Comments on: “Rolling Stone” Picks Up Its Well-Worn Six-String http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 17:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Claire @ Montgomery 4G Wireless http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-2655442 Claire @ Montgomery 4G Wireless Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:04:16 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-2655442 Hi, just doing some research for my Montgomery 4g site. Lots of information out there. Not quite what I was looking for, but cool site. Have a good day. Hi, just doing some research for my Montgomery 4g site. Lots of information out there. Not quite what I was looking for, but cool site. Have a good day.

]]> By: KurticusMaximus http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592792 KurticusMaximus Sat, 31 May 2008 01:24:22 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592792 <p>Um... where's Muse?</p> <p>Also, for a list about "guitar" rock, it's pretty light on the metal. I guess it's to be expected that they'd only include Sabbath and Metallica, but still.</p> Um… where’s Muse?

Also, for a list about “guitar” rock, it’s pretty light on the metal. I guess it’s to be expected that they’d only include Sabbath and Metallica, but still.

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592802 Captain Wrong Fri, 30 May 2008 11:55:12 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592802 <p>@<a href="#c5956386">Maura Johnston</a>: Thanks.</p> <p>Hmm...a side bar on Derek Bailey...that's something, I guess.</p> @Maura Johnston: Thanks.

Hmm…a side bar on Derek Bailey…that’s something, I guess.

]]> By: RaptorAvatar http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592812 RaptorAvatar Fri, 30 May 2008 09:03:08 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592812 <P>They did such a good job accounting for hardcore and everything that that was antecedant to. Truly, a magazine that knows its way around youthful adrenaline in all it's agressive permutations. The sidebar on Derek Bailey and his innovations was also superb. In no way could I ever bring myself to insinuate that these great journalists made this list by scissoring up the manual to Guitar Hero, dumping the names in that contrived, jackassey train engineer hat that Omar is wearing, and pulling at random until they had 20 or so songs that they could fill in the blanks around with pet favorites they knew they could squeeze a paragraph out of.</P> They did such a good job accounting for hardcore and everything that that was antecedant to. Truly, a magazine that knows its way around youthful adrenaline in all it’s agressive permutations. The sidebar on Derek Bailey and his innovations was also superb. In no way could I ever bring myself to insinuate that these great journalists made this list by scissoring up the manual to Guitar Hero, dumping the names in that contrived, jackassey train engineer hat that Omar is wearing, and pulling at random until they had 20 or so songs that they could fill in the blanks around with pet favorites they knew they could squeeze a paragraph out of.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592822 Anonymous Fri, 30 May 2008 06:59:49 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592822 <p>"Typically, RS puts an image of Jimi Hendrix on the cover of any such big guitar extravaganza, but perhaps his visage is no longer the automatic sales tonic it was for so many years."</p> <p>That was my first thought when I saw the cover- haven't we done this before, with Hendrix? Second thought was- ew, ew, ew, who's the other guy? And then I read the caption and I was pleasantly surprised that Rodriguez was included with the usual suspects. But how is "Layla" not high up there?</p> “Typically, RS puts an image of Jimi Hendrix on the cover of any such big guitar extravaganza, but perhaps his visage is no longer the automatic sales tonic it was for so many years.”

That was my first thought when I saw the cover- haven’t we done this before, with Hendrix? Second thought was- ew, ew, ew, who’s the other guy? And then I read the caption and I was pleasantly surprised that Rodriguez was included with the usual suspects. But how is “Layla” not high up there?

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592832 Maura Johnston Fri, 30 May 2008 06:48:26 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592832 <p>@<a href="#c5955697">Captain Wrong</a>: the full list:</p> <p><a href="http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?s=0dcd3be481c114674d1be0d11adbfd16&showtopic=113686&pid=2061136&st=0&#entry2061136">[www.mygnrforum.com]</a></p> <p>no django, but sublime's 'what i got' is no. 83! hail rock!</p> @Captain Wrong: the full list:

[www.mygnrforum.com]

no django, but sublime’s ‘what i got’ is no. 83! hail rock!

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592842 Captain Wrong Fri, 30 May 2008 06:19:35 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592842 <p>Can someone tell me what the token non-rock songs on the list are? Like anything Charlie Christian did with Benny Goodman or some Wes Montgomery or Django or Andrés Segovia or...</p> <p>Or should I just assume that since this is Rolling Stone, it is implied only rock, B.B. King and maybe a Prince tune qualify?</p> Can someone tell me what the token non-rock songs on the list are? Like anything Charlie Christian did with Benny Goodman or some Wes Montgomery or Django or Andrés Segovia or…

Or should I just assume that since this is Rolling Stone, it is implied only rock, B.B. King and maybe a Prince tune qualify?

]]> By: natepatrin http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592852 natepatrin Fri, 30 May 2008 06:10:33 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592852 <p>@<a href="#c5954841">ronaldpagan</a>: Especially if we replace <i>Sgt. Pepper's</i>, in every instance it would be lauded, with <i>Their Satanic Majesties Request</i>.</p> @ronaldpagan: Especially if we replace Sgt. Pepper’s, in every instance it would be lauded, with Their Satanic Majesties Request.

]]> By: ronaldpagan http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592862 ronaldpagan Fri, 30 May 2008 05:44:28 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592862 <p>@<a href="#c5953361">natepatrin</a>: It's hard to expend too much energy getting mad at Rolling Stone's "token cool kid" choices. They probably have one aging hipster nephew, and asked him to name a band that the youngsters think is cool.</p> <p>Can we make a magazine where we totally misrepresent the 60's? Not because I don't love me some classic rock, but because it would be hilarious to see Rolling Stone and their audience fume. We can say things like "'Don't Pass Me By' is the best song the Beatles ever wrote." Ooh that would be so much fun!</p> @natepatrin: It’s hard to expend too much energy getting mad at Rolling Stone’s “token cool kid” choices. They probably have one aging hipster nephew, and asked him to name a band that the youngsters think is cool.

Can we make a magazine where we totally misrepresent the 60′s? Not because I don’t love me some classic rock, but because it would be hilarious to see Rolling Stone and their audience fume. We can say things like “‘Don’t Pass Me By’ is the best song the Beatles ever wrote.” Ooh that would be so much fun!

]]> By: Lax Danja House http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592872 Lax Danja House Fri, 30 May 2008 05:26:02 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592872 <p>I can't think of nothing worse than navigating through 40 pages of this muck.</p> <p>Article brought the hearty chuckles as well. My ego is compelling me to point out that I thought the exact same thing re: Ray Davies, but then again so did probably anyone else with ears and not named Ray Davies.</p> I can’t think of nothing worse than navigating through 40 pages of this muck.

Article brought the hearty chuckles as well. My ego is compelling me to point out that I thought the exact same thing re: Ray Davies, but then again so did probably anyone else with ears and not named Ray Davies.

]]> By: natepatrin http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592882 natepatrin Fri, 30 May 2008 04:48:35 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592882 <p>@<a href="#c5953316">ronaldpagan</a>: Well, considering Sleater-Kinney made the list...</p> @ronaldpagan: Well, considering Sleater-Kinney made the list…

]]> By: ronaldpagan http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592892 ronaldpagan Fri, 30 May 2008 04:47:10 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592892 <p>@<a href="#c5953105">natepatrin</a>: <i>Where the christ is Built to Spill</i>? In a magazine composed of cool people who didn't stop following music as soon as the Beatles broke up? But where is that magazine?</p> @natepatrin: Where the christ is Built to Spill? In a magazine composed of cool people who didn’t stop following music as soon as the Beatles broke up? But where is that magazine?

]]> By: ronaldpagan http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592902 ronaldpagan Fri, 30 May 2008 04:45:52 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592902 <p>Reading the Rolling Stone list is more trouble than it's worth. I'm on page 7 and only song nine. That magazine is super-annoying and obsolete, but I do love that the Kinks made it up to #4.</p> Reading the Rolling Stone list is more trouble than it’s worth. I’m on page 7 and only song nine. That magazine is super-annoying and obsolete, but I do love that the Kinks made it up to #4.

]]> By: natepatrin http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592912 natepatrin Fri, 30 May 2008 04:39:46 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592912 <p>-"Maggot Brain" at #60? Instead of, shit, #5? I keep thinking maybe I overstate my case too often that Eddie Hazel is one of the finest guitar players ever, and then a list like this shows up and reminds me that I should probably keep bringing it up at every opportunity until people actually start paying some damn attention.</p> <p>-Stevie Ray Vaughan? A dollar-store Albert King.</p> <p>-So is Blue Oyster Cult just an SNL punchline now? 'Cause before Walken and Ferrell came along, "Don't Fear the Reaper" was less about cowbell and more about <i>holy fucking shit Buck Dharma melting your face</i>.</p> <p>-That dude in my icon? Phil Lynott. Phil played bass for a band called Thin Lizzy, who kinda did some reasonably decent stuff with guitars every now and then.</p> <p>-And enough bitching about '70s rock -- <i>where the christ is Built to Spill</i>?</p> -”Maggot Brain” at #60? Instead of, shit, #5? I keep thinking maybe I overstate my case too often that Eddie Hazel is one of the finest guitar players ever, and then a list like this shows up and reminds me that I should probably keep bringing it up at every opportunity until people actually start paying some damn attention.

-Stevie Ray Vaughan? A dollar-store Albert King.

-So is Blue Oyster Cult just an SNL punchline now? ‘Cause before Walken and Ferrell came along, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” was less about cowbell and more about holy fucking shit Buck Dharma melting your face.

-That dude in my icon? Phil Lynott. Phil played bass for a band called Thin Lizzy, who kinda did some reasonably decent stuff with guitars every now and then.

-And enough bitching about ’70s rock — where the christ is Built to Spill?

]]> By: GhostOfDuane http://idolator.com/394251/rolling-stone-picks-up-its-well-worn-six-string/comment-page-1#comment-592922 GhostOfDuane Fri, 30 May 2008 04:13:37 +0000 http://c29391e14e4fc47d6b51266293478fc2#comment-592922 <p>At least they didn't put BB King upside down at John Mayer's feet.</p> At least they didn’t put BB King upside down at John Mayer’s feet.

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