12/17 - List Of Chop Shop's "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time" Unveiled
MelodicRock.com reports that Envision Radio Networks®' "Chop Shop Guitar Show" is pleased to announce The Chop Shop's "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time", a newly published list of the all-time greatest guitar players. Program host Steve Black (WRIF-FM) assembled a panel of music industry experts to help choose the list featuring 100 of the most revered guitar players crossing multiple genres. Rock legend Eric Clapton, English rock guitarist Jeff Beck, blues legend Muddy Waters, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, and Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden are a few of the highlights on The Chop Shop's "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time". Each guitarist was graded in nine areas including technical ability, influence on the music industry, songwriting, signature sound, longevity, and four other categories. The complete list with video and judging criteria is available now at
Chop Shop Guitar Show.
Chop Shop host Steve Black comments, "I love the complete angle we took with this list, and the depth of the details we used during the grading process." Black continues, "This is the best top 100 list I've ever seen."
The Chop Shop "Top 100 Most Complete Guitarists of All Time" was tabulated by a panel featuring Chop Shop host Steve Black (WRIF-FM/ Detroit, MI) joined by Paul Kramer (Korg, Vox, Toneworks), Chris A. (author of "A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa" and concert photographer), Sean Baker (The Sean Baker Orchestra), and Jake Smith (Engineer and music aficionado.)
Each guitar player was graded in 9 categories:
* Technical: A player's technical ability. This also included things like recording, producing, building guitars and amps, etc…
* Soul/Emotion: A player's ability to make you feel their music.
* Influence on the Music Industry: A player's impact on the entire industry. This included things like a band's influence on other bands, live performances that led the way for others, marketing, starting your own label, etc…
* Influence on the Guitar Industry: Did the player inspire other guitar players, have there own guitar model, did kids key in on learning their songs from guitar teachers. Signature Amps, etc…
* Song Writing: the quality and quantity of songs that a player had a hand in writing
* Live: How a player pulled off his songs live, stage presentation, quality and quantity of shows.
* Sales: This included album sales, as well as guitar sales and concert ticket sales.
* Signature Sound: How unique was the guitar player. Could you name him in just a couple of seconds based solely on his sound?
* Longevity: How long did they last as a relevant musician. Are they still touring and selling tickets, if dead are their songs still being broadcast each day?
* Personal: This was just a fraction category used only as a tie breaker. We graded based on how important each player was to us personally.
9 categories, plus the fractional tie breaker for a possible high score of 90.99 (t) = tie
How the hell is James Hetfield so high? he sucks. Also, Ace is ranked #58, not bad for a guy who "cant play" & no Neal Schon,WTF?
http://www.melodicrock.com/CS100%20-%20The%20List.pdf