Best Guitarist

[Migs]

Seeing the clip of The Purple One made me think of this:



I'm not sure that I agree but ...

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 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

[Geir]

Obviously not compiled by a guitarist

[Gritter]

What a bunch of BS.

I'm a fan of Nirvana but Kurt Cobain #12!!!!!
I'm not a fan of Rush but where is Alex Lifeson!
PRINCE!
Adrian Belew!
Nels Cline!
Andy Summers!
Dean Ween!
Roy Clark!
Brian Setzer!
Slash!
John Lennon!
Dave Matthews!
Bobby Baker (Tragically Hip)!

...and no females!

...not to mention all the instrumental wankers that guitarists love!

We could probably make a list of 100 guitarists that weren't included.

[SdC]

...We could probably make a list of 100 guitarists that weren't included.

But we could certainly NOT make a list that we all agree on....

[Greeny]

I agree with Sandy... I'd love to know what criteria were used, because this is an idiotic list overall. Most of the predictable ones are in there, but there are some glaring ommissins and puzzling additions. Now, Lou Reed is a great artist (Transformer is my favourite album of all time, in fact), but there is no way that he's a 'great' guitarist. Same with Kurt Cobain. They are important and influential guitarists, but that's a different thing. Also, BB King at no.3 is laughable. He's a legend and a great bluesman, but he sure isn't a great guitarist. He just knows how to use minimal notes and vibrato extremely well. And where the fuck is Johnny Winter? Or Johnny Marr? Jeff Buckley? Paco Lucia? Nick Drake? Glad to see Mick Ronson make the list though - he's too underrated. I think Bonnie Rait should be on there too. Yep... we could do 100 who aren't on there easily.

[Greeny]

...and no females!

They do have Joni Mitchell, which is a good thing. But that's a pretty poor representation for women.

[Gu Djin]

Jennifer Batten should at least be consideration on any list for innovation as well as skills.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQK9RpOloc  Skip the first few seconds if you like!

Leigh

[Kevin Mammoth]

...and no females!

They do have Joni Mitchell, which is a good thing. But that's a pretty poor representation for women.

Joan Jett is 87 as well.

I know these things always cause arguments but even then I think this is a pretty lame list. 

Personal peeve - Angus Young always gets pasted in these things, if mentioned at all, and the guy is a guitar genius (within his particular genre of course)

[Gritter]

...and no females!

They do have Joni Mitchell, which is a good thing. But that's a pretty poor representation for women.

...oops, sorry Joni.

[Geir]

Eddie Van Halen at 70 ... now that's just ridiculous ..... whether you like him or not, he sure is one hell of a guitarist in every definition of the term !!

And tho I'm aware that guitarists choice of what a great guitarist is not neccesarily coincide with the public opinion, I don't find many here that's been even nominated as the best guitar player of the year, much less best guitar player of all times.