MeggaMusic : Top Lists

Marked by factors of:
Originality; skill; influentiality; genius;
excellence; contribution; output, etc.

Top Guitarists
  1. Steve Howe
  2. Alex Lifeson
  3. Jimi Hendrix RIP
  4. John McLaughlin
  5. Robert Fripp
  6. Jimmy Page
  7. Frank Zappa RIP
  8. Steve Hillage
  9. David Gilmour
  10. Michael Hedges RIP
  11. Pat Metheny
  12. Robert Smith
  13. Gary Moore RIP
  14. Stevie Ray Vaughan RIP
  15. Kaki King
  16. Huw Lloyd-Langton RIP
  17. Gordon Giltrap
  18. Mark Knopfler
  19. Geordie Walker RIP
  20. All of the below...
Honorable mentions:
Alan Holdsworth, Vini Reilly, Jan Akkerman, Steve Vai, Tony Iommi,
Steve Hackett, Andy Latimer, Davy Graham, Guthrie Govan, Mick Turner,
Emma Ruth Rundle, James Blackshaw, John McGeoch, John Martyn,
Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, Andy Summers,
Al Di Meola, Bert Jansch, Robbie Basho, Martin Barre, Eddie Vedder,
Mike McCready, Keith Levene, Phil Manzanera, Robby Krieger, Duane Allman,
Paco de Lucía, George Harrison, Segovia, Mike Oldfield, Andy Partridge,
Jeff Beck, Erik Mongrain, Ed Wynne, Erik Wøllo, Mick Box, Neil Young,
Glenn Jones, BB King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Albert King, LeadBelly,
Eddie Van Halen, Richie Blackmore, Alvin Lee, Robert Johnson,
Prince, Steven Wilson, Buckethead, Dave Brock, John Williams...


Top Bassists
  1. Jaco Pastorius RIP
  2. Stanley Clarke
  3. Chris Squire RIP
  4. Geddy Lee
  5. Tony Levin
  6. Jean-Jacques Burnell
  7. Mick Karn RIP
  8. Mark King
  9. Flea
  10. John Giblin RIP
  11. Les Claypool
  12. Victor Bailey
  13. Julie Slick
  14. Bill Laswell
  15. Youth (Martyn Glover)
  16. Bernard Edwards
  17. Doug Wimbish
  18. Robbie Shakespeare RIP
  19. Lemmy RIP
  20. All of the below...
Honorable mentions:
Percy Jones, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Paul McCartney, Pino Palladino,
Gail Ann Dorsey, John Paul Jones, Charles Mingus, Danny Thompson, Alan Davey,
John Entwistle, John McVie, Jez Kerr (ACR), Roger Waters, Tom Griesgraber,
Dave Pegg, Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Noel Redding, Jah Wobble, Michael Wadada RIP,
Reginald Arvizu, Paul Simenon, Bruce Foxton, Bootsy Collins, Henry J Osborne, Sting,
Herbie Flowers RIP, Billy Sheehan, Anna Butterss, Esperanza Spalding, Louis Johnson,
Geezer Butler, Jack Bruce, Billy Cox, John Myung, Peter Hook, Bryan Beller, Guy Pratt.



Top Drummers
  1. Billy Cobham
  2. Buddy Rich RIP
  3. Neil Peart RIP
  4. Steve Gadd
  5. Bill Bruford
  6. John Bonham RIP
  7. Keith Moon RIP
  8. Art Blakey RIP
  9. Cozy Powell RIP
  10. Michael Shrieve
  11. Carl Palmer
  12. Pierre Moerlen RIP
  13. Ginger Baker RIP
  14. Sly Dunbar
  15. Budgie
  16. Nick Mason
  17. Paul Ferguson
  18. Mitch Mitchell RIP
  19. Phil Collins
  20. All of the below...
Honorable mentions:
Alan White RIP, Jon Hiseman, Bill Ward, Tristan Fry, Ian Paice, Style Scott RIP,
Stewart Copeland, Pierre van der Linden, Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozzio,
Chris Frantz, Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Grohl, Bev Bevan, Karen Carpenter RIP,
Danny Carey, Marco Minnemann, Gavin Harrison, Clem Burke, Greg Fox (Liturgy)
Sheila E., Mickey Hart, Roy Haynes, Lars Ulrich, Simon Phillips, Gene Krupa RIP.


Top Keyboard Players
  1. Richard Wright RIP
  2. Rick Wakeman
  3. Keith Emerson RIP
  4. Tony Banks
  5. Pete Namlook RIP
  6. Edgar Froese RIP
  7. Dave Greenfield RIP
  8. Claude Debussy RIP
  9. Sergei Rachmaninov RIP
  10. Frédéric Chopin RIP
  11. Klaus Schulze RIP
  12. Joe Zawinul RIP
  13. Brian Eno
  14. Don Airey
  15. Ray Manzarek RIP
  16. Miquette Giraudy
  17. Richard Barbieri
  18. Gert Emmens
  19. Jim Kirkwood
  20. All of the below...
Honorable mentions:
Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Mike Oldfield, Jon Lord, Ken Hensley,
Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Thijs Van Leer, Jan Hammer, Barry Andrews,
Gary Numan, Paul Humphreys, Martyn Ware, Bernd Scholl, Ron Boots, Jordan Rudess,
Evan Bartholomew, Toby Marks, Steve Roach, Robert Fox, Harvey Bainbridge,
Hugh Banton, Tony Gerber, Paul Lawler, Brendan Pollard, Ruud Heij,
Mario Schönwälder, Thomas Fanger, Peter Mergener, Bernd Kistenmacher,
Frank Klare, Paul Nagle, Ian Boddy, Mixmaster Morris, James Lavelle,
Greg Hunter, Daniel Pemberton, Francis Monkman, Eguana (Sergey Severin),
Yann Tiersen, Vladimir Horowitz, Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim,
Harold Budd, Tim Story, George Gershwin, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk,
Richard Tandy, Chick Corea, George Duke, Lyle Mays, Art Tatum, Keith Jarrett,
Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter,
Constance Demby, Alfred Brendel, Glenn Gould, Claudio Arrau, Lang Lang,
Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Anna Strom, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt...


Top Violinists
  1. Niccolò Paganini RIP
  2. Yehudi Menuhin RIP
  3. Jascha Heifetz RIP
  4. Simon House
  5. Jean-Luc Ponty
  6. Fritz Kreidler RIP
  7. Stéphane Grappelli RIP
  8. Max Bruch RIP
  9. Nicola Benedetti
  10. Itzhak Perlman
  11. Vanessa-Mae
  12. Isaac Stern RIP
  13. L. Shankar
  14. Mik Kaminski
  15. Hoshiko Yamane
  16. Jerry Goodman
  17. Ida Haendel RIP
  18. Katie Jacoby
  19. Sonja Larson (A Whisper In The Noise)
  20. Nigel Kennedy
  21. All of the below...
Honorable mentions:
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Hilary Hahn, David Oistrakh, George Enescu, John Cale (viola),
Nash The Slash, David Rivera, Martie Maguire (Dixie Chicks), Alex DePue,
Jessica Moss, Warren Ellis, Joe Deninzon, Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Mark Wood (Rock Orch.),
Caitlin Papier, Chuck Bontrager, Steve Unruh, Lydia Gentry, Lindsey Stirling,
Mio Okamura, Haylie Ecker & Elspeth Hanson (Bond), Rohan Roy, Eddie Jobson.



Top Cellists
  1. Jacqueline du Pré RIP
  2. Yo-Yo Ma
  3. Mstislav Rostropovich RIP
  4. Pablo Casals RIP
  5. Paul Tortelier RIP
  6. Heinrich Schiff RIP
  7. Julian Lloyd Webber
  8. Pierre Fournier RIP
  9. Sol Gabetta
  10. David Darling RIP
  11. Julia Kent
  12. János Starker RIP
  13. David Popper RIP
  14. Zoë Keating
  15. Steven Isserlis
  16. Natalia Gutman
  17. Maya Beiser
  18. Arthur Russell RIP
  19. Martin McCarrick
  20. Alisa Weilerstein
  21. Henrik Meierkord
  22. Luka Šulić & Stjepan Hauser (2Cellos)

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