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2011-11-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by badanov 2011-11-24 01:09|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Oh, jeez. Another top 10 list? Save me.

Posted by gromky 2011-11-24 03:55|| 2011-11-24 03:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Greatest guitarists: John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia - together on "Passion, Grace, & Fire"

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-11-24 04:34|| 2011-11-24 04:34|| Front Page Top

#3 And their other opinion result is that 'Twilight' was the greatest movie ever made.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-24 07:52|| 2011-11-24 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Worse... this is a top 100 list Grom.

And they haven't even started the TOP X ____ of 2011' lists yet.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-11-24 08:20|| 2011-11-24 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve Vai?

Posted by newc 2011-11-24 08:32|| 2011-11-24 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Andre` Segovia?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-11-24 09:43|| 2011-11-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem with any of these lists is this. On any night there's a fight for "Heavyweight Champion of the World" (yeah, I know, there are several belts) on TV, there is some guy at home in his Lazy Boy with a beer in his hand who could whip both the guys in the ring at once without putting his beer down. Same applies to whatever endeavor you care to name.

Posted by M. Murcek 2011-11-24 10:01|| 2011-11-24 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 nice list - voters are all good/famous guitarists, and each individual guitarist's review is written by another famous guitarist. Well done, even if Gromky's his usual bitchy self

Posted by Frank G 2011-11-24 10:39|| 2011-11-24 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Al Di Meola

I forget about him sometimes. Suitable for any list of top guitarists except for one measuring influence on the masses of guitarists. Then, yes, Hendrix.

Posted by Mike N. 2011-11-24 11:20|| 2011-11-24 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10
I always thought Susanna Hoffs was great with a guitar. ;-)

Posted by gorb 2011-11-24 11:35|| 2011-11-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 And upon further inspection, it looks like she's giving Obean the bird, too, but I can't be sure.

Posted by gorb 2011-11-24 11:42|| 2011-11-24 11:42|| Front Page Top

#12 I didn't see Nancy Wilson on that lis either, speaking of female guitarists...

Posted by badanov 2011-11-24 12:05|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-11-24 12:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Assuming the list includes jazz guitarists, then next to Jimi would be Grant Geisman, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery,and Herb Ellis, just for some.

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2011-11-24 13:51|| 2011-11-24 13:51|| Front Page Top

#14 There is a compulsion to check 100 out. Also thank you Gorb for the contribution.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-24 16:26|| 2011-11-24 16:26|| Front Page Top

#15 It was all I could think of. Aside from Joe Satriani, who is decent. And Eric Clapton, who isn't too shabby himself.

Hey, GolfBravo, I understand her birthday is January 17th .... :-)

Posted by gorb 2011-11-24 16:43|| 2011-11-24 16:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Music is totally subjective but here's my $.02 --Hendrix is one of the most influential rock players of all-time because of an album and half of material -- but he is not a top-10 guy anymore. Same w/Clapton who hasn't done anything worth of note after the Dominoes album or in the last 30 yrs...(besides cheesy beer jingles...Lay Down Sally? Gimme a break.) Jeff Beck's guitar playing is technically real good but listening to his music is like putting ketchup and ice cream together - good separated but crap together. He's another one that bores me now. Last album he did w/Joss Stone sounded like a drunk teen-ager noodling w/a strat (Joss Stone is great btw). Like Clapton I think Beck is way over-rated.

No Uli Jon Roth, Randy Rhoads in the top 10? I call Shenannigans...

Posted by Broadhead6 2011-11-24 17:58|| 2011-11-24 17:58|| Front Page Top

#17 If you make improvizational ability a criteria,
(excluding Jazz/classical players like Montgomery, Burrell DiMeola, McLaughlin, etc.) the list would be:
1) Jerry Garcia
2) Duane Allman
3) Warren Haynes
4) Trey Anastasio
and on

Posted by DJ Curtis C 2011-11-24 18:53|| 2011-11-24 18:53|| Front Page Top

#18 It's not a bad list, maybe at times they got confused between great guitarists (who pushed and redefined the instrument) and guys who have made great guitar songs?

I would have pushed up guys like Andy Summers (Police) and Johnny Marr (The Smiths). Plus Dick Dale ought to be in the top 10- he defined an entire genre of music.

Posted by Free Radical 2011-11-24 20:13|| 2011-11-24 20:13|| Front Page Top

#19 Pete Townshend on Jiminez Hendrix
http://crosstowntorrents.org/showthread.php?1111-Pete-Townshend-on-Jimi-Hendrix

Posted by Zenobia Jert8593 2011-11-24 22:37|| 2011-11-24 22:37|| Front Page Top

#20 Buddy Guy gets my vote.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-11-24 22:42|| 2011-11-24 22:42|| Front Page Top

#21 Hendrix was a definite Rock guitar iconoclast. He played a right-handed guitar, strung for a right-handed person; left-handed and did it brilliantly. That puts him out of the running because of how the question was put forward.
In my humble Troll opinion, here are my picks for Best Guitarist of All Time in descending order:
Gary Moore, Julian Bream, Chet Atkins, Clapton and Mark Knopfler.

Dick Dale = Link Wray on speed.

Posted by Lionel Hatrack3498 2011-11-24 22:45|| 2011-11-24 22:45|| Front Page Top

#22 Hendrix? Over rated. Massively.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-11-24 23:46|| 2011-11-24 23:46|| Front Page Top

#23 READ what I said, Spook!

Posted by Lionel Hatrack3498 2011-11-24 23:48|| 2011-11-24 23:48|| Front Page Top

#24 Thank Goodness! There weren't any of the obligatory drone-ist nominations for either Leo Kottke or John Abercrombie.

Posted by Lionel Hatrack3498 2011-11-24 23:58|| 2011-11-24 23:58|| Front Page Top

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