Rolling Stone‘s 10 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

This list, and the arguments for and against it, are only remotely valid if the title includes the word "Rock". Of course it's all opinion anyway, but as soon as you try to quantify opinion you run into a wall of more opinion.


"Great" guitarists?

The only order here is the order in which they popped into my head
Chet Atkins
Sandy Bull
Les Paul
Andres Segovia
Stanley Jordan (I'd like to see anybody on that list even dream of doing what he does)
Richie Blackmore
Mike Bloomfield
Stephen Stills
Django Reinhart
Julian Bream
Ry Cooder
Buddy Guy
B.B. King
Albert King
Robert Johnson
Steve Vai
Yngwie Malmsteen
Leo Kottke
Carlos Santana
Merle Travis
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Duane Allman
Dicky Betts
Steve Howe
Robby Krieger
Blind Willie Johnson
Wes Montgomery
Jorma Kaukonen
Albert Collins
Alvin Lee
Joe Satriani
Mark Knopfler

And my brain finally started to fade. Everybody's favorite player? Hendrix was original, influential and a damn fine player. But the best ever? Not even close.

A very fine list, Steve, (Great to see Bloomfield on that list)
Let me throw in a couple more:
Charlie Christian
Doc Watson
Sam Bush (ok, mandolin, but he's lights-out awesome)
Pat Metheney
Larry Coryell, and
Frank Zappa (oh yeah!)