April 30, 2025 • 5 mins
We waited for Krystina to get back from vacation to discuss a list of the 100 best guitarists of all time, with notable mentions like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The hosts debate the list and share their own favorites, making for an engaging and spirited discussion.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We crank up the Bennett's Getting Wayback machine at five o'clock.
We have an old interview that we did with Keiper
Sutherland that I haven't thought about that in a million years.
Why are we even talking to Keifer Sutherland?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He was he was in town with his You know,
all these actors have a band that no one will
pay attention to unless they're famous, and so you know,
that's the only time you can ever get a big
actor on your show. He's like, hey, man, I got
a gig at Billy Bob's. Can we promote it?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, you don't come on our show and you're promoting
twenty four or The Lost Boys or whatever.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I would like to say that, Uh, the only reason
we're doing it is because I listened to it this morning. Yeah,
and I was shocked at how many funny observations I found.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Great, very good. I'm excited that's coming up. We got
the Today game coming up. But right now it's time for.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
This website called Consequence dot net. They have to do
a lot on list like they've done Best Drummers of
All Time, Best Basis of all Time. I mean, then
they broke out there one hundred best guitarist of all time,
and I admit had this ready to go last week,
(01:05):
but then Christina took off.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I was like, this is one we need with Christina.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Oh yeah, so I've got some notables written down.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I have the top ten.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
We're not gonna have time to go too deep into this, Okay,
did y'all want to take any cracks at it?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Real quick?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Go ahead? The house I saw while I was in
San Francisco, Jimmy.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Hendrix, Jimmy Hendricks. Yeah, he's on there. Okay, he better be.
Oh no, he's on there. Number one.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh, if he's number one, then they went with a
like I thought it was gonna be like Steve v
and Ingveay Momstein. If he's number one, then they probably
went with guys like Jimmy Page.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Eddi van Halen. Yeah, eddievan Halen's great choice.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Edie Eddie van Halen number two, and rest in peace
to him, one of the guys you passed away while
we were live on the air many years ago. Eddie
van Halen number two, number three. I don't think anyone's
gonna get Tony Iomi, oh of Black Sabbath, Tony Iomi. Okay,
this is this is what these are? People's favorite band
guitarist is what this is? Tony Iomi's not a badass
(02:10):
right now. I think the list is just a list, man, Okay,
I should try to pin it down or put it
in any boxes.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, yeah, does that matter how put together? Jimmy Page
is definitely on there.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Number six. Okay. What about a kirk Hammitt, the Hamster
Kirk Hammett. He is on there.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I don't think I wrote it down, but he is
on there, okay. Stevie rayvaugh Ravon number seventeen. Oh yes, Oh,
Eric Clapton old slow hand, Eric Captain's old slow hand.
He might be on there, but I didn't see him,
and I didn't write him down as one of my notables.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Okay, did you write down the entire top ten?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, let me give you the top ten sooner
because number four.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here's a hint.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
He used to fart on hookers apparently.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh Carlos Santana.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Did he? Oh well, not that we know of a
number sixteen, Carlos Santana.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, rock and roll man, Uh Barry, thank you? Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Number five, Prince, I love Prince. Number seven Sister Rosetta Tharp.
What back in the day, man, sister Rosetta Tharp, teach.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You how to speak Spanish?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Eight David Gilmore okay, Pink Floyd Yep, Jeff Beck and
now Rogers noile Rogers.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean so they put a rhythm guitarist on there.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Huh, well they're having fun.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
What do you have against the rhythm guitarist?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I love?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, I mean, I'm a I guarantee the biggest chic
fan in here. Shots fired, plays on uh plays on
Daft Punk too. He's amazing, But I'm like, all right,
he produced Bully.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The s Christina and Brady six, Trey Anastasio fish.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
All right, dude, he should be higher. He's amazing on guitar.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
This is this is an interesting list. They have people
on here that would never be on a top.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Tell you can't do a boring list. They're putting sexy
names on there.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Where was Where's ing Vay Molmstein?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
He might be on there? About it right now?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Where's where's Angus fifty two? Angus Young, number seventy four?
Josh Homie really Queen okay?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
What about from Queen? Brian May?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Or fifteen?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Okay? Oh hell yeah? I like this list a good list.
It's fine.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Number sixty three. J Mascus of Dinosaur Junior.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I love Dinosaur Junior. I've never thought of him as
a great guitar player.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Uh slash fifty four, Chili Pepper's forty six, John Fuciante
forty two, John.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Mayer, he's a great guitar player.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Thirty five, Jack White, Yes, thirty one, Johnny Marr.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Okay, game, we're just loading up on rhythm guitar players.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Christina, you'll love this.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Twenty eight James Hetfield, all right, twenty six, Johnny Greenwood of.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Radiohead, He's an incredible musician.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Number twenty Saint Vincent Annie, where they have her? Twenty?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I know her guitar teacher?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Really?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Robert Ellis okay, over, where's on the list?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
To urry?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It must be better than I like Ben's point?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah tomorrow eighteen Dimebag number thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Here you go. There you have it. The best guitarist ever,
coming up next to the Today Game
We crank up the Bennett's Getting Wayback machine at five o'clock.
We have an old interview that we did with Keiper
Sutherland that I haven't thought about that in a million years.
Why are we even talking to Keifer Sutherland?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He was he was in town with his You know,
all these actors have a band that no one will
pay attention to unless they're famous, and so you know,
that's the only time you can ever get a big
actor on your show. He's like, hey, man, I got
a gig at Billy Bob's. Can we promote it?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, you don't come on our show and you're promoting
twenty four or The Lost Boys or whatever.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I would like to say that, Uh, the only reason
we're doing it is because I listened to it this morning. Yeah,
and I was shocked at how many funny observations I found.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Great, very good. I'm excited that's coming up. We got
the Today game coming up. But right now it's time for.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
This website called Consequence dot net. They have to do
a lot on list like they've done Best Drummers of
All Time, Best Basis of all Time. I mean, then
they broke out there one hundred best guitarist of all time,
and I admit had this ready to go last week,
(01:05):
but then Christina took off.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I was like, this is one we need with Christina.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Oh yeah, so I've got some notables written down.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I have the top ten.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
We're not gonna have time to go too deep into this, Okay,
did y'all want to take any cracks at it?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Real quick?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Go ahead? The house I saw while I was in
San Francisco, Jimmy.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Hendrix, Jimmy Hendricks. Yeah, he's on there. Okay, he better be.
Oh no, he's on there. Number one.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh, if he's number one, then they went with a
like I thought it was gonna be like Steve v
and Ingveay Momstein. If he's number one, then they probably
went with guys like Jimmy Page.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Eddi van Halen. Yeah, eddievan Halen's great choice.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Edie Eddie van Halen number two, and rest in peace
to him, one of the guys you passed away while
we were live on the air many years ago. Eddie
van Halen number two, number three. I don't think anyone's
gonna get Tony Iomi, oh of Black Sabbath, Tony Iomi. Okay,
this is this is what these are? People's favorite band
guitarist is what this is? Tony Iomi's not a badass
(02:10):
right now. I think the list is just a list, man, Okay,
I should try to pin it down or put it
in any boxes.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, yeah, does that matter how put together? Jimmy Page
is definitely on there.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Number six. Okay. What about a kirk Hammitt, the Hamster
Kirk Hammett. He is on there.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I don't think I wrote it down, but he is
on there, okay. Stevie rayvaugh Ravon number seventeen. Oh yes, Oh,
Eric Clapton old slow hand, Eric Captain's old slow hand.
He might be on there, but I didn't see him,
and I didn't write him down as one of my notables.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Okay, did you write down the entire top ten?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, let me give you the top ten sooner
because number four.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here's a hint.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
He used to fart on hookers apparently.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh Carlos Santana.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Did he? Oh well, not that we know of a
number sixteen, Carlos Santana.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, rock and roll man, Uh Barry, thank you? Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Number five, Prince, I love Prince. Number seven Sister Rosetta Tharp.
What back in the day, man, sister Rosetta Tharp, teach.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You how to speak Spanish?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Eight David Gilmore okay, Pink Floyd Yep, Jeff Beck and
now Rogers noile Rogers.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean so they put a rhythm guitarist on there.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Huh, well they're having fun.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
What do you have against the rhythm guitarist?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I love?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, I mean, I'm a I guarantee the biggest chic
fan in here. Shots fired, plays on uh plays on
Daft Punk too. He's amazing, But I'm like, all right,
he produced Bully.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The s Christina and Brady six, Trey Anastasio fish.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
All right, dude, he should be higher. He's amazing on guitar.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
This is this is an interesting list. They have people
on here that would never be on a top.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Tell you can't do a boring list. They're putting sexy
names on there.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Where was Where's ing Vay Molmstein?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
He might be on there? About it right now?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Where's where's Angus fifty two? Angus Young, number seventy four?
Josh Homie really Queen okay?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
What about from Queen? Brian May?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Or fifteen?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Okay? Oh hell yeah? I like this list a good list.
It's fine.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Number sixty three. J Mascus of Dinosaur Junior.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I love Dinosaur Junior. I've never thought of him as
a great guitar player.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Uh slash fifty four, Chili Pepper's forty six, John Fuciante
forty two, John.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Mayer, he's a great guitar player.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Thirty five, Jack White, Yes, thirty one, Johnny Marr.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Okay, game, we're just loading up on rhythm guitar players.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Christina, you'll love this.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Twenty eight James Hetfield, all right, twenty six, Johnny Greenwood of.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Radiohead, He's an incredible musician.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Number twenty Saint Vincent Annie, where they have her? Twenty?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I know her guitar teacher?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Really?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Robert Ellis okay, over, where's on the list?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
To urry?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It must be better than I like Ben's point?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah tomorrow eighteen Dimebag number thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Here you go. There you have it. The best guitarist ever,
coming up next to the Today Game
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