100 Greatest Guitarists? Really???

When I do research concerning my blog I visit websites of all sorts and kinds. Among others the site of the Rolling Stone Magazine. 
I got intrigued when I saw that they had published the list of what is (following their, I can only call it: very weird standards of qualifying) the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. 
So I had a look at that and I have come to the conclusion that the Rolling Stone Magazine is losing it absolutely BIG TIME!!! They state that they have assembled a panel of top guitarists and other experts.
 Now when I saw the names of these "top guitarists" I got a bit discouraged. There are a few big names in there, true but also a lot that are definitely not so top. 
And what "experts" are we talking about here? Dentists? Firemen? The champion of selling ice cream from a van? Certainly not "experts" in the field of nominating the 100 greatest guitarists. That has to be a down right lie. 
Let me explain why.
We find John Lennon on this list at number 55. That means that John Lennon is a greater guitarist than the previous 45. So he must manipulate his guitar in a greater way than the number 100 Lindsay Buckingham. (He's from Fleetwood Mac). Now I happen to know John Lennon's work, with the Beatles and solo and I have serious doubts. However to make sure that I would not say something stupid I have also checked a few video clips on Youtube and all this has made one thing sure: I don't see or hear, anywhere at all, that John Lennon uses his guitar in a greater way than the afore mentioned Lindsay Buckingham. Also John Lennon is quoted in the biography from Ray Coleman (part one) in an interview that was held after the Beatles split up and he had done a few solo things, saying: I'm not much of a guitar player. And he was right. So, following the logic of Rolling Stone Magazine,  I have to come to the conclusion that John Lennon plays his guitar, what? More original, faster, louder, richer or with a better technique? What are the criteria for this list? Don't get me wrong, I love John Lennon as a musician, after all, his influence in pop music is something we still hear today but I have serious trouble to understand why John Lennon is considered a greater guitarist than James Hetfield (87), Slash (65) or Rory Gallagher (57), just to name a few. 
Another thing, James Hetfield is at 87 and his buddy from the same band is Kirk Hammett. Kirk is doing all the solo stuff and fancy finger work and oddly enough he's not even on the list.
 James Hetfield is also one of these top guitarists who has been voting on people in this list. So how did that work out than? He can vote on himself but his pal Kirk is considered as somebody who's not even worth mentioning?
I take it that people like Yngvie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, (who developed the first 7 string, electric, modern, commercial guitar) and Joe Satriani (guitar instructor of among others Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai) have opted for an early retirement? Or are they the numbers 103, 102, and 101 as they are not on this list either! And I have this scene in my head: Kirk Hammett talking to James Hetfield: James, you know what, I've learned a little fingertrickytappingwhatsamacallit and I think it'll fit in nicely when we do this song. I got it from this guitar bloke I know, his name is Joe. And James is like: Oh no, there he is again with his Satriani crap. And he says: Forget it Kirk, I'm on the list of the greatest guitarists and you and this Satriani guy are not, so you don't know what you are talking about. So.......... Shut Up!!!
Why is Keith Richards the greatest guitarist number four? Yes, he has created a few riffs that everybody has stuck in their head, true enough but does that make him a greater guitarist than Carlos Santana? 
Frank Zappa is on number 22. I don't want to talk about why Frank Zappa is on number 22. I want to talk about the fact that Frank Zappa employed in 1979 a young guitar player named Steve Vai. And this Frank Zappa refered to Steve Vai as his "little Italian virtuoso" and listed him in the liner notes as performing "stunt guitar" or "impossible guitar parts". Now as the number 22 of this list refers to Steve Vai as a virtuoso playing impossible guitar parts, would you not somehow,  somewhere, think 

100 - Lindsey Buckingham
099 - Thurston Moore
098 - Alex Lifeson
097 - Steve Jones
096 - Bruce Springsteen
095 - Roger McGuinn
094 - Peter Buck
093 - Paul Simon
092 - Dimebag Darrell
091 - Dave Davies 
090 - Tom Verlaine
089 - Bonnie Raitt
088 - Carl Perkins
087 - James Hetfield
086 - J Mascis
085 - Andy Summers
084 - Joe Perry
083 - Eddie Hazel
082 - Nels Cline
081 - Lou Reed
080 - Buddy Holly
079 - Mike Campbell
078 - John Fahey
077 - Willie Nelson
076 - Robby Krieger
075 - Joni Mitchell
074 - Dick Dale
073 - Kurt Cobain
072 - John Frusciante
071 - Robert Johnson 
070 - Jack White
069 - Richard Thompson
068 - John McLaughlin
067 - T-Bone Walker
066 - Leslie West
065 - Slash
064 - Duane Eddy
063 - Johnny Winter
062 - Robert Fripp
061 - Dickey Betts
060 - Ron Asheton
059 - Robbie Robertson
058 - Peter Green
057 - Rory Gallagher
056 - Albert Collins
055 - John Lennon
054 - Joe Walsh
053 - Otis Rush
052 - Clarence White
051 - Johnny Marr
050 - Ritchie Blackmore
049 - Muddy Waters
048 - Johny Greenwood
047 - Stephen Stills
046 - Jerry Garcia
045 - Link Wray
044 - Mark Knopfler
043 - Hubert Sumlin
042 - Mike Bloomfield
041 - Mick Ronson
040 - Tom Morello
039 - Steve Cropper
038 - The Edge
037 - Mick Taylor
036 - Randy Rhoads
035 - John Lee Hooker
034 - Curtis Mayfield
033 - Prince
032 - Billy Gibbons
031 - Ry Cooder
030 - Elmore James
029 - Scotty Moore
028 - Johnny Ramone
027 - Bo Diddley
026 - Brian May
025 - Tony Iommi
024 - Angus Young
023 - Buddy Guy
022 - Frank Zappa
021 - Chet Atkins
020 - Carlos Santana
019 - James Burton
018 - Les Paul
017 - Neil Young
016 - Derek Trucks
015 - Freddy King
014 - David Gilmour
013 - Albert King
012 - Stevie Ray Vaughan
011 - George Harrison
010 - Pete Townshend
009 - Duane Allman
008 - Eddie van Halen
007 - Chuck Berry
006 - BB King
005 - Jeff Beck 
004 - Keith Richards
003 - Jimmy Page
002 - Eric Clapton
001 - Jimi Hendrix

that, maybe he should be  considered as, at least, the number 100? 
And if I know this, being a mere music amateur, don't these "experts" not know this? So what is the explanation for this than? 
I would have thought that in the top twenty of the greatest guitarists everybody has to be a virtuoso at least. And when that has been sorted out you are to establish how good the feelings and emotions come over to the listener, that these virtuoso's create with their playing style.  
My opinion is that guitar players should not have had a vote in who should be on the list of the 100 greatest guitarists. Simply because they can not be objective. Drummers, bass players, keyboard players, vocalists and every other instrumentalist can be in that jury but not a guitar player.  And of each category in the jury, you should have at least three or four different generations present as well.  

The list we have here is a list of guitar players where the total amount of blues guitarists are give or take equal to the total amount of guitarists of every other music style. I can certainly not see this as a list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. 
It makes you wonder what value to give to articles from Rolling Stone Magazine...