Kurt Cobain in the 100 greatest guitarists - why not

San Francisco CA

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Nirvana made one good commercially successful record. It was hard for them to record a follow up. Kurt Cobain gets singled out because he played guitar, was the singer and wrote the songs. Are lists that important? The list of top bass players is shorter. Oh wait, Wayne Shorter plays saxophone. Name 100 keyboard players. Name 100 great singers. Most music on T.V. etc. is played on sampled instruments and synthesizers, you just need is a laptop to make music and it shows, name 100 top computer players. Music teachers teach children's songs to students because the students know the melodies of these songs. Songs like "Row Row Row Your Boat," "Frere Jacques" can become the foundation to ear training. Many musicians have an incomplete education because they are above playing children's songs. "Come As You Are" is a Nirvana song that easy to play if you know the nursery songs. Musicians on Craigslist like various bands but so what. To get gigs in bars bands played covers and brought in a following. Some places that didn't care if bands had no following as long as they didn't drive people away and played covers. Why are people still talking about Kurt Cobain? He wrote good songs and he played the guitar on the recordings himself which is more than a lot of people do.