No douubt. I can see the top 10..no problems there. but a list of the top 100 without a mention of Joe Satriani... and with wusses like Kirk Cobain waaay over Townsend, May, Knopfler, Perry, EVH, and Randy? He wasnt fit to be a guitar tech to guys like that. Please. Rolling Stone is worthless as a judge of musician's abilities.
He isnt underrated to people who actually know something about rock guitarists... Rolling stone can kiss my posterior region..
Look at some of the names ahead of the late great Randy Rhoads! Kirk Hammett isn't even the best guitarist in his own band! Johnny Ramone knows 3 chords! Jack White?!? Ike Turner?? Joni Mitchell?!?! Randy should be in the top 10. He was a guitar prodigy whether you liked that kind of music or not. I fart in Rolling Stones general direction. A big smelly pre-poop ripper!!
Sorry for the double post but... Did these idiots forget about the guy that John Frusciante freakin' replaced?!? John is good but to put him at 18 and not even list Hillel is an insult to his good name! Morons.
Eddie Van Halen coming in at #70 is a joke. And no love at all for my main man, Mr. Richard Sambora? I detect a little jealousy.
Wow is all I can say. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was called by Hendrix, himself, dammit, that he, Billy Gibbons, was one of the greatest guitar players he has ever heard and yet he is not even in this list? Unf*ckingbelievable....
I do think it's awesome that they listed the Houston Blues legend "Lightnin' Hopkins". I'm pretty surprised he wasn't overlooked.
Eddie Van Halen was Guitarist of the Year for some big guitar magazine for like 5 years in a row I think.
Here's a cool interview I found- Billy Corgan talking to EVH. Must have been from around '97 or so: Part 1: http://www.guitarworld.com/artistindex/9604.corghalen.html Part 2: http://guitarworld.com/artistindex/9605.corganhalen.html
That's one thing I don't understand. How is Billy Corgan so forgotten these days. Didn't he do some pretty good work back in the 90's?
Hmmm, no Allen Collins? At the least, would had expected "Free bird" to get him on the list. Edit - After checking the site I noticed they have a poll up asking whos the greatest guitarist ever with these options: Jimi Hendrix Eric Clapton Eddie Van Halen And Jack White I like the White Stripes but Jack White? Oh well.
If anyone shows ignorance, it's you. I bet you work for Rolling Stone magazine, the silliest magazine ever created. A magazine that considers Joni Mitchell (JONI ****ING MITCHELL!!!), two three chord punk guitarists, and the edge from U2 as the greatest guitarists cannot do better than put Eric CRAPTON near the top. That English dildo has ablsolutely no talent. Tell me this finn, why is that any failed musician or 12 year old can play CRAPTON's "passionate" blues about ridicolous garbage like shooting the sheriff or how his baby left him for the 10 millionth time. And now tell me this, why is that people who have played for 10 years cannot even begin to play with fluidity and fire that guitarists on my list can do with ease? How is that some moron who uses exclusively the blues and pentatonic scale is consdiered brilliant and a guitarist who uses complex and exotic scales and ryhtms such as the phrygian mode and the harmonic minor scale is considered "ignorant." I bet you think Jimmy Page can burn too. Oh, yeah he can sure burn in that stairway to heaven, there sure isn't any song that is there? Do you have difficulty playing that song? I think the ignorant amateur is you finn.
Very true, and when he was starting out in "The Movin' Sidewalks", he helped them give such a performance opening for the Doors that the Doors came out shakin' their heads and played like demons. True story. Or was that Johnny Winter that Hendrix made the comment about.
Hendrix on Terry Kath (guitarist for the band Chicago) Watching the group perform live for the first time, a stunned Jimi Hendrix told Chicago sax man Walter Parazaider, "Your guitar player is better than me."
Not that anyone here doubted me, but I found this...I guess I should show this to the idiots at Rolling Stone: Billy also played in a early sixties band called The Coachman and then in a great band called The Moving Sidewalks. The Moving Sidewalks toured with Jimi Hendrix one season. Jimi is quoted (in the book "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" as calling The Moving Sidewalks the "best garage band in America" and Billy Gibbons his "favorite guitarist." Jimi gave Billy a pink Strat on this tour stating "it's too pretty to burn."
I think the music snob is you, Mooch. You shall search far and wide looking for people who don't consider Clapton one of the great guitarists of all time. As far as my favorites... Jimmy Jimi Santanna Eddie Van Halen BB King Clapton People whose music I enjoy(Maybe even more so than that of the better guitarists) despite the lack of guitar prowess: Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds Lennon/Harrison(Though, I think they were damn good...I'd say they are both quite underrated.) Bruce Springsteen Bob Dylan Ben Harper/Jack Johnson
Manny, you turkey! Beat me to it. Here's part of an interview with Johnny Winter about Jimi from UniVibes, issue 4, November, 1991... Mississippi-born blues rocker Johnny Winter has enjoyed a long a distinguished career since recording his first solo album `Johnny Winter' in 1969. Johnny jammed with Jimi Hendrix on several occasions. UniVibes: When did you first meet Jimi Hendrix? Johnny Winter: I met him at The Scene club that my manager Steve Paul had in 1968. Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was. There was a club called The Experience where he always went when he was there - no matter where he went he would go out and play with whoever was around and do a lot of recording with other people, just recording the jamming. They would be down at the club all night and then whoever was sober enough he would bring back to the studio at the end of the night - you know, he really did like to play! UV: What was your impression of Jimi as a person rather than as a musician? JW: I never really got to know Jimi as a person. He was always involved in music and never talked about anything `serious' [OK, we know what he means!]. We talked about music and that was it. He didn't seem like a very open person as far as talking about his problems and things like that... He would never say, `Hey man, I really don't feel good today.' He would just keep to himself if he didn't feel good. I'm sure he had a lot of people he was closer to than me that he did talk to, but he just didn't seem to be that open a person except about music and that was what he did, you know. I don't what he was like as a person. UV: You recorded at the Record Plant with Jimi, Stephen Stills and Dallas Taylor. What do you remember of that? JW: Yeah, well, I recorded at the Record Plant with Jimi and I played with Dallas and Stephen at The Scene but I don't think they were on the record though. I don't think they were at the studio but I'm not real sure - it's been a long time! [note: Stephen Stills confirmed that the session at the Record Plant was with Jimi, Johnny, Dallas and himself].
First of all, 'I Shot the Sheriff' is a Bob Marley song. Second, a song's greatness is NOT, imo, measured by how difficult it is to play. 'Stairway to Heaven' is a great song. The fact that you and many other people can play it doesn't take away from how great it is. It sounds great, and no one had done it before.
