200 greatest guitarists in rock

[Madness to magnet.]

He's saying not everyone will agree that he wins by the criteria.

[heloo]

Yeah he also had a couple really nice stand out tracks of his own, Cortez the Killer was a great guitar piece of his.



That would mean something if I respected your opinion, but I don't so no worries. I'll let it go and chaulk that up as an immature mishap. It happens, and when you grow up you will realize that it's better to let things go and create a constructive conversation. That's why we are here.

[AliceMischief]

And stop throwing around the fact that we don't know everything about them.

To know everything about a band I don't even like would be nothing short of pathetic.

[d1ms]

I'm not a huge Queen fan either, but Brian May can certainly play. Hay Hay.

[quixoticparadox]

Ahh, a true Malmsteen fan.

[Pride,Power,Pinstripes!]

I actually think that Petrucci cover was quite good except for when those other two idiots joined in.

[Emys]

Yeah they turned it into a real wankfest.

[Bails]

Im glad to see Eddie Hazel, John Squire and Johnny Marr represented. They often get left off these kind of lists.

All of the guitarists I would include have been included.

I always thought James Dean Bradfield was under-rated. His band was all about the songwriting and even as a frontman he never took the spotlight but some of his guitar work was pretty decent.

He would be way, way, way down on my list of 200 though, I'm not getting carried away or anything.

[corvettegirl]

I am going to thank God everyday that I don't have a music outlook like you.

First of all, if you don't think they are prog than I think that disqualifies you from all discussion. They have delved into every facet of progressive rock and if you listen to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Scenes from a Memory, or Octavarium, and you find these guys don't play prog then you are deaf.

And yes, repetition is bad. Artists should explore, and produce new things. I think one of the things that appeals to me about DT is that their only goal is to push the limits and play something that sounRAB good.

I think that if any well known pop artists had their talent, and knowledge of theory, they would take their musical outlook. Jimmy page simply doesn't know how to do some of the things that Petrucci can. I am not saying that DT is better than Zep, I am simply saying that where Page's talent enRAB, Petrucci has the ability to explore and extract more out of the guitar.

[Keke M]

No Michael Karoli or Graham Coxon or did I miss them ?

I have to say i'm surprised by the inclusion of Glen Buxton. Did you know he didn't record anything with Alice Cooper after Schools Out?
All his guitar parts were either recorded by Dick Wagner or Mick Mashbir. In fact they added Mashbir as a third guitarist on the Billion Dollar Babies tour because Buxton couldn't play any of the new material.