POLL: SPIN's Greatest Guitarists of All Time

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.

What this thread reminded me of: goddamn, I'm glad I don't have to rely on my opinions about music to put food on the table.

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.

I went to sleep to The Yellow Princess last night.

What else should I look for? (Have Womblife already.)

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

― man pipes blog (some dude), Saturday, May 19, 2012

this post was already a lol but i invite everyone to read "ondes martenot" in a maurice chevallier voice.

Ribot

Derek Bailey

I would automatically disqualify ALL punks no matter how much they practiced. I'm voting Zappa in protest.

Neil

Ended up voting for Asheton.

Where the hell is Ted Falconi?
Paul Westerberg?

i thought james williamson played lead guitar on raw power?

He did. Ronnie played bass. Is that what it says in the article?

nnnnevermind

Voted Carris Brownstein.

Chet Atkins

Where are Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, authors of the song "Karis"?

I voted Prince though I had second thoughts and tried to voted for Ron Asheton

Algorithm for voting in these polls
1) Is there somebody I actually think is the best and is he on the list? If so vote for him
2) Is there somebody who deserves better but is probably going to get zero votes unless I step up? If so, vote for him
3) Is there somebody who influenced or blazed a path for half a good number of the other jokers people in the running? If so vote for him.
4) Keep clicking on the thread from time to time until the spirit moves me to pick somebody.

Sorry forgot 3b)
Is there someone whose vocalist said of their band: "If someone told us we had to play Chuck Berry or die, we would have to die," vote for him.