POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist- ROUND 3
MedozK
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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 4.
Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist of ALL-TIME
Complete list located here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-guitarists-153675/
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 4.
Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist of ALL-TIME
1) Jimi Hendrix
2) Eric Clapton - ELIMINATED ROUND 2
3) Jimmy Page
4) Keith Richards - ELIMINATED ROUND 1
5) Jeff Beck
6) B.B. King - ELIMINATED ROUND 2
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/
POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist- ROUND 3 26 votes
Jimi Hendrix
0%
Jimmy Page
3%
1 vote
Jeff Beck
76%
20 votes
Eddie Van Halen
19%
5 votes
0
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The reason is simple...Jimmy wrote the riffs for Rock n Roll, Black Dog, etc AND Bron Y Air, The Rain Song, That's The Way, etc...
Jimi wrote the riffs for Voodoo Chile, Foxy Lady, etc AND Little Wing, The Wind Cries Mary, etc...
That ability to make 6 strings pull the heart strings in so many different directions is what sets them apart.
I haven't heard anything to match that extremely evocative touch from EVH, so if anybody knows of something, drop it in here so I can check it out.
Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing every British blues guitarist to pieces the instant they saw him play. As vocalist Terry Reid tells it, when Hendrix played his first showcase at the Bag O’Nails, arranged by Animals’ bassist Chas Chandler, “there were guitar players weeping. They had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo. I could see everyone’s fillings falling out. When he finished, it was silence. Nobody knew what to do. Everybody was dumbstruck, completely in shock.”
He only exaggerates a little, by all accounts, and when Reid says “everybody,” he means everybody: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Paul McCartney, The Who, Eric Burdon, John Mayall, and maybe Jimmy Page, though he denies it. Mayall recalls, “the buzz was out before Jimi had even been seen here, so people were anticipating his performance, and he more than lived up to what we were expecting.” In fact, even before this legendary event sent nearly every star classic rock guitarist back to the woodshed, Jimi had arrived unannounced at the Regent Street Polytechnic, and asked to sit in and jam with Cream, where he proceeded to dethrone the reigning British guitar god, Eric Clapton.
Nobody knew who he was, but “in those days anybody could get up with anybody,” Clapton says, “if you were convincing enough that you could play. He got up and blew everyone’s mind.” As Hendrix biographer Charles Cross tells it, “no one had ever asked to jam” with Cream before. “Most would have been too intimidated by their reputation as the best band in Britain.” To hear the story as it’s told in the clip above from the BBC documentary Seven Ages of Rock, no one else would have ever dared to get onstage with Eric Clapton. Clapton, as the famed graffiti in London announced, was God. “It was a very brave person who would do that,” says Jack Bruce.
Actually, it was Chandler who asked the band, and who also tried to prepare Clapton. Jimi got onstage, plugged into Bruce’s bass amp, and played a version of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killin’ Floor.” Everyone was “completely gobsmacked,” Clapton writes in his autobiography. “I remember thinking that here was a force to be reckoned with. It scared me, because he was clearly going to be a huge star, and just as we are finding our own speed, here was the real thing.” Fear, envy, awe… all reasonable emotions when standing next to Jimi Hendrix as he tears through “Killin’ Floor” three times faster than anyone else played it —while doing the splits, lying on the floor, playing with his teeth and behind his head…
“It was amazing,” writes Clapton, “and it was musically great, too, not just pyrotechnics.” There’s no telling how Jimi might have remembered the event had he lived to write his memoirs, but he would have been pretty modest, as was his way. No one else who saw him felt any need to hold back. “It must have been difficult for Eric to handle,” says Bruce, “because [Eric] was ‘God,’” and this unknown person comes along, and burns.” He puts it slightly differently at the top: “Eric was a guitar player. Jimi was some sort of force of nature.
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Plage just added his take to what everybody else was doing/had done and called it his own. You want to know how great Plage is without Plant, JPJ and Bonzo? OK, I've got a Death Wish 2 soundtrack to sell you.
Plage sits around his manse waiting for someone to call him so that he can play/reinterpret already recorded material -- that is, when he's not being a huge ninny of a neighbor or vociferously defending his "legacy" against the likes of Spirit.
Beck was clearly going to get ousted, but a few votes for Page might have secured EVH a deserved spot in the finals.
Got to think strategy sometimes Dan.
I agree with you on the 2 finalists, should be Hendrix and Van Halen, but looks like it will be Hendrix and Page.
Beck mined the same fields as Plage, and while I think that Beck's interpretations display that he was certainly more of a skilled virtuoso than Plage, there's no denying the Plage legacy (although Spirit can try as many times as they like).
Another reason I would add bonus points for Page is because of his pre-Zep background, especially as a session artist. It was these years (five full years, if I recall correctly) of playing in a variety of settings that made him a seasoned guitarist before starting up with Led Zeppelin. As great as his playing was with Zep, that band's fame overshadows a yet fuller, expansive, and impressive career.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I do not disagree that he had a stellar 15-year run (session, Yardbirds, LZ) as a youngster, though.
In baseball, that's known as being ooooooooooold!
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