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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I stopped giving any credence to Rolling Stone lists when the ranked the greatest guitarists of all time and had Kurt Cobain at #12. I'll grant that Nirvana was a highly influential band that helped define rock music in the 90s, but Cobain was a horrible hack of a guitarist. The list commits a further sin by ranking Jack White at #17. By comparison, Eddie Van Halen was listed at #70.
Or what about placing Kirk Hammet one spot shy of the top 10 but innovators and legends like Brian May, Pete Townshend, Dick Dale, Robert Fripp, and Frank Zappa are all much lower? Just a terrible list.
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Depends on how you define good guitarist though. Is a guitarist someone who can play scales really fast? Does songwriting ability come into the equation? Does the ability create new sounds come into it?
There are some guys that can play and shred with great skill, like Joe Satriani, whose music I would never give a flying turd about. He would never make my list, because to me, if you pick up a guitar and can't write good tunes, whats the point?
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