POLL: SPIN's Greatest Guitarists of All Time

its true the in bloom solo is awesome

voted for Nile Rodgers.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, May 19, 2012 6:20 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listen to his solo on "savoir faire" it fuckin shreds!!!!!!!!!!

― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison),

or "Real People"!

truth be told i was on the wrong side of history in '92 and was a Pearl Jam fan who was lukewarm on the first three Nevermind singles and then "In Bloom" hit and i was like holy shit this is great

The chord progressions for the verse and chorus are identical, only the rhythm changes, and the chorus has a brief turnaround at the end.

You're right. I should have said he plays it over the rhythm and arrangement of the chorus.

dudes how come now one is talking about his flight of the bumblebee between the speakers on "breed"

I think with this list Spin has finally and officially surpassed Rolling Stone as the most pathetic music publication.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtdWf-mJIZs/TzB0D4n3FwI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/n31OU7uPPmY/s1600/congrats11.jpg

"Too many notes."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z2pvpfssa5w/TC38lKv9EoI/AAAAAAAAMTg/j3vDOfPI0SM/s1600/jeffrey-jones-amadeus.jpg

its sad they were a magazine

I liked your list, Whiney. I even bought two or three albums because of it. Was there any SPINsider drama about leading off with Skrilldog though?

Given the logic of the list, two surprising omissions are Michael Karoli and Michael Rother. They seem like essential parts of the narrative.

I had thought about Karoli when I read it. Never heard of Rother.

He was in a couple of bands you might have heard of...

Oh, duh.

I'm much more of a fan of CAN than NEU, but I had one of their records once.

no doubt it's Fahey.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Prince? I like his playing, although it's mostly just blues runs and nothing to write home about

Fair enough.

In Bloom solo reminds me of Limelight

I like that guitar thing at the end of "Let's Go Crazy"

I was about to call out ILM for picking Hazel over Hendrix, but then I realized it was Spin itself who challopsed here.

Exactly. They gave us challops, we made challopini

lol otm. Picked Hazel of course.

Prince? I like his playing, although it's mostly just blues runs and nothing to write home about

otm

i voted for tom verlaine & richard lloyd

i like neil young fine but come the fuck on

if you factor in what a great acoustic player he is i don't think it's a stretch

Its a massive stretch

you're a massive stretch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyuE6SCRIxg

who the fuck voted for Greg Ginn

i think his later lead playing is p innovative

(i didn't vote in the poll)

greg ginn is fucking awesome wtf!

i didn't vote in this poll either, but i could've voted for many of these dudes. a lot of this music is my favorite music.

greg ginn as decent guitarist is one of the great historical snow jobs, that guy sucks

I love opinions, I could watch people have them all day.

Just FP'd myself for that.

i probably would have voted for robert quine

I love opinions, I could watch people have them all day.

― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, May 25, 2012 1:00 PM (32 minutes ago)

greg ginn as decent guitarist is one of the great historical snow jobs, that guy sucks

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 12:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the fuck is this shit! he wrote black flag songs!

flopson, aerosmith is from boston so you know he's all "slapshot this...ten yard fight that..."

sst stuff is for hippies and cambridge pussies

as a teenager i had some older punker dude lecture me on what a fraud greg ginn was too! does it have to do w/ a deep-seated anti-Hermosa Beach bias? i just remember the guy was from Reseda and had issues about "beach bands". it was a long time ago, can't remember exactly what his argument was. but he kept telling me "ginn sucks, man!"

there are a lot of popular arguments against ginn but i'd never heard any that had much to do with whether he was sufficiently skilled at his instrument relative to his contemporaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTe5CIiiQTI

6 BLACK FLAG
“Thirsty and Miserable”
Damaged (1981)
GUITARIST: Greg Ginn

Well, at least Black Flag got the last half of the song title right. Punk rockers should never attempt shredding, even if they’re trying to be ironic. Greg Ginn performs his solo like a sloppy drunk having sex, and, mercifully, he gets his act over quickly before his flaccid notes have the chance to penetrate deep enough to do damage. Even worse, Ginn tries to mimic Jimi Hendrix with his overextended bent-note screams but ends up sounding like someone trying to bend Jimmy Kimmel. The guitarist claims Black Flag practiced about six hours every night. Apparently, that didn’t involve playing any musical instruments (though it certainly involved a ton of wanking).

man black flag are so cool

my real vote is a write-in for roger troutman

punk rock sucks

max can we collab on a '100 greatest dadrock guitarists of all time' list