I don't know if anyone in here has posted this yet or has read it, but here are the 100 best guitarists according to Rolling Stone magazine:

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
11 Kirk 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 Dick 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

WOW eddie van halen #70. david gilmour #82 WHAT IN THE DOG FUCK BARF ARE THEY ON AT ROLLING STONE?

i'm not a big EVH fan but come on. this list is obviously all rock and he's definitely proven to be WAY more skilled and WAY more innovative than a lot of the people on that list. top 10 for sure.

i'm quite impressed that kim thayil made the cut though, he's always been one of my favourites. still doesn't change the fact that this list is only marginally better than the top 200 albums according to market research the RnR HOF dumped out earlier this year.

Not only has it been posted before, but only a few days over 37 months ago a certain Grasshoppa posted the same thing before.


http://www.radiomute.com/13900-rss-1...-all-time.html

i thought this might have been a revised list my bad

P.S. Beside it being a general joke, I still have to laugh that they thought it necessary to mention which bands Page, Allman, Richards, Cobain, etc.... were members of.

I am not sure if I should be impressed or not that you zoned in on the same two guitarists and said the same thing each time.

Too bad Slash or Frampton didn't make the list. I remember seeing Frampton in Plattsburgh, New York at the college campus of SUNY Plattsburgh (1975). I didn't know it at the time but the song "Do you feel like we do", which he played at the end of the concert, was added onto "Frampton Comes Alive". It was amazing watching and listening to him up there. It was impressive how he used the talk box to mimic human speech. Everytime I listen to "Do you feel like we do" on the radio I remember the particulars of that day: what I was wearing, who I was with or who I was sitting next to. It is quite amazing.

Too bad I wasn't on this forum 37 months ago. I wouldn't have to repeat this thread.

There was also this.


http://www.radiomute.com/9975-guitar...uitarists.html

Frampton was actually an excellent guitarist. While it might have been the best thing for him financially....Frampton Comes Alive! killed him musically....and no matter how much I tried back when it was released....it and it's singles could not be avoided for a good 3 or 4-years. Then there was The Abomination with him and The Brothers Gibb.


He discovered the talk box during his sessions for George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. It was a gift from Bob Heil.


The first person to use one would be Joe Walsh on Rocky Mountain Way.