The 100 best guitarists of all time

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The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is a list published by the American pop magazine Rolling Stone since 2003 with a ranking of the supposedly 100 best guitarists to date . A list published in 2003 under the same title contains a selection by the former music editor-in-chief David Fricke . The listing includes guitarists from all genres of popular music , e.g. B. Pop , Blues and Rock . The last selection was made in 2015.

distribution

The list is not only mentioned in various biographies of individual guitarists, it is also used in popular literature to compile rankings of individual genres and to highlight the importance of individual guitarists within a genre.

List (excerpt)

The following extract contains the first 30 places.

  1. Jimi Hendrix
  2. Eric Clapton ( The Yardbirds , Cream , Solo)
  3. Jimmy Page ( The Yardbirds , Led Zeppelin )
  4. Keith Richards ( The Rolling Stones )
  5. Jeff Beck ( The Yardbirds , solo)
  6. BB King
  7. Chuck Berry
  8. Eddie Van Halen ( Van Halen )
  9. Duane Allman ( The Allman Brothers Band )
  10. Pete Townshend ( The Who )
  11. George Harrison ( The Beatles )
  12. Stevie Ray Vaughan
  13. Albert King
  14. David Gilmour ( Pink Floyd )
  15. Freddie King
  16. Derek Trucks (Derek Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers Band )
  17. Neil Young ( Buffalo Springfield , Crazy Horse , Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young , Solo)
  18. Les Paul
  19. James Burton
  20. Carlos Santana ( Santana Blues Band )
  21. Chet Atkins
  22. Frank Zappa
  23. Buddy guy
  24. Angus Young ( AC / DC )
  25. Tony Iommi ( Black Sabbath )
  26. Brian May ( Queen )
  27. Bo Diddley
  28. Johnny Ramone ( Ramones )
  29. Scotty Moore
  30. Elmore James

David Fricke's Picks (2003)

  1. Jimi Hendrix
  2. Duane Allman ( The Allman Brothers Band )
  3. BB King
  4. Eric Clapton ( The Yardbirds , Cream , Solo)
  5. Robert Johnson
  6. Chuck Berry
  7. Stevie Ray Vaughan
  8. Ry Cooder
  9. Jimmy Page ( The Yardbirds , Led Zeppelin )
  10. Keith Richards ( The Rolling Stones )
  11. Kirk Hammett ( Metallica )
  12. Kurt Cobain ( Nirvana )
  13. Jerry Garcia ( Grateful Dead )
  14. Jeff Beck ( The Yardbirds , solo)
  15. Carlos Santana ( Santana Blues Band )
  16. Johnny Ramone ( Ramones )
  17. Jack White ( The White Stripes , The Raconteurs , The Dead Weather , Solo)
  18. John Frusciante ( Red Hot Chili Peppers , Solo)
  19. Richard Thompson ( Fairport Convention , Solo)
  20. James Burton
  21. George Harrison ( The Beatles , Solo)
  22. Mike Bloomfield
  23. Warren Haynes ( The Allman Brothers Band )
  24. The Edge ( U2 )
  25. Freddie King
  26. Tom Morello ( Rage Against the Machine , Audioslave )
  27. Mark Knopfler ( Dire Straits , Solo)
  28. Stephen Stills ( Buffalo Springfield , Crosby, Stills & Nash , Solo)
  29. Ron Asheton ( The Stooges )
  30. Buddy guy

See also

Web links

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  1. ^ Bob Gulla: Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History. ABC-CLIO , Santa Barbara 2008, ISBN 0-313-35806-0 .
  2. ^ Robert L. Stone: Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition. University of Illinois Press, Champaign 2010, ISBN 0-252-07743-1 .
  3. ^ Karen Hanson: Today's Chicago Blues. Lake Claremont Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 1-893121-19-4 .
  4. ↑ Paul Grushkin: Rockin 'Down the Highway: The Cars and People That Made Rock Roll. MBI Publishing Company, Minneapolis 2006, ISBN 0-7603-2292-9 .
  5. ↑ Bill Minutaglio: In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas. University of Texas Press, Austin 2010, ISBN 0-292-72289-3 .