[SPEC ME] An obscure guitarist/Guess at which number I stopped....

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I'm looking to uncover some hidden gem of a guitarist, preferably of the blues/jazz ilk. Can someone please recommend me a guitarist that I may have overlooked?

I also just had to post this (not enough discussion value for it's own thread).

Guess at which number I stopped reading this top 100 guitarist of all time list by spin.com. Tasty internet cookie for the winner!

http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time
 
Awful list. I agree with these guys:

probably the worst greatest guitarist list i have ever read. maybe this should've been the best alternative rock guitarists of all time and if it were like that, this list still sucks. this dumb list started off with skrillex as one of the top guitarists. i knew from that point that this list was gonna be a ****ing joke. tom morello would kill all of these guitarists and ranked so low. the same with jonny greenwood and johnny marr. billy corgan is ranked in the 60s? he's probably one of the greatest alternative rock guitarists of all time. and jam master jay for #10? he's a dj, not a guitarist. with all due respect to him and run dmc, i doubt he touched a guitar on their songs. and no mention of matt bellamy? he's probably the most underrated musicians out there even though he's one of the most talented musicians in music today. and how about john frusciante? he's probably #1 on this list if he was on it. he's been hendrix-like for the last 14 years. and even no mention of nick valensi & albert hammond jr. that sucks.
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Where the hell is John Frusciante, Adam Jones, and especially Jimmy Hendrix?
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Dimple said:
OP, just go and listen to Tommy Emmanuel
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I've never heard of him so he fits the bill so far. I'll give him a go, thanks.

Nitefly said:
100.
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You get the cookie.

More stupefying than number 100 is the rest of the list... no Hendrix. Having such and such a person too high or too low in the list is a matter of personal taste but when it comes to Jimi's prodigious talent... It's not a matter if taste or opinion. When almost if not all other recognised "greats" cite one person as the best they've ever seen, surely they must have a point. Hendrix not making a list of the greatest guitarist is like Bach not making on the list of the top 100 classical composers.
 
Dimple said:
Even Steve Vai says he is the greatest guitar player in the world.

I hope you've heard of Steve Vai?
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No Satch, Vai, Hendrix, Emmanuel, Blackmore, Page, Benson, D'Agostino, Gilbert, Friedman (and that's just the ones that are generally in my playlist)...?

Whilst my favourites comprise "guitar gods" they all have been known to produce stuff that doesn't fit in the normal "shredder" envelope and turns their respective performance envelopes on their heads. That's why they're guitar gods. People like Kerry King, for instance, I know very little about outside of Slayer, so he is - as far as I'm concerned - "just a shredder" and not a 'god' in that sense.

"As you will see, our list embraces outsiders, trailblazers, outliers, and Eugene Chadbourne playing a rake. We don't worship "guitar gods," but prefer our axe-wielders to be resourceful, egalitarian, flawed, and human. We're not drawn to Olympic feats of fleet-fingered athletics, unless they're used for unique and exploratory ends. We see the mewling histrionics of Jeff Beck as tyranny instead of catharsis. The name Derek Trucks is practically alien to us."
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Well done for just undermining the entire point of this list.
 
I'm not sure if he counts as a 'hidden gem', but Derek Trucks is big on my list at the moment :)
 
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