The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All-Time
 

(According to the morons at 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 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

12 -> no
16 -> no
17 -> no

I stopped looking after that... one of the worst lists ever. They're trying to say Kurt Cobain was better than Jeff Beck? HAHAHA

well gald to see john frusciante high up there but i see alot of ppl terribly msiplaced.... van halen, anestasio, krieger and young are way out of place

Sounds good maybe not in that order though.

11> no
12> yes
26> needs to be moved up

i think Kurt Cobain is great. Kirk Hammet is alright but not better than Tom Morello by a long shot

the right people seem to be on there but you need to cut and paste the list in a different order

Kieth Richards ahead of Carlos Santana is a little sketchy. Im not even going to comment on Jack white being that high. But I do agree with a lot of those, maybe not exactly but in the general area.

16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones

This made me laugh. I guess that versatility is not a criteria. kicking ass seems to be though.

Van Halen #70? Wow. That says a lot for this list.

Is Steve Vai on there? How about Yngvie Malmstien (I know it isn't spelled right).

Those guys are guitar gods!

Sounds more like a VH1 top 100 list to me. The whole thing stinks.

Speaking of Yngvie....how about Paco Delucia or Al Di Meola?

Not including them on a list of the great guitarists to me means your list is worthless.

Couldn't agree more. The only thing that Rolling Stone magazine is good for anymore (although not as useful as it used to be) was the nice list they published in the back of music to download :)

Just my two cents.

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Steve Vai? Eric Johnson?

This List is Horible!! How can Eddie Van Halen not be top 5!

And there are people like Yngvie J. Malmsteen, Steve Vai, George Lynch and even Lita Ford that deserve to be on there before plenty of others.

RS has hit an all-time low with this. How stupid can they get? They are obviously polling four 12-year-old girls and 8 40-something's to get this list. Eddie Van Halen is lower on the list than Lou Reed? WTF? OF course I need to add: where is Rik Emmett? Where is Pat Metheney? What about Wes Montgomery or any historically significant jazz players? What a joke.

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Speaking of Yngwie, Delucia, and Dimeola; what about Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Steve Morse, John Petrucci, Allan Holdsworth, Paul Gilbert, and not to mention a few killer slide guitarists that rock. Each to their own I guess and opinions vary.

I agree! I also bet that guys like Kenny Wayne Shepard, Craig Chaquico (Jefferson Starship), Steven VanZant and Nils Lofgren(Bruce Springsteen), and Ted Nugent are real proud to be left off the list when guys like Cobain and Johnny Ramone are on it.
C'mon, give me a fuckin' break! Those guys had no finesse!

.....and what about Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford from Genesis? .... and my favorite female guitar player, Bonnie Raitt!

When it was published in RS, that list was in no particular order. But whether that's true or not, there is absolutely no way you can seriously write a list of the best ever guitarists and not include Steve Vai.

I agree, and with David Gilmour in 80's?!!? My opinion my be clouded by the fact that I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, but he's atleast got to be in the top 50!:crazy:

I agree with ya. Way too many people need to be added to that list and a whole lot of people need to be kicked off. I don't think you could ever get an accurate top 100, but this one is terrible!

I am going to start an underrated guitar players list in a new thread, please help out! .......Freakin' Johnny Ramone on the list, and no Neil Schon? Ugh!

How about Steve Morse of the Dixie Dregs?

Steve Vai?

And who exactly is Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band?

I agree with a lot of the selections on this list, but some are just inconceivable. There's probably a reason that I stopped reading Rolling Stone a long time ago.