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elvislegs
Sep 12, 2003, 5:10 PM
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Anyone see it? A pretty good list.
Some of my favorites made the list some did not. Numba 1 was Hendrix, which I think is based more on cultural appeal than actuall skill. I mean he was great, even innovative, but better than Stevie Ray Vaughn (7th) or Carlos Santana (15th)? All subjectivity I suppose.
Who's your favorite music luvvas?
My personal favorites making the list: Trey Anastasio (73) The aformentioned SRV(7), Steve Cropper (36), Jimmy Page (9), Les Paul (46), and Duane Allman (2).
Yes I am a music nerd. Post up Biatches.
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madriver
Sep 12, 2003, 5:16 PM
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Al Dimielo
Mike Stern
SRV
Duane
John Schofield
Berelli LaGrande (sp)
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...I'll be back after my anuerism clears and I can remember the rest..
MR 8)
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madriver
Sep 12, 2003, 5:19 PM
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......more ...
Randy Rhoads
Slow Hand
Dicky Betts
Larry Carlton
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elvislegs
Sep 12, 2003, 5:27 PM
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Rhoads was number 85.
Clapton was number 4.
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madriver
Sep 12, 2003, 5:31 PM
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Rhoads 85?....I guess...he wasn't long for this earth unfortunetly....but a true unknown genius
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wideguy
Sep 12, 2003, 5:35 PM
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Wasn't Cobain ridiculously high? For cultural impact maybe but actual skill as a guitarist?
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mike
Sep 12, 2003, 5:36 PM
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Ry Cooder made number 8? Not that I don't think it's deserved, just suprises me.
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abkaiser
Sep 12, 2003, 5:42 PM
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Was Joe Satriani on the list?
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elvislegs
Sep 12, 2003, 5:49 PM
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In reply to: Wasn't Cobain ridiculously high? For cultural impact maybe but actual skill as a guitarist?
Yes. 12th. Again, he's an icon no doubt. But extraordinarily skilled? Above Stephen Stills? or to pick a peer of his, Frusciante?
The lead in for the list doesn't really give the criteria they were judged on, but next to each artist is a little sort of "why we picked this person" bio.
Cobains bio says the same thing that every writer says about him. He killed satdium rock blah blah, he introdued grunge blah blah, he was in agnuish feh. Those things are true and important, but have more to do with his writing and approach than his playing IMO. The coolest thing they mention about him is that Lead Belly was his biggest influence.
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christopherjay
Sep 12, 2003, 5:52 PM
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Not really in order:
Steve Vai
Kirk Hammet
Jerry Garcia
Al DiMiola
Paco Delucia
SRV
Adrian Legg
Scott Henderson of Tribal Tech
Ani DiFranco
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elvislegs
Sep 12, 2003, 5:54 PM
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In reply to: Was Joe Satriani on the list?
No. But Joni Mitchell was (71). heh. :roll:
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elvislegs
Sep 12, 2003, 6:05 PM
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Tom Morello of RAGE:
Where did you buy your first guitar?
A place called Rigoni Music in Libertyville, Illinois. I coveted these solid-body Ovation guitars with this wierd, axlike, shape, but I had only fifty dollars, so I couldn't afford one. So I bought a Kay guitar. It was the cheapest one with the most knobs. They laughed at me, at my thirteen year old self. I had a big afro. I weighed about seventy-five cents, and they laughed at me. I was like, "I'll show you sons of b!tches how expensive my leads are gonna be! Jackasses!" I took a couple of guitar lessons. I wanted to learn Zepplin's Black Dog, but instead they wanted to teach me the C major scale. I thought it was a waste of time. I put the guitar in the closet for four years.
Classic.
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edge
Sep 12, 2003, 6:07 PM
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Besides those mentioned, I'd include:
Jorma Kaukonen (Hot frick'n Tuna, I'm bringing that CD out to my truck right now!)
Jeff Beck
David Gilmour
Jerry Garcia
Mark Knopfler
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curt
Sep 12, 2003, 6:32 PM
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It looks more like a popularity poll than an assessment of musical ability. No Leo Kottke in the top 100 guitarists? What a joke. Also, where is Eric Johnson?
Curt
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madriver
Sep 12, 2003, 6:47 PM
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...the list is funny.....some great some good...some...fair...
Danny Gaton....excellent...another short lived unknown
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camhead
Sep 12, 2003, 7:12 PM
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stupid. rolling stone dumb. booooo...
and they completely forgot Paul Nelson of Genrestrain
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elvislegs
Sep 12, 2003, 8:07 PM
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In reply to: stupid. rolling stone dumb. booooo... and they completely forgot Paul Nelson of Genrestrain
Wow man, you're like SO underground!
I just want to know why Justin Timberlake didn't make the list. I know he doesn't PLAY the guitar...or any instrument for that matter, but I am pretty sure his keyboard guy used a guitar patch to cover up a curse word Justin accidentally said on his last album. This is an outrage!!1
... yeah they left alot of people off for people like Robbie Robertson and Ike Turner ("I dint mean it baby, you know I luvs ya, I jes get so maaaddd, come on baby don't be sore at Ike").
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thomasribiere
Sep 12, 2003, 8:33 PM
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hey, folks, problems writing pasta al pesto?
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curt
Sep 12, 2003, 9:34 PM
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In reply to: stupid. rolling stone dumb. booooo... and they completely forgot Paul Nelson of Genrestrain
Hmmm, now there's one I've never heard of before.
Curt
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camhead
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Genrestrain was a funkabilly-surfmetal with a liberal dosage of speed bebop guitar. I'm sure that their guitarist was #101 on the list.
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bcd
Sep 13, 2003, 7:47 AM
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In reply to: Wasn't Cobain ridiculously high? For cultural impact maybe but actual skill as a guitarist?
Yeah. Rolling Stone has been paying WAY too much attention to this guy for the last ten years. It's pretty bad.
The man had ZERO talent, yet he somehow made the "Top 100" just because he killed himself (and popularized a worthless form of teen rock).
There are hundreds of other legitimate guitarists that could have taken his place on that list.
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"If you can just get your mind together, then come on across to me..."
I played lead guitar and still know a thing or two about music. While my opinion is no more valuable than anyone else's, I was a rocker and my only job was as a musician, when Hendrix hit the music world with a huge concussion. Hendrix literally revolutionized rock music in a matter of months. No guitar player before or since has had such an impact. For that alone, he deserves the number one spot. Others since are more technically accurate, or faster, or whatever, but in my opinion, its about the feeling, and if you listened to rock, you were moved a long way forward by his music.
The thing that is truly hard to appreciate unless, you are a relic like me and a few others on this board, is the time during which this all happened. Music was moving forward, yes, but only at a certain pace. Hendrix advanced that pace to light speed. It is something that is pretty hard to describe. You need only hear the comments of the other very popular guitar players of his time to get a feel for what I am talking about. The use of the word "revolutionized" is no stretch.
Since then other guitar players have come along that are "cleaner" like Gilmour, Beck and so on, but none of them has done more than build upon what he invented. Innovation in popular music is rare.
As for Cobain...I love his music and he had a cutting-edge style, another thing which is rather rare in popular music, but as a guitar player, he doesn't qualify to be the guy that buys the coffee for Hendrix's roadies.
"Ah, let me prove it to you...."
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agreed about Cobain's technical talent. the guy was a genius songwriter, and should be lauded for that, not for the instrument with which he wrote his songs.
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