100 Greatest Guitar Players

[I'm Painting Again]

Kevin Shields @ 95?? well, at least he made the list... but still... he's a better guitarist and made more innovative sounds with his guitar than most people on that list, in my opinion

thats true!!



that list blows out of my dogs butt.

[PatrickBrown]

Don't know where they get that stuff.
Mine wouild list, in no partucular order(and I'm not going near 100) Charlie Christian, Frank Zappa, Eric Johnson, Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, Django, and dozens more who can 'really' play. Apologies to other really great players,,these are off the top, and I just got up. Many more,,,their names are in some of these posts.
The question is too broad. What genre? etc. (despite the obligatory, and expected, Clapton, Hendrix, Harrison, Cippolina, Garcia, Santana,,not the greatest technician, to me, but he IS lyrical, I must admit, SRV, brother Jimmy, Joe Perry, Billy Gibbons,,others,,,,,Springsteen,,if you've seen him, you know what I mean,,,, dozens of the great blusemen,,and dozens of other great jazzers,,on and on.) Emily Remler. The jazz field is rife with them,,like jazz or not, it takes talent and knowhow to really play over changes,,bebop. What about Vai, Satriani? Peter Green. Steve Morse. Jimmy Robinson of Woodenhead is quite a player. New Orleans band. Everyone raves about Steve Masakowski,,but I think Robinson is far more talented. Alot more original. Oh yeah, Chet, Clarence White, Albert Lee,,on and on. Some Bluegrass flat pickers who'll blow your head off, too. Too hard a question. No easy answers. Many more.

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Here's the list:

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
11Kirk 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 Qeen
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
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

You're on crack- where's Ted Nugent?

[justinf]

Elliot Easton
Bert Jansch
one could easily go on all day

the Nuge? what a fuck

[gone]

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[darkestshade79]

Hey DUC! Where'd you get that sweet emoticon? Violent emoticons are AWESOME!

[Andrew Weatherhead]

My favorite members of this list would have to be Johnny Ramone and Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo. I find this incredibly ironic that they made the 100 greatest guitar players list because they pride themselves on not being able to play guitar, that's the appeal of the Ramones and Sonic Youth. Also, if they were trying to please everyone, as it seems they were, they should have mentioned at least one jazz player. Charlie Christian? Wes Montgomery? Pat Metheny? Django Rienhardt?

[eh91311]

These kind of lists are just indicative of how disposable and short-sighted modern America's "pop" culture really is. Any list that doesn't have the following is just plain wrong:

Charlie Christian - Anyone remember him? RS didn't.
Django Reinhardt - The gypsy jazzer did make 78's, after all.
Andres Segovia - Modern classical guitarist gets no mention.
Michael Hedges - New Age acoustic virtuoso gets no mention
Roy Buchanan - I wasn't a fan of his style but no one played a Tele better.
Jimmy Nolen - Without him, James Brown would be a lot less funky.
Roger Troutman of Zapp - A no-brainer. No one was more original and innovative than Roger.
Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton - It took a lot to take Eddie Hazel's place; he did.
Shuggie Otis - Johnny's son. Turned down the Rolling Stones' invitation to join... he shouldn't have.
Freddie Green, Grant Green, George Benson, Gabor Szabo, Eric Gale - Jazzers missing along with Wes.
Johnny Guitar Watson, Albert King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Gatemouth Brown - There's more to blues than Blues Boy, T-Bone, Lightinin' or Buddy.

Rolling Stone's list must have used the same parameters for inclusion as does the Grammys... whoever sells the most records lately is the "greatest".

These kind of "lists" stink.

[plus6]

The fact that Joe Satriani is not on the RS list makes it invalid.

[Rick Hunter]

what no kerry king? theres gonna be some ass kicking down at the rolling stone offices

[EasyGo]

These kind of lists are just indicative of how disposable and short-sighted modern America's "pop" culture really is.

I feel ya, eh91311. Gabor Szabo's one of my absolute faves, and a HUGE influence on Carlos Santana. I also hear ya on Django, Jimmy Nolen, and Roger Troutman (RIP). Shuggie's dope too.

[Bear]

And what about Elliot Smith?

[Bear]

Django Reinhardt - The gypsy jazzer did make 78's, after all.

I forgot Django, but how could they?

...grumble...grumble...

[beardsrok]

Just saw that someone bagged on John Frusciante. Sure his Chili Peppers stuff is not that great but everyone should at least give a listen to Neandra LaDes and Usually just a T-shirt. It is one of the best things I have ever heard come from a four track, and is great and original guitar playing. I personally hate the Chili Peppers but Frusciante solo is brilliant.

[cgarges]

So far, a whole lot of talking, but no one answered my post. I guess the answer is no, right?

Chris