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In my opinion, that might be the combined list of the most influential guitar players ever and some pretty eclectic ones, but hardly the list of the greatest ones. Leaving my personal favourites aside, any list of the greatest guitar players ever that doesn’t include Shawn Lane, Guthrie Govan or Danny Gatton probably isn’t a good list.
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No.47
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Beat me to it!
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Miles off bar Hendrix at 1.
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These lists are always so annoying, why is there this need to do them all the time? I guess it generates clicks. This is supposed to be art, there’s no objective way to measure this.
Rolling Stone is a joke anyway, who the fuck reads them? Blues lawyers?
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It also fails the most influential category just by not having a certain Dave Mustaine who literally wrote most of Metallica’s early catalogue and is one of the best metal song composers ever. Never mind being an absolute monster guitarist who could play rings around Hetfield and Hammett.
And no Allan Holdsworth?
Fuck right off
Yeah, definitely. @Cologne-Liverpool is right, it’s subjective, you won’t find two people with the same lists but lists like this one look amateurish.
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No Rory Gallgher, Peter Green, Gary Moore, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Mark Knopfler, and Hank Marvin to name a few off the top of my head. Even Les Paul isnt on there.
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Tbf, the list they made actually goes to 250, you might find some of your personal favourite guitar wankers on there 
Django Reinhardt?
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Has to in there for the huge influence, a whole genre built on what he did. Tony Rice another one whose influence alone means he should be high in the list.
Just went and had another look. No Steve Vai or Joe Satriani? No Paul Gilbert or Nuno Bettencourt? GTFOH!
These guys are both great guitarists and hugely influential.
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