Alright everybody - I've built a polling page to determine who the greatest guitarists of all time are, according to the people here at BlogCritics.
Unlike the Rolling Stone guitarist list, there's no influence here - I don't care if someone you enter in the poll is world renowned or completely anonymous. Doesn't matter if they've made 50 bazillion bucks or they're hanging out in some local garage somewhere. Whether they play acoustic or electric, jazz or pop, are alive or dead, doesn't matter. All that matters is your opinion!
There's room for 30 entries on the form, the top 15 are required. So jot down the list of who YOU think are the best 15 - 30 guitarists of all time, pop over to www.coloentertainment.net/music_collection/guitar_poll.cfm and vote for your favorite axemasters!
I'm going to tabulate the results when there are 50 or more entries, or two months from now, whichever comes first (when I have the time). I'll post 'em here.
Guitarists will get one point for a first-place entry, two points for a second-place entry, etc. Any guitarist appearing in the poll that doesn't have an entry from a particular person will be given 31 points for that entry. I'll tabulate by total points, with the guitarist having the fewest points getting first place, the second fewest points getting second place, etc.
Additional pointers, rules of the contest/poll, etc. are noted on the polling page.
Have fun!
Note: The following statement has been rendered moot due to discussions about my original product list
Note: None of the product entries below are meant to sway the votes one way or another. They're simply to provide links over to Amazon, as requested by our BlogCritics hosts.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Eric Olsen
SURE, none of the products listed are meant to sway.
Great job Tal! Thanks, this is very cool.
2 - Eric Olsen
I'm sure the Tal will get it straightened out - he's like a computer guy or something.
3 - Taloran
Fixed! Thanks for pointing out the error.
4 - Taloran
Frost's entries should have gone through - the page choked after the INSERT INTO DATABASE statement.
Frost, please check the page again - If it doesn't give you Submit buttons, your entries have been recorded.
5 - Taloran
Eric -
Anyone who is swayed by the listed products shouldn't be participating anyway.
6 - Eric Olsen
I'm going to delete the error comment because of all the weird coding and whatnot throwing the alignment off.
7 - Taloran
I've tested it and it's working properly now. Sorry for the difficulty.
8 - Tom Johnson
10 would be a much better number - 15 and my brain is frying trying to remember names just to fill it out, which, of course, makes those choices meaningless.
9 - Taloran
Wouldncha know it.... I finish and post the poll, and the site goes down. What a pain. I'm sure there's noone there to bounce the machine or restart ColdFusion. It'll probably be offline until tomorrow morning.
Tom -
That's why I set it for 15 required! I wanted it require a modicum of mental gymnastics.
10 - Natalie Davis
Does this mean that votes already posted have gone the way of the dinosaur?
11 - Taloran
Votes already posted are intact.
12 - Taloran
And, this gives me time to work out the programming and math for tabulating the results. So, not all is lost.
13 - Natalie Davis
Cool, thanks.
14 - Taloran
Well, 17 people have taken the poll thus far, and the results are predictably far different from the Rolling Stone poll. I'm not gonna spill the beans until there are 50 entries or 60 days have passed, however.
15 - Taloran
I apologize to everyone who is NOT at the IP address 68.14.49.104 for the following comment:
To whoever put "ted nugent" in slot 1 and "link way" in slot 2, and filled slot 3 - 15 with dots (.....), thanks a lot for screwing up my friendly little poll and making me realize that I need to defend even the simplest things against asswipes like you. You're an imbecile. I'm deleting your entries, you pillock.
16 - James Bondage
Come on, put Neil Young's Greendale on your product entry list. At least it's new.
JB
17 - Taloran
re: 16 by James Bondage
Say what? On what list?
18 - James Bondage
The list above of products to buy on Amazon, prefaced by:
"Note: None of the product entries below are meant to sway the votes one way or another. They're simply to provide links over to Amazon, as requested by our BlogCritics hosts."
19 - Taloran
Ah! Thanks for clarifying. I suppose I could change the whole thing around, to reflect blind piano players, lousy B movies, classic novels nobody ever reads, Andy Sidaris movies with Playboy Playmates, albums with killer blues harp on 'em, or something else. The list above is simply what came to me in a stream of consciousness when I was writing the post.
I think I'll change it to show movies with Ry Cooder soundtracks, when I get around to it.
I'm kinda new here, and don't know if I can change the list or what.
20 - Taloran
Is the new product list better?
21 - Particleman
well, i took the poll, but it said "The network is busy," so i hit refresh and it worked.
22 - Taloran
Glad it worked! Also glad people are giving their input. Thanks for participating.
23 - Particleman
consider adding a "please hit refresh" after saying "the network is busy." some people might just quit and not come back.
24 - tony mahon
yo tal. correct me if im wrong please but is ur polling system 1 point for first place, 2 for second and so on and the person with the lowest points gets the top spot etc. if dats the case then some idiot cud put himself at no.1 and no one else wud vote him anywhere so hed end up as the no.1 guitarist in ur poll. is dat the case.
25 - Taloran
Tony -
1 point for first place, 2 for 2nd is correct.
However, guitarists appearing at least once get 31 points for each entry that doesn't contain their name.
So say for example we have taken 20 entries, 15 of which have Jimi Hendrix somewhere in them. Jimi would get one point for each person who voted him at number 1, 2 points for each number 2, etc. He'd also get 5 x 31 points for the five entries that didn't list him at all.
Make sense?
PMan -
That's not my message. It comes from the server, not my code, so I have no control over it.