Is SPIN really circling the drain?

aerosmith, did you honestly just find the complicated, roundabout way to say, "These writers don't know the first thing about playing a guitar, man"

well, yeah! I mean, you wanna characterize that as an unsophisticated stance, I guess but when literally none of the writers seem to know anything about guitar, it's hard to think of the list in any serious way - the list might be called "list of 100 people we wish to associate ourselves with publicly," because in 100 entries about guitarists (or, in one case, a guy who samples guitarits), there literally won't be on non-impressionistic description of somebody's playing. To write about who's the best guitarist, some credential beyond "I'm good at creative writing" sorta oughta go with the territory - you're talking about a technical skill, playing guitar, so "write about how the people play guitar and what makes their playing distinctive or innovative" hardly seems like a big muso demand.

i for one eagerly await spin's list of best bass players

1) Police Academy's Michael Winslow

srsly tho there are tons of great guitarists on the list

Forreal, why you gotta be such a drag, aerosnith

Connor 54 minutes ago

#2 Kevin Shields: Didn't know writing boring pentatonic metalcore riffs based off of Maiden tunes would get you on any list anywhere.

okay this gave me a much-needed lol

When it comes to guitar I think we all know Django Reinhardt can't hold a candle to Skrillex.

this is basically stylus's top 50 drummers list but shitty on purpose:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/stylus-magazines-50-greatest-rock-drummers.htm

oh lord ship

yeah i mean think of it this way, whiney: skrillex trolling is one thing, but at least you didn't publish a list where the guy from modest mouse placed ahead of ziggy modeliste.

at least on our Stylus list the Yeah Yeah Yeahs guy placed ahead of Rat Scabies

This is like some dude's list of the Top 50 daytime talk shows of 2008 but shitty on purpose

i think you just called your own list shitty on purpose.

i thought that was the point?

i can't believe there are FIFTY daytime talk shows. at this rate we'll all have one.

it would actually make me so happy if that list existed

workin on it, flop

if i click on the list, do i get to see a picture of skrillex having sex with a my little pony?

you get to see john fahey fisting dimebag darrell

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you get to see john fahey fisting dimebag darrell
--jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad)

This is what the new Horseback record sounds like

genuine lol

tho i do like that record

Sorry Son House, but you're no Ira Kaplan.

tho i do like that record
--jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad)

Yeah it's great!

i like that simply by compiling a list of people who play the guitar you've pissed off so many people.

where did vini reilly place

to be fair you put the words "all-time" and "greatest" atop a list of anything and you're going to piss off so many people

i like that simply by compiling a list of people who play the guitar you've pissed off so many people.

Yeah, it's expert trolling for sure.

The first Vini Reilly Invasion record smokes

classic he1go interjection

if youre not gonna put son house or jimmy page on the list then for christ's sakes don't put jack white on it.

jw is the only exception to indie fux BLOOZHAMMER BRO zings

yup and it never fails to drive me nuts

like with so many lists of this type (as mr. underrated suggests), a fair amount of it seems to be about namechecking bands as opposed to musicians/musicianship.

Like, the dude from Gang of Four? Mr Zzz from the Yawn Yawn Yawns?

The first Vini Reilly Invasion record smokes

Thank you for the new nickname.

Andy Gill seems like he was pretty influential as a guitarist

I don't have a problem with the list per se, other than the writing is terrible and occasionally inaccurate (x & y in a food processor? Stevie Ray Vaughn plays guitar on "Let's Dance" not Nile Rogers. Rogers produced (and plays guitar elsewhere on the album)

Vaughn plays lead, Rodgers plays rhythm on the track "Let's Dance" actually

Anyway, getting mad about this list is like getting mad at one of Cracked's lists.

Having said that, Pat Place and John McGeoch aren't on this list so fuck this list and fuck Spin.

Vaughn plays lead, Rodgers plays rhythm on the track "Let's Dance" actually

Huh, didn't realize that... I knew that Rogers played elsewhere on the album (the Pushing Ahead Of The Dame blog gets into all the details and Rogers' frankly impossible job at hand), but I thought the title track was all Vaughn. Would love to hear a track-by-track breakdown of it.

The chink-a-chink rhythm parts are all Rodgers.

can't believe MF Doom got left off, he totally plays the guitar, verbally, man

to say nothing of Bobby McFerrin

speaking of which where's the harmonica guy from Blues Traveler

rly mad they didn't include the cast of Friends on the list

and if Jam Master Jay made it on then we should include other people who only fictionally play guitar like the kid from Deliverance and Samuel L Jackson's character from Black Snake Moan

otm, chandler bing was robbed

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