I can name a couple... lol. Joe Pass, John McLaughlin, fuckin Yngwie (genuinely surprised he didn't make the list, he's like 90% of the reason why sweep picking is so well known), Holdsworth, Guthrie, I can go on lol. Edit: can't believe I forgot to mention my 2 favorite guitarists after Eddie and Randy... Marty Friedman and Chuck Schuldiner are both missing! (Chuck I honestly expected to be left off, but Marty? Seriously?) Should mention Shawn Lane, Frank Gambale, and Dave Mustardstain as well.
RS hasn't been relevant for decades. They are so woke now, I wouldn't read or do I care about the list. I was curious were Eric Clapton placed? He's usually at least top 10 every poll I've seen.
I stopped reading and buying Rolling Stone magazine decades ago, because they have people writing articles which many do NOT have any idea what they are doing. This "List" is just one example. It is ridiculous. They need to hire people who REALLY KNOW what they are doing and people who really KNOW music from all genres.
Obviously they went for diversity and inclusion over talent. Also apparent is that they have zero knowledge of either fingerstyle or classical guitarists. These should actually be considered among the greatest simply because they are one-man bands, and don't rely on anyone backing them up. For example, Leo Kottke, Phil Keaggy, Pierre Bensusan, Michael Hedges, Tommy Emmanuel; their output equals or exceeds anyone on the list. To omit them demonstrates pure ignorance.
Yeah in Steve Vai, Dimebag Darrell, Pat Metheny, Slash, Rory Gallagher, and Nuno Bettencourt not even being ranked in the top 100, Eric Johnson wasn’t even in the top 200, not to mention the people that weren’t even on the list like John Petrucci, Jason Richardson, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Dave Mustain all of the guitarists from Megadeth for that matter, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan, Gary Moore, Vinnie Moore, Paul Gilbert, and many many many other people it’s absurd.  Kurt himself didn’t even consider himself to be a guitarist, I love Kurt Cobain but his main strength with songwriting notguitar playing he mostly just copied the melodies for his solos. He wasn’t bad by any means Nirvana has a lot of awesome riffs but he is nothing compared to someone like Joe Satriani or Steve Vai who he is ranked above
I think the doubling-up pieces are also kind of a half-assed effort. While two people from the same band are great, it's still a "slot" for the "players". I also agree (and am glad that Neal can talk shit about them) about Neal being left OFF the list. Of the talents, creative spirits and driving forces over the years - wow. Thanks for your perspective and video! Subbed and eager to watch more.
Joni Mitchell would even say hersef that she doesn't belong on that list for guitar. She is a song writer and guitarist but the song writing is her main gig.
I feel like John Lennon belongs on there just for being a Beatle but they did put him in a good place and he's also someone who didn't consider himself much of a guitar player.
Have you seen a re-emulation of the listing elsewhere that takes a more realistic tack at the listing? I'm not familiar with all of the ladies on the listing, but are most of them added so that there is "rep-pre-sent-ta-shone" in the listing rather than being a complete Sausage Party? Still, jaw-dropped over the showcased, errant listing.
Just what the magazine wants, we're still talking about it. Add another musician missing from the Greatest Guitarists of all Time: Roy Clark, that boy could play.
So for full disclosure, I don't know about half the people on this list. I would imagine the author hasn't heard of my guys that were omitted - Joe Pass, Tommy Emmanuel, Rik Emmett, Stochelo Rosenberg, Andres Segovia, Joscho Stephan, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark. I'm sure I could come up with a lot more if I wanted to go deep. But this RS article just shows how shallow the research was when compiling the list.
RS accomplished exactly what they wanted- to stir up controversy and getting people talking, even going to their website (and being bombarded with ads). It worked. Even if it is a negative reaction, their name is still being mentioned. The list is trash, there are no measurable metrics, subjective or otherwise. RS is irrelevant, and I think they know that. Hence, the horrible list.
They have people on that might be incredibly talented, like Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram at 200, but haven't made their mark on music. I'm sure it gets worse the higher up the list we go. Let's instead look at people they omitted: No Alexi Laiho, no Dave Mustaine (despite him writing much of early Metallica and of course his own band,) no Marty Friedman (in their defense much of his work is in Japan and Rolling Stone has no idea about the Japanese music scene.) No Kane Roberts but Nita Strauss is on there (some of Alice Cooper's best albums were with Roberts.) Unless they're one of the top 10 or so metal bands in terms of airplay they're not even considered for this stupid list. Here's a great example: Michael Amott is an insane guitarist but Arch Enemy is "too obscure" for Rolling Stone, so no chance of him, but at least Guitar World put him on their top 100 list. Only gonna touch a few rankings. I'm not saying she shouldn't be anywhere but Tony Iommi created an entire genre but is stuck at 13 while we have Joni Mitchell at 9. It's not a bad place for Mr. Iommi, but they should have at least been swapped. Eric Clapton only at 35? Sure he's controversial but he's easily top 10/15. Slash is way higher than 105, at least top 50. Lindsey Buckingham is at 110, he should at least have been somewhere in the top 100. I understand that at the end of the day 250 is still a small number if we want to discuss great guitarists, and Rolling Stone wanted to represent different genres and have representation across race and gender lines, but it's still a bad list. It's great to expand consideration to people who aren't just white men, but there's plenty of great black guitarists on the list that truly deserve it and would have been on there anyway.
They didn't even need to include black guitarists either nobody has heard of or that nobody will remember in 20 years...there's a loooooong list of talented black guitarists everyone knows, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix (duh) George Benson Chuck Berry, Lenny Kravitz, etc, so anyone who knows even the slightest about guitar knows most of them so no need for representation for the sake of it when it's organically found.
Alan Holdsworth. Rocky George. Jeff Hanneman. To name a few. The fact that Robert Fripp and Alex Lifeson are at numbers 58 and 59 tells you all you need to know about the compilers of this so called list.
They did not put Angus and Malcolm at 38. I never really gave rolling stone any attention and I don’t think I will after this. They left out Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, they left out Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley, they left out so many guitarists that I don’t even want to pay attention to rolling stone
It's more important to be a famous artist that can hold a guitar and write songs then an influencer to a million guitar players. To be totally frank how many women on the list could share a stage with Joe Pass, Yngwie, Neil Schon or Guthrie Gowan and show similar skills??
So glad you didn't leave out Neal Schon To my amazement I've seen people doing these complaint videos and not even including him! He's top 10 easily. There is someone on RUclips who did a top 17 best Neal Schon guitar solos. Yes... 17!!!! And RS doesn't think he is in the top 250 🤣 Id also have to mention Gary Moore...
Dimebag Darrell and Steve Vai didn't make Top 100? I didn't see Eric Clapton's or Rory Gallagher's name. Putting Malcom/Angus and Hetfield/Hammett together is just lazy. I guess Rolling Stone Magazine has seen better days.
@@MetalDadRocksI'm surprised they even rated him, probably lowballed him for controversial things he said while drunk like 50 years ago that he's since apologized for and if he really was racist why would he have black backup singers willingly working for him!?
Maybe the word 'great' should be defined first. To me, who on this list: - Doesn't sound like 1000 other shredders - Is prolific innovative technically strong a sound/you can pick out instantly a great composer
Hello Metal Dad. I stopped looking at he Rolling Stone top guitarists list a long time ago. I think they just put all the names in a hat and throw in some odd ball guitarist in there for the fun of it. Then they start picking them out one by one, just to piss everyone off.
I was thinking this whole time John Squire, glad you typed this, he's got some great riffs, licks and solos on that new album he did with Liam Gallagher as well...massively underrated yet his influence his so strong on Oasis so much Liam Gallagher would never joined the band that would become Oasis if not for him and The Stone Roses.
Rory Gallagher... Les Dudek... Derek Trucks? Warren Haynes? Tony Iommi? Dwayne Allman? hell, why not Alvin Lee? Rolling Stone needs to have its music license revoked.
I was doing the same as you when I read this list! I had the hump for week. Whoever compiled this list knows nothing about music and they work for a music magazine. It was truly hilarious 😅
Totally agree Metaldad RS sucks, now i havent seen the whole list yet but i hope Marty Friedman, Dave Mustaine, Gary Moore, Chuck schuldiner and Jason becker is there
Whats really terrrible is the order ,putting aside the masters they left off . Does st vincent belong on the list sure but she should be closer to 200 than 20 like she was .I can tell no guitar player was consulted because if they were no way Nuno Bettencourt would be 197.
Willie Nelson at 77 is the funniest. We all love Willie, even if we don't listen to his music, other than those two or three songs. But 77th best guitarist? C'mon. List is dumb, for all the wrong reasons. Edit: No, Joni at 9th is the funniest.
I'm honestly surprised they didn't put Taylor Swift on the list to appease Swifties...she's actually pretty good at playing simple chords and stuff though, but not an all-time great and probably better at piano.
totally agree with all the missing guitarists you mentioned, but this list would have to be the biggest balls up of all time, that was polite at the end, this list does more than SUCK
First, do they ever define the criteria? Secondly, if they haven’t defined the criteria then over 50% of the list makes no sense. On what criteria of guitar would Liz Phair be ranked above Andy Summers? 🤷♂️
The list is awful but Kevin Shields is great not in the 60th place or whatever, maybe in the place 250 because I mean 1:38 things like this are nonesense. Check Soft as Snow but warm inside from My Bloody Valentine and the album Loveless from 91'
And they left a bunch of Jazz and Fusion players off the list. So, is it a metal/rock/blues players list? Those guys make the ones on this list look like rank amateurs.
Brian Setzer not on the list. I never bought Rolling Stone. It's always been crap fluff. I'm baffled why anyone buys it and it's still getting attention. This list is so beyond the pale, I'm sure they did it just for the publicity the outrage would bring.
The fact that Dimebag, Downing and Tipton, Steve Lukather, and Jerry Cantrell are ranked low is just disrespectful. Where's Neal Schon, Michael Landau , Dann Huff, Tommy Emmanuel, Dave Mustaine? The Rolling Stone is a crock o shit
This "list"(?) is bulshit. But when you think that nowadays rolling stone is the equivalent of "people" and "vanity fair" for music subject... you know that rolling stone is IRRELEVANT! ZERO! Just throw it to trash and forget it.
I am really believing that they never REALLY ever have listened to anybody. What a Totally Idiotic List. Unbelievable!!! You thought of all I did but One you did not mention either is Mark Tremonti.
The 6 most OVERRATED guitar players in history.. 1. Jimi Hendrix 2.Jimi Hendrix 3.Jimi Hendrix 4. Jimi Hendrix 5.Jimi Hendrix 6. 200 players on this list.. Oh wait !!.. Did I forget Jimi Hendrix ??.. So sorry..
Let me know what you think! Who should have made the list?
I can name a couple... lol. Joe Pass, John McLaughlin, fuckin Yngwie (genuinely surprised he didn't make the list, he's like 90% of the reason why sweep picking is so well known), Holdsworth, Guthrie, I can go on lol.
Edit: can't believe I forgot to mention my 2 favorite guitarists after Eddie and Randy... Marty Friedman and Chuck Schuldiner are both missing! (Chuck I honestly expected to be left off, but Marty? Seriously?)
Should mention Shawn Lane, Frank Gambale, and Dave Mustardstain as well.
Just like the Rock n Roll Hall of Shame...
@@MetalDadRocks lol
RS hasn't been relevant for decades. They are so woke now, I wouldn't read or do I care about the list.
I was curious were Eric Clapton placed?
He's usually at least top 10 every poll I've seen.
35!
They missed Metal Dad!
What has he written? I never heard his music
Not to mention Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman aren’t even on the list and they are the two best Thrash Metal Guitarist ever
They make these lists bad on purpose because it’s the only way they can get anyone to talk about Rolling Stone.
Yes! I fell for it! lol!!
I stopped reading and buying Rolling Stone magazine decades ago, because they have people writing articles
which many do NOT have any idea what they are doing. This "List" is just one example. It is ridiculous.
They need to hire people who REALLY KNOW what they are doing and people who really KNOW music from all genres.
Glen Tipton is one of most underrated guitar players on the planet his riffs and song writing is legendary!!🎸🤘
So freakin true!
Dear metal dad please give us your list of 250 best of all time
The fact the you don't mention K.K. Downing proves he's more underrated.
Obviously they went for diversity and inclusion over talent. Also apparent is that they have zero knowledge of either fingerstyle or classical guitarists. These should actually be considered among the greatest simply because they are one-man bands, and don't rely on anyone backing them up. For example, Leo Kottke, Phil Keaggy, Pierre Bensusan, Michael Hedges, Tommy Emmanuel; their output equals or exceeds anyone on the list. To omit them demonstrates pure ignorance.
Kurt Cobain being in the top 100 tells you all you need to know about this list
Exactly. This list sucks!
He’s not even in the top 1000
Yeah in Steve Vai, Dimebag Darrell, Pat Metheny, Slash, Rory Gallagher, and Nuno Bettencourt not even being ranked in the top 100, Eric Johnson wasn’t even in the top 200, not to mention the people that weren’t even on the list like John Petrucci, Jason Richardson, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Dave Mustain all of the guitarists from Megadeth for that matter, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan, Gary Moore, Vinnie Moore, Paul Gilbert, and many many many other people it’s absurd. 
Kurt himself didn’t even consider himself to be a guitarist, I love Kurt Cobain but his main strength with songwriting notguitar playing he mostly just copied the melodies for his solos. He wasn’t bad by any means Nirvana has a lot of awesome riffs but he is nothing compared to someone like Joe Satriani or Steve Vai who he is ranked above
I think the doubling-up pieces are also kind of a half-assed effort. While two people from the same band are great, it's still a "slot" for the "players".
I also agree (and am glad that Neal can talk shit about them) about Neal being left OFF the list. Of the talents, creative spirits and driving forces over the years - wow.
Thanks for your perspective and video! Subbed and eager to watch more.
Joni Mitchell would even say hersef that she doesn't belong on that list for guitar. She is a song writer and guitarist but the song writing is her main gig.
I feel like John Lennon belongs on there just for being a Beatle but they did put him in a good place and he's also someone who didn't consider himself much of a guitar player.
The fact Nugent isn't on the list is crazy. The things that man can do with a Gibson Birdland
Because libler rag is RS
It's in insult and it's intended that way. The communists put Joni Mitchell as a top 10 guitar player 🤦♂️
Comfortably Numb? Thunderstruck? Tom Sawyer? I don't think Rolling Stone knows these guitarists.
I know!!!
What about Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden where they on the List.
Have you seen a re-emulation of the listing elsewhere that takes a more realistic tack at the listing? I'm not familiar with all of the ladies on the listing, but are most of them added so that there is "rep-pre-sent-ta-shone" in the listing rather than being a complete Sausage Party?
Still, jaw-dropped over the showcased, errant listing.
I was hoping you were gonna do buddy guy lol hes a favorite of mine
When was the last time Rolling Stone put out anything that wasn’t absolute crap?
Always stoked for a new upload
Just what the magazine wants, we're still talking about it. Add another musician missing from the Greatest Guitarists of all Time: Roy Clark, that boy could play.
So for full disclosure, I don't know about half the people on this list. I would imagine the author hasn't heard of my guys that were omitted - Joe Pass, Tommy Emmanuel, Rik Emmett, Stochelo Rosenberg, Andres Segovia, Joscho Stephan, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark. I'm sure I could come up with a lot more if I wanted to go deep. But this RS article just shows how shallow the research was when compiling the list.
what they are thinking is that Jann got his ass kicked for his book comments, so they HAD to include a "gender fluid black woman" in there
RS accomplished exactly what they wanted- to stir up controversy and getting people talking, even going to their website (and being bombarded with ads). It worked. Even if it is a negative reaction, their name is still being mentioned. The list is trash, there are no measurable metrics, subjective or otherwise. RS is irrelevant, and I think they know that. Hence, the horrible list.
You and Rick Beato need to get on the phone together and discuss this ridiculous list. He nearly had a stroke over it.
I felt the “Nuno…..197……?”
What most people didn’t notice was the “in no particular order” in font size 1 in the small print
They have people on that might be incredibly talented, like Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram at 200, but haven't made their mark on music. I'm sure it gets worse the higher up the list we go.
Let's instead look at people they omitted: No Alexi Laiho, no Dave Mustaine (despite him writing much of early Metallica and of course his own band,) no Marty Friedman (in their defense much of his work is in Japan and Rolling Stone has no idea about the Japanese music scene.) No Kane Roberts but Nita Strauss is on there (some of Alice Cooper's best albums were with Roberts.) Unless they're one of the top 10 or so metal bands in terms of airplay they're not even considered for this stupid list. Here's a great example: Michael Amott is an insane guitarist but Arch Enemy is "too obscure" for Rolling Stone, so no chance of him, but at least Guitar World put him on their top 100 list.
Only gonna touch a few rankings. I'm not saying she shouldn't be anywhere but Tony Iommi created an entire genre but is stuck at 13 while we have Joni Mitchell at 9. It's not a bad place for Mr. Iommi, but they should have at least been swapped. Eric Clapton only at 35? Sure he's controversial but he's easily top 10/15. Slash is way higher than 105, at least top 50. Lindsey Buckingham is at 110, he should at least have been somewhere in the top 100.
I understand that at the end of the day 250 is still a small number if we want to discuss great guitarists, and Rolling Stone wanted to represent different genres and have representation across race and gender lines, but it's still a bad list. It's great to expand consideration to people who aren't just white men, but there's plenty of great black guitarists on the list that truly deserve it and would have been on there anyway.
They didn't even need to include black guitarists either nobody has heard of or that nobody will remember in 20 years...there's a loooooong list of talented black guitarists everyone knows, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix (duh) George Benson Chuck Berry, Lenny Kravitz, etc, so anyone who knows even the slightest about guitar knows most of them so no need for representation for the sake of it when it's organically found.
Alan Holdsworth. Rocky George. Jeff Hanneman. To name a few. The fact that Robert Fripp and Alex Lifeson are at numbers 58 and 59 tells you all you need to know about the compilers of this so called list.
They did not put Angus and Malcolm at 38. I never really gave rolling stone any attention and I don’t think I will after this. They left out Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, they left out Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley, they left out so many guitarists that I don’t even want to pay attention to rolling stone
It's more important to be a famous artist that can hold a guitar and write songs then an influencer to a million guitar players. To be totally frank how many women on the list could share a stage with Joe Pass, Yngwie, Neil Schon or Guthrie Gowan and show similar skills??
So glad you didn't leave out Neal Schon
To my amazement I've seen people doing these complaint videos and not even including him!
He's top 10 easily. There is someone on RUclips who did a top 17 best Neal Schon guitar solos. Yes...
17!!!!
And RS doesn't think he is in the top 250 🤣
Id also have to mention Gary Moore...
Dimebag Darrell and Steve Vai didn't make Top 100? I didn't see Eric Clapton's or Rory Gallagher's name. Putting Malcom/Angus and Hetfield/Hammett together is just lazy. I guess Rolling Stone Magazine has seen better days.
Clapton at 35. 🫣
Dimebag, Vai are top 10 guitarists all time for me. Shame they weren't top 20 at least
@@MetalDadRocksI'm surprised they even rated him, probably lowballed him for controversial things he said while drunk like 50 years ago that he's since apologized for and if he really was racist why would he have black backup singers willingly working for him!?
Watching this again, it really seems like a “greatest guitarists” list made by people who’ve never touched a guitar. Or even a ukulele.
I bet they didn’t even really put them in order really
Where the fuck is robin trower and Gary Moore?
It is hard to pick who is in the top 10 and 20 and 30 and so forth, but a lot of these were ridiculous.
Maybe the word 'great' should be defined first. To me, who on this list:
- Doesn't sound like 1000 other shredders
- Is prolific
innovative
technically strong
a sound/you can pick out instantly
a great composer
Hello Metal Dad. I stopped looking at he Rolling Stone top guitarists list a long time ago. I think they just put all the names in a hat and throw in some odd ball guitarist in there for the fun of it. Then they start picking them out one by one, just to piss everyone off.
No Billy Gibbons?
185 guitar players better than Steve Lucather?
Michael Schenker, Steve Morse, Frank Marino, Gary Moore.
ALVIN LEE is top 10 material , but didn't make the 250 , please say it ain't so , Peace from down under
I agree. ALVIN was a gift from god. Cheers.
Who did write this article? Is She, or he, a guitarrist? Man! What was that? 🤦
No buckethead?? Number one to me
Tony Iommi?
Used to be a great magazine 50 years ago. I can't wade through this - where's Carlos?
Johnny Ramoes, Jack withe and Neil Young are top 50, thats says it all! They are all rated higher than Richie Blackmore?!?!?
They have to have controversial picks so that 'you guys' can hammer thots on your keyboard.
It’s not true! It’s not true! Lol
John Squire from The Stone Roses
I would also add John 5
I was thinking this whole time John Squire, glad you typed this, he's got some great riffs, licks and solos on that new album he did with Liam Gallagher as well...massively underrated yet his influence his so strong on Oasis so much Liam Gallagher would never joined the band that would become Oasis if not for him and The Stone Roses.
The omission of Glen Campbell and Roy Clark immediately invalidates the entire list.
as a Metalhead, you are correct.
Rory Gallagher... Les Dudek... Derek Trucks? Warren Haynes? Tony Iommi? Dwayne Allman? hell, why not Alvin Lee? Rolling Stone needs to have its music license revoked.
It's as bad as The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. It's ridiculous.
Nigel Tufnel?
an appalling omission ,,especially as he was the only guy to have an amp that went to 11!
WHAT HAPPENED TO TONY IOMMI
A top anything guitarists list without John Petrucci is an automatic loss.
Gary Moore is not on the list. This is insane
gary moore? john skyes?
Wonder what at number they will list vito bratta.
They lost me with Eric Johnston, and it only got worse from there.
SAME!
Rick Emmet of Triumph...
where the fuck is gary moore, should ATLEAST be top 15
even higher imo
Also missing Mick Mars!
I do think KK Downing was a great guitar player. he had some very fast riffs and the band he played for sold quite a few records.
I was doing the same as you when I read this list! I had the hump for week. Whoever compiled this list knows nothing about music and they work for a music magazine. It was truly hilarious 😅
Its as if ''journalists'' for the WAPO, WSJ or some SF lib rag hijacked then put their mark on this pile of shit list.
You have to consider Rolling Stone is not what they were. They just went... well, I'll just leave it there. They're junk now.
Problem is people see art in numbers and you cant quantify art numerically.
Totally agree Metaldad RS sucks, now i havent seen the whole list yet but i hope Marty Friedman, Dave Mustaine, Gary Moore, Chuck schuldiner and Jason becker is there
Not one….
Whats really terrrible is the order ,putting aside the masters they left off . Does st vincent belong on the list sure but she should be closer to 200 than 20 like she was .I can tell no guitar player was consulted because if they were no way Nuno Bettencourt would be 197.
Willie Nelson at 77 is the funniest. We all love Willie, even if we don't listen to his music, other than those two or three songs. But 77th best guitarist? C'mon. List is dumb, for all the wrong reasons. Edit: No, Joni at 9th is the funniest.
Im I'm with the top 3 being the top 3 that they have. But Chuck Berry stole his sound. The credit is due to Marty McFly.
well done
Where is George Lynch, Vito Bratta or Marty Friedman?
I'm honestly surprised they didn't put Taylor Swift on the list to appease Swifties...she's actually pretty good at playing simple chords and stuff though, but not an all-time great and probably better at piano.
totally agree with all the missing guitarists you mentioned, but this list would have to be the biggest balls up of all time, that was polite at the end, this list does more than SUCK
And no Gary Moore :(
First, do they ever define the criteria? Secondly, if they haven’t defined the criteria then over 50% of the list makes no sense. On what criteria of guitar would Liz Phair be ranked above Andy Summers? 🤷♂️
I would be surprised if anyone agreed with me but I would put Jesper Strömblad on my list for sure.
The list is awful but Kevin Shields is great not in the 60th place or whatever, maybe in the place 250 because I mean 1:38 things like this are nonesense.
Check Soft as Snow but warm inside from My Bloody Valentine and the album Loveless from 91'
And they left a bunch of Jazz and Fusion players off the list. So, is it a metal/rock/blues players list? Those guys make the ones on this list look like rank amateurs.
Keith Richard’s!!!Ace Frehley!!!
I know im seeing this mouths later but im reminded how angry I get with these lists. 💀
Andy Sommers is worse than that guy who nicknamed himself “the edge”!
Who wrote this list? Chimpanzees? Wow...just wow.
That is not right Daddy ~
Rolling Stone mag is not worthy of response. You are promoting the magazine just by your post.
Brian Setzer not on the list. I never bought Rolling Stone. It's always been crap fluff. I'm baffled why anyone buys it and it's still getting attention. This list is so beyond the pale, I'm sure they did it just for the publicity the outrage would bring.
The fact that Dimebag, Downing and Tipton, Steve Lukather, and Jerry Cantrell are ranked low is just disrespectful. Where's Neal Schon, Michael Landau , Dann Huff, Tommy Emmanuel, Dave Mustaine? The Rolling Stone is a crock o shit
Where is LIL WAYNE??!!!! How is he not on there😮😮😮
They really did Eric Johnson dirty :((((
This "list"(?) is bulshit. But when you think that nowadays rolling stone is the equivalent of "people" and "vanity fair" for music subject... you know that rolling stone is IRRELEVANT! ZERO!
Just throw it to trash and forget it.
You have to remember that the same hivemind that awards the Oscars wrote this list.
Metal Dad - He's not mad, just disappointed.
BRO I WAS LITERALLY GONNA SAY ACE
You know why Uncle Teddy isn't on the list.
There is some crazy good players not blessed with popularity!
no zakk wylde?
pretty sure he was in there
I am really believing that they never REALLY ever have listened to anybody. What a Totally Idiotic List. Unbelievable!!! You thought of all I did but One you did not mention either is Mark Tremonti.
The 6 most OVERRATED guitar players in history..
1. Jimi Hendrix
2.Jimi Hendrix
3.Jimi Hendrix
4. Jimi Hendrix
5.Jimi Hendrix
6. 200 players on this list..
Oh wait !!.. Did I forget Jimi Hendrix ??.. So sorry..
Rolling Stone has been a joke for a very long time. I don't even pay attention to them anymore.
Total Garbage, how did Poison Ivy even make the list and Nugent didn't. LOL
Tommy Emmanuel?
Willie Nelson wizzes around the fretboard faster than Steve Vai
😂😂😂😂😂
It was obviously just a diversity campaign. I’m surprised why people don’t talk about it more.