[My Favorite Headache]

Have at it! I know a whole bunch didn't make the Top 100 but this is what was voted Top 100 Guitarists of All Time!

[newbolt]

No Andre Segovia?

[goseminoles]

Doesn’t get better than malmsteen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cVIOuvDUGE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[subterfuge]

These are always fun threads. Thanks for posting.

My tops:

1. Steve Vai - the Satriani protege, best all time.

2. Hendrix - it’s amazing how many “modern” songs I hear in his recordings.

3. Stevie Ray Vaughn - ...he should still be here.

Some of the guys like James Hetfield, Keith Richards, George Harrison should NOT be on the list. There are 10,000 teenagers that can play better than them RIGHT NOW.

Oh, and I agree with the other poster that ALVIN LEE from Ten Years After should be on the list somewhere, plus, I’m fine with Satch at # 5, fwiw.

[Despot of the Delta]

13. David Gilmour

I believe this should be a bit higher on the list

[woodbutcher1963]

Vince Gill
Robert Cray
Alvin Lee
Brad Paisley

Not a lot of love for country players. I have seen all of the above. I have also seen Clapton, Alex Lifeson, BB King, Al Dimeola, Jeff Beck , Pete Townsend and Carlos Santanna.
Clapton, Beck, Gill, Cray and Lee are the best.

[Inwoodian]

George Benson, Earl Klugh, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour

[montag813]

Preposterous order in the top 10. Just ridiculous.

[bassmaner]

Steve Howe at # 61? Any ‘greatest guitarists’ poll without him in the top 5 is bogus.

[GQuagmire]

Lifeson and Angus too high, Jerry Cantrell too low.

other than that not a bad list

[GQuagmire]

Missed one. Dimebag Darrell?

Really?

[Lx]

Yngwie at #43, no mention of Randy Rhodes?

I don’t buy it.

EVH didn’t really do anything spectacular after 1984.

[JennysCool]

Knopfler at 96???

[evets]

Randy Rhoads

[Hotlanta Mike]

Eric Clapton is not god, according to those who voted...

[a fool in paradise]

No Dick Dale or Link Wray or Davie Allen.

What the f*** is a Buckethead?

Dick Dale (King of the Surf Guitar):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGVhNJiqL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73yBnSX6TdI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVKbAWLttY

Link Wray (inventor of the power chord):
(Jimmy Page Listening to Rumble):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLEUSn8y9TI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfmLFWDnYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWQ9X-zG5Q8

Davie Allan (King of Fuzz):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjhno4sn2TA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epCOeLduweQ

Travis Wammack (like a teenaged Link, also Muscle Shoals session musician and band leader for Little Richard) - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were fans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWqXCdJ_Q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxVex-iCyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvq5vInxFys

Guitar Wolf (from Japan) would kick Buckethead’s ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-pAXNwxcE

What’s with this list? I mean, there’s not even Freddy King.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdyvPg0c6bI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oCQUSjnOhs

[TChris]

17. John Petrucci - WOOT!

[dfwgator]

No Ernie Isley? “Who’s That Lady” is in my Top Ten list of solos.

[corkoman]

Eric Clapton at 28? one under Franz Zappa - thats all i need to know about this list.

Worthless.

[Gargantua]

Jerry Garcia # 54 ??!!!!

Behind Dicky Betts and Warren Haynes?

Someone who knows absolutely nothing about guitar playing piled up this putrid heap of manure.

Good grief...

;-\

[TChris]

Clearly, like all vote-based rankings, it's a popularity contest. It's pretty obvious, as many have pointed out. Lots of bizarreness in the list, and glaring omissions.

Should be labelled: Top 100 Most Popular Pop & Rock Guitarists According to Guitar World Readers