Rolling Stone Magazine - Complete Fail of Top 250 Guitarist of All Time
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Send me your top 5 guitar players and let's see if we can make a better poll. You can reply from here...you can go to this video and reply • Rolling Stone Top 250 ...
or send me an email at tracetaylor3@gmail.com.
So Rolling Stone did it again and put out a completely joke of a list. This is my rant....and a little pissed off....again....about how bad this list actually is. I did not mention all the great guitarist that they did not include on this list because that would have been another 20 min of video, but you will see for yourself. These are my opinions so if you get a little offended by this....Oh well.
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No Frank Marino, Paul Gilbert, Robin Trower, John Petrucci, Guthrie Govan, John 5, Pat Travers, Gary Moore, Phil X, Marty Friedman, Richie Kotzen, Neil Schon, George Benson, Tommy Bolin, Allan Holdsworth, Ian Crichton, Ron Bumblefoot Thal, Jeff Loomis, Yngwie Malmsteen, Cris Oliva, Derek Frigo, Jason Becker, Steve Hunter, Ronnie Montrose, Dick Wagner, Dave Meniketti, Michael Schenker, Uli John Roth, Rick Emmett, Bob and Bruce Kulick, …
But we have Joan Jett, Lou Reed, Steve Jones, Paul Mc Cartney 😅
What a joke, just a travesty!
Absolutely trash. Straight to the dump!
Hell....your list is already a thousand times better than theirs. Keep all this in mind if you can. What I am going to do is another video here in a few days and hopefully I can get enough people to comment with their at least 5 top guitarist. I will do it for a couple of weeks and hopefully compile a much more accurate list. The names already that have been in the comments kills the list RS made.
@@TraceTaylor3 ALVIN LEE. RORY GALLAGHER, JOHNNY WINTER, PETER GREEN, KIM SIMMONDS, LESLIE WEST, DUANE ALLMAN.JIMI HENDRIX, TONY McPHEE, PAUL KOSSOFF. R.I.P. all.
Yeah I mean it’s amazing, Eric Johnson didn’t even make the top 200 Pat Matheny, Steve Vai, Nuno Bettencourt, Slash, and dimebag Darrell didn’t even make the top 100 for crying out loud, but Neil Young is in the top 30? What the actual hell, and your Satriani barely scraping the top 100 yeah apparently Neil Young is better then all of those guys and not to mention all the people that didn’t even make the list that should’ve been at least in the top 50. And David Gilmore, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Randy Rhoads not even making the top 10 is an absolute travesty and they should be ashamed for this entire list.
Malmsteen. Hank Marvin. Neal Schon. Paul Gilbert. George Benson. Martin Barre. And the worst omission of the lot... Allan Holdsworth.
This list is a disgrace.
Thank you. I was waiting for someone to mention Gilbert. He is s beast. Where the hell is Lynch? Holdsworth....easily a top 10...but I guess not good enough.
Idk about Malmsteen. Good player but if i had to listen to a full album of his i'd die
@@predeterminedmeat5024Yeah. I kind of feel the same way. He is a beast but I could not just sit and listen to him like I could Rush. If you don't mind...send me your top 5 guitarist. I am doing a little poll from youtube to see if we can make a better list then RS. Here is the video. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
Thanks
@@predeterminedmeat5024 Yeah, his music is an acquired taste, sure.
But come on... he's a world record holder at shredding! Easily in the top 250!
@@lonestar6709 No? He was great of course but there are much better shredders
Roy Clark... nuff said.
Roy Clark, Glen Campbell, Mike Campbell, Nils Lofgren
I can’t confirm RS consulted guitarists for the list..but they definitely ran it by HR to make sure it passed their diversity and inclusion initiative.
According to them....RS....this was all done in house by a bunch of morons who think they are journalist.
Chuck Berry at number two is crazy.
@@skipperrussell2025 absolutely insane isn't it
@@skipperrussell2025agreed, just odd.
Yeah, because women, black folks and Hispanics haven't hugely influenced modern American music and wouldn't have already been included in the all time greats s/ 🤨. Granted, I don't agree with some placements, but being honest about where most American music actually comes from would cause you to automatically have to include a wide diaspora of ethnicities and gender.
Terry Kath, George Benson, Roy Clark, Al Dimeola, Tom Scholz, Yngvie.
I know right!!! No Yngvie? Yeah they completely lost me when they excluded Clark.
They need genre-specific lists. And for me it's not who's included, it's the rankings that SUCK BALLS
Completely agree. You can't say Jimi Hendrix is No 1 when I bet he sucks at Jazz....or metal.....or country. They should do it by genre.
Completely agree. Granted I think that's asking a bit much for what R.S. actually is now, but it should have at least been broken down into "greatest shredders", "tightest rhythm players", best "bluegrass finger-pickers", "best nylon string players" etc.
@@1980JPANow in this we agree 100%. You can't say EVH is the best guitarist ever but then put him up against a classical wizard and he would be humiliated. And that is hard for me to say. EVH is simply one of the greatest ever....but the greatest what? You cannot have a greatest all around guitarist. They should have broken it down....but I am doing a little poll on CZcams where I want to compare our top 50 to RS's top 50 from their 250. If you would like...you can send me your at least top 5 players. I will be doing this video probably at the beginning of next week.
Steve Hackett is responsible for popularizing the tapping technique. From Thin Lizzy, their original guitarist Eric Bell would have made a better pick. Agree about Chet Atkins, the man was superhuman. If you had the chance to ask the people who picked this list, most of them would tell you they listen EXCLUSIVELY to rap/hip-hop. This list drips with forced diversity.
Hackett....I did not even think about him. Yes he is better than most on this list....but I guess that is not enough for RS. And you are right. I bet most of these people listen to Taylor Swift.
No Jeff Healey?
No Glenn Tilbrook?
No Joe Bonnamassa?
No George Benson?
No Peter Frampton?
No Zack Wilde?
No Devin Townsend?
WTF????
Nuno, Perry, Gilmore, Vai, Satriani, as well as a bunch of others should be top 30 atleast.
Completely agree. They are too busy listening to Taylor Swift to listen to real guitar players. Man and don't get me started on them no including Zakk. The only dude that could replace Randy Rhoads.....and where the hell is Brad Gillis.
Respect to Tilbrook! Saw him in the 90s at a really small venue I'm London. Savage guitar player. Rolling Stone has no clue.
No ALVIN LEE ,No list.
@@andrasczehlarik9180 Absolutely agree. I got your list. Thanks my friend.
Junk list! Tommy Emmanuel can play things on guitar that most of this top 250 could not play!
Every one knows
Rolling Stone is no longer relative, not fit for purpose
Very true my friend. Very true.
First of all: There are a lot of guitar players on this stupid list which never comes to my mind, For example: Paul Mc Cartney,James Taylor, Paul Simon or the Edge, One of the most melodic guitar player isn`t on the list: Buckethead, And what about Guthrie Gowan? Or Gary Moore? Or guys like Frank Marino. Or John Cipollina? No one in this world sounds like him.
Bucket Head is not from this planet. Where is John 5
Gary Moore !!! Top 5 easy
100% agree. To leave him off is a travesty....and shows RS knows nothing about guitar players.
Ricky Wilson was brilliant. Sorry, disagree with you there. Listen to the work of the B 52s more.
No....he is great. But I could come up with 250 better players around the world. There are a lot of greats that did not make the list and a lot of so so's that should never have been on the list. I am not knocking his talent at all.....for what he does...he does extremely well.
Love your take on Prince. I agree 100%.
Prince is a beast. He is a musicians musician.
Check out Premier Guitar's review. I think they did the best on this. We need guitarists to create a list of the top guitarists, not a style magazine. BTW, a number of people named in this video are not guitarists (e.g., Charlie "Bird" Parker" is a sax player and Carole Kaye is a bass player). I really liked your list of who was left out, though. Your attention to genres was excellent, especially the jazz guitarists. Plus, you are right on about bias towards certain kinds of music. There are great guitarists in each genre, but they should not short one genre in favor of another, which is clearly what they did. Overall, an excellent review. Thank you, Trace.
charlie byrd is a guitarist,top jazz/latin bossa player
@@elbib2446 My mistake. He said "Charlie 'Bird' Parker" and I mistyped it. You are correct, Charlie Byrd is a famous jazz guitarist, and that may be what Trace meant - or I misheard (it was late at night for me).
Thanks my friend. Yeah, I am gonna try to see if I can get enough people on YT to do an actual poll from music people.....not so called journalist. Trying to figure out how to pull it off as we speak.
My man, being the best guitarist of all time is NOT about being the best ”shredder” or the one who’s technically the best or the quickest. It’s about musical inventiveness, originality, how well they wrote guitar parts and the level of technical complexity (it’s part of it but not the number one aspect). I mean, there are probably thousands of kids who can shred incredibly fast solos, much faster and more technically gifted than any on these types of lists, but anyone can learn a musical scale and then solo it with practice. Actual musical talent, inventing your own guitar sound, complex chord progressions, playing outside of scales but still making it sound musical, THAT’s what’s special and why Radiohead’s guitarists are on the list, for example.
I agree with some of what you are saying....but I get really tired of the "it's about the song, dude" mentality. Hell, I can play a great heartfelt solo with only 4 notes....but that does not make me a great guitar player. The people they put on this list is a complete joke. Hell, they did not even put Petrucci on here. Are you going to say he is not a greatly talented guitarist? Are you going to tell me H.E.R. belongs on the same list as EVH or Randy Rhoads? No way. this list was a DEI pick to make everybody feel good. There are people on this list that haven't even been around long enough to know if their music has legs to be considered great. Half of these people you won't even know their name in 5 years....but you will know Eddie Van Halen.
NO, Vaughan was not BETTER than Hendrix; he was Vaughan, which is the hallmark of any great musician - an unmistakable signature. Let's face it, any top 5 or 6 great players of any instrument (or any artists, for that matter) cannot really be compared. At that level what you consider "merit" is plain subjective. Thanks for the post. Enjoyed it.
Thats true. When you are THAT good it's hard to say who is better. Maybe if they had done it by genre it would have carried some weight but this is a complete joke.
I disagree because Stevie Ray Vaughan could play every Hendricks lick, could Hendrix play any of his licks? I don’t think so.
Trevor Rabin of Yes. I wouldn’t typically put him on my list of greatest guitarists. That said, a top 250 list - possibly. All of that said, I would definitely put him ahead of quite a few people on the RS list.
Glen Campbell? Robin Trower? Gary Richrath? Ace Frehley? Terry FREAKING Kath? Gotta be kidding me.
Also Tommy Emmanuel? Pierre Bensusan? Phil Keaggy? Leo Kottke?
@@ron88303 List goes on and on. This is woke vomit on a page.
Also, where the f**k is Michael Hedges?
@@ron88303 Peter Frampton? Pat Matheney? Zakk Wylde? Doc Watson? Bonamassa? BucketFNHead?
...one should not expect a cohesive, precise, and completely reasonable list of ANYTHING musical from Rolling Stone. And yeah...no Gary Moore?
100% correct. Stay tuned. I am going to put out another video about this and see if I can get enough people to respond so we can make an actual top 100 list. Not this joke RS put out.
Gary Moore was an all-time great.
no Roy Clark?
Dude. Roy Clark is a beast. My real shocker was no John Petrucci.
Right?@@TraceTaylor3 I mean SRV for sure, Kenny Wayne Shepard should even be on there, Randy Rhoads, Dimebag, Roy Clark. Now Paige as a youngin used to do Picadilly he was on tv Ed Sulivan or some shit i think doing that shit i'm sure he can flaunt skills and just doesn't. Herman Li is a badass was he on the list at all? I think their list is just mainstream woke agenda bs sprinkled with some real gods to make the illusion more believable.
John should been top 5@@TraceTaylor3
@@TeeFetchAbsolutely. John is literally one of the best out there today. I didn't even think about Kenny Wayne. He is way better than a lot of these people.
Gary Moore, Alvin Lee, Michael Leonard "Hollywood Fats", Robin Trower, Allan Holdsworth, Domenique Troiano, Lenny Breau...and so on
Dude you can go forever of the greats that somehow did not make this list. Amazing. What I am going to do is another video here in a few days and hopefully I can get enough people to comment with their at least 5 top guitarist. I will do it for a couple of weeks and hopefully compile a much more accurate list. The names already that have been in the comments kills the list RS made.
@@TraceTaylor3 Looking forward for it 🙂
From Australia , not having the great ALVIN LEE in the top ten let alone not making the 250 automatically invalidates the whole list , Peace from down under.
What's up brother. I agree. They left off way too many greats to make this list valid. If you don't mind send me you top 5 guitarist. I am dong a poll from youtube to see if we can make a better list then RS. Here is the video. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
Man I have met a loooooooot of people lately who have moved to the states from Australia. They all seem to be great people. Thanks brother.
@@TraceTaylor3 My top 5 are more from the 60s/70s era they are in know particular order ,
ALVIN LEE , RITCHIE BLACKMORE , DAVID GILMOUR , JIMMY PAGE , RORY GALLAGHER , Peace from down under.
@@georgemorley5926Thanks my brother. Still need more votes but we are getting there.
@@TraceTaylor3 ALVIN NO 1. R,I,P,🍉
David Gilmour at number 28 and Johnny Marr at 56 is a complete joke
Gilmour is a top 5 if not a top 3 easily. Stay tuned. I am going to put out another video about this and see if I can get enough people to respond so we can make an actual top 100 list. Not this joke RS put out.
Thank you. Agree about Johnny Marr - way too low on the list.
RS thinks if you write an "edgy" song or play in an avant-garde and edgy band, and you are holding a guitar while recording the song and performing it live, even if you are not really even playing it, just keeping the basic rhythm in the background, and you're mostly just the singer and front man who wrote the song, that it should get you on the list.
You are absolutely right. Just writing a song while holding a guitar does not make you a guitar player. But...it is RS. This is what we have come to expect.
My top ten best guitarists are 1 Frank Marino 2 Randy Rhoads 3 Gary Moore 4 Uli Jon Roth 5 John Norum 6 Neal Schon 7 Eric Johnson 8 Michael Schenker 9 Edward Van Halen 10 Yngwie Malmsteen.
Tommy Bolin, Kazumi Watanabe, Janne Schaffer.....hello
I know right. Man you all are picking great guitar players I have forgotten all about.
I'm a big PJ Harvey fan but no she would not be in a list of my top 500 guitarists (not even sure she would be in my top 100 female guitarists)... I just repeat I'm a big PJ Harvey fan.
I am a huge fan of many guitarist that would not make my list. What I am going to do is another video here in a few days and hopefully I can get enough people to comment with their at least 5 top guitarist. I will do it for a couple of weeks and hopefully compile a much more accurate list. The names already that have been in the comments kills the list RS made.
Dude you lose it on Eric Clapton. He is the one that changed the way the guitar played. You're right on this list being BS. but You don't know Elmore James, You're credibility is suspect.
Andy Summers (from the Police) is 250...Niel Schone (Journey) isnt even in the list... wtf
Damn....I didn't even think about schone. Of course they didn't add John Petrucci. Unbelievable.
The RS list seems to tell us more about the employees at RS, than about music or guitarists.
Bingo. You hit the nail dead on the head. If you don't mind...send me your top 5 guitarist. I am doing a little poll from youtube to see if we can make a better list then RS. Here is the video. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
Thanks
@@TraceTaylor3 Not yet, Sir. I'm still checking through clips and recordings of the artists. So far I lean to a handful that can't be regarded as primarily guitarists, let alone great. And about at least 50 are good guitar musicians, but not "the greatest of all time" or "influential", just very good pro's. Momentarily my 5 favs are J McLaughlin. J Hendrix, L Carlton, G Govan, T Emmanuel plus a new gem, Molly Tuttle. But it all may change until I've heard them all.
Its all about opinions but mostly agree with your comments.
Some comments i was giving you an imaginary round of applause, others i was fuming at 🤣
One that springs to mind that I disagree on is Steve Hackett not making the top 250.
Listen to Firth of Fifth alone....i cant believe there are 250 guitarists who can play better than that!
Yeah this list was awful. I could have made a better list with 3rd graders. But....I guess it is all subjective to what you like and what you listen to also.
No Gary Moore , this is a total laugh . It says it all with Paul McCartney, he’s a fuckn bass player.
Who the hell puts this joke together, it shouldn’t be allowed to be published. They must do it to piss every one off.
That's exactly why they do it. The mag has become a political rag. Their list is a complete joke. They did not put Petrucci on it. Seriously? I you don't mind...I am doing a poll of guitarist from people who have commented on youtube. If you could send me your top 5 guitar players I would appreciate it greatly. Here is the video. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html You don't need to watch it but if you will comment from it that would be great. Thanks.
Ok,
My top guitar players of all time.
1. Gary Moore
2.jimmy Hendrix
3. Jeff Beck
4.Eddie Van Halen
5. Dave Gilmour
PS I advise you to do your homework on the great Gary Moore, please watch these 4 clips of him I recommend to you and let me know what you think.
1, Shapes Of Things live in Ireland 1984
2, Empty Rooms live at Stockholm 1987
3, Texas Strut live at Montreax 1990
4, Like Angels live 1997
These are just some of his unbelievable performances i please ask you to watch and let me know what you think?
This is why a rate him so high.
Kind regards
Rob Courtney
Tweed Heads, Australia.
@@robcourtney6154Yeah dude I am a huge Gary Moore fan. Even back from Thin Lizzy. I have watched all of them but Texas Strut....but I will get to that. Moore is a beast and in my opinion the only other melodic guitarist that comes close is Gilmour. Both of which are in my top 5. It surprises me that Moore was not a higher rated guitar player because he was a master at his craft and his vocals match his music perfectly. These performances are brilliant and I hated it when he died. We are losing all the greats. Moore, EVH, Rhoads....and the list goes on.
Leo Kottke
Gotta be honest. I don't know who that is. I will check him out. Thanks
Leo Kottke is a hell of a guitar player,
@@frankfellhauer5136yeah I will be checking him out.
Saw him live 20 years ago. My jaw is still on the floor.
I've been enjoying all of the uproar over the update to the RS list. I'll give you a lot of credit for actually reading Rolling Stone's description of what criteria they used to select those who made the list. I could not find another youtuber who was reacting based on their write up. That said, you clearly think they are idiots for compiling the list the way they chose to. I have no beef with any one's list and their reasons for their choices. While I agree with a lot of your choices, it really does come down to what you are into. It's all very subjective. You did refrain from commenting on players you had never heard of but would say you could guarantee your choices were better. Given the number of players you weren't familiar with you might want to check out some of them, you might find yourself with less angst about the list. I am not writing to complain about your thought process. I am writing to say that I found the list interesting, and it caused me to check out some players I was not familiar with. So, I give it a THUMBS UP.
thanks brother. I have checked out several of the people they put on that list. Some are good but I still don't think a lot of them belong in the ranking that they were placed at. I did the other video where I took a poll from youtube to see what we all came up with and the results were shockingly different and made a lot more sense. And yes....it is very subjective. I mean what would be the qualifications to be "the best in the world".
Hi Trace, Never read a Rolling Stone mag ever, and now I know why. I dodged a bullet, saved myself so much time. Music journalism must have been a bogus vocation just for the sake of it.
Yeah I am shocked they are still in business. They obviously know nothing about music anymore.
You lost all credibility when you said Lindsay Buckingham wouldn’t make your list. The dude can shred. Just listen to Never Going Back Again.
Agree with you; you have to question the credibility and knowledge of any deeming Lindsay Buckingham not Top 250???? Give me a break!!!
Dude. I love Lindsay.....but I know I can name 250 better guitar players with a little time. We are talking since the beginning of the guitar....from everywhere. He would not make my 250. And....you are the only one to mention him out of all the comments.
@@robertshirley3422Well, I guess since I did go to school for music with a guitar major and piano minor....I do have some knowledge. More than most. Regardless, like I told the last dude....I love Lindsay.....but with a little time I could pick 250 better players.
@@TraceTaylor3 Well, even with your high falootin' credentials (😂), among rock players he is the upper percentile. People that feel the need to flaunt their resumès, means they are basically insecure..😂😂🤡🤡
@@robertshirley3422Well....I don't know many people with CZcams channels that are insecure....and like I always say....if you got it....flaunt it. But again....out of all the comments I got on here naming great players....you are the only one to name Buckingham. And don't get me wrong....I really like him....but he is better with Fleetwood then on his own. But you can't call me out.....say I am uninformed, then when I give you my resume say that I am insecure. That is like being mad at the kettle because it is black. But in all fairness....my list I would make is not definitive. I am going to make another video this week about it and hopefully get enough people involved to make our own list....by real musicians and if I can pull this off let's see if he gets enough votes to make it.
Thank God - Nita is back with Alice again! I also wonder why Ted Nugent didn't make it to the list at all? Compared to some of the others, he should be in there somewhere.
Man...Petrucci did not even make the list. One of the greatest players out there today. Yeah....Nita going off with Demi Lovato was absolutely shocking to me.
I can’t stand Nugent’s politics, personality, or his songs, however, the man can play the guitar.
@@steverogers2603 yeah, he is a bit much 🙂
@@steverogers2603I like some of his music. The stuff he did with damn yankees was great.....and I think better than his solo stuff. His politics don't bother me. That is what makes America...America. I have friends on both sides. We argue a bit about it.....but at then end of the day I would do anything for them and them for me.
@@TraceTaylor3 Joe Pass didn’t make the list and very few players are in his class. The guy was a genius. Whoever made up the list had very little understanding about playing the guitar. Most of these people played the same stuff over and over again.
Of all the rants about t list your take was t best! How did Gary Moore and Michael Schenker not make t list! Absurd!
Indeed!
I think Roy Buchanan made it but my recollection is that he was way way too low. It looks like he was 183.
I’ve actually become much more of a Michael Schenker fan over the last few years. The more I hear from Michael Schenker the more impressed I am.
Just so many of the great guitarists missing from this list, as well as the ranking, makes it lose all credibility, and once again shows that they don't really know what the f*ck they're talking about !
No Tommy Emmanuel, Alan Holdsworth, Joe Pass, Jeff Healey should be on there, Rik Emmett, and many more. Ridiculous !!! ( at least Alex Lifeson was on there, going by the way they do things, I was thinking they would probably not include him, so at least they got some stuff right )
Yeah, RS was always hating on Rush, so that's a shocker.
You named some greats that somehow did not make it....and we all know they are better than at least 200 of them on this so called list.
230 was Ceratti, a great guitar player, singer and composer.
Where's Joe Pass?
Exactly. No Zakk. No Gary Moore. No John Petrucci. Seriously?
Great breakdowns I do strongly disagree with some of your takes like Jimmy page not being a top 5 guitar player. But overall it was a fantastic analysis and man is this list is complete and utter dogshit. There’s just no other way to put it. I mean seriously what were they on when they made this list crack out of their ass? Because apparently Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Alex Lifeson, dimebag Darrell, Eric Johnson, Slash, and so many other people including people that didn’t even make the list aren’t top 50 guitar players of all time some of them weren’t even in the top 200, but apparently Neil Young is?
Yeah this list was shit at best. I wasn't ragging on Page. I like Page. As a song writer he was brilliant but I can think of a lot of guitarist that are more technically proficient then Page is. They did this just to stir people up because they have turned into a political rag and they had to generate something to get people talking. It just shows you that they are more concerned with DEI then they are talent.
@@TraceTaylor3 Yeah I can definitely see your comeing from.From pure technical interviews, Joe Satriani is definitely better in terms of technicality. And he can be a little bit sloppy especially nowadays but to be fair he’s in his 80s now. But in terms of pioneering hard rock there is a very few that even come close.
And I just don’t understand the criteria for the splits that doesn’t even seem like the people he’s made this list even looked at the criteria that they even made. Because they said that they’re not basing their list on who can shred the best, but then they put a ton of shredders on their list anyway? And David Gilmour by their own criteria should be in the top 5, but he was stuck at like 29 or something like that?
@@pleaseenteraname1103 Yeah. It was insane. They put people like H.E.R. in front of some of the greats which is ridiculous. Hell Petrucci did not even make the list. Their reasoning was idiotic at best. And yeah, Satch has gotten a tad sloppy. I guess that comes with age.....but I hope not. But I look at Satriani more of what he gave us than more of what he did. Hell, he taught Vai....and that is really a case of the student becoming the master.....but he taught so many great guitarist....I always based him more on that then his skill set....which is still amazing.
As bad as the RS list was Trace Taylor's review of it was even worse. He clearly places a far higher value on the ability to shred than most adult music fans actually do. Shredding is just one approach to guitar and it's not the end all be all of what makes one a great guitarist. In high school shredding gets a lot of cred. With adults not so much.
Ha ha ha. Wrong. IT was by their rules that they put in the ability to shred. They literally said....future shredders....maybe next year. Read the article then make a comment. I was literally going by what they said. Regardless....when anybody thinks of great guitar players....gods....the first thing they think about are great soloist. Just because you can beat around on an acoustic....that does not make you a great guitar player. Are you going to tell me that dave mathews is better than EVH? That Kurt Cobain is better than Gary Moore? And since you don't understand.....shred is a catch all phrase. It is the technical prowess that one has on a guitar. Andre Segovia shreds....he just does it classically. SRV shreds....he just does it with blues. Kurt Cobain does not shred.....at all.
@@TraceTaylor3 You're wrong. Go back and re read the very short intro to the article that you struggle to comprehend. Their loosely defined criteria (not rules as you put it) is exactly the opposite of ranking people by their ability to "shred". Next google the definition of shred in the context of guitar. Try to get that definition right before using as the theme of your whole video. Third don't try claim you know what "anybody thinks when the think of great guitar players.." You don't speak for everybody nor do you know what everybody thinks. That's high school level level commentary. You're also making subjective claims and stating them as facts. Amateur moves dude. You know what you like about guitar players which in my opinion appears to be very myopic. Different guitarists can be considered great for very different reasons. You also dismiss a lot of guitarists on the list without being familiar enough with their work to even know what their actual abilities are. In some cases you admitted to not even listening to them.
Also get some better intro music.
@@mikeeb6308 Get over the high school crap. I don't know many things but I know music and guitars. I didn't go to music school for the hell of it. You are arguing your opinion over mine....insisting that you are correct and mine is wrong.....and I could argue the opposite all day long. I read their lame introduction and at the end what does it say.....maybe you should read the intro again and see how absurd it is. Feel over Polish? Give me a break. He has great feeling....but he is sloppy as hell. Great. Put him on the list. You obviously know nothing about music....as most say they do. And you can get on here and bash me all you want....but then go watch other videos on this same topic and see how close to mine theirs is. But I get it.....there are those out there that just love to bash those that do what they can't do. And just so you know....most adult music listeners are my age and grew up in the time of great guitarist....and they all know what shredding is. You can base your opinion on whatever you want....because it is your opinion....just like this is my opinion. The difference....If you did a video and I thought it was all wrong....I would not be on your channel arguing about it. What is your channel again? I want to check it out.
@@mikeeb6308 Go to this video and send me your top 5 guitar players. I am doing a little poll because I want to see if whom everyone thinks should be on the list makes it to the list. Let's see who is closer to the list that is not done by RS, Fair enough? czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
The fact that Allan Holdsworth is not on it says enough . Why don't they hire people that know what they are talking about ? Frank Marino not on it ?
because they are more worried about DEI then talent. That was obvious from the get go.
Completely agree with everything you said Trace. Apart from Garry Moore not being their, also Michael Schenker and Al De Meola, Plus alot of others who are fantastic.
Thanks my friend. I appreciate it.
So many on this list aren't even guitar players. If you told Paul Simon that he was a better player than Joe Pass he'd probably laugh his ass off. And where is Billy Strings? Behind guitar great James Taylor apparently.
Dude don't get me started on that one. Look where they put Satriani. Unbelievable. What I am going to do is another video here in a few days and hopefully I can get enough people to comment with their at least 5 top guitarist. I will do it for a couple of weeks and hopefully compile a much more accurate list. The names already that have been in the comments kills the list RS made.
No way Glenn TIpton and KK downing are worse than hetfield and hammett and adrian smith and dave murray. Downing and Tipton were the first metal duo and their skills kept on improving drastically throughout the years, you could hear the progress because they weren't affraid to spice up the intensity of their playing. They adapted and influenced simultaneously. Theyre better than those other 2 duos skillwise and they also influenced that other 2 duos. Either way they shouldn't be putting guitar duos in best guitarists list since playing in a duo is a complete seperate category of playing compared to just being a guitar player.
I agree. Putting duos in here is completely stupid. It negates all the work the solo artist does. I am not going to judge guitarist A by what guitarist B does. This list was a complete joke. I really thing that RS has become so obsolete that they do this just to get idiots like me talking about them and doing videos.
Any type of ranking system is always subjective. It is a blend of Stature, popularity, technique, sales, Spotify rank and the personal tastes of the voters. As such it is a nice snapshot of the current media's perception of music. Which is terrifying. St. Vincent?
Well they need to do it by category. Can Van Halen play like Segovia? Absolutely not.....and visa versa. It is hard to say this is the best....when they only may be the best at what they do.
Tony Iommi should be in the top 10 IMO. His dark and heavy riffs and his dexterity on the guitar is the one of the reasons heavy metal became one of the biggest genres
I do like Iommi. I don't know if he would be in my top 10 for guitarist. As far as influence.....absolutely. Which does carry a lot of weight.
There's been A LOT of analysis of this list (unfortunately, to Rolling Stone's benefit) but most of it around who was left off the list. Opinions aside, kudos to at least giving your opinions on why many of these names really don't deserve to be included. And that they were included primarily to satisfy DEI goals.
Thanks brother. I really appreciate it.
You tellin' me Steve Hackett can't shred? You're mad. No Johnny Marr? Andy Summers is 250? Top 250 DEI list
Rolling Stone Magazine is toilet paper.
Hey now. I like toilet paper. RS Mag....not so much.
That's an insult to toilet paper.
Let me give you this ..
My favorite band of all time, and I have been listening to music since 1968, all genres.
That band is Aldious. They have been around since 2008, and have no bad or even mediocre songs.
They have 9 studio albums, they hit #7, On the Japanese Billboard top 100 fir the year it came out. And all the rest were top 100 for the year almost all being in the top 30.
Their first big hit was Spirit Black. Which was so massive of a hit, it blew the doors wide open in Japan fir hundreds of All Female Metal Bands to break through. They are the second most popular All Female Metal Bands only after Show Ya from the 1980s.
No bad or even mediocre songs. All 9 albums were Billboard top 100 hits, and they play on many sub genre from pop to Thrash.
No matter what you like for music I can give you ar least one song you'd like.
And they are not on RS top 250.
I will check that out. I love metal. I have not heard of them but I will be digging that up today. Thanks for the tips. Stay tuned. I am going to put out another video about this and see if I can get enough people to respond so we can make an actual top 100 list. Not this joke RS put out.
@@TraceTaylor3 they play a wider angel
Recommend
We Are music video
Reincarnation live
And
Re:Fire live
And Fragile for a power ballad
And Piece of My Wish different singer buta beautiful song.
@@gerardcote8391 I will check them out. I am sure they rock. Thanks brother.
@@TraceTaylor3
Check out Max Ostro. He is my favorite of all time. Check out “Rhumba” and his “JTC sessions” stuff for starters. And definitely check out his “I switched to semi hollow” solo! ✌️
@@thatsamazin-I will take a listen. Thanks my friend.
Eric Clapton played the solo in My Guitar Gently Weeps.
That is right. I forgot about that. I guess that explains the solo.
@TraceTaylor3 He Played it on a Les Paul Eric Clapton gave him. I would have preferred that George gave it a try. He did a nice job on the Let it Be album version.
@@rickjason215You know.....I knew that and completely forgot about that. Did not remember until you mentioned the Paul. Yeah....I would rather Harrison played it.
To say one is better than the other when there is so much talent is hard to do, but some are way over rated. My personal favorite is Duane Allman, only second to Hendrix for that time period! Too many others to mention, but Dickey Betts should be in the top 100!
The Edge is definitely worthy of t op 100! you don't have like U2, but the fact is after 40yrs they are still relevant and there sound is copied by many. Hello Coldplay.
Rolling Stone has always been trash.
In that we agree my friend.
Well, at least for the last 30 years.
Rolling Stone Magazine is just a joke. It's more of a pop culture rag. I saw them, one year, rate Lou Reed in the top guitarists. Right there, I had the litmus test for their expertice. Their rating is a complete joke. It's designed for non musicians, who can't music, to be impressed with the imagry presented by the media companies. It also cracks me up, when a non musician will argue with one of us who actually plays music, and knows music theory. It's like a guy saying the hamburgers at McDonalds are equivalent to French cooking, using the criteria: Because, he likes it. Non musicians, ruined the record biz, by turning it into a farce. Executives used to be musicians, in these companies. Later, in the 80s non musicians began to fill the ranks and sales figures were king to them. Art didn't mean a thing. Rolling Stone Magazine is just another example of non musical morons given power in the music media business.
If you don't think Steve Hackett should be on this list, you obviously have not heard him play. He is a virtuoso. You may want to revisit his work and try again.
Hey. My opinion is not the end all be all. I did another video czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html I am getting people from CZcams who agree with me and disagree with me to send me their top 5 guitarist to see if we can make a better list. If you don't mind send me yours to add to the list. Thanks.
A very politically correct list were merit is completely disregarded. I can name 159 guitarists that shouldn’t even be considered for a list. But I guess mission accomplished for the insignificant rolling stone magazine
Yes. I am not sure if they believe all this or just do this to get people talking about RS. There is no way they actually think that this list is relevant. Just more wokeness injected into something that should never have wokeness injected to it.
Utterly horrendous list, worse than the last official one IIRC. I had the EXACT reaction with "Yvette Young, a youtube guitarist, is better than Pat MFin' Metheny everyone...". 41:06 at least my boy Trey got an acceptable placement. 1992 through 1997 Trey was easily one of the greatest living guitarists in the world at that time, but their proggy influenced music and abrasive dorky inside joke culture is why his earned placement as one of the all time greats is slept on.
Yeah this list was a joke. They did this just to get people talking because lord knows any other time no one cares about RS. I'm sorry but putting your woke ideology above talent is not a true guitars list. Not yours but RS's. It just shows they care more about being diverse than giving credit to the people that actually deserve it.
@@TraceTaylor3 exactly hahaha
at #6 Sister Rosetta Tharpe be checking those boxes like nobody's business!
@@Someonece Yes. That shit is funny.
Well if all it takes is six string then Boh, of BabyMetal Kami Band must count since he plays a 6 string bass.
And he plays bass better than most of these top 250 guitarists play guitar.
And how diverse they are 1 token Japanese player that no one ever heard of who only dies CZcams videos and isn't even a professional.
As far as I am concerned. Half this list of greatest would be Japanese guitarists.
Rolling Stone magazine is in the unfortunate position of trying to stay relevant by listing musicians clearly for demographic inclusion. This is the same approach that the R & R Hall of Fame is now known for. I was done with RS magazine when they put Kanye West on the cover asking if this was now the new direction of rock and roll. I've never looked back.
I agree. They have fallen to the DEI leadership and have completely lost their position in the world of music
Did you say that Frusciante isnt a shredder? Did i hear that right? He might be a bit too high, but he absolutely shreds
Yes I did. Don't get me wrong....I really like Frusciante.....but there are a loooooooooot of better guitar players that did not even make the list.
@@TraceTaylor3 hahaha hes my personal "goat". nobody else's playing gets me moving and grooving like he does. didnt mean to attack you like that. I hear where youre coming from
@@kevinhennig8278frusciante is the goat. Slane castle best concert I’ve ever seen. If you don’t think he shreds look that up or his don’t forget me solos or rhcp 19 jam ~ he just sounds the best
And another criminal omission...
No Jeff Healey???
And talk about inovation...Piggy from Voivod. Nobody ever sounded like him. Or ever will
If you think Peter Green was made famous by having that Les Paul, you are out to lunch. That Les Paul is famous because of what Green did with it. Most of what Green played--talking about the notes--is within the skills of an intermediate. But his touch is otherworldly. Listen to the live "Jumping at Shadows" from the Boston Tea Party. So good.
I am not knocking his talent...although I don't really think he would be in my top 100. But honestly.....his guitar is more famous then he is. There for a bit up until Hammet bought the guitar....I swear I heard about it maybe once a week......but you never hear about Peter Green.....just that guitar. Which I find interesting with all the history behind it....gibson does not make a rep until hammet buys it.
@@TraceTaylor3 Thanks for the response. Have to disagree on Green. He is my favorite guitarist. Though I fear that, to sound like that, you may really need to be a haunted soul.
@@richardmather1906And I can completely agree with that. Music is crazy subjective and people feel and relate to everything differently. And how others music moves us all differently.....well that in itself is a mystery and he was definitely a tortured soul. My favorite thing about him....he gave us Fleetwood Mac. Love them or hate them.....they were a musical force to be reckoned with.
Nita Straus killed Walk at Sweetwater....with Nick Bowcott!! It's rad.
Love Nita. She is a beast.
am I the only one to notice that ALL 250 guitarists have two arms.
rolling stone is so ableist !
That's actually pretty good.
@@TraceTaylor3 it's been my favourite joke this week.
but who knows, the way things are going, one armed guitarists might be in the next rs list
@@haydenwalton2766 I am sure it will be a midget one armed guitarist.
Stanley Jordan, who has remained on top of any heap that has existed since the turn of the 20th century.
Johnny Marr at only #56?
The entire list is flawed and wrong. RS should never do a top anything ever again.
Agree with most all of the views that youve voiced in this vid. I did at times get this vague feeling of listening to right wing AM radio, so maybe this channel isnt for me. You dealt with the list, who you judged, and how with some integrity and i appreciate that. Some side comments and those getting further amplified in the comments tells me this aint my corner of guitar youtube. Thanks so much for the work you've put into a video such as this, it is appreciated 😁👍🏾
I get that and thanks for the comment. It seems to be the consensus from most people that instead of judging people on talent they tried to be inclusive. I wasn't doing this from a "right wing" viewpoint. I was doing it from a musicians viewpoint who is tired of basing peoples talent on their beliefs and where they stand with DEI, and I think people as a whole are getting extremely tired of it. They left off some of the greatest guitarist in the world and included some who have no business ever being on this list. And regardless of yours....or my political stance.....you have to admit it is bs. I do not care what anyone's political stance is.....it does not belong in music. I have grown weary of people using their fame or position to push their beliefs on everyone else. I am simply pointing out the fact that DEI has no place in music. Base it on their talent....what they have achieved....not what they believe. And if I leaned to the right....or to the left....my opinions here would have been the same. Regardless....I appreciate you taking the time and watching the video.
@@TraceTaylor3 I understand, and the point of it supposedly not needing to be about anything other than talent/proficiency I bullshit. I completely agree. It definitely did feel like some 25 year olds were like "we don't even have a woman in this section" and although I can understand them not wanting it to be that way, if it's just about their proficiency on guitar then let the chips fall where they may.
@@TraceTaylor3 Joni Mitchell at #9... c'mon 🤣. I respect her talent, even like her music, but it wasn't "greatest singer songwriters".
@@TraceTaylor3 also, don't get me wrong, it's just a subjective "feel" thing I had about the vid (and the comments). Hell, may have even been more the comments than you. All good either way. I hold no ill feelings, keeping doing the good job.
@@1980JPAit's all good brother. I never hold hard feelings. Everyone is entitled to their opinions...even if no one else agrees with them. And I find myself in that boat quite often.
Since the list apparently includes a wide range of genres, I think Phil Keaggy should have been in there.
They missed the boat completely on this list. Stay tuned. I am doing another video on this to where hopefully I can get people to submit their top 5 guitar players. i will compile the list and see if we can do better than RS....which I am sure we can.
There is only one reasonable explanation as to why this list is so bad.
Sales are on decline... Easy publicity!
There are tonnes of people talking about it.
No-one could compile that extensive list of guitar players, put in Robbo and Gorham but leave out Gary Moore.
I smell a RAT.
I agree. Easy way to get in the front...make an incredibly bad list of guitar players and call them the greatest in the world.
Very plausible. 👍🏻
We can agree that the list sucks. Your evaluation seems heavily influenced by one thing, the ability to shred. The great guitarist Buck Dharma, who can shred, and was also ignorantly left off this list, once said that when he was A younger guitarist he placed way to much emphasis on speed and has since learned of the many other ways a guitarist can be great.
I had this discussion with another dude on here. Shred has kind of become a catch all word. David Gilmour can shred....he just does it much slower. Shred has now become the ability to solo effectively with taste, technical proficiency and speed.....not just blasting a million note a second.
I agree that Buck Dharma is probably far far better than many people think.
I just saw B.O.C. About 6 weeks ago and Buck Dharma is still playing GREAT @75 years old !
@@markoliver630 thanks for the comment. Go to this video and send me your top 5 guitar players. I am doing a little poll because I want to see if whom everyone thinks should be on the list makes it to the list. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
They were right about Hackett and Thin Lizzy though
I will go back and look. Hard to remember 250. Should have only been 100
No Shawn Lane, Govan, Matteo, Yngwie? Where’s Joe Pass? Is Angus young on this list? Leaving Gary Moore off is a travesty as well. Lane is the Goat, Govan the living Goat, and they have the list stacked with singer songwriters. Idiotic. Hendrix and EVH are the two most important guys in the evolution of guitar, but I’d put Eddie in the number one spot because of my generation and how far he pushed it beyond Jimi.
completely agree. This list is a disaster. Apparently they have no musicians that work at that rag. How else could you make a list this bad.
By the way I was done with RS the day they put John Travolta on the cover!
Now that is funny.
Brutal list. Dozens of actually great players left of for inclusivity reasons, including my personal fav Steve Morse.
Yeah the list is a big DEI turd. With the people they left off they should be embarrassed. I am doing a poll of guitarist from people who have commented on youtube. If you could send me your top 5 guitar players I would appreciate it greatly. Here is the video. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html You don't need to watch it but if you will comment from it that would be great. Thanks.
pretension over reality
Maybe the question should be, the best who can hold a guitar.
I think what you miss about frusciante/the whole only shredding thing - those who can do more with less and have incredible tone are just as impressive as the people with crazy technique - I’ve been to hundreds of concerts and I can undeniably say - John frusciante live with the chili peppers sounded better than anyone else on guitar I’ve ever heard mind numbingly so - his tone is unreal - and he and flea jam for 20-30 minutes every show - which as you say - is shredding
I like frusciante. I like the Peppers. I think they are great.....I just don't know where I would put him in my list. When you are talking the best 250 players in the world.....that is a tough gig. There are tens of thousand amazing players out there.....many better then him....many worse. When I think of the best I think of people who influence the younger players....who have left an indelible mark on the guitar world. Go to this video and send me your top 5 guitar players. I am doing a little poll because I want to see if whom everyone thinks should be on the list makes it to the list. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
What 😮 no Steve Miller? Rick Neilson? Neal Schon?
Dude they did not even add Petrucci. Probably the most technically proficient guitarist alive today.
No Stevie Ray. No George Benson. No Yngwie Malmsteen.
The list of greats they left off this list is a joke.
If I had a vote...Terry Kath
Yeah we did a poll. It is on my channel and was actually pretty good and makes much more sense than the RS debacle.
The list is absurd as it was meant to be - the point of such lists is to stimulate publicity for the mag that publishes it. Your own bias is to the 80s which by the sound of it was when you were a kid.
What bothers us about this list?
- The glaring omissions of many influential players
- The inclusion of questionable players
- The arrogance of the writers and editors of Rolling Stone, to deign to tell us who the 250 greatest guitarists are.
The last point is the biggest problem, because the pop-culture audience that RS caters to, is filled with uncritical thinkers who are willing to be led down a certain cognitive path. Important point - the 250 greatest guitarists are precisely the 250 guitarists that made an impression on you (directly or indirectly). Nobody should decide this for you, and it certainly shouldn't be compiled by a magazine that caters to a pop-culture mob.
How about this - instead of reading this list, give a listen to these guitarists and decide what YOU like. Then, take a listen to some of the omissions mentioned in this comments section.
You have made excellent points. What I am going to do is another video here in a few days and hopefully I can get enough people to comment with their at least 5 top guitarist. I will do it for a couple of weeks and hopefully compile a much more accurate list. The names already that have been in the comments kills the list RS made.
@@TraceTaylor3 I'm a subscriber. Looking forward to your list.
My top 5:
David Gilmour
Alex Lifeson
Eric Johnson
Pat Metheny
Robert Fripp
Sorry, I guess Johnny Marr was on there after all
IS RORY ON IT? BRIAN MAY IS A GENIUS
Rory is not on the list. Go figure. I guess they didn't all have to be talented to make the list.
Rory is on the list. No. 175. Which is a joke in itself.
Shredding is all that matters? Laughs.
Shred is kind of a catch all phrase. It's the ability to play proficiently, with a certain amount of technical prowess....with taste. Not just a million notes a minute. Gilmour shreds....just much slower. There are a lot of players on here that don't shred at all. Are you really gonna tell me Paul McCartney can shred on a guitar?
And of course, XTC's Dave Gregory
I think Jerry Cantrell should be rated lower. His solo work is just as good as anything he's done in AiC. A really tastful player with some superb riffing and solos.
I really like Cantrell. Honestly I don't know where I would place him off top of my head. He's a great guitarist but never really achieved "that" status.
They clearly don’t know the difference between guitar players and a song writers...
They are completely clueless. Stay tuned. I am going to put out another video about this and see if I can get enough people to respond so we can make an actual top 100 list. Not this joke RS put out.
Steve Lukather is top fucking 5
Luke is a baddass. No doubt. Hell, just the magical guitar work he did on MJ's Thriller put him there.
@@TraceTaylor3 your right. He and EVH on Beat It was awesome 😁
@@chrisseidner251Completely agree my friend. Thanks for your comments.
@@TraceTaylor3 may I also say, I feel Jay Graydon, Jon Herington , Dean Parks, Jeff Baxter and even Alan Holdsworth are fantastic contenders as well……. But then , I’m just a dumb drummer!! Thanks Trace and keep up the awesome interviews 🥰
@@TraceTaylor3 How about Terry Kath?? Absolutely AMAZING
Not a chance in hell that Hendrix is a better player than Eddie Van Halen or Jeff Beck. We're not taking about showmanship and image/theatrics, If we're talking about guitar playing abilities and skill then yes my statement stands Not a chance in hell Hendrix tops Eddie Van Halen. Seeing him top Jeff Beck was a laugh but even more insanity to say he tops Eddie Van Halen??? 🤣. Eddie had more guitar playing skill in just his left testicle than Hendrix had.
I agree completely. This is a joke. If you don't mind send me your top 5 guitarist. I am doing a poll from votes from youtube to see if it is better then RS's piece of crap. Here is the video for the poll. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
I think that is not the only point it’s about
Influence
Innovation
You can’t deny that these criteria fits with Hendrix
but also Eddie
If we are going with your criteria
Technique
I would say guys like Jason Becker would wipe the floor with Eddie
but not when it comes to innovation and influence
Paul simon is a great acoustic player, don’t throw strays at him because the whole list is shit 😂
He is....but to put him in the top 250 in the entire world???? That is a very far stretch.
Playing rock, blues and Jazz your CREATIVITY AND MUSICALITY ARE the better part of your "playing". I don't care how many beats per minute you can hit if you are just repeating the same old cliched lines! You MUST be able to create your own licks and have a style about it. This is why BB King is so great but has such a limited skill set that is about 90% expressiveness and 10% mechanical technique. So no, it isn't all about shredding or even about technique, it's about art, which only includes technique as one element that makes a whole. Oh but this blurs the line between "song writing" and "Guitar playing"? Yes, yest it does, and it has always been thus in any genre, even classical, but in rock it's the main thing.. Not that this makes their list correct, it sucks for other reasons. I repeat Iam NOT defending their list but you have gone to the opposite extreme. Nobody wants to hear the technical wizard, the "virtuoso" who has all the shred in the world but is unable to write beautiful lines that express deep feeling that use all of the many nuances of phrasing and tone to capture magic.. Sadly, in a materialistic age of unimaginative kids who are tone deaf musically all they can do is calculate greatness by crudely objective standards which reduce the guitar to the equivalent of touch typing. Music!
Yeah, I agree but shredding is not just about how many notes per sec you can hit. It is about your technical proficiency. Being able to blast is fun....and cool, but Gilmour can shred....he just does it slower. But when people think about great guitar players....the first thing they say is.....man that dude can shred. It has kind of become a catch all term.
yeah, the term is now such a broad umbrella it's almost meaningless - just another way of saying technical brilliance, in a more modern/metal style I suppose, perhaps as opposed to 60's expressivist approaches, or maybe "impressionist", whatever, but often it was used to refer to pure, picking speed and sweep technique and maybe throw very adept tapping in there. Stuff I regard as largely gimmicks but which can, course, in te hands of a master, be used very musically too. I think RS intended term in a more narrow sense, closer to the latter since they do specify "style" and "creativity" are weighted heavily in their metrics. Broadly I agree with that approach when it comes to rock and blues - it's about the feeling not the jaw dropping technique - that's just the heart of this kind of music and it blurs the lines between composition and technique.
But they do a poor job of saying exactly what their metrics are. Who did this list? How did they decide? We don't know. It seems oddly arbitrary and clearly "inclusionist" (ie woke, ugh) . I hate the list.
I suppose in the end it comes down to taste. If you poll actual guitarists, you will also find wide disagreement, and pleny of hurt feelings, which is clearly evident in reading Reddit threads and whatnot and too many "lists" to recall over my 55-year amateur guitar career.
EDIT: I play classical. It appears that Rolling Stone doesn't even know that storied genre even exists. The technical brilliance and formalized methods over 100's of years, and extreme discipline . .Segovia, Bream, et al are not even on the list at all. RS should have at least acknowledged them as a footnote and specified they don't know shit about it and are thus excluded. @@TraceTaylor3
@@bigalexg Yes. to leave our Segovia is simply ignorant. That would be like listing the greatest pianist and leaving out Beethoven. I am going to do another video on this where I can hopefully get everyone to submit their at least 5 top guitarist and see if I can pull off a poll to give us a more accurate list. And it should be fun.
I was with you until you said Jimmy Page was barely in the top 50 watch Dazed and Confused from the Song Remains the Same, I believe that will change your view. He''s also one of the greatest studio musicians of all time!!
Man I love Page.....and he is a great song writer....but you have to admit he is a little sloppy at times....and honestly I can name 50 better, more proficient players then page. And yes....he has put out some iconic solos and I am not knocking his talent at all....but Petrucci who did not make the list is a better guitarist....as is Buckethead.....and the list goes on. LIke I said I love Page and Zep, but from sheer talent....there are better.
Send me your top 5 guitarist. I am doing a little poll on youtube for a couple more weeks for a top 50. I want to compare it too RS top 50 from their top 250. Thanks brother.
Robbie Krieger is pronounced kreee - ger, not cry- ger.
Yeah....I wasn't sure. There is a couple i know I mispronounced. Stay tuned. I am going to put out another video about this and see if I can get enough people to respond so we can make an actual top 100 list. Not this joke RS put out.
Actually literally this year - look up Eddie by Red Hot Chili Peppers live or studio and tell me frusciante doesn’t shred - song about eddie Van Halen. There ya go
It's neat how they have J Mascis in the top 100 but asides from that it's a mess
It's a complete mess....all the way around. If you don't mind...send me your top 5 guitarist. I am doing a little poll from youtube to see if we can make a better list then RS. Here is the video. czcams.com/video/zdgWALmePdM/video.html
Thanks
Man the disrespect to page, Clapton and beck sheesh!!! Shit list though
I love Page and Beck. I think Beck a little more. Clapton? The most overrated guitar player ever. Beck is a damn good guitarist. Page is a great song writer but a bit sloppy on the guitar.....but that was just his style. Yes. the list was shit.