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Well Joe, that was an education! Luckily, my roomie, the guitar player, is home, so he told me about a few unknown names. Others were new to both of us. I am another Zappa girl, so he's always on my list. Thanks for remembering Lowell George. I know many others I love, but couldn't name as top 50 yet. As for the top, it's Joe Bonamassa..and that's not smoke up.... Cathy
Hi All
Nice thread
Thought someone might have mentioned:
Pete Townsend
David Gilmour
Randy Rhoads
Peter Frampton
Andy Power
Ted Turner
Laurie Wisefield
Mick Taylor
.....................nice to see the Wishbone Ash guys in there,what about Ben Granfelt along with Messrs Powell,Turner and Wisefield?Regards to all
Now that is much better! Off the top of my head I can think of only three I would make room for:
Joe Bonamassa
Pat Metheny
Tommy Emmanuel
There's some great's on Joe's list and I would just add the above guys + Tony Iommi and Santana.
Well, I won't argue and I won't pick 100, but here are MY favorites:
Joe Bonamassa
Jeff Beck
Robin Trower
Duane Allman
Stevie Ray
Jimmy Page
Rory Gallagher
Dave Mason
Eric Clapton
Alvin Lee
Derek Trucks
Warren Haynes
Dickie Betts
Al DiMeola
Gary Moore
George Harrison
Jimi Hendrix
Davey Knowles
Sonny Landreth
Gilmore!!!
John Mayer
and the world class Derek Trucks!!!
"technical skill, influence, writing and overall career to this point" as well as variety and are the main criteria, but somehow RS are so out of date in all genres, aren't they meant to have their finger on the pulse and also have the knowledge of geniuses from 1900 onwards.
Even with 100 though we all leave out some names and on this thread they still keep coming, where you say "Yeah" he's good enough to make any Top 100.
Yeah the top 50 is pretty much give or take set in stone then your own musical choices
Truly epic Guitarists that should never be off a list like that are .....
Robert Johnson
T Bone Walker (unbelievable pioneer)
Muddy Waters
Les Paul
Albert King
Freddie King
Santana
Billy Gibbons
Peter Green
Al Dimeola
Ry Cooder
Rory Gallagher
Larry Carlton
Robben Ford
Eric Johnson
Derek Trucks
Sonny Landreth
Warren Haynes
Tommy Emmanual
Allen Collins
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Jeff Healey
Joe Pass
Paco de Lucia (incredible)
Julian Bream
Nuno Bettencourt
Adrian Smith
Kirk Hammett
Kerry King
Eddie Van Halen
Angus Young
Tony Iommi
and so on
They could of done a free online poll, where you name your top 10, and whoever got cast the most votes won
Surely would have ended upsomething like this
JIMI HENDRIX
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
ERIC CLAPTON
JEFF BECK
JIMMY PAGE
BB KING
PAUL KOSSOFF
DAVID GILMOUR
GARY MOORE
and
JOE 
........... Michael
After thinkin' on this some more I wasn't surprised that Steve Miller's name doesn't show up anywhere as well as KWS and Jonny Lang , Steve never gets any love. A real talent that also was nowhere to be found is Bill Frisell, he didn't even make the truefire blog. How about Tommy Bolin, Les Dudek, or Tom Johnston of the Doobie Bros.???? Joe listed Bruce Conte from Tower of Power which certainly deserves mentioning Jeff Tamelier who replaced Bruce for 10 years with his big "Funk Chunk" style. the TOP guys were very dismayed when Jeff left to focus on his family and studio/production projects.
Bump de Bump de Bump,
J Dawg
ohiodawg13 wrote:She made the Rolling Stone list.
Think Green,
J Dawg
I didn't actually work my way through their entire list.
At least Bonnie being there is a small plus. Was she the only woman?
She came in @ #89 and Joni Mitchell was #75. Lou Reed was #81....you make the call on that one.
Think Green,
J Dawg
ohiodawg13 wrote:She made the Rolling Stone list.
Think Green,
J Dawg
I didn't actually work my way through their entire list.
At least Bonnie being there is a small plus. Was she the only woman?
Joni Mitchell #75
? Guthrie Govan
That's a lot of names. From what I can see there are some jazz greats there (Wes Montgomery, Larry Carleton). Aside from the jazz greats there are quite a few others I recognize from "back in the day." It appears that you are what a lot of us "baby boomers" call an "old soul" in a young body. I think you have been "here" before in another life...and that's a good thing, son.
JBonamassa wrote:It took me 15 minutes to do this one.... They always say can you do it better yourself... Well I tried.. Mind you many of my friends appear on the Rolling Stone list... I am really glad to see Derek so high up there ect ect he is world class... This is by NO MEANS a slag upon any of them... I thought this would be a fun discussion for this forum.. It beats beating up on Rolling stone.. feel free to make your own variation.. Again.. I did this quick.. so its kinda in no particular order... Something for the post turkey and cranberry feast...
Hav fun!!! and be nice to each other...
My criteria, is technical skill, influence, writing and overall career to this point...Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Eddie Van Halen
Les Paul
Charlie Christian
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Page
BB King
Albert King
Freddie King
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Paul Kossoff
Peter Green
George Harrison
Jerry Garcia
Hubert Sumlin
Yngwie Malmsteen
Stevie Vai
James Burton
Roy Buchanan
Danny Gatton
Wes Montgomery
Jimmy Bryant
Howard Reed
Albert Lee
Joe Satriani
Andres Segovia
Leo Kottke
Doc Watson
Robert Johnson
T-Bone Walker
Django Reinhardt
Lenny Breau
Danny Gatton
Dwayne Allmann
Richie Blackmore
Billy F Gibbons
Rory Gallagher
Keith Richards
Mark Knophler
Ry Cooder
The Edge
Steve Lukather
Dean Parks
Steve Vai
Alan Holdsworth
Michael Landau
David Grissom
Joe Walsh
Mick Ralphs
Bill nelson
Robert Fripp
Steve Howe
Dickey Betts
Steve Hackett
Ray Gomez
Al DiMeola
Warren Haynes
Bireli Legrene
Joe Pass
Joe Strummer
Mick Jones ( Sex Pistols)
Chris Whitley
Robin Trower
Wayne Krantz
Vince Gill
Martin Barre
Trevor Rabin
Mel Galley
Bruce Conte (tower of Power)
Tommy Bolin
Dick Wagner
Earl Slick
Mick Ronson
Alvin Lee
Glenn Campbell
Josh Homme
Larry Carlton
Robben Ford
Sonny Landreth
Slash
John Petrucci
Shawn Lane
Eric Johnson
Steve Cropper
Phil Manzenera
Shuggie Otis
Paco De Lucia
John McLaughlin
Leslie West
Ronnie Montrose
Mike Bloomfield
Tony Iommi
Lowell george
Gary Moore
Albert Collins
Roy Clark
Randy Rhoads
Jimmy Nolen( James Brown guitarist)
Marv Tarpin (motown guitarst and songwriter)
James hetfield
Frank Marino
Kirk Hammett
Dimebag Darrell
John Martin
Jason Becker
Michael HedgesWow that's one hell of a list Joe! All I cn say is add your name on top. Add David Gilmore
Cheers Ron
Great list Joe, from the heart, nuff said.....
andy powell.........................master of the flying V
Prince
Joe Bonamassa
Peter Townsend
Peter Frampton
Neil Young
Trey Anastasio
Kinda proves a point here... There is no such thing a fully comprehensive list of the best 100... Everybody can agree on the first 50 but the rest is pure taste..
Joe B
Hard not to agree with that statement. Glad to see cats like Roy Clark on your list. I'd probably displace a few folks with names like Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Angus Young, Pepe Romero... and (not just saying this because I'm a fan)...I think you have a spot on that list.
Great show last night in Clearwater by the way. I hope you enjoy the wine, the red bull, and the bottle my daughter decorated for you (I'll post a few pictures of her hard at work on it in another thread)! Thank you for autographing my guitar and the "beauty of the burst" book. Really made it a great 15 year anniversary.
It's good to see Ronnie Montrose and Joe Walsh on your list!
I'd also add Steve Morse, Vinnie Moore, Andy Timmons, David Gilmour, Mato Nanji, Brian May, Gary Hoey (who I mentioned before), and OF COURSE SMOKIN' JOE!!!
It's missing Andy Timmons. 
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