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Strangelove
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Rolling Stone ranks 100 best Guitarists

The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

1Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
28 Stephen Stills
29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
30 Buddy Guy
31 Dick Dale
32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
35 John Fahey
36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's
37 Bo Diddley
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Queen
40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
41 Clarence White of the Byrds
42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson
43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
44 Scotty Moore
45 Frank Zappa
46 Les Paul
47 T-Bone Walker
48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith
49 John McLaughlin
50 Pete Townshend
51 Paul Kossoff of Free
52 Lou Reed
53 Mickey Baker
54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple
56 Tom Verlaine of Television
57 Roy Buchanan
58 Dickey Betts
59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
61 Ike Turner
62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band
63 Danny Gatton
64 Mick Ronson
65 Hubert Sumlin
66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour
67 Link Wray
68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape
69 Steve Howe of Yes
70 Eddie Van Halen
71 Lightnin' Hopkins
72 Joni Mitchell
73 Trey Anastasio of Phish
74 Johnny Winter
75 Adam Jones of Tool
76 Ali Farka Toure
77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat
78 Robbie Robertson of the Band
79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)
80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids
81 Derek Trucks
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
83 Neil Young
84 Eddie Cochran
85 Randy Rhoads
86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
87 Joan Jett
88 Dave Davies of the Kinks
89 D. Boon of the Minutemen
90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper
91 Robby Krieger of the Doors
92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
94 Bert Jansch
95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
96 Angus Young of AC/DC
97 Robert Randolph
98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer
99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag
100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

I don't know if this has been posted here before. If so, Deathblow should close this thread immediately.

Other than that, do you agree, disagree?

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Like everything else Rolling Stone puts out there, this is worthless. A list compiled of names they got out of the college kids they use for these things.

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Originally posted by The Core
Like everything else Rolling Stone puts out there, this is worthless. A list compiled of names they got out of the college kids they use for these things.

generally speaking, I'd agree

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Oct 10th, 2006 05:12 AM

Cory Chaos
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Oh, and in reading this bullshit list again, the omission of John Lee Hooker pretty much kills the credibility of this list.

A good 25% of the bands these guitarists are from, I never heard of. Sounds like some kids got a hold of their parents vinyl collection, and needed something to smoke pot to.

Oct 10th, 2006 05:20 AM

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Originally posted by The Core
Like everything else Rolling Stone puts out there, this is worthless.

100% agree. BTW, this list is extremely old. As if Cobain out ranks Zappa by 30 places, ****ing ridiculous.

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What no Dimebag Darrell? No Zakk Wylde? (btw, I'm planning on seeing Black Label Society next month!)

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none of the three agnew brothers? bullshit

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Kirt Cobain?

David Gilmour should be higher than that, as should Adam Jones.

But i guess they do more research than I do, so its probably all solid.

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BobbyD
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Cobain too high-Santana too low. erm

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But i guess they do more research than I do, so its probably all solid.

Of course they don't; they just bang any old shit together.

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i dont even know where to begin about this list. so many faults.

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Like everything else Rolling Stone puts out there, this is worthless. A list compiled of names they got out of the college kids they use for these things.

Yeah tell me about it, homes. For the love of God, they put Jimmy Page over Carlos Santana. What the f**k?

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Eddie Van Halen at number 70? I know about 6 guys who are better guitarists than half the guys on that list.

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cobain above Robert Randolph...infact randolph at 97th?

no john butler?...no michael hedges?...no trace bundy?....don ross?...erik mongrain?....

the fact that "the edge" is even in the list

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I like BB King but there's no way he's better than Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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Oh look, another worthless list, how fun. Weeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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Originally posted by Myth
What no Dimebag Darrell? No Zakk Wylde?

My thoughts exactly. Add Joe Satriani (top five no doubt), Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, and Slash.
Also, Zappa, Gilmour, Rhoads, and Eddie Van Halen are way too low. There is no way the Edge (and I like U2) is better than any of those guys. And Jack White that high? I don't get it.

Oct 11th, 2006 01:25 AM