Top 100 Guitarists (wtf Rolling Stones?)
 

Link to the List

Most glaring problems:

12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana

13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
45 Frank Zappa
70 Eddie Van Halen
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
85 Randy Rhoads

In what universe is Kurt Cobain a better guitarists then Garcia, Zappa, Van Halen, Gilmour and Rhoads?

hy husband would have serious problems with Frank being so low on that list. grrrrrrrrrrr...

- marissa

Re: Top 100 Guitarists (wtf Rolling Stones?)
 

In the stupid ass Rolling Stone OMGKURTCOBAINISTHEVOICEOFAGENERATION universe. Grrr.

Re: Top 100 Guitarists (wtf Rolling Stones?)
 

How the h-e-double-hockey-sticks could Eddie Van Halen be #70??? That is insane.....

This whole list is crazy....the numbers are all wrong. And where is Lindsey Buckingham?

I PROTEST!!!

Hell they put Peter Green on there... but I'll agree. Where's Lindsey????

Still not understanding how Santana and The Edge AND Tom Morello are lower on the list than Kurt Cobain.

Re: Top 100 Guitarists (wtf Rolling Stones?)
 

hey hippie, garcia's guitar 'prowess' is overblown - his guitar lines are not overly complex, and his solos are winding, noodley and not amazingly technical.

meanwhile, cobain's style relied on such simplicity to create something somewhat different from what was popular - in that vein, I can see them being in approximately the same place. Neither is Clapton in terms of technical prowess, but they both created good music. It somehow makes sense to me.

Santana is a great guitar player, but I wouldn't put him on this list either.

And where the hell is Andrew Ridgeley of Wham?

http://jon.everperfect.com/music/ban.../img/whamb.jpg

Maybe it's my age but Kurt Cobain? Jack White? I never got the appeal or talent of Cobain. Same goes for Jack White.

Townshend at #50?!?! What the heck are they smoking over at Rolling Stone? The Edge is greatly underrated at #24. Same goes for Buddy Guy at #30.

Whoever lists Eddie Van Halen at #70 and Dave Gilmour at #84 on any "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" should be given a hearing transplant, because they clearly cannot hear.

Loved seeing Tom Verlaine on the list!

And where the hell is Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick? Fools!

Tracy, you're screwed up.

Peter Green totally deserves to be on (I'm listening to "Hypnotized" right now) but as sick as I am of Rumours, so does Lindsey Buckingham.

I will say this until the day that I die....

Because Cobain killed himself, He and Nirvana have become OVERBLOWN.....:mad:

Don't get me wrong, I like Nirvana's stuff, but COME ON, stop revering him and taking him to g-d-like status and the group as well.

Where are Peter Frampton, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, and Robert Cray?

I think Eddie Van Halen should be in the top 10 or at least top 25.

No one's mentioned Angus Young of AC/DC being ranked 96. That's just not right.


Were you kidding when you said Andrew Ridgely?

puh-lease-jack white should not even appear on this list-his guitar work is so simplistic. i guess meg white will soon appear on the best drummer list?

I agree although it's not PC to say it. I think that many of the bands that were popular during Nirvana's time had much better guitarists than Kurt Cobain. Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, etc.

I don't think Nirvana would have had the staying power and the popularity they have now if Kurt Cobain had not killed himself. I think that Nirvana would have become another one of those 90's grunge bands that is still revered but not popular.

I was going to bitch if Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn't in the single digits.

I was going to raise heck if Eric Clapton hadn't been in the top 5 (I would probably put him higher than 4, personally.

Jeff Beck is #14 also behind Kurt Cobain. That is a serious issue.Jeff Beck should be in the top 10 at the very least. I am one of those people who never "got" Nirvana so I have never understand what his appeal was anyway.

I think Rolling Stone is like MTV in that they must not employ people under 35 anymore. I am willing to bet that whoever compiled this list proabaly has no clue who at least 3/4 of these people are. They probably asked their Dad who the top 5 were and then made the list up from there.

Completely agreed. See also:

Dean, James
Kennedy, John F.



(No, they didn't kill themselves, but same effect.)

Or did he kill himself??? The mystery is pretty significant....

and there is darned good circumstancial evident pointing a finger at a widow of his....

how else could she keep (and then lose) all his money...

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What she said.

I don't know about anyone else here, but I certainly didn't hold candle light vigil for the man. I was never into Nirvana.

Jeez, am I an old fogey or what? I counted up, and I have only heard of 40 of the people on the list.:(