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

MedozK
MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
in Other Music
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

POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Guitarist- ROUND 2 26 votes

Jimi Hendrix
0%
Eric Clapton
34%
PoncierdankindBB162610Abe FromaneeriepadavePapF Me In The BrainHobbesjoe159 9 votes
Jimmy Page
0%
Jeff Beck
26%
mcgruff10pledgeagrievancejoberschlakeerebusBLACK35mrussel1tempo_n_groove 7 votes
B.B. King
34%
josevolutioncutzBIGDaddyWilmickeyratGlowGirlMedozKrgambsSmallestOceansbbiggs 9 votes
Eddie Van Halen
3%
Tim Simmons 1 vote
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,667
    B.B. King
    B.B has to go great blues man but not a Rocker .
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    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
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    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
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    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.
    :clap::clap::clap:
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited April 2021
    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.
    Post edited by rgambs on
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,381
    Eric Clapton
    Clapton is one of the most overrated of all time. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    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.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,381
    edited April 2021
    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. 
    Post edited by Abe Froman on
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    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.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,451
    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
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,502
    B.B. King
    fucks up lyrics just like ed...
    _____________________________________SIGNATURE________________________________________________

    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    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...):

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    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
    Love Billy Strings, great guitarist.
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