Top 100 Guitarists by Rolling Stone

no Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Yngwie J Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert etc weird.. it's a swindle!!

cheers!!

where is slash from guns n roses

he aint there

To be honest I think they just put Hendrix at No 1 and pulled all the rest of the names out of hat!

Hmmmm where would I come on the list?

I just want to know how jack white got so high.

Yeah, I agree with some of the guitarists on the list. Some of my definite favorites! But where's Satriani?

Originally posted by blakangel
To be honest I think they just put Hendrix at No 1 and pulled all the rest of the names out of hat!

More like out of their ass

WHAT??!?! Pete Townshend at 50! Eddie at 70! Johny Ramone at 16! (even though I love The Ramones he shouldnt be that high up) What the hell is wrong with this list!

why is Jack white on there?

Good question. There shouldn't be any blues guitarists on that list, cos blues are just repeated riffs, and The White Stripes are essentially a contemporary blues band. They may as well put Wayne Static in there.

Originally posted by 113
how Kurt Cobain beat out Tom Morello and Santana is beyond me 😑 ...Cobain wasn't even a good guitarist

yeah really 😑

Originally posted by Deathblow
Good question. There shouldn't be any blues guitarists on that list, cos blues are just repeated riffs, and The White Stripes are essentially a contemporary blues band. They may as well put Wayne Static in there.

I disagree. No, Jack White shouldn't be on that list, but believe me when I say that there were some truly great blues guitarists. Mostly older guys though, none of whom are on that list... The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Robert Johnson--the guy in "O Brother, Where Art Thou" who believed he sold his soul to the devil so he could play guitar well. On top of which, blues is the basis for so many other genres... Rock, punk, gospel, soul, R&B...

I totally agree with Darth Raven

Good to see Knophler on there, he's overlooked so often.

Kate xx

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a blues guitarist and he was one of the best

yeah some blues gutiarists are amazing

Blues is difficult to write too, because it's hard to pull it off without sounding cheesy!

Originally posted by Darth Revan
I disagree. No, Jack White shouldn't be on that list, but believe me when I say that there were some truly great blues guitarists. Mostly older guys though, none of whom are on that list... The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Robert Johnson--the guy in "O Brother, Where Art Thou" who believed he sold his soul to the devil so he could play guitar well. On top of which, blues is the basis for so many other genres... Rock, punk, gospel, soul, R&B...

Look at #5...

THe top 5 are all brilliant guitarists, there's no denying that, but after that it starts getting a little sketchy.

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