LOU REED is a better guitarist than Todd Rundgren???!!
It fascinates me that a "music" publication like Rolling Stone is so ignorant about music...WTF do they have against Todd, anyway? They won't nominate him for consideration to be in the rock and roll hall of fame, not they he needs to be validated by that ridiculous rag, anyway...
If it was the 100 greatest musicians my first would be Pete Townshend of The Who
Originally posted by Omega Vision👆
This list was biased toward classic rock and seemed to favor fame over actual talent. Not the worst list I've ever seen, but there are too few names from the last twenty years and almost no names from Heavy Metal (I mean real metal, not Hard Rock or Glam).
Metal, of all kinds, boasts some of the most impressive guitarists to ever grace the planet.
Also, where the **** is Buckethead.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
In terms of technical ability and ability to compose good guitar tracks, more than two-thirds of the people on this list couldn't even share a stage with the likes of Steve Vai, who's not even listed. Or Joe Satriani for that matter--how can you ignore him?
Huh, you're right. It's weird, I could have sworn both were on the list, albeit somewhere in the 80s for some reason.
In terms of influence, Cobain is more deserving than a lot of people on this list. His style of playing may not necessarily have been the first of its kind, but for a lot of people who first started playing music in the 90s, Cobain was preaching a new gospel with his strings. You have to look at who was on the board making the list. Pretty sure I saw a lot of Cobain's contemporaries (Billy Corgan, the guy from Weezer) and a lot of people who got their start just as Nirvana was getting big.