An alternative (and occasional) music posting highlighting something out of the ordinary. Perhaps of limited appeal, unconventional, experimental or just far-out ! Call it what you like (or switch it off, if you don't like). 

Now I consider myself a big fan of the guitar so this headline easily caught my attention:-

  "Rolling Stone 250 Greatest Guitarists of all time" !

A previous Rolling Stone list of "Greatest vocalists" of all time, caused an upset. Well the same applies here. There's a lot of guitarists missing and many questions marks though ultimately it just boils down to opinion - one guy's reaction on YouTube was to simply add 50 of those missing (while addressing some of my concerns) and Rick Beato just called it a Sh*t List ! 

I have diligently gone through the full 250 list [see here], checking each time I think of someone, to determine if they are there or not - there are lots of names I simply don’t know - and not wanting to add to the controversy - but there's no Gary Moore! How can that be ? He'd be in my Top 5 !

No Leo Kottke or Joe Bonamassa or Paul Kossoff [who was actually No.51 in a 2010 list by Rolling Stone's David Fricke in his 100 Greatest Guitarists]. No Tom Scholz from Boston. No George Benson or Earl Kluge either. 

Interestingly the 250 list contains a few twin guitar players like at # 194 there's Thin Lizzy guitarists: Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham, but then again there's no Steve Hunter / Dick Wagner. Or duos like Andy Powell & Ted Turner and Hughie Thomasson & Billy Jones OR these guys and their 2006 single "Through The Fire And Flames" that became one of those legendary songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock*. Namely Herman Li & Sam Totman from the band Dragonforce. Pretty outrageous stuff and if you play this in your car you might ending getting a speeding ticket. Lots of hair flying... and towards the end there is a close up of the playing, if you fancy giving it a go 😁  Hit full screen [  ]  

*It was easily one of the more popular songs in the game. Though according to guitarist Herman Li, the band only got paid around $3,000 for the use of the track… and that's before splitting the money between band members and management.