This has got to be the biggest crock of shit I have ever seen. Im sending syphulis infected razor blades to the fuckers at Rolling Stone. You know theres a problem in the world when Kirk Cobain is number 12, Jack White is number 17, Eddie Van Halen is number 70, and Vai nor Ynview is on there.

Top 100 guitarists of all time, according to Rolling Stone:

1 Jimi 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 Bod Diddley [sic]
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Qeen
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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yeah that is a crock of shit i meen chuck schuldiner smokes most of those guys outa the water, so do many other guitarists

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its a pop magazine, what do you expect. They wanna get guitarists everyone will know.

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i gotta bitch about one more thing
artofnothing6 you said they wanted guitarist everyone knows, i know this also but where the fuck is randy rhoads?!?! i meen hes one of the greatist and popular at that and i dont see him did i over look him?

EDIT: ok i found him, number 85 WHAT THE FUCK?! who put this together man? someone who doesnt even play guitar probably

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ahahaha!! that is fuckin bullshit. Wheres Zakk Wylde!?!?!?!? and Kirk Cobain?? lmao!

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He's 12.

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half of those faggots i've never even heard of, or suck total ass.

the only right numbers they have are possibly 7, and 11. but every other ranking is horsecrap.

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Well, it's obvious that lists will never please everybody. What I am wondering
is what the criteria was to make it onto this list.

Is it the most popular guitarists of all time?
Most influential? etc.
Who's got the most bruised knees???

I don't know but as soon as you see names like "Kurt" Cabana and
Lick my "White" Cornuto, on the list then you know it holds no significance.

Shame on Rolling Stone for promoting mainstream radio music once again!!!

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Eddie Van Halen at 70.

What. the. fuck.

Hm, interesting, but bullshit.

I mean, hell we all know hendrix, SRV, clapton and other rock.

but van halen is on 70, and the rhcp guy is on 18 (now THAT's bullshit)

same goes for Tom Morello, he's inventive with fx and all but he's nowhere as good as van halen... and Morello is on 24.

hm, I don't fully agree on their choices, plus its also a bit of a personal preference thing, they'll never make a good list that'll satisfy folks, so they just made up a shitty one. theres a lot of underrated guitarist on that list too, thats cool but they forgot a couple too, plus I don't agree with the rating. (wheres vai and satriani anyway?)

yeah dude, my post was longer then yours, but we prolly had exactly the same thought at the same time.

that just doesnt make sense.

i don't know about the rest of you but i like Kim Thayil and think he deserves a little better than the last guy on the fuckin list.

Soundgarden RULES!!!!!!

if this list wasn't to satisfy people, who was it meant to satisfy? and who would buy the magazine to see who Rolling Stone thinks is the best guitarist?

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its just about selling the magazine. the guy who made this probably had his hand up his rear end and had to think out something quick, plus he had to write it down with his left hand.

however, its bullshit. this list doesn't make sense to me. malmsteen isnt even on it.

Haha, I was thinking the exact same thing about the RHCP guy. And Tom Morello.. jesus. Van Halen should be up in the top 10, no matter WHO is judging.

here's my list:

1. Vai
2. Petrucci
3. Satch
4. Randy Rhoads
5. Eddie Van Halen
6. Al Dimeola
7. Alexi Laiho
8. Dimebag Darrell
9. Kirk Hammet (old metallica)
10. Fredrik Thordenthal
11. Yngwie Malmsteen
12. Stevie Ray Vaughan
13. Zakk Wylde
14. Kerry King
15. Michael Romeo
16. Trey Azagthoth
17. Jack Owen
18. Pat O'Brien
19. Chuck Shuldiner
20. Marty Friedman

25. Hendrix
35. Kurt Cobain
40. Clapton
80. Santana
101. Me
102. Kirk Hammet (now)
150. John Frusciante
230. Jack White

there's a list we can all agree with, give or take 8 or 9 spots up or down on the list, (the first 9 are dead on in my opinion, the rest is listing guitarists as they came to my head)
and 35 on are guitarists i hate

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Much better.

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80. Santana
101. Me
102. Kirk Hammet (now)
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Atifman: You just missed the Rolling Stone top 100!

So close but yet so far...

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yeah, i'll make it someday.......*looks to the sky with hope*

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What surprised me is that Angus Young (AC/DC guitarist (if you didn't know)) is on the list, but at 97th (or whatever it was) place. If he's included, then for gods sake, he should be above Cobain. Yes, Cobain could write some reasonable songs (except they got a bit boring after 2 minutes (total, not per song), 'cause they're all pretty much the same), but Angus writes hellishly nice songs, *and* plays guitar like a man. Unlike Cobain.

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