smokin5 08:46 AM 04-23-2016
So underrated that no one has mentioned him yet,
but you old farts will all nod your heads when I say it:
Michael Bloomfield
He would have been greater than Clapton if he had just kicked the heroin.
And don't forget Roy Buchanan, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell & Jan Akkerman.
And as a bonus #6 - Leslie West
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The Poet 08:55 AM 04-23-2016
As for the validity, or lack of same, of that Rolling Stone list, one must first begin by accepting the difficulty (if not impossibility) of comprising such a subjective ranking with the appearance of objectivity. That being said, we could all partly agree and largely disagree with it. Jimi first? If not a given, at least hard to dispute. Clapton two? OK, hard to argue, though if you listen to Key To The Highway off the Layla album you'd hear he's the second-best guitarist of that song. Jeff Beck at five? Ehh, pne could quibble, but that's about right, even though it is one spot below Keith Richards. But Pete Townshend at ten and Freddy King at fifteen, while Johnny Winter and John McLaughlin are buried in the sixties? I saw all four of those guys live, and that's just dumb. No offense to Pete or Freddy, as the one was better than often given credit and the other is too sadly ignored by most. Still, I'd put the the two Johns above both of them, not fifty spots below.
Yet here is where the subjective clashes with the objective. I like what and whom I like, as do you.
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The Poet 09:03 AM 04-23-2016
Bloomfield and Buchanan are good calls, as would be Richard Thompson.
My problem with Leslie West is a subjective one, and Jack Bruce is to blame. When promoting the first West, Bruce & Laing album, Bruce said West was "the best guitarist I ever played with." Oh really?
:-)
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