Rolling Stone Top Guitarists Thread of Clickbait

[locodos 5385]

This admission will get me kicked off the Music forum...

CSB:

Spoiler

In high school I used to give a group of kids a ride to school in the AM.  One of them was a drummer and a music freak who aspired to be a Radio Station DJ or in a rock band.  He always leaned into heavier rock and introduced me to all kinds of stuff.  One day I'm over at his house and notice a picture of a hip lookin' 70's black dude with a big ole fro.  Strange, he was more into metal / punk / classic rock.   So I asked him "hey, what's with the poster?"  He just looked at me with a incredulous smirk.   Finally he get's that I'm serious...   "you don't know that's Jimi Hendrix?"   OOOOOOOOOooooooh! Oh 

tl/dr I'm an idiot. 

But I know this Stevie was heavily influenced by Jimi ...  so Jimi > Stevie 

[Not that Bob 735]

I don't know who's best. I love all of 'em. But. This. This is from a composer. This makes me cry. Every time.

 

[Gil Bang 25906]

On 10/21/2023 at 5:54 PM, G650 said:

I mean, if you will recall from the Guitar thread when we were listing our top three we coupd play like the other day, I had Slash as my number one. And I am totally fine with him being 100 ish on this list.

 

I really have to say for RS, this was not nearly as egregious as usual. I didn't read the whole thing, but the biggest robberies I can see are Charlie Christian and James Burton. Should both be top 5 easy to me.

 

I didn't look to see where Glen Campbell was though, that could be another.

Since I got my ES-150, I've listened to a ton of Charlie Christian, and you sir, are correct. 

[mbtex 683]

15 hours ago, Deej said:

I'm guessing Jerry Reed didn't make the list.

Roy Clark didn't make list either.  Travesty

[Deej 76705]

9 minutes ago, mbtex said:

Roy Clark didn't make list either.  Travesty

He's no Jack White.

[elguapo 4583]

On 10/19/2023 at 12:26 AM, ztejas said:

Also... I'm gonna keep defending my guy.

 

If anyone on this site wants to grab a pick and show us that then go ahead. Let's see it. 

Here's another one because I know a lot of you aren't going to watch the entire song.

 

Elementary stuff. I could teach my dead dog to do that. 

[Al_4_ISU 12421]

On 10/13/2023 at 3:03 PM, 0xdeadbeef said:

The first part of the list

1. Hendrix
2. Chuck Berry
3. Page
4. EVH
5. Jeff Beck
6. Sister Rosetta Tharpe 
7. Nile Rodgers
8. BB King
9. Joni Mitchell
10. Duane Allman
11. Santana
12. jimmy Nolen
13. Toni Iommi
14. Prince
15. Keith
16. Robert Johnson
17. Mother Maybelle Carter
18. Tom Morello
19. Freddy King
20. SRV
21. Randy Rhoads
22. Albert King
23. Hetfield and Hammett
24. James Burton
25. John Frusciante
26. St. Vincent
27. Buddy Guy
28. Gilmour
29. Eddie Hazel
30. Neil Young
31. Harrison
32. Jack White
33. May
34. Garcia
35. Clapton

 

Da Faq is wrong with those people?
 

 

So the Rolling Stone thinks there are only 5 guitarists that rate higher than this one:

 

 

Clickbait is clickbait.

 

They don't honestly believe there are only 5 guitar players better than her, they wanted to put a dual minority in the Top 10.  Which is fine, it's their list, and it's just discussion fodder.  I would have been shocked to not see several token gestures to people that aren't as great as they're contending just to score some points.

 

The only entry that truly annoyed me was putting Clapton ahead of the Young Brothers.

[tbone_ 14074]

I’ll just leave this here. For those that don’t see it I don’t know what to tell you

[G650 14166]

Lol.

 

Does anyone know if Jimmy Bryant made the list

[Celery Man 20921]

Jimi is an underrated rhythm guitarist. And rhythm guitar is underrated.

Also, playing something really cool is great, but being the person who came up with the idea to play that cool thing is even better. I don't have a dog in the Jack White thing either way, I kinda get it how he works into this conversation but I think of him more in the "creative powerhouse" bucket than the "virtuoso" bucket. All that said... fuck man, 7 Nation Army is simple as all hell and it is regularly chanted by entire stadiums of people. The biggest stadiums in the world. Brian Setzer is a better guitarist but he didn't do that.

[G650 14166]

15 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Jimi is an underrated rhythm guitarist. And rhythm guitar is underrated.

 

He's honestly more astonishing as a rhythm player than a lead player by a substantial amount. To me, the triumvirate of Jimi, EVH and Pete Townsend are the pillars of rhythm guitar. Hetfield and Malcolm Young as honorable mention.

[Hate 20105]

 
He's honestly more astonishing as a rhythm player than a lead player by a substantial amount. To me, the triumvirate of Jimi, EVH and Pete Townsend are the pillars of rhythm guitar. Hetfield and Malcolm Young as honorable mention.

Throw up the Deadhead signal again…Bob Weir is the greatest rhythm guitar player of all time .

[jimmyjazz 45788]

1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

I’ll just leave this here. For those that don’t see it I don’t know what to tell you

I can't imagine any better tone that Stevie Ray's.  Eddie had great tone, too, especially early on, but a lot of that was the dimed Marshall.  Jimmy Page got there when he was in full swagger.  Hendrix just doesn't do as much for me.

And rhythm?  Stevie & Eddie were absolute beasts as rhythm players.

[Al_4_ISU 12421]

 

1 hour ago, G650 said:

 

He's honestly more astonishing as a rhythm player than a lead player by a substantial amount. To me, the triumvirate of Jimi, EVH and Pete Townsend are the pillars of rhythm guitar. Hetfield and Malcolm Young as honorable mention.

[66BUFF 2561]

2 of the best.  Where was Blackmore on the list?

 

[Rimbo 25903]

Beato chimes in.

He destroys them.

Edited October 24, 2023 by Rimbo

[G650 14166]

1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

Beato chimes in.

He destroys them.

Yeah this reinforces my opinion the RS wasn't that objectionable

[elguapo 4583]

The RS list is total ass and if you disagree then your opinion is wrong and you should feel bad about that.

[Deej 76705]

"Don't care. Got clicks."

[Celery Man 20921]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

"Don't care. Got clicks."

Speaking of which, where is Tom Morello

[DougO 5240]

I've often thought there should be a list of the top 100 stupidass Rolling Stone magazine lists. 

[BrickHorn 18200]

On 10/22/2023 at 5:57 AM, G650 said:

Buckingham isn't even the best guitarist from Fleetwood Mac.

Agreed, but to be clear: he’s not the second best guitarist from Fleetwood Mac, either. 

[MajorTexas 69]

Roy Buchanan should be on the list 

[G650 14166]

 

 

[ajax 2596]

Okay I took a look at the list.

I think a better title would be "a list of guitar players that will make me sound cool and hip - from someone living in the year 1997."

[Buzzrock 14885]

Yeah this reinforces my opinion the RS wasn't that objectionable

Hater

[Deej 76705]

On 10/24/2023 at 3:33 PM, G650 said:

Yeah this reinforces my opinion the RS wasn't that objectionable

We should try to get Rick to have G650 on an episode just for the laughs.

[G650 14166]

3 minutes ago, Deej said:

We should try to get Rick to have G650 on an episode just for the laughs.

I guarantee I could make him cry within 20 minutes

[Deej 76705]

By telling him how great Jack White is?

[G650 14166]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

By telling him how great Jack White is?

That's just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have him questioning his parentage

[Pato del Muerto 52441]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

By telling him how great Jack White is?

He’s no nuno bettencourt 

[Deej 76705]

My favorite part of It Might Get Loud was when Jack White plays seven Nation Army and Page says something like why didn't I come up with that? You could tell he knew it was so simple he can't believed he missed it. 

[G650 14166]

47 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

He’s no nuno bettencourt