Riverside Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak show Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Love to hear your thoughts! These lists are pointless and silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Love to hear your thoughts! These lists are pointless and silly. LOL! +1 But hey; I like 'silly'. Just so long as I don't begin to take them seriously... It's been mentioned already that this is largely a "popularity contest." That's the way to look at it. I'm sure we could all come up with at least ten guitarists who are absent and the ordering of those mentioned so far looks a bit like a tombola result. Furthermore; not one Bass guitarist has been mentioned. Does Gibson not recognise bassists as guitarists? :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gibson Lifestyle Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Hey - the Top 10 are published - here are the links to the entire list. 50 - 41: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-524/ 40 - 31: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-525/ 30 - 21: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-526/ 20 - 11: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-527/ 10 - 1: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-528/ Love to hear your thoughts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 http://www.sadtrombone.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul_st_blues Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 14. Prince!!!!!! WTF [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( [-( Prince is overall underrated (over/under? ;) ) as a guitarist, or even as musician for that fact. He is extremely talented. The description just about nailed it on his entry. Whether his rank should be 14 or not can be debated, but he deserves to be in the conversation of a top 50 list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoRedFoot Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Ok, so Jack White and Kurt Cobain made the list but Paul Gilbert did not. Lenny Breau got no honorable mention. At least Chet made the list. Still [-( [-( See? Look how mad he is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 None of them can weld as well as I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 None of them can weld as well as I can. I voted for you, perhaps you were #51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 What? No Buckethead? lol! *ducks* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dROK83 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Reading some of the reactions on the Gibson site are funny. This list is way off, but that's the way the people voted. You have to laugh though at not only the order of this list, but just some of the people on it and not on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I voted for you' date=' perhaps you were #51[/quote'] Nope Axe came in number 1 in Welder weekly magazines top 50 welders of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG fan 420 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 WTF!!! Iommi's not in the top 50??? Kieth Richards ahead of Clapton??? For a company that suposedly knows music, they have no clue[angry] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Pippy... Actually... No, it appears the poll - and frankly to me as well - that no, bass players aren't guitarists any more than they are violinists if they play a fretless. Now... Poll weakness: It leaves out some of the top jazz guitarists that were incredibly astute musicians. Some in sessions helped create "rock" sounds but are virtually unknown in that role. So... Basically we've got folks who are known for standing up and singing and playing. That's not necessarily bad, but it's a popularity contest. Robert Johnson? Yeah, some knew of him, but let's face it, given the technology of the time, even folkie bluesie pickers quite likely never heard him even if they'd heard of him. How 'bout Gary Davis, for example, who wasn't dead in the 60s? m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I agree with the Hendrix pick but the rest of the list is of course debatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dROK83 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 What Were They Thinking? It's funny when they have to release another article explaining why the list is so bad. Although even their explanation kinda sux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 where the **** is GARY MOORE!!? and how are prince and the edge considered better than rory gallagher and richie blackmoore? what a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Very few of you people seem to know that this was from a Readers poll....its not about who is the best, its who is more out there and popular...more people know em, more people vote for him. I don't understand why people ***** about stuff like this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Very few of you people seem to know that this was from a Readers poll....its not about who is the best' date=' its who is more out there and popular...more people know em, more people vote for him. I don't understand why people ***** about stuff like this....[/quote'] I Agree. If anybody remembers, the folks at Gibson ask us to cast our vote for our favorite guitarist. Gibson didn't rate these artist, we did. The results in part is a reflection of the tastes we have here in the forum. We can't blame Gibson or the author of the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dROK83 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Most people are *****in because the list is named "Gibson.com's Top 50 Guitarist of All Time" it's just a poor title for something that is voted on by the people. It seems to be a misunderstanding that Gibson made this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_randy Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 the entire list is nothing I would agree with. Prince???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dROK83 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 so many people hating on Prince. Whether or not you like his music, he is definitely a great guitarist, and song writer for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Hating on people in the Gibson Forum? Unheard of! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG fan 420 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I'm sure they took the votes into account, but I bet they had the final say. Oh well, it's just another crappy top 50 list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Has ANYONE ever seen a Top 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000 list of ANYTHING which was not crappy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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