POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist- ROUND 2

MedozK

Since we definitely didn't agree with Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 albums or songs of all time, I figured for fun we could move to one last questionable Rolling Stone List. This time we will look at their list of the GREATEST GUITARIST OF ALL-TIME.

Alright, so here we will play the game to determine the BEST song in the Rolling Stone Top 10.

You are going to pick the song that you think is the "Weakest Link" after 2 days I remove the two (2) songs with the most votes. We will then move on to Round 3.
 
Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist of ALL-TIME

1) Jimi Hendrix

2) Eric Clapton

3) Jimmy Page

4) Keith Richards - ELIMINATED ROUND 1

5) Jeff Beck

6) B.B. King

7) Chuck Berry - ELIMINATED ROUND 1

8) Eddie Van Halen

9) Duane Allman - ELIMINATED ROUND 1

10) Pete Townshend - ELIMINATED ROUND 1

Complete list located here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-guitarists-153675/

josevolution

B.B. King

B.B has to go great blues man but not a Rocker .

tempo_n_groove

Jeff Beck

josevolution said:

B.B has to go great blues man but not a Rocker .

But it's "guitarist" Jose,  C'mon man!  lol

Hobbes

Eric Clapton

It seems for some, the primary criterion for "greatest" is an ability to shred while dismissing the art of the riff. 

To say that Mike is a better guitar player than Stone would be an absurd statement.

dankind

Eric Clapton

Hobbes said:

It seems for some, the primary criterion for "greatest" is an ability to shred while dismissing the art of the riff. 

To say that Mike is a better guitar player than Stone would be an absurd statement.

rgambs

B.B. King

Hobbes said:

It seems for some, the primary criterion for "greatest" is an ability to shred while dismissing the art of the riff. 

To say that Mike is a better guitar player than Stone would be an absurd statement.

Ok, not really absurd though lol

I definitely get what you mean, but Mike can play all of Stone's guitar parts, while Stone can not play all of Mike's.  
Writing is certainly a factor, but it isn't the primary one in my opinion.  You can be a guitarist without ever writing a song, but you can't be a guitarist by composing on paper.
For me, the ability to do BOTH is requisite for GOAT status.  If you can't shred, and pick, and write masterful and evocative melodies, you haven't come anywhere close to mastering the instrument.

*Edit

Just to be clear, I'm not saying Mike is better than Stone.  They both have different skills in playing and I'm not trying to down on Stone.  My point is that it isn't exactly absurd to suggest that Mike has a more expansive skill set in playing the guitar, he has the ability to shred lightning fast rock/metal licks and still deliver the touch needed for a song like Yellow Ledbetter.  Shredding certainly isn't everything, and it isn't even my preferred cup of tea, I prefer stuff like what I posted below...but the ability to play complex melodies very fast is a criteria for being considered a virtuoso in pretty much every instrument.

rgambs

B.B. King

https://youtu.be/qVk8VS-Ad2c

Anybody else never seen a theorbo before?  Pretty sweet.   
This guy's pretty talented, it makes me think of the people on this list and who among them could learn (in a reasonably short amount of time) to play like this, and who's songs among them this guy could learn to play in the same reasonable short period.

rgambs

B.B. King

BB is great, but he's the most one-dimensional guitarist on the list, by a good bit.  He does slow blues masterfully, but almost exclusively.

rgambs

B.B. King

BB is great, but he's the most one-dimensional guitarist on the list, by a good bit.  He does slow blues masterfully, but almost exclusively.

Abe Froman

Eric Clapton

Clapton is one of the most overrated of all time. 

brianlux

How is it Larry Coryell is not on this list?  I saw Coryell three times playing in three very different musical style thus:

1969: Fillmore West:  A mind blowing jazz/rock fusion performance.

1986: Stanford, CA  Played with jazz guitarist Laurindo Almeida and phenomenal classical guitarist Sharon Isbin.  An amazing amalgam of jazz and classical guitar works.

1988 Kimbal's, San Francisco.  A straight up jazz trio with legends Ray Brown (bass) and Art Blakey (drums).  How much better than this does it get!

Coryell could and did do it all.  It's a joke not seeing his (and others) name on that top 10 list.

rgambs

B.B. King

brianlux said:

How is it Larry Coryell is not on this list?  I saw Coryell three times playing in three very different musical style thus:

1969: Fillmore West:  A mind blowing jazz/rock fusion performance.

1986: Stanford, CA  Played with jazz guitarist Laurindo Almeida and phenomenal classical guitarist Sharon Isbin.  An amazing amalgam of jazz and classical guitar works.

1988 Kimbal's, San Francisco.  A straight up jazz trio with legends Ray Brown (bass) and Art Blakey (drums).  How much better than this does it get!

Coryell could and did do it all.  It's a joke not seeing his (and others) name on that top 10 list.

They are trying to sell magazines lol 
If they really dug deep to find the best then the list would be populated with people practically nobody has ever heard of, and that would be bad business lol

He's definitely insanely talented.  I'm not very well-versed, but I have seen him in 2 different classical trios that were fantastic and one jazz number that I pretty much hated, but I really don't go for jazz much.

rgambs

B.B. King

Abe Froman said:

Clapton is one of the most overrated of all time. 

That's just a post-2000 hot take.  A man who has been revered by all the best guitarists in blues and rock for more than 50 years is hard to overrate lol

Abe Froman

Eric Clapton

rgambs said:

Abe Froman said:

Clapton is one of the most overrated of all time. 

That's just a post-2000 hot take.  A man who has been revered by all the best guitarists in blues and rock for more than 50 years is hard to overrate lol

Wasnt hard for me at all. Other than his stuff with Cream I’ve had this opinion for 30 years. 

dankind

Eric Clapton

Larry Coryell has about as much of a shot as Lonnie Mack or Danny Gatton. All three play circles around most of the guitarists in the RS top 10, but ain't no one ever heard of them.

tempo_n_groove

Jeff Beck

rgambs said:

https://youtu.be/qVk8VS-Ad2c

Anybody else never seen a theorbo before?  Pretty sweet.   
This guy's pretty talented, it makes me think of the people on this list and who among them could learn (in a reasonably short amount of time) to play like this, and who's songs among them this guy could learn to play in the same reasonable short period.

Might as well play the fucking Harp.

rgambs

B.B. King

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

https://youtu.be/qVk8VS-Ad2c

Anybody else never seen a theorbo before?  Pretty sweet.   
This guy's pretty talented, it makes me think of the people on this list and who among them could learn (in a reasonably short amount of time) to play like this, and who's songs among them this guy could learn to play in the same reasonable short period.

Might as well play the fucking Harp.

Doesn't sound like a harp at all.  Sounds surprisingly contemporary, really.

rgambs

B.B. King

So this talk of greatest guitarists has had me thinking of Billy Strings and he just posted a Pearl Jam cover.  Billy Strings is the biggest up and comer in bluegrass right now and he's a truly incredible guitarist.  He covers In Hiding in his shows sometimes, he's been known to do Crown of Thorns, and now he just posted Soon Forget.  We saw him do In Hiding at the last show in Pittsburgh, and it was better than seeing Pearl Jam sing it, in its own way.
Billy will go down as one of the very best stringers of his generation, that's for sure.
Here is Soon Forget to pique your interest
https://youtu.be/kRo-lIKWPXY

And here is one of his classic songs/performances to show what kind of skill he has

https://youtu.be/fJmzS_Redh8

mickeyrat

B.B. King

fucks up lyrics just like ed...

brianlux

rgambs said:

brianlux said:

How is it Larry Coryell is not on this list?  I saw Coryell three times playing in three very different musical style thus:

1969: Fillmore West:  A mind blowing jazz/rock fusion performance.

1986: Stanford, CA  Played with jazz guitarist Laurindo Almeida and phenomenal classical guitarist Sharon Isbin.  An amazing amalgam of jazz and classical guitar works.

1988 Kimbal's, San Francisco.  A straight up jazz trio with legends Ray Brown (bass) and Art Blakey (drums).  How much better than this does it get!

Coryell could and did do it all.  It's a joke not seeing his (and others) name on that top 10 list.

They are trying to sell magazines lol 
If they really dug deep to find the best then the list would be populated with people practically nobody has ever heard of, and that would be bad business lol

He's definitely insanely talented.  I'm not very well-versed, but I have seen him in 2 different classical trios that were fantastic and one jazz number that I pretty much hated, but I really don't go for jazz much.

Yeah, I hear you about R.S.  And I (sort of) get it- they want to stay in business.

Here's a cool number- one of the many sides of Coryell- that will likely be on that RSD reissue coming out (OK, so Larry wasn't the world's great est singer, haha!  I actually dig his singing.  Anyway...):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGrJy7lZvA

MedozK

B.B. King

rgambs said:

So this talk of greatest guitarists has had me thinking of Billy Strings and he just posted a Pearl Jam cover.  Billy Strings is the biggest up and comer in bluegrass right now and he's a truly incredible guitarist.  He covers In Hiding in his shows sometimes, he's been known to do Crown of Thorns, and now he just posted Soon Forget.  We saw him do In Hiding at the last show in Pittsburgh, and it was better than seeing Pearl Jam sing it, in its own way.
Billy will go down as one of the very best stringers of his generation, that's for sure.
Here is Soon Forget to pique your interest
https://youtu.be/kRo-lIKWPXY

And here is one of his classic songs/performances to show what kind of skill he has

https://youtu.be/fJmzS_Redh8

Love Billy Strings, great guitarist.