Ranking the 100 greatest guitarists

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But Hendrix wouldn’t feel that way, because he seemed to get it: Music is not competition. How can you rank people that aren’t competiting with each other? Sure, you may like Jimmy Page better than Eric Clapton, but that doesn’t make the Clapton fan incorrect. It’s all just a matter of opinion.

So then, the idea of constructing a list of the 100 greatest guitarists is kind of a non-starter. Everyone has their favorites, everyone has those guitarists they dislike. Plus how do you work with someone like Pete Townsend? Townsend was without question an absolute master of the instrument, and an even better songwriter. But then something happened in the ’80s. Maybe he just got too old, maybe the drugs went to his head a little bit, maybe it was the alcohol – “Who Are You” for example, is a song he wrote about waking up on a doorstep in the Bowery after a night of hedonistic excess. Well, Townsend was unquestionably great. But then, seemingly overnight, he became a parody of himself, someone who wouldn’t be in shouting distance of the 100 greatest guitarists ever. Which Townsend do you rate

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