Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarist

[Jagermeister]

You gotta be fuckin kidding me! Yet another reason I will not be renewing my subsciption to this shity fucking rag!

Good luck finding Eddy


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...45/32609/34002

[jhale667]

Did they re-do this list or something? Because it was a joke when it originally came out...Kurt Cobain rated higher than Randy Rhoads and Tony Iommi? FUCK that.

[ELVIS]

No Yngwie ??

[chefcraig]

Did they re-do this list or something? Because it was a joke when it originally came out...Kurt Cobain rated higher than Randy Rhoads and Tony Iommi? FUCK that.

Nope. It's the same list that was printed in 2005, then regurgitated in 2008. Nothing new here.

Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists

[jhale667]

No Yngwie ??

RHOADS didn't even crack the Top 75, and you're looking for Yngwie? He'd be lucky to make it into the Top 200 of this abortion of a listing (if they've even heard of him)...who came up with this anyway, David Fricke? He WORSHIPS Cobain (and thinks he was an "amazing" guitarist) so if that's the case...consider the source.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

thought maybe it was "the onion's" version

[FORD]

Did they re-do this list or something? Because it was a joke when it originally came out...Kurt Cobain rated higher than Randy Rhoads and Tony Iommi? FUCK that.

Worse yet, they listed Tony as "Tommy Iommi".

Really?

Fucking Black Sabbath has been around almost as long as Rolling Stone itself, and they can't get his goddamn NAME right?

[jhale667]

thought maybe it was "the onion's" version

Then the joke would at least be intentional...

[FORD]

With all the obscure names they dragged out on to this list, it's a damn crime that Phil Keaggy couldn't get a mention. He really belongs in any legitimate Top 25, if not Top 10 list.

Mike Roe of the 77's should be in there too. He's 100 times better than Jackoff White, for fucks sake.

[FORD]

Nope. It's the same list that was printed in 2005, then regurgitated in 2008. Nothing new here.

Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists

Take a look at Keith Richards' entry. They haven't even updated their copy. "In the 41 years of the Rolling Stones existence.........." (It's actually about 48 years right now)

[GAR]

Did they re-do this list or something?

I'm literally about to have a heart attack looking at the list #100 - 85. It's called "repurposed content" and I don't agree with it, and I think not only do they ruin the fun and hard work and thought you put into your music when they reward losers like this Emo dick in My Bloody Valentine, right under Angus Young who they stick @ #95, but also I remember as a kid seeing what society expressed as "excellence" in the magazines and - didn't agree with all of it then as a kid - but as an adult, I think this is one list I agree with virtually none of it!

Leigh Stevens - at #87 - of Blue Cheer? These things should NOT be popularity contests.. this is billed as an All-Timer list, not a "new timer" one.

Excuse me I have to go break stuff now.

[ThrillsNSpills]

Take a look at Keith Richards' entry. They haven't even updated their copy. "In the 41 years of the Rolling Stones existence.........." (It's actually about 48 years right now)

Keith would make my top twenty bassists list. There's a lot of feeling in his performance on Yer Blues, and the Sympathy bass part is outstanding.
He reminds me of old blues players who make you feel it even if they're playing one chord. It's hard to describe unless you've heard it.

[Nitro Express]

I always enjoy hearing Keith's take on music. He's got excellent perception that way. The guy knows his stuff.

[Nitro Express]

The list is just based on who's currently considered a guitar God by the general public who don't know shit. If guitarists were interviewed that list would be totally different. Everyone knows Hendrix, Clapton, and BB King. Eddie's fame as a hot shot guitarist was years ago so he gets position 70. If you told BB King he was a better guitarist than Eddie Van Halen he would think you were crazy.

[FORD]

Keith would make my top twenty bassists list. There's a lot of feeling in his performance on Yer Blues, and the Sympathy bass part is outstanding.
He reminds me of old blues players who make you feel it even if they're playing one chord. It's hard to describe unless you've heard it.

Keith plays bass on more stuff than many people realize. "Live With Me" on Let It Bleed was him. Oddly enough, he played on the studio version of "Jumpin Jack Flash" even though it was Wyman who actually wrote the riff that the whole song was built on. "Before They Make Me Run" was all Keith. So was "Happy", I think.

And he laid down the rasta groove on his solo albums......

[ThrillsNSpills]

Jumpin jack Flash makes me think of I Feel Fine. Both have acoustic guitars that sound like electrics.



I remember this 45 being a home run when I got it at nine.
Weird to think I've listened to this band since I was 2. It's good to have older brothers.

These lists overall are always weird. It's just one person's opinion based on the limited things they've listened to.
Forums like these are better since there's the chance someone's going to post an amazing track or artist we may have missed.

[jhale667]

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Weird to think I've listened to this band since I was 2. It's good to have older brothers.

Or sisters...mine introduced me to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and eventually Van Halen.