Rolling Stone Magazine – 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time – Part Two
By Edward Jennings, on 08 Aug 03, 2012
This music blog post topic requires two-parts. I am on an ongoing quest to see and hear as many of the living 100 greatest guitarists perform live. I love the hunt. As I mentioned in Part One i have seen 40 of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time thus far (43 years of concerts).
The special collector’s edition of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is the second packaging of the 2011 list. Rolling Stone Magazine issued this list with four collector covers in December 2011. Here are the other three…
Rolling Stone Magazine first compiled a list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. The idea came from Senior Editor David Fricke
2003, I proposed to my editors a special issue devoted to the best and most influential guitarists in rock. They suggested a number – 100 – and the idea of ranking them. I came up with the names, based on my life-long love of the instrument and those who play it. One hundred proved to be too small for the job – my working list of the worthy ran closer to 500 – and the running order was frustrating work. In the end, I looked at it this way: Jimi Hendrix was Number One in every way; the other 99 were all Number Two.
The original inspiration was a celebration of the guitar and how it changed the world – and me. Everyone has their own version of this list. This was mine, in 2003.
– David Fricke, 2011
51. Johnny Marr
52. Clarence White (1 Time)
53. Otis Rush
54. Joe Walsh (1 Time)
55. John Lennon
56. Albert Collins
57. Rory Gallagher
58. Peter Green
59. Robbie Robertson
60. Ron Asheton
61. Dicky Betts (1 Time)
62. Robert Fripp (1 Time)
63. Johnny Winter (1 Time)
64. Duane Eddy
65. Slash
66. Leslie West (1 Time)
67. T-Bone Walker
68. John McLaughlin (2 Times)
69. Richard Thompson
70. Jack White
71. Robert Johnson
72. John Frusciante
73. Kurt Cobain
74. Dick Dale (3 Times)
75. Joni Mitchell
76. Robby Krieger (3 Times)
77. Willie Nelson (1 Time)
78. John Fahey
79. Mike Campbell (2 Times)
80. Buddy Holly
81. Lou Reed (1 Time)
82. Nels Cline (1 Time)
83. Eddie Hazel
84. Joe Perry (2 Times)
85. Andy Summers (1 Time)
86. J Mascis
87. James Hetfield (1 Time)
88. Carl Perkins
89. Bonnie Raitt (2 Times)
90. Tom Verlaine
91. Dave Davies
92. Dimebag Darrell
93. Paul Simon (1 Time)
94. Peter Buck (1 Time)
95. Roger McGuinn (2 Times)
96. Bruce Springsteen (4 Times)
97. Steve Jones
98. Alex Lifeson
99. Thurston Moore
100. Lindsey Buckingham
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