenker (Scorpions, UFO, MSG) 35. Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, solo) 36, 37, & 38. Joe Messina / Robert White* / Eddie Willis (The Funk Brothers) 39. James Burton (Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, session work) 40. Link Wray (solo) 41. Jimmy Nolen* (The J.B.'s, Johnny Otis Band, Maceo & All the King's Men) 42. Lonnie Mack (solo, session work) 43. Dick Dale (solo) 44. Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, solo, session work) 45. Marty Friedman (Cacophony, Megadeth, solo) 46. Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent's Blue Caps) 47. Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts Band) 48. Shawn Lane (Black Oak Arkansas, The Willys, HLS, solo) 49. Hank Marvin (The Shadows) 50. Bo Diddley (solo) 51. Curtis Mayfield* (Impressions, solo) 52. Frank Zappa* (Mothers Of Invention, solo) 53 & 54. Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) 55. Terry Kath (Chicago) 56. Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic, solo) 57. Rory Gallagher* (solo) 58. Tommy Bolin (Deep Purple, session work, solo) 59. Slash (Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit, Velvet Revolver, session work) 60. Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule) 61. Andy Summers (The Police, session work, solo) 62. Mick Ronson (The Spiders From Mars, session work, solo) 63 & 64. Glenn Tipton / K.K. Downing (Judas Priest) 65. Steve Lukather (Toto, session work) 66. Neal Schon (Santana, Journey) 67. John Petrucci (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, solo) 68 & 69. Dave Murray / Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) 70 & 71. James Hetfield / Kirk Hammett (Metallica) 72. Johnny Marr (The Smiths) 73. The Edge (U2) 74. Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) 75. Leslie West (Mountain) 76. Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) 77. Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big, Racer X, solo) 78. Buckethead (solo, Praxis, Guns N' Roses) 79. Vinnie Moore (UFO, Alice Cooper, solo) 80. Tony MacAlpine (M.A.R.S., Planet X, Ring Of Fire, CAB, solo) 81 & 82. Angus Young / Malcolm Young (AC/DC) 83. Ray Gomez (session work, solo, Los Pop Tops, Stanley Clarke) 84. Michael Landau (session work, Raging Honkies, Michael Landau Group) 85. Carl Verheyen (session work, Supertramp, Carl Verheyen Band) 86. Adrian Belew (King Crimson, solo) 87. Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) 88. Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, solo) 89 & 90. Dave Davies / Ray Davies (The Kinks) 91. Neil Young (Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, solo) 92 & 93. Scott Gorham / Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy) 94. Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) 95. Guthrie Govan (Asia, Erotic Cakes, The Fellowship, solo) 96. Derek Trucks (The Allman Brothers Band, Frogwings, Derek Trucks Band) 97. Big Jim Sullivan (session work) 98. Mickey Baker (session work, Mickey & Sylvia) 99. Robin Trower (Procol Harum, solo) 100. Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Jzrk
Date Posted: January 28 2018 at 19:35
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No list will please everyone Too many great guitarists and too subjective and driven by the genres you love best |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 28 2018 at 20:50
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These kinds of lists are pathetic! Most of the best guitarists are relatively unknown because they are too advanced for the non-musicians ears to understand. I could make my own list but i have no idea how to evaluate "better." Yes, there are technical wizards with no soul and soulful wizards with no tech skills. I did see a great list a while back that simply pinpointed moments in history where a guitarist innovated something unthought of at the time. That was more relevant i think. I did make a list of guitarists whom i find to be the most technical and creative at the same time while having lots of soul. Here's my list on Rate Your Music https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/pleasing-and-not-cheesing-guitar-shred-w**kery/" rel="nofollow - Pleasing and not cheesing GUITAR SHRED w**kery - Rate Your Music
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: January 28 2018 at 23:12
| What sticks into my eye is Robert Johnson in that list. Yes, he has Gibson one of the only photos of him, but there is no evidence it´s his guitar. People who saw him has said he played Stella, Kalamazoo and National guitars. Gibson guitars were just so expensive to the blues musicians. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 02:11
------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 05:42
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 08:25
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Doesn't seem to be working. You'll have to copy past this into your browser. Since this site censorts the word w-a-n-k-e-r-y you need to add an A between the 'w' and 'n' on the last word. What a pain. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/pleasing-and-not-cheesing-guitar-shred-w nkery/ ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 08:39
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Hi, Micky ... I would like to add to the list Ax Genrich and John Weinzierl and Richard Pinhas and Michael Karoli ... and if time allows, Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet). All in all, the list is put together by people that have only heard a top ten bunch of songs, and they would not know music from a broken toy piano. I just find it weird ... that we even bother responding to such trash! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 19:11
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excellent suggestions Pedro!... especially Karoli. Though I adore Genrich's and Weinzeirl's playing... Karoli is the only one I could really see that could crack a top 100.... I can come up with a good number of Italian guitarists that absolutely rule... and completely dig... Rustici being prime among those. but really only Karoli was one that could muster up the overall influence to crack the top 100. Most might not recognize his name.. any more than any of the other great guitarists from the continent.. but they'd know it through the massive musical influence of his music through his group. As I said... I think that is hte best list out there. The more so that work went on that list for nearly 6 years after I left that work and came over here to PA's. It was a product of a lot of time and thought. Which lists like the OP put up.. had neither of.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 07:23
Manuel Gottsching ... Ash Ra Tempel and Ashra. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Lamneth
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 08:45
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mars" rel="nofollow - Mick Mars got snubbed  |
Posted By: CodyLee03
Date Posted: May 31 2018 at 20:58
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Randy Rhoads really deserved a better spot than that. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 31 2018 at 23:57
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......and Craig Chaquico should’ve been on the list (his allegiance with Carvin notwithstanding)......Damn fine guitarist !! Edited coz ‘spell check’ doesn’t 
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Posted By: GEORGEMAC
Date Posted: June 25 2018 at 23:50
| No John Martyn? Really? |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 26 2018 at 13:15
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 27 2018 at 11:00
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Out of curiosity...I went to Gibson's home page and tried to find the original poll info....I couldn't bring it up but on another website it did say that voting included musicians, journalists, fans, etc...so it was a pretty diverse group apparently. Nevertheless I too have many issues with the list .....both ranking and who's on it. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |