top 100 guitar players

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this is a list of the top 100 guitar players, made by The Rolling Stone. What do you think? i dont think that jack white could be #17...

1 Jimmy 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

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those old time black guys that know1 knows about are prolly the best, the guys who played the blues and shit, and stevie ray should be higher then #7 just my opinion

 
steve vai is the greatest living guitarist, and most guitarists i know believe he is one of, if not the, most talented guitarist ever

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duane allman should be high up there. but its rolling stone, you cant give them too much credit. i think it was guitarplayer that made a tournament sty;e that actually gave reasons for winners. hendrix ended up winning. it was alot better than rolling stones.

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i found another list of top 100 guitar players. Judging by what you are all saying, i think you are going to like this list much more. I think that the people who made this took rolling stones' list and revised it from there.

1 Steve Morse

2 Les Paul

3 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits

4 Randy Rhoads

5 Eddie Van Halen

6 Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top

7 Chet Atkins

8 Pete Townshend

9 Stevie Ray Vaughan

10 B.B. King

11 Roy Buchanan

12 Slash

13 Chuck Berry

14 Frank Zappa

15 Andrei Segovia

16 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd

17 Jimi Hendrix

18 Joe Perry of Aerosmith

19 Gel of The Eyeliners

20 Rik Emmett

21 Danny Gatton

22 Brian Setzer

23 Rod Price of Foghat

24 Jeff Beck

25 Robert Fripp of King Crimson

26 Brian May of Queen

27 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's

28 Bonnie Raitt

29 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple

30 Al Di Meola

31 Paco de Lucia

32 Robbie Robertson of the Band

33 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath

34 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band

35 Scotty Moore

36 Joe Walsh

37 Eric Clapton

38 Lindsey Buckingham

39 Peter Frampton

40 Mick Mars of Motley Crue

41 Don Feldner of The Eagles

42 Carlos Santana

43 Yngwie Malmsteen

44 Dickey Betts

45 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin

46 Robert Johnson

47 Steve Gaines, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd

50 Michael Schenker

51 Steve Vai

52 Richard Thompson

53 Ronnie Montrose

54 Vernon Reid of Living Colour

55 Adrian Smith & Dave Murray of Iron Maiden

57 Steve Howe of Yes

58 Angus Young of AC/DC

59 Paul Kossoff of Free

60 Lou Reed

61 Mick Taylor

62 Robby Krieger of the Doors

63 Dick Dale

64 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones

65 Ted Nugent

66 T-Bone Walker

67 Alison Robertson (Donna R) of The Donnas

68 Rick Nielson of Cheap Trick

69 Kirk Hammett of Metallica

70 Brad Whitford of Aerosmith

71 Johnny Winter

72 The Edge of U2

73 Eric Johnson

74 Ry Cooder

75 Joe Satriani

76 James Burton

77 George Harrison

78 Mike Bloomfield

79 Eddie Cochran

80 Adrian Belew

81 Alex Lifeson of Rush

82 Dave Davies of the Kinks

83 Ace Frehley of KISS

84 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival

85 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac

86 Greg Ginn of Black Flag

87 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead

88 Joan Jett

89 Link Wray

90 Freddy King

91 Stephen Stills

92 Buddy Guy

93 Bo Diddley

94 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac

95 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic

96 John McLaughlin

97 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

98 Robert Randolph

99 Dave Davies of the Kinks

100 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper

i think eric clapton should be way higher than 37. retards.

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'how vain is it to sit down and write, when you have not stood up to live'

-Andrew P

I was in the petting zoo, or as I like to call it, the touch me zoo this afternoon. All the animals were retarded. Some lady was breast feeding her baby on a bench nearby, an obvious signal. I sat down uncomfortably close to her and yawned my arm around her shoulder. In her attempt to squirm away, she dropped her baby on the ground. I pretended I was concerned for a second, then I punted it over the fence. She still didn't seem interested in me. Whatever.

 
i think you cant list all the guitar players in order from worst to best, since they are all exrtemly talented musicians. they just have differnt styles.

so those your skis...... both of them
 
ya and who ever said zakk wylde is right, hes fucken insane, and tony rombola

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saw zakk wylde last year and i was blown away

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^Disagree.. That second list is actually really good. And they don't just automatically give the most well known people precedence. Obviously I don't agree with everything there.. slash is a bit to shred-oriented without enough real tone to be higher than hendrix, and malmsteen I think is a bit low. But thank god Keith Richards is where he belongs, somewhere in the middle. WTF was rolling stone thinking.

 
bb king is def not better then hendrix

that guy from the white stripes is not that good at all

stevie ray vaughn should be in top 5 i think

i dont like those lists

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bullshit lists... both of em. and for the record randy rhodes should definately not be 85... that is a disgrace

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^^Stevie Ray is a god, thats why he's #9 on list 2. Being in the top 10: Immortal Godhood.

^Thats why he's #4 on the second list.

seriously the second one is really the best Ive seen, and it's not like you can expect to find one that's perfect, because that's ridiculous.

One thing though, I noticed peter green is on it twice. Somebody might wanna fix that.

 
I'd have to add a couple, Prince, George Lynch of Dokken and Fernando Von Arb of Krokus

Ha. Ha.
 
Angus Young in underrated on those lists.

people who have itchy bums wake up with smelly fingers.
 
damn dave davies is so kick ass he's on that second list twice, but if Knopfler is kick ass and all (having done all the music for 'The Princess Bride') but he's a little high up on that list, for a list not contain the aforementioned guitarists and also C.C. Deville and Warren DeMartini, DeMartini is just as good at rippin out slick riffs as Knopfler and Nugent and Ratt is one of the greatest guitar-based sounds to come from metal

Ha. Ha.
 
adam jones

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the second list is even more ridiculous. guitar players all have different styles and some of my favorites are omar rodriguez-lopez from the mars volta/at the drive-in, esteban, nick drake, and mike einziger from incubus.

 
robert johnson was a fucking amazing blues guitarist

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First of all I think that john fogerty should be higher on the list simply because hes such a sly pimp secondly jack white discredits the whole fuckin list why not put chad croger on their?

 
i say go for more innovationism, like adam jones

'Did you know that average penis size is 6.4inches and that the average vaginal canal is 7.9inches? Therefore.... in this country alone, there is over 17,000 miles of unused virgin pussy' - Poolhall Junkies
 
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