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.