This 'Top 250 Greatest Guitarists' List is BALLS! 

He's #20, just not included in this video

I came here to comment that. Stevie doesn't know that many guitarists it seems. I'm glad to see other people know them. Stevie's Little Wing is the ultimate blues song for me.

lol what the fuck they missed SRV???? dude

i totally agree with you

@@metal4lifewp bro, no one knows all the guitarist. How'd u even expect someone to know 😭

I was about to ask the same thing. Where is Dave Mustaine.

@@salmankabirshouvo exactly. Also Guthrie Govan

Saw the list and went straight up to the comments like tf is this bs

@@BrunoPochette ikrrr 💀

Toni Iommi bruv

Was Tony Iommi on the the list? No country players either?

Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Angelo Batio, Kiko Loureiro and others not in the list is frustrating too.

@@arthurskc No Rickie blackmore. No country guitarists. A complete joke.

The only based thing the list did was putting Jerry Cantrell on the list. No Yngwie or Blackmore is a sin.

And Eric johnson at 202…… 31 behind paul mccartney😂😂😂

agree

To the history of electric guitar? sure it has it's reasons. A guitarrist is a musician, not just how much notes you can make per second or how many different techs one use in music. That's bullshit...like comparing dick sizes

Saying that Petrucci and Malmsteen didn't write guitar history is pure blasphemy. They didn't just "play millions note per second": they innovated guitar playing and changed the style of soloing forever

​@@cesarefrancescoriggi If by "changed guitar soloing forever", you mean "after them solos disappeared because everybody was bored af with this" I agree. As much as I respect the technical skill, 80s/90s guitar shredders straight up banished guitar out of existence for the mainstream, and it's still trying to recover from it.

Yeah and since electric bass guitars are guitars its about time they start putting the bassist on that same list it would kick out all the unknown names from the best guitarist lists

I'm pretty sure Allman did the solo, too.

Truee.... thought SRV was on there.

Govan? Low tier at best.

Guthrie would have needed to have something different between his legs to get on the list. How ridiculous.

No SRV is f up... so is Gambale, Greg Howe, Becker, Vinnie Moore, MALMSTEEN FFS, Holdsworth, Govan, Petrucci, the list goes on and on and on... epic fail

not if youre not a moron who trust rolling stones lists

No Blackmore but they put Joan Jett!!!!

Ok, no Blackmore is def criminal. I don't care about X or Y shredder 0.00001% of humans ever listened to not being on the list, but Blackmore is straight up a mainstream, extremely influential guitarist.

Definitely criminal.

lol yeah right . I remember seeing Rainbow in 1998 Blackmore for the first time after seeing Malmsteen Jake E Zakk and many others, and just realizing right the no one was before Blackmore, also Blackmore plays melodies on slide . Yngwie does not play slide at all

oh I know why! Blackmore declined going to the Hall of Fame to play a gig at a pub with Blackmores knight, he said in the press " I had a gig that day, the hall of fame doesn't really matter"

Havent seen the list, but if Schenker is not top 20 its not worth looki´n at.

This list was made just to piss people off. They probably laughed their asses off while making it!!!

the list is a joke tbh

That is being way too nice. I wouldn't give this magazine to gitmo prisoners for torture. I literally might be having a stroke.@@mikedown1250

Agreed, it's ridiculous. Other notable players they left out are Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia, Joe Pass, George Benson, Glenn Campbell, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmoore, and and Uli Roth.

Yeah, obviously they messed this list up!! Try AGAIN RS

He's there ...#20.

@@cryptofool7247 must be a different list?

Nobody reads Rolling Stone anyway

I love Stevie, he was great. But if you listen to more than the popular songs, you see he's a one trick pony and that trick repeats itself alot.

people mock this guy for him being the canadian jim carrey at times, but the truth is he's genuine, funny and most importantly - a fucking ridiculously talented and creative musician who writes incredible solos

Exactly Tez!! I'm not even mad about it. Like at all. Don't even want to be on this stupid list!!!! 😤

@@SteveTerreberry it is total dog 💩 tbf, most of them are in the wrong places

@@SteveTerreberrymaybe if you released original music, you dont so no list for you

@@spaghettisauce445he has before

Hi Steve do another Ramones video would you please

I feel like alot of what they were going for was historical importance and mainstream appeal. Alot of kids picked up the guitar because of Kurt, they decided to get "better" because of Jerry 🤷‍♂️

Jerry Cantrell is better than Kurt, Kim Thayil is even better than Jerry

or McCready, or Gossard, or Thayil...

It's honestly pretty offensive that Kurt Cobain is even on a list of guitarists at all. I have a side gig teaching guitar, and most students surpass kurt cobain in skill within about 3-5 months. . This would be like calling someone who can only make grilled cheese and cereal a chef.

Definitely not. Jerry is underrated

Also I might add, the very last thing Randy said to Ozzy was "You'll kill yourself, you know, one of these days."

Diary of a Madman is one of my top favorite albums of all time. The story, the voice of Ozzy, and amazing beautiful guitar work that Rhodes did on that album will live on forever once you listen to the whole album. I was lucky to see Ozzy and Rhodes at the Met Center in Minneapolis. I will never forget the music, the singing, and the stage show. It was a masterpiece.

@@thepeopleonthecouch2928It’s crazy that Ozzy is still alive to be honest

@@guitargamesandliverpool the devil looks after its own

@@guelintonquiu6933 🤦‍♂️ monotheism is a joke

The fact that what?

@@pinkyellowblue007 is not on here

Alexi Laiho 😳😳😳💪💪💪

Oli Herbert was a guitar god.

Also Mike Oldfield

Indeed, it's not the top 250 vocalists of all time is it?

Mustaine was 251.

And Toni Iommi

If such a funny character as Kerry King is there..

All true except he cowrote 4 songs on the first album and a few riffs on the second. One riff on the third is debatable. Saying he wrote the first 3 albums is just flat out wrong

The Four Horsemen Jump in the fire Phantom lord Metal Militia that’s the songs he co-wrote on Kill em all Ride the lightning and The Call of Ktulu he co-wrote on the Ride the lighting record Total he co-wrote 6 songs which Four Horsemen and Ride the lighting are great songs other ones are mediocre.

Whowhoa, bro he just wrote a few songs on kill em all and one song on ride the lightning, ik he's an incredible guitarrist but bro he just no deserve to be on that list

@@MmmiguelitoZZZif paul simon is on this list then surely dave mustaine deserve to be as well

@@MmmiguelitoZZZ "a few songs on kill em all" which turns out to be an album filled with true "classical music" masterpieces

I love Terry kath so much

No.

Actually the SECOND to last player shown in the honorable mentions should be at the top of the list, SHAWN LANE. He IS the guitar god, except he’s no longer living sadly. But Guthrie would be #2 for sure

@@Johnnysmithy24 Agree to disagree, I guess in music we can't all have the same preferences. Personally though, I find Shawn to just be super fast with 1 specific chromatic ascent/descent that he seems to be doing in all of his solos. It's like those countless guitar players on RU-vid that are after world records for the fastest bumble bee ever, I don't consider that music, it's cool, but not something I'd listen to more than once, if at all. That's my opinion. If you said to me, who would u listen to more, Shawn or Guthrie, I'd say Dimebag, and and.. there's many others. Hard to say only one is good.

his Technique is not flawless he can't Alt pick!

@@Johnnysmithy24 Actually Shawn and Guthrie would say that Holdsworth is the man.

Couldnt agree more mate. No one plays EVERYTHING as good as Govan!

True

Did you seriously go into that much effort just to put time stamps for all of the foods he said? That's fucking legendary, but also very funny. You're seemingly dedicated to your craft.

@@jacobdobson1259 thank you so much 😊

Lists like this are the crime against humanity

I completely agree

​@@morbidmanmusiclies?

But Kurt Cobain is 😂😂😂😂

It’s so weird. His guitars are the most popular among signature guitars (just behind Gibson les Paul) and he isn’t even in the list. And then some random indie guitar players are. RS is crap

I'm glad someone else commented this. That guy approached the guitar in such an alien way, yet it's oddly compelling. Even weirder that he isn't there considering they added Fredrick Thornedal, who cites Holdsworth as a massive inspiration

Totally agreed!

Steve Vai calls Holdsworth the greatest guitarist of all time and he's also on the list@@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic

Truly the GOAT. Flawless technique and advanced harmonic concepts combined.

Also no Zappa lol

We should definitely be the judges for Rolling Stone from now on... I think they tried too hard to be inclusive of different genres and eras. It just feels convoluted. 😞

i knew they was gonna put hendrix as number 1 at the start of the vid,hes deffo top 10 but not number 1,deffo ideological on their end. they didnt even inc lead belly either@@SteveTerreberry

Don’t go by this list. I promise you and every long time player will tell you…it’s painfully bad.

...... 6:52 ......like, I took out Nicole Kidman's boyfriend, Keith Urban......+ quoted 1970s Jimmy Page saying Roy Harper is his favourite guitarist......!?!.......that is absolute drivel, even suggests bribery......

The Soundgarden dudes could have slid in over a couple of these weird picks.

No crime. Robert Fripp is at #59. Nobody in the comment section is bothering to check the list out.

@@DanalynTuthill-yl4hd Because Steve T has a negative score IQ.

Ok but why would you care?

@@marcinha1973 Huh?

No.

Tony would be in my TOP 10 and I`m not Sabbath fan.

You can't even spell his name right, wannabe

His solos are always amazing and I love his riffs. And I am a dumb drummer

I agree. I think, generally, creativity is overlooked in favour of specific skills. Sure, a bunch of the guitarists on the list are madly skilled on guitar but are less so creative on the guitar. Others give only a facade of creativity.

I very much agree. Without Tony, heavy metal would be much much different

What? Did you hear about Vinicius De Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim, pal?

@@p.informatico1320they were part of the movement. It like saying that Charlie Parker invented Bebop, it’s true but there were others part of that movement too who worked together such as Miles Davis, Monk etc.

@@OmgEinWahnsinniger They were the beginning of the movement, before it was even called Bossa Nova... Joao Gilberto inspired on their recordings. Just listen "Se todos fossem iguais a voce" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iEX3r0T5JsE.html

Gilberto is probably the most influential of bossa nova guitarists but invented no he was one of the many musicians of the rio night club scene

​@@p.informatico1320 as a Brazilian and a musician i can confirm joão Gilberto is the inventor of bossa novas acoustic guitar.

he's not underrated. rolling stone is just dumb not including him. he's among the pioneer himself in the guitar world, he's among the best

Actually! He wrote limelight. That song alone should land him top 10.

@@introbrilliantm7583 He is included, spot 58. Still too low, definitely top 10 at the very least

@@AlexSosaBolivia no need to be so rude

I fell like that twice over for the guys in Primus who aren't Les Claypool.

Scotty is one of the reasons why Elvis is the king

And yet Scotty wasn't the man to record "Guitar man", the coolest song Elvis ever did. It had to be Jerry Reed.

Well, that's probably why we don't know who he is. Elvis was shit music. The rolling stones were generic, boring, and extremely simple. Eric Clapton couldn't even play with his pinky and had HORRIBLE technique, which didn't matter because he wrote simple but catchy riffs. Jimmy Page stole most of his riffs, and even ignoring that, his solos were just cliche pentatonic riffs. . Jeff Beck is probably the only halfway decent musician you listed there.

@@anthonyfaiell3263 Clearly they should have worked on their tapping harder (in the 50s), maybe they would have sold as many albums as you did, with your pinkie mastery and all that. Maybe you'll realize one day that 1/ things need to be looked at in context and 2/technique needs to serve music, not the opposite.

Ole Stevie is too young I think. Scotty is one of the few guys on the list the influenced both country and rock players. Not to mention the whole Rockabilly thing was a big part of what Scotty brought to guitar. Elvis and Scotty were a force.

Nope

@@Unwritten_Pages explain

@@Unwritten_Pages Iommi is the riff master God, ask any great guitarist. Black Sabbath created heavy metal, prove us wrong wet?

@@Unwritten_Pages Yes Iomii is Riffmaster, for many guitar players from old school he was choose to be number one for ever

The Riffmaster

Yeah, Paco really deserves to be on that list. Steve already mentioned Al Di Meola, who is a living legend, and that reminds me of Friday Night in San Francisco (still my favorite classical guitar concert after all those years ...) with McLaughlin, another legendary guitarist, of course. Fun fact: Saturday Night in San Francisco was released last year, a mere 42 years after the concert ... 🙃

Because they are true musicians and they don't belong with the so called rock noise.

They put that weird dude that Steve mocked/complimented. He's basically a modern classical guitarist.

@@TheHyde8875 I’m gonna rewatch the video just to find this T-T

They were trash.

Yeees dude!

He is undeniably one of the greatest Brazilian musicians and undoubtedly one of the most influential. However, Brazil certainly has better guitarists than him. This list only highlights the lack of knowledge that Americans often have about non-American music

LEGEND!

100%. I’d even replace a few of the guitarists on the list with Caetano Veloso.

@@1cr19 Caetano is undeniably one of the greatest composers, but not necessarily a standout guitarist. There are others who excel in this regard, such as Baden Powell, Toquinho, Yamandu Costa, Nuno Mindelis, etc

Stevie's list would be better

for sure!!!

I'll even settle for Top 50 😆

@@jonnuanez7183a braindead baby’s list would be better

SRV had to be on that list. Impossible not to be..

He should have been in the top 3

He is nbr 20 on the list.

SRV would be listed in the top 15 all time best guitarists by literally every professional guitar player alive, and probably top 5 by half of them. But hey, that doesn't mean anything.

absolutely fact he aint even my style

Steve is indeed very good! And he totally doesn't see it. Sometimes I have a feeling that he limits himself and shows only half of it what he actually can do.

That is such a Mom comment. I love it!! I don't think I've done enough original stuff to even be considered. Maybe some day!! 😁

Well Mama T, I think youre biased. Stevie T might be good but compared to Jared Dines and L'il Wayne ? They didnt even make the list so Steve needs to practice more

⁠@@SteveTerreberryhey son (i'm gonna call you son too'

He's definitely underrated.

I can hear the Ace Frehley fans howling right now 😂

*Gilmour

Thanks so much Kayla!! I'll tell you what though. I wasn't doing much smiling when I was going through this list!! 🤣

​@@SteveTerreberryhi

He's incredible at Flamenco.

Yes, certainly José Feliciano is a great master of the guitar, but if they put him in he should have also put in Paco de Lucía.

Awesome Band-Maid fan 🤘👍

Kanami is very young, too. She has a whole career to build upon. She came out of the gate a guitar hero.

​@@djay6651Not really. All of BandMaid members are either in their late 20s or early 30s.

@@DanielDova Kanami is 32, but as far as it goes career wise, she is still very young.

Charlie Christian was also voted the world's best guitarists twice in a row in the 40s.

Get over your PMS bud 😅

@@Alt.F4. is it just me or you liked your own comment if thats true stay very far away from me.

@he_is_a_GOOBER_dont_disrespect rather appreciate myself then be a depressed pile of goober....

no it just means you're pathetic 😂😂😂@@Alt.F4.

He never disappoints when it comes to ignorance as well. He didn't know half the guitarists in the list.

Kurt Cobain would hate to be on this list.

Yes that is true but it undeniable that he’s one of the most catchiest song wirters out there RIP Kurt

@@Colin62937 oh absolutely! Truly a master of beautiful melodies.

It's not about being "technical" or Steve Vai would be first

Being good at guitar doesn’t mean fingerblasting your strings like a maniac, what makes kurt a good guitarist is how he popularised a whole new style of music and is still recognised widely because of it, he is completely overlooked because you only hear the super popular shit that is mainly simple.

Agreed. VERY random. Not putting Slash in the top 100 is insulting!! He should've been top ten imo!!! 😤

It should be called, “A list of decent/good/great/legendary guitarists in no particular order”

It was a pc diverse list but by trying to please everyone they please noone

@@SteveTerreberry hey, Jose Feliciano is an excelent classic guitarist check this video of him playing Flight Of The Bumblebee ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s7LLQy1Ian4.html

Obviously it's a politically based list , focusing more on diversity and political views than actual guitar skills.

I came to the comments just to see if anyone else mentioned Mustaine. 😂

Dave is an immense dick, but as a great metal songwriter, he is top 5, possibly number 1. And he can play rhythm and lead as well. Deserves to be on this list. Which reminds me, where the hell is Ted? Yeah, this list was a desperate attempt by Rolling Stone to get someone to actually buy their magazine for the first time in 20 years. They got it so wrong that people will forever see them as more of a laughingstock than they already did.

I don't think that is an unpopular opinion. Freddie King is an absolute legend.

That's funny and sad at the same time because its true.

All 3 kings Freddie Albert and B.B.

Jake e lee, neal schon, akira takasaki, zakk wilde, phil collen...

The piano part was written by the drummer !

​@@markoliver630Apparently it was Rita Coolidge who wrote it and Jim Gordon took the credit!

Interesting. Now that you say that, I can totally hear the Allman Brothers in that riff.

@@markoliver630 Yes, the piano part was written (and played) by the drummer, which is why his name is in the songwriting credits. It's still hard to believe that Duane Allman wasn't credited.

Edge of darkness enough to put him atleast in top 20

He is but Steve skipped over him 😢

Yes!🤘

I think you are thinking of Les Paul. He built his first homemade guitars in the 1930.

Rather they listed Peggy Jones #185 someone who's played with him...

@@skildudeRight and Mary Ford was just as talented on a guitar as well…

@@skildude whoops you're right. Bo built his own but he didnt invent it lol

I don't disagree with the placement either, though I see why it would piss off guitarists who put in the work to play really hard stuff. His style is like a direct "fuck you" to shred guitar. He was trying to convey his feelings and wasn't focused on being impressive at all, but the amount of feelings he did convey makes him worthy of all the praise imo.

Yeah exactly, if it was a list of most technically skilled guitarist then he would have no place on it and insted in the top 10 there would probably be some youtuber kid from China who can shred fast as fuck. But it’s a list of best guitarist, and for me that means people in the music industry who played the instrument in a way that created magic and impacted a lot od people, and to do that shredding is not necessary.

Kurt Cobain doesn't belong on a list of the top 1000 guitarist of all time