corporate rock magazines still suck

[rone]

All you need to know about Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is that Fripp and Zappa are #42 and #45, and Kurt Cobain and the nitwit in the White Stripes are #12 and #17.

If only they'd at least had the decency to say Greatest Rock Guitarists... i mean, hell, where's Andrés Segovia, you know? And where the fuck is Adrian Belew, anyway? I mean, it's nice they included Robert Johnson, but #5? The Edge and Tom Morello ahead of Brian May? It's small comfort that Kim Thayil managed to sneak in at #100... Fucking Rolling Stone. They'll lull me into giving them a shred of respect, then they put the American Idol cockmaster twins on the cover, and now this.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yep, and the great Bob Dylan impersonation on Joe's Garage is done by Belew.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

You're clearly a man of taste. Zappa was one of the greatest rock musicians.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't think so; i just know how to fake it well. I didn't like Joe's Garage much; i do own One Size Fits All and i do like that a fair bit. Zappa is too all-over-the-place for me. There's no denying the man's talent, though.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

That's the thing about Zappa -- his catalog of albums is so massive that it's daunting to newcomers (especially since many-to-most are double or triple albums carrying higher price tags). THEN you get into the bootlegs, where any song could become an adventure on a given night...

Zappa not in the top 5 is a disaster. Santana behind Cobain and Hammett is an atrocity. Ike Turner mired at #61? Dick Dale behind Tom Morello? So much for any good karma I'd have granted them for remembering Danny Gatton and Mick Ronson.