i just got the 25th anniversary issue of guitar world and they had the readers poll awards and under grunge icon McCready got 4 percent he was beat out by Cobain-Cantrell-and Kim from soundgarden.
this is just wrong.

Who got future guitar legend? (I dont know if that was what it was called) I remember seeing / voting for Omar Rodriguez Lopez...

There's always the option of hounding every PJ online community as this "Lion" character did to get so many people to take part in these polls, but I can tell you, that wouldn't get you anywhere.

Well, Cantrell and Kim are great guitarists burt Cobain sucked ass. He was a great song writter and came up some solid riffs but one of the greatest grunge guitarists is rediculous. Oh well another list that doesnt make any sense, go figure.

suck ass!? holy crap. until you spin shit as sweet as him you cant say such garbage. he doesnt diserve to be on top 200 guitarists of all time. not 1000. but he did NOT suck ASS.

Again he came up with good if not great riffs at times but he wasnt a great guitarist as in skill. He was brilliant with arrangements and lyrics though, and I love Nirvana. Of course this is also my opinion so get off my back.

From what I see ... no one said Kurt was a great guitarist. They said he was a grunge icon. He'd better be the number 1 grunge icon!

I've been playing the guitar for about a year, and can easily play Kurts riffs, Kurt was far from a great guitarist.

If this didn't have anything to do with guitar why would it be in guitar world and why wouldnt they have picked Eddie instead of Mike, Chris instead of Kim and Layne instead of Cantrell?

Hey, i'm just going by what the post said. Maybe it was "Which guitarist is the biggest grunge icon?"

isn't it obvious that 99 percent of media sources hate pearl jam? get over it.

sorry forgot to note this is grunge "GUITAR" icon

No it's not.

Well in a continuing attempt to explain why Cobain would win out despite not having written any difficult guitar music, I have two theories.

1) His music, though not difficult, was madly popular and influential.
2) I go back again to the word "ICON" which does not denote talent as much as a societal/historial/cultural standing.

Just because it's easy to play his songs doesn't mean it's easy to write his songs. The guy had a knack for writting really cool tunes, and his style was that of an anti-guitar god (ie. his playing was all over the place, sloppy at times, but damn creative)
He was the only guitarist in the most popular and influential band of the 90's, of course he's listed as #1 grunge guitar icon!
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