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Originally Posted by becca
I'm imagining Seven Of Nine from Star Trek saying "Rolling Stone is irrelevant." 
David Fricke is pretty knowledgeable however and says intelligent things on many DVDs I've gotten. All the lists-making really puts me off many of these major magazines though, it seems so pointless trying to classify and rank. Does every 'voter' know well Django Rhinehardt, Hubert Sumlin, Davy Graham, Les Paul, Tiny Grimes, Big Jim Sullivan, Chet Atkins and John Cipollina? I'm sure there are many people for whom Eddie Van Halen is the greatest who've never looked into much in the way of variety across long periods of time. |
Of course lists don't mean a thing, sometimes these things are being taken too seriously, we should all learn to take them as a fun occasion of debate.
Rolling Stone lists have written on the first page the names of the people in the "jury", that usually are affirmed and famous musicians as well. In the top 100 of the guitarists the voters are:
Trey Anastasio,
Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys)
Brian Bell (Weezer)
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket)
James Burton
Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains)
Gary Clark Jr.
Billy Corgan
Steve Cropper
Dave Davies (The Kinks)
Anthony DeCurtis (Contributing editor, Rolling Stone)
Tom DeLonge (Blink-182)
Rick Derringer
Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars)
Elliot Easton (The Cars)
Melissa Etheridge
Don Felder (The Eagles)
David Fricke (Senior writer, Rolling Stone)
Peter Guralnick (Author)
Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes)
Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band)
Brian Hiatt (Senior writer, Rolling Stone)
David Hidalgo (Los Lobos)
Jim James (My Morning Jacket)
Lenny Kravitz
Robby Krieger (The Doors)
Jon Landau (Manager)
Alex Lifeson (Rush)
Nils Lofgren (The E Street Band)
Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe)
Doug Martsch (Built to Spill)
J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.)
Brian May
Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)
Scotty Moore,
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
Tom Morello
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
Brendan O’Brien (Producer)
Joe Perry
Vernon Reid (Living Colour)
Robbie Robertson, Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes)
Carlos Santana
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Marnie Stern
Stephen Stills
Andy Summers
Mick Taylor
Susan Tedeschi
Vieux Farka Touré
Derek Trucks
Eddie Van Halen
Joe Walsh
Nancy Wilson (Heart)
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...#ixzz3Pg0xKiwu