re: rolling stones top 250 guitarists of all time just dropped

Continuing on, it only gets worse. Putting Mark Knopfler at 96 on an all time greatest guitarist list is like putting Joe Montana at 96 on an all time greatest quarterback list, especially when you have Kurt Cobain at 88 and Joan Jett at 76.

Eric Clapton and Jerry Garcia at 35 and 34 and Jack White at 32?

Now we have David Gilmour at 28, Buddy Guy at 27, Albert King at 22, Randy Rhodes at 21, and Stevie Ray Vaughan at 20. This just screams that there is going to be three or four absolutely ridiculous choices ranked somewhere in the top 19 ahead of them.

Yep, there it is, Tom Morello at 18. We can't even leave politics out of a greatest guitarist list can we Rolling Stone? Also putting Keith Richards at 15 on a list of the coolest guitarists of all time would be too low of a ranking but putting him at 15 on a list of best guitarists of all time is way too high. Before 1975 he wasn't even the best guitarist in his band.


Tony Iommi one spot higher than Prince?

Carlos Santana at 11, Duane Allman at 10, and Joni Mitchell at 9. Guarantee the career could have been exactly the same but if the name was Joe Mitchell instead of Joni Mitchell she would be about seventy spots lower on the list.

I like Nile Rodgers but he has no business being anywhere near number seven on this list. Maybe seventh best producer of all time but not seventh best guitarist.


No Roy Buchanon, Danny Gatton, Tom Schultz or (the biggest omission of all) Jeff Healey. This list is so bad I am surprised the Denver Broncos haven't traded a first round draft pick for it.