Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists list is a joke!
- 1 Jimi 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 **** 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
OK I may be a few years behind here but have to have a rant! This list is a total joke and an embarrassment and basically sums of the lack of ambition and creativity in rock and pop.
We have a f#cked up alcoholic, drug abusing average rhythem guitarist in 10th, a below average stoner in 12th who would fail a BTEC in popular music, a guy who admittedly can't solo and hides behind tens of thousands of pounds or effects in 24th - I'm genuinly too scared to even look below the top 25 as I fear Timmy Mallett, Zig and Zag and Aqua may be featured somewhere.
I cannot even start to list the guys they've missed out - Pat Metheny is one of the true Gods of the instrument in any genre, no one who knows anything about the guitar could deny this. George Benson, Stanley Jordan... I'm not going to bother listing over 100 guitarist who should be on this list but aren't.
This list should be called the 100 richest, possibly dead by drug overdose, most interviewed in Rolling Stone... anyway, there's some good players on that list but they are let down by some of the jokes above and below them.
Over and out!
Whens someone gonna grow some balls and not put Jimi Hendrix #1 and wheres Slash hes not the best and didnt give ne thing new to guitar put give credit wheres its due and who the F*** is jack white I mean come on izzy stradlin is better than him and Kurt Cobain #12 is a joke im a huge nirvana fan and it would be pushing it if he was in the top 25 his influence is fenomenal but his skill isnt and john frusciante or w/e heres a news flash Flea is in your band no one gives a crap about u!
number 1.Jimi Hendrix
2.Duane Allman
3.Peter Green
4.Jan Akkerman
5.David Gilmour
6.Jimmy Page
7.Johnny Winter
8.Larry Carlton
9.Alvin Lee
10.Mark Knopfler
11.Ry Cooder
12.Stephen Stills
13.Richard Betts
14.George Harrison
15.Bryan May
16.Lee Ritenour
17.Frank Zappa
18.Al Dimeola
19.Don Felder
20.Joe Walsh
Okay, I have a few points to share.
1: Hendrix at the top is obvious and perfect!
2: WTF is Van Halen doing down at 70th?! You all have serious issues!
3: You've forgotten 4 other legends of rock / Herman Li (Dragonforce), Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne), Slash (Guns N' Roses) and Buckethead. You ought to re-do the list, and do it properly ferchristsakes!
http://www.listology.com/thaskald/list/first-fifty-greatest-guitarists
weep.