OFF: 100 Greatest Guitarists

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:59:15 -0400, nick at THECOMPLETESHEET.COM wrote:
>Don't know how many of you have seen this, but Rolling Stone's new issue
>has the 100 greatest guitarists in rock.  No Buck Dharma.  In the top
>100.  Disgusting.

What's really disgusting is that my bandmate has seen both of the top two
guitarists at least twice (Jimi with the Soft Machine opening, Duane with
the bros. in a high school gym).  BASTARD!!!

>Here's the list for those who care. . .
>
>1 Jimi Hendrix
>2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band

In the meantime, some I (strongly) agree with ...
>5 Robert Johnson
>8 Ry Cooder
>19 Richard Thompson
>20 James Burton
>29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
>31 Dick Dale
>32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
>35 John Fahey
>37 Bo Diddley
>38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
>43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
>54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
>56 Tom Verlaine of Television
>67 Link Wray
>76 Ali Farka Toure
>92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
>94 Bert Jansch
>99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag

... and some that I don't ...
>3 B.B. King
>4 Eric Clapton
>7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
>12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
>26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
>27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
>28 Stephen Stills (how did he get rated higher than Neil Young?!?)
>52 Lou Reed (but I still love the Velvet Underground)
>69 Steve Howe of Yes (but Steve Howe of Tomorrow gets my vote!)

Just opinions, of course.  Criticism costs more than 2 cents (or 2p).

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com