Born to riff: The 17 greatest New Jersey guitarists

Three Bon Jovi guitarist on the list whooo hoooo! (not that there are many New Jersey guitarists I reckon)

On the other hand, I'm not sure if Richie would be happy to share the spotlight with Bobby. Not throwing shade at all, I'm learning to play guitar and man, I don't see Richie anywhere when looking for info/best of lists etc. Must be frustrating to be on a local best of list, but ignored on almost every other.

You made your own point.

I guess I can't really judge since I'm not familiar with many of them, but I'm a bit surprised Zakk Wylde wasn't a bit higher on the list. He has some classics with Ozzy.

Three? I say 1 1/2...

Matt joined their month long tour and is no more a member than Evert Bradley... It will be somewhat interesting to see who joins this next tour between him and Bobby...

Guitarist #5, Marissa Paternoster, is no token female:

Thanks for posting, rocknation!!

Richie's been sharing the spotlight his entire career so I seriously doubt it bothers him that Bobby and Matt are on the list, too. From all accounts they both have fairly respectable reputations along the Jersey Shore.

My guess is that Richie is perfectly okay with coming in second only to Les Paul, regardless of who else is on the list. That's pretty impressive! And he came in ahead of Bruce, too, which probably made Jon happy, since this is the second year in a row that he or someone associated with the band bested Springsteen in a Jersey poll.

I was surprised to learn about the poll from last year since I didn't recall seeing anything about it here. I couldn't find it posted in General Discussion but if I overlooked it, or if it was posted somewhere else, I apologize for the double posting.

http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainme...icle-1.2153910


I think it's a shame how the press tries to diminish Jon's accomplishments every time something good is said about him. Seems kinda snippy to me that they made the reference to Matt's tweet. One article I saw even went so far as to point out that it was retweeted 61 times! So f'n what? It was a fan poll. It's what fans do!!

The guy just can't catch a break!!

I really like her work in covering Because the night with Garbage. Killer stuff.

As for Richie, he has the money and millions upon millions of records sold, huge recognition by public in many different ways. He doesn't need a recognition like this in any way or form. Music is not sports.

Edit: the video of Because the night, skip to 3:41 if you don't like the song. Me - I can just watch 50 year old Shirley Manson for the rest of my days and die happy