Just voted, the non Brian/Queen fans on that site are not too happy that Queen fans have invaded there online-poll lol hilarious. Brian is well behind Eddie Van Halen.
I think it's sad that we have to turn music into a game show. There is no single greatest guitarist at all time. These contests are just excuses to sell more magazines.
Don't we "gulp" willingly everything they want us to, heaps of dreams and illusions, mediocrities as icons , trash as masterpieces, books together with polls? Game you say, I can add game of manipulation, part of the great madness, The Showbiz, the scheme whose roots, ironic enough lie in our ludic spirit, the foundation of any form of art, now turned into the obsessive,pathetic wish of "having fun". And fun we have, the entertainment industry is selling us the "power" to vote , many times if we're cheating.
Tarabostes wrote:
Don't we "gulp" willingly everything they want us to, heaps of dreams and illusions, mediocrities as icons , trash as masterpieces, books together with polls? Game you say, I can add game of manipulation, part of the great madness, The Showbiz, the scheme whose roots, ironic enough lie in our ludic spirit, the foundation of any form of art, now turned into the obsessive,pathetic wish of "having fun". And fun we have, the entertainment industry is selling us the "power" to vote , many times if we're cheating.
I remember looking at a "Best song of all time" poll on the early Internet days (1995ish) and thinking "Wow, so THIS IS IT, it must be true if it's on the Internet!".
I was 14. What's YOUR excuse?
Wiley
I've been suspecting for a while that sometimes posting means talking to yourself, reading and commenting only the post above , at the best .The consequence ? Misunderstanding. If you'd read my previous comments on voting, 3 posts above, only 3, you would have understood the implied irony in my answer to Holly. I hope!!! Next time , when I want to be ironic , I'll do a favor to you, I'll choose a less, less subtle answer. Or you did and didn't understand anything?! What's YOUR excuse?
Oh, I do see the irony. We do tend to accept all kinds of crap from "the Machine" and, to be honest, we all have our guilty pleasures and not always have to be 'hardcore rockers' stickin' it to the man, hehe :)... So these polls are sometimes amusing. Still, not my cup of tea. My point was that this was way more relevant when I was younger.
I guess the "what's your excuse" bit was too much. Didn't mean to insult or anything. I just don't care for those things anymore.
Probably it would be more 'entertaining' if they made the effort of coming up with some kind of methodology to back the results of these lists. Define several categories, scales and ways to measure the unmeasurable, assign points, etc. That I would be interested in seeing, an attempt to be more objective.
It would still only be a bloody list, though, no different from what I could come up with in 10 seconds if asked.
The Real Wizard wrote:
I think it's sad that we have to turn music into a game show. There is no single greatest guitarist at all time. These contests are just excuses to sell more magazines.
I coudln't agree more, for example I like Randy Rhoads as much as Brian May.
There is nothing logical in any part of this poll thing. There have been far better guitarists than the final two left behind in early rounds, all based on the amount of fans of each guitarist who've seen it. It's just pointless and a poor representation.
Here is the closest thing to an accurate list of the best guitarists, bassists, drummers, everything, even by genre. There is a very specific criteria, and is incredibly well thought out. http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitar-all.html
There are 20 rock guitarists in the top 100, and ONE rock guitarist in the top 20. Much needed perspective for those who think any rock player is more important than guys like Chet Atkins. Chet's musical vocabulary was far beyond anyone near rock and roll. With the possible exception of Frank Zappa.
Which makes me wonder why Zappa is omitted from this list. He should be in there somewhere, even though he was a far greater composer than a guitarist. And he was a damn fine guitarist. Holiday In Berlin and Willie The Pimp are pure genius. He creates more in a spontaneous few minutes than most players could imagine in their entire careers. And the latter is over a single chord.
