Thirty Essential Transformative Guitarists
They rank the unrankable, folding popularity, technique, cultural impact, sales, and personal taste into a single hierarchy.
Useful takeaways from this story.
They rank the unrankable, folding popularity, technique, cultural impact, sales, and personal taste into a single hierarchy.
"Best guitarist" lists are inherently subjective--often nonsensical.
This list takes a different approach, acknowledging thirty guitarists who transformed the instrument itself: they created new techniques, pioneered fresh concepts, expanded its sonic vocabulary, and changed...
Building the complete brief
The page is ready to read now. The fuller skim-friendly version will appear here automatically.
The useful part
They rank the unrankable, folding popularity, technique, cultural impact, sales, and personal taste into a single hierarchy. "Best guitarist" lists are inherently subjective--often nonsensical. This list takes a different approach, acknowledging thirty guitarists who transformed the instrument itself: they created new techniques, pioneered fresh concepts, expanded its sonic vocabulary, and changed how those who followed them played...
How it works
- This list takes a different approach, acknowledging thirty guitarists who transformed the instrument itself: they created new techniques, pioneered fresh concepts, expanded its sonic vocabulary, and changed...
Details worth keeping
"Best guitarist" lists are inherently subjective--often nonsensical.
Keep reading in the app
Open the app view to save this story, compare related coverage, and continue from the same source.