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Rolling Stone Top 100 guitarists. Where is Mike?
Nothingman70
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The fact that he is not on his list just goes to show that RS IS A FREAKING JOKE! Unreal because Mike as we all know is amazing 
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Mike McCready on Eddie Van Halen ..
When I was 11, I was at my guitar teacher’s place, and he put on "Eruption." It sounded like it came from another planet. I was just learning basic chords, stuff like AC/DC and Deep Purple; "Eruption" really didn’t make sense to me, but it was glorious, like hearing Mozart for the first time.
Eddie is a master of riffs: "Unchained," "Take Your Whiskey Home," the beginning of "Ain't Talking 'Bout Love." He gets sounds that aren't necessarily guitar sounds – a lot of harmonics, textures that happen just because of how he picks. There's a part in "Unchained" where it sounds like there's another instrument in the riff.
A lot of it is in his hands: the way he holds his pick between his thumb and middle finger, which opens things up for his finger-tapping. (When I found out he played that way, I tried it myself, but it was too weird.) But underneath that, Eddie has soul. It's like Hendrix – you can play the things he's written, but there's an X factor that you can't get.
Eddie still has it. I saw Van Halen on their reunion tour two years ago, and the second he came out, I felt that same thing I did when I was a kid. When you see a master, you know it.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Yeah saw them on same tour just amazing...I had for that tour as I always vowed to only see VH with David Lee Roth who I think is an amazing front man.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Legendary Swedish axeman Yngwie Malmsteen recently spoke to Classic Rock Revisited about Rolling Stone magazine's much-criticized list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Asked for his reaction to the list, and more precisely his not being on it, Yngwie said, "I get that question every day. When somebody votes for me then that is beautiful and if they don't then that is okay too. I don't understand how that was compiled. I don't need to pat myself on the back. You should see my living room. It looks like I am a fucking golf player. I have all the awards that you could shake a stick at. I have been voted the #1 guitar player in Japan more than any other living guitar player. It does not matter to me. If I wake up and I don't play good that day, then that is what matters. What I have done before is not the point. The point is that I have to know that I have done my best. I need to know that I played a good solo, or wrote a good song or played a good show ? that is how I look at it. I have been nominated for Grammys and it is all great but that does not matter so much to me. I am not at all upset at Rolling Stone. At the same time, if I win something then it is very nice but if I don't then tomorrow is another day. This is not a sport."
-00, Stockholm
-07, Copenhagen
-09, Berlin
-10, Berlin
-11, East Troy 1+2
-12, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, EV London 2
-13, London, Chicago
-14, Amsterdam 1+2, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo
-16, TOTD San Francisco 1+2
-17, EV Amsterdam 2+3
-18, Amsterdam 1+2, London 1+(2), Barcelona, London 2
-19, EV Brussels
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I believe Eddie was left off the 100 greatest singers as well.