bluesguitar65 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Well, folks Rolling Stones Magazine just published their 100 Greatest Guitar Players of all Time. Check it out and what do you think? What precentage are/were Shredders and what are more blues rock? [flapper] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/lindsey-buckingham-19691231 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Goes to show... The list means nothing. Putting Stevie as a lesser guitarist than Mr. Harrison? I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong, but Stevie could play circles around George. Also, Joe Bonamassa isn't even on the list... what's with that? Buncha bull if you asked me. I also have to argue that it's subjective, and it's really more about favorites than best (implied, but true argument) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 not even going to look at the list, or even the top 10. all I know is Nels Cline is number 82 thanks to following Wilco on twitter. Glad the man is getting some recognition because he shreds like no other these lists are stupid though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Barley any Jazz or Classical guitarist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Barley any Jazz or Classical guitarist... because its a popularity contest. as much as i like nirvana, kurt cobain should not be on the top 100 list of greatest guitarists probably of even the 90s (i'm assuming cobain is on there, probably somewhere near the top 50) whenever i have read something about cobain, they start off the paragraph with "he wasn't a proficient player but...." and you know its bullshit. IMO, i have a lot more respect for the people in the lower spectrum of the list because they are the ones who work for it and are truly amazing, not some "guitar hero" that people grew up with and can do no wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Thank god this list came out!! Now I'll finally know who the good guitar players are!! Thank you Rolling Stoned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpiphoneFan1989 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Goes to show... The list means nothing. Putting Stevie as a lesser guitarist than Mr. Harrison? I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong, but Stevie could play circles around George. Also, Joe Bonamassa isn't even on the list... what's with that? Buncha bull if you asked me. I also have to argue that it's subjective, and it's really more about favorites than best (implied, but true argument) Every opinion is subjectiv. So, every person has other favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Care for a little perspective? Here's rolling stones review of the first Zeppelin record. The popular formula in England in this, the aftermath era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John Mayall, seems to be: add, to an excellent guitarist who, since leaving the Yardbirds and/or Mayall, has become a minor musical deity, a competent rhythm section and pretty soul-belter who can do a good spade imitation. The latest of the British blues groups so conceived offers little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago, and the excesses of the Beck group's Truth album (most notably its self-indulgence and restrictedness), are fully in evidence on Led Zeppelin's debut album. Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, an extraordinarily proficient blues guitarist and explorer of his instrument's electronic capabilities. Unfortunately, he is also a very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs, and the Zeppelin album suffers from his having both produced it and written most of it (alone or in combination with his accomplices in the group). The album opens with lots of guitarrhythm section exchanges (in the fashion of Beck's "Shapes of Things" on "Good Times Bad Times," which might have been ideal for a Yardbirds' B-side. Here, as almost everywhere else on the album, it is Page's guitar that provides most of the excitement. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" alternates between prissy Robert Plant's howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull in places (especially on the vocal passages), very redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half minutes the Zeppelin gives it. Two much-overdone Willie Dixon blues standards fail to be revivified by being turned into showcases for Page and Plant. "You Shook Me" is the more interesting of the two — at the end of each line Plant's echo-chambered voice drops into a small explosion of fuzz-tone guitar, with which it matches shrieks at the end. The album's most representative cut is "How Many More Times." Here a jazzy introduction gives way to a driving (albeit monotonous) guitar-dominated background for Plant's strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he's nowhere near so exciting, especially in the higher registers). A fine Page solo then leads the band into what sounds like a backwards version of the Page-composed "Beck's Bolero," hence to a little snatch of Albert King's "The Hunter," and finally to an avalanche of drums and shouting. In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wineredrich Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Kind of a safe top 10. Hard to argue with Page, Hendrix, Clapton, Townshend, Beck, Richards, King, Berry etc, etc in any order depending on their influence on the individual reader. Most of the rest of the list is inspired by these guys anyway. Have to agree though, it doesn't say electric guitar or rock guitar and doesn't include folks like Segovia, Parkening, or John Williams?? At least on quick inspection, I didn't see them....also, though all may not agree, any electric player in his 40s who doesn't list Ace Frehley (an amalgam of all the 60s greats) as an influence is probably lying. He's not here either. why do I let myself get worked up over this BS everytime?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 rolling stone is one step above the rock and roll hall of fame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 how did wylde and tipton not get on this list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Townsend and Richards in the top ten? Ridiculous. Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wineredrich Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Townsend and Richards in the top ten? Ridiculous. Stupid. Very strongly worded my friend. As soloists, you may be correct (may be), but if Richards did nothing more than write the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" riff and Townshend quit playing right after windmill chording through "Won't Get Fooled Again", I would STILL put them in MY top 10. To each his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 When did Keith Richards become a guitar player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpiphoneFan1989 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 When did Keith Richards become a guitar player? What do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner 13 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Number one on my list.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wineredrich Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Les is in there--top 20 I think (can't pull up the list again to be sure without getting sick, sorry. One thing I think we can ALL agree on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallastx Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Yeah. I went through the list yesterday. Like every year, I dissagree with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 This RS "List" is only their opinion. You like, who YOU like, regardless. Who cares about, or needs, someone else's "list?!" Heck, the "greatest" guitar player is so subjective, anyway...and, probably isn't even famous? Who knows (or cares)? LOL Lists, like this, are for people who either can't think, or are too lazy to bother to really listen. They need it "spoon fed" to them. It's just another way of "brain-washing" the masses. (Cynic, that I am... ) CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoRedFoot Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Paul Gilbert FTW RS FAIL....all aboot kissing @$$. No Dave Mustaine, maybe I went thru the list too fast, but I didn't see Jerry Reed (at least Chet Atkins was on there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Paul Gilbert FTW RS FAIL....all aboot kissing @$$. No Dave Mustaine, maybe I went thru the list too fast, but I didn't see Jerry Reed (at least Chet Atkins was on there). i didn't bother looking at the list, is mr moore on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krock Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I dont agree with it, but then again it wasnt my list of 100 great Mojo, I think I saw mustaine on the list but not very high up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Paul Gilbert FTW I had that thought too, how is he not up there? He's a monster. Oh no, I'm turning into a shredhead! Anyways, I've already said... I'm baffled at the order they have. But I am even more befuddled by those left off... how in the sacred name of **** do you forget Gary Moore? Joe Bonamassa?... <more names go here> Fun fact, I owe my appreciation for Gary Moore to one Stevejoshlay . And yes, he did get left out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heymisterk Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I don't hate the list, but I don't like lists either. I do believe that, generally, Jimi gets too few accolades on this forum. And I, for one, think Keith is great, especially when it comes to WRITING songs with the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Picking "The Best Ever"/100 Greatest"-what ever list is a fools errand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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