POLL: SPIN's Greatest Guitarists of All Time

those 30 other people post about it once and you post about it non-stop

Like if you're trying to deej me, i guess it worked? ("YAY HE <b>RESPONDED</b> ROFLOLOLOL")

that's just patently untrue, lots of people have posted about this list as much or more than me

why don't you make me a list of them

Are you really surprised by this?

Legitimately surprised that Rowe isn't on the list; find it somewhat curious that Drumm isn't.

whiney under your own 'say something nice too if you're gonna critique' rule i complimented the hell out of the guitarist infographic in the issue, sorry if that wasn't your baby and this 'lol skrillex' stunt was. but it's not like croup and aero and strongo and m@tt and elvis telecom were all giving you high fives for this and then i broke up the celebration.

croup was giving the list lots of props between his criticisms actually!

omg shut UP.

Whiney if this list had been made by another magazine I bet you would have hated it and be on here complaining!

But you voted eddie hazel so all is well!

(Yes, I know I should have just quietly un-bookmarked the thread instead of complaining but I can't do that from my iPhone and you know, taste of your own medicine etc.)

my problem with this list is that they're trying to have it both ways by insisting that they celebrate these less famous dudes, but then still include trad guitar hero dudes like Zappa, Neil Young, McLaughlin, Iommi, The Edge, etc.

that's because the list is about social positioning more than guitars. that group can figure on the list & still allow to list to throw a big middle finger at the big, bad boomers - "hey fuck you dad!!! I DIDN'T INCLUDE JIMI HENDRIX!!! Neil Young is way better anyway!!!" type o' deal

whiney save a dealwithit.gif card for yourself man, you're the fuckin guy who put Skrillex, whose name will be as well-remembered in twenty years as Peter Lemongello's is now, on a list of "greatest guitarists" instead of at least two dozen actual good guitarists. if you're going to troll for abuse at least be cool about getting what you paid for imo

yeah i mean he had to expect worse from the ilx peanut gallery than he's actually gotten, is my thing

croup was giving the list lots of props between his criticisms actually!

no i wasn't

while i enjoyed seeing you celebrate the indie guitar paradigm of 1995, I wouldn't say I was giving the list "props"

you did call it "informed trolling"...which i assume is better than uninformed trolling

well yeah, whiney read the SPIN Alternative Record Guide as religiously as I did

guys we're ruining this thread, can someone please save it and talk about the 'ondes martenot' some more

Well, croup, I thought it was kind/touching that you immediately recognized an important similarity in our upbringings that ultimately led me to produce something. Sorry, I accidentally took that as a compliment.

I am old enough to have read the Trouser Press list of Top 100 Guitarists at the end of the seventies so was unsurprised by this approach

you're the fuckin guy who put Skrillex, whose name will be as well-remembered in twenty years as Peter Lemongello's is now, on a list of "greatest guitarists" instead of at least two dozen actual good guitarists.

take it to the spin comments section, buddy

whiney you spend most days bashing and flaming your generation of fellow hipsters, then turn around and praise their decades-old canon while mindlessly bashing a few-decades-older canon in the same breath. if you're hurt when people point out the irony online, don't be a contradictory dick online.

Old enough to remember Peter Lemongello too

found the trouser press list: http://trouserpress.com/magazine/blurbs/guitarists.html

I don't see where you guys are getting the idea that I'm hurt/concerned/interested in anyone's criticism of the list except some dude's who's just been an especially sniveling, deej-poking brat about the whole thing.

i got the idea from your previous post

when I thought you said something nice to me and then you came back to assure me you couldn't possibly have said something nice to me? maybe that's not about the list, dude

i'm sorry you think i 'turned on you' at some point in the last couple years, i guess you're going to lose the patience and respect of one or two people who've tried so hard to like you and get along with you on your glorious path to becoming the most banned poster in the history of the board.

Wow, much more old school than I had thought, I only remembered the Johnny Ramone and Lou Reed inclusions. Whiney really is breaking new ground

when I thought you said something nice to me and then you came back to assure me you couldn't possibly have said something nice to me?

ok now who's conflating the list and the writer

hey, having mick jones, steve jones and verlaine on an 'all time' list within 24 months of their debut albums ain't bad for forward-thinking (xpost)

haven't read the thread yet but voted robert quine.

Yeah, somedude, I just looked a little closer and saw those others

I like this thread a lot even tho lol guitars

tbf i did think the familiarity of the list was charming when i was just scanning & before i read the intro. and i could, can and have said something nice about whiney, just not his addiction to trollage.

Fripp

Where the hell is Ted Falconi?
Paul Westerberg?

would take greg sage over both of those two

was helios creed on the list?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZUoqQ9enQ

Uncle Acid was robbed lmao

re: Jonny Greenwood I haven't heard anything else like his guitar in "Just" except for maybe "Paranoid Android"

I think some of his 90s guitar stuff was pretty inventive.

yeah they were a good guitar band when that was their whole deal. he was their mike mccready!

Between Nels Cline and John McLaughlin right now. The flawed and egalitarian McLaughlin would be ahead in the sheer chops department.

Fripp's up there too obv.

Voted McLaughlin in the end. Guy is just superhuman.

Despite my criticisms, btw, I do think it's pretty cool that Spin included people like Bailey, Branca, Sharrock, Ribot, Chadbourne on this list.

voted Ribot

I voted for Robert Fripp

xp Sonny Sharrock is in SPIN's favorite 90's albums also, which is essentially the reason why I know he exists.

anyway, this list is weird and very spin-like in various ways (admirable, sad, funny, etc). i'm not annoyed by any exclusions, cuz that seems to have been the point, and it's nice to see some love for sonny sharrock, eddie hazel, d boon and robert fripp on airport newsstands.

i voted for john fahey, which seems both way too easy and lol old man, but i've got about 20 albums by the dude that consist of little more than fingers and strings, and i never get tired of them/him.