RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time

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RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« on: October 15, 2023, 03:07:03 PM »
Let the criticism of the list, and the arguments begin.....


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2023, 03:21:39 PM »
Only read the top 25, so I'll have more to say later. It's absolutely laughable to put Frusciante, Hetfield, and Hammett in the top 25, but the rest of it's pretty solid. Great to see Chuck Berry in the top 5 and Jimmy Nolen in the top 15. As always, one could quibble...but I'm not going to, at least not over this part.

Personally, I'd have put flamenco legend Paco de Lucia at #1, far and away; I'm going to be curious to see if he's made this list at all. Won't be surprised if he hasn't.


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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2023, 03:24:03 PM »
Let the criticism of the list, and the arguments begin.....


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/

- Opens list.

- Checks where Pat Metheny and Mark Knopfler rank.

- Closes list and moves to thrash.
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2023, 06:58:04 PM »
The woke top 250 guitarists list. Complete joke.
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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2023, 11:38:58 PM »
Not as horrendous as I was expecting, but a few things struck me as odd:

1. They made such a point about including great/famous duos, but put Duane Allman, Tom Verlaine and Joe Perry on the list without their partners (Dickie Betts, Richard Lloyd, Brad Whitford) in guitar crime.

2. John Fahey makes the list, but Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges - both far better known and more influential - didn't? Okay, dudes.

3. The last time RS did a list like this, I wonder how high Eric Clapton placed. I don't know if any other superstar guitarist's stock has fallen as far this past decade; it seems like Gilmour and Beck have kinda taken his place in the guitar pantheon.

4. Speaking of duos, and of RS' love of the '60s and '70s eras of what we now call "classic rock," how the fuck does the studio/touring duo of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner not make it on here? Both separately and together, they backed a lot of the people on this list, as well as a lot of RRHoF members. The biggest, most inexcusable omission by far.

My recommendations of a few of the lesser-known players on this list:

1. Marissa Paternoster. Absolutely savage mix of equal parts Yngwie Malmsteen and Angus Young, which shouldn't even get close to working but does in her hands.

2. Tobin Abasi. The talk of the guitar players' world for the last 10 years or so. Animals As Leaders' music isn't always the easiest thing to listen to, but it's always worth it.

3. Yvette Young. The young woman with the glittery guitar who's in the foreground of the collage at the beginning of the article. Just gorgeous playing and music.

3 other players I can't believe aren't there:

Junior Barnard
Matt Bellamy
Lee Ritenour...Larry Carlton, David Lindley, and Steve Lukather are all there; Ritenour was the other West Coast studio guitar legend of that era.

Anyway, that's what I got.
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2023, 11:47:56 PM »
Clapton fell like a stone because he doesn’t fit the RS political narrative.

The list is a joke. Pretty obvious they had a quota for women. How do all 3 women from Girlschool make the list? A bunch of indie/punk female artists. They had a female Michael Jackson touring member. They were stretching far and wide to fill that female quota.

List is laughably bad.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2023, 12:14:44 AM »
Clapton fell like a stone because he doesn’t fit the RS political narrative.

The list is a joke. Pretty obvious they had a quota for women. How do all 3 women from Girlschool make the list? A bunch of indie/punk female artists. They had a female Michael Jackson touring member. They were stretching far and wide to fill that female quota.

List is laughably bad.

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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2023, 02:50:04 AM »
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2023, 12:23:23 PM »
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2023, 01:01:39 PM »
I got so bored giving advertisers money I gave up

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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2023, 02:06:51 PM »
oh trolling stone didnt include Billy Corgan? huh.

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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2023, 02:50:25 PM »
oh trolling stone didnt include Billy Corgan? huh.

Yeah, he'd be in the top 10 (probably top 5) of the Guitarists Who Should've Been On This List But Aren't.
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2023, 01:54:10 PM »
Let the criticism of the list, and the arguments begin.....


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/

- Opens list.

- Checks where Pat Metheny and Mark Knopfler rank.

- Closes list and moves to thrash.

Ha!

Codeguy opens list. Checks where Prince and Tom Morello rank. Gets pissed off that BB King outranks both. Wonders if that makes him racist. Realizes he's talking about himself in the third person. Gets a thought that Eddie Van Halen will be ranked too high. Goes to the top 10. Realizes he's right. Get's even more pissed. Realizes he's STILL talking about himself in the third person. Wonders which Jimmy is #1? Oooh, Hendrix, not Page. Wonders where Edge is ranked. Searches for "Edge". Too many matches. Changes search to "The Edge". 47. Not too bad. Wait, PJ Fucking Harvey? Bets AnTha noticed that. Realizes he is STILL talking about himself in third person. Closes window, gets back to work.
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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2023, 11:09:27 PM »
oh trolling stone didnt include Billy Corgan? huh.

Yeah, he'd be in the top 10 (probably top 5) of the Guitarists Who Should've Been On This List But Aren't.

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Re: RS - Top 250 Guitarists of All Time
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2023, 01:37:50 PM »
Graham Coxon in there?
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