List your top 5 favorite guitarists

[HEAVYHEART]

Or 2 or 10 I don't care! Any genre.

[one_true_leroy]

1. top 10, in order

10.one_true_leroy :hippie:
9.Willie Nelson
8.Robert Johnson
7.John Frusciante
6.Wes Montgomery
5.Mississsippi John Hurt tied with Townes Van Zandt
4.David Rawlings
3.Stevie
2.Jimi
1.Django Reinhardt

[mitchum]

2. Hubert Sumlin, Tom Verlaine, John Fahey, Richard Thompson, Mick Taylor

[6000eliot]

32. Tom Verlaine

but no Richard Lloyd? Their twin guitar attack made "Marquee Moon" one of the greatest guitar albums of all time.

[mitchum]

33. I know, I know...Richard is always the bridesmaid

:)
The odd thing is that I actually enjoy his solo recordings more than those of Verlaine

[bullimiami]

3. allan holdsworth.

hmmm

after that in no particular order I really like

ritchie blackmore
brian may
jimi hendrix of course
stevie ray

i guess thats enough for now.

[kitchen girl]

4. Mark Knopfler, Albert Lee, Tony Rice...

Robbie Robertson
Hubert Sumlin
Stevie Ray
Django
Lonnie Mack
Chet Atkins
Don Rich
Buddy Guy

to name a few...

[LifeDuringWartime]

5. hmm

1. chuck garvey (moe.)
2. al schnier (moe.)
3. david gilmour (shouldnt have to say the band)

[Tafiti]

6. Hmmm, let's see...

1. Tom Morello
2. Pat Metheny
3. Stevie Ray Vaughn
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Slash

[Wat_Tyler]

7. Lessee.

James Dean Bradfield
Lee Ranaldo
Robert Fripp
John McGeogh
Dave Navarro

[XNASA]

8. Jonny Greenwood, Graham Coxon, Jimmy Page, Dave Gregory &

oh, I don't know, maybe........Richard Lloyd.

Oh, Fripp....and Manzanera too.

[bbernardini]

9. MIKE KENEALLY, Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, MIKE KENEALLY & MIKE KENEALLY

Also, Mike Keneally.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. There are many, so I'll boil it down:

1. David Gilmour- really helped to bring Pink Floyd back on course a few years after Barrett left.
2. Syd Barrett- noise pioneer
3. Jimi- again, goes without saying
4. Josh Homme- Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age- not so much for technical proficiency, but for style. Plugging a guitar through a bass amp is genius. Big, vast-sounding guitarist.
5. Ed O'Brien and Johnny Greenwood-Radiohead- two different styles that mesh well together.

[Al Dente]

11. Pat Metheny

Pat Martino, Bela Fleck (not guitar I know, but close enough), John Scofield, Mike Stern, Preston Reed, Andy Mckee (Anyone who hasnt hear od him, you should check him out, he was my old bass teacher, and one incredible guitarist www.AndyMckee.com).

[Ron Green]

12. Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Norman Blake, Bill Ham.

[Beaverhausen]

13. Nobody mentioned Steve Howe? My favs below:

Joni Mitchell
Patty Larkin
Richard Thompson
Bruce Cockburn
Bonnie Raitt

[pdx_prog]

14. Steve Howe

Alan Holdsworth
Fripp
Eric Johnson
Steve Morse
Robben Ford
Chet
John Mcglaughlin
Stevie Ray
Al DiMeola
Leo Kottke

[Tafiti]

16. Nice list! I forgot about McLaughlin and DiMeola.

"Mediterranean Sundance" on Friday Night in San Francisco is SICK! It's almost depressing to hear how ridiculously good they are. Some people are simply born to play...

[Tikki]

15. Billy Zoom #1

Stevie Ray Vaughn
mellow Carlos Santana
not mellow East Bay Ray
George Harrison

[no name no slogan]

17. Here's my seven

Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine)
Paco De Lucia (Flamenco God)
Robert Fripp (Crimso Curmudgeon)
Tonino Baliardo (Gipsy Kings lead guitarist)
Steven Fellows (Comsat Angels -- very cool postpunk pop band)
Ron Asheton (First Stooges guitarist -- raw, gutteral, tribal)
Django (Because he only had two good fingers on his fretting hand)

That's all for now.

[paulk]

39. comsat angels!!!!

I thought I was the only person in the world who liked them!

[asthmaticeog]

18. 5

Andy Gill - Gang of Four
Jagged, trebly, angular, glorious.

Rowland S. Howard - The Birthday Party
If spaghetti western soundtracks were reverbed-out hate-noise.

Jimmy Page - Zeppelin
Duh.

Mark Shippy - U.S. Maple
Extremely abstract guitar playing. So counterintuitive it's amazing to see that he does in fact play songs the same way every time. An impressive conceptualist.

Malcom Young - AC/DC
I'm always blown away by how effectively he uses silence.

[Dukkha]

19. My biggest Influences

David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
Pete Townshend
Daniel Ash
Robin Guthrie
Reeves Garbel
Steve Vai

[rbnyc]

30. Daniel Ash......nice choice there.. (nt)

[PittPoliSci]

20. why hasn't anyone said John Petrucci yet?

are you all mad?

JP is amazing.

my next four are:

2: Jesper Stromblad - from In Flames, I love him.
3: Johnny Ramone (he's awesome, just cause he didn't play 10 minute solos doesn't mean he's not cool.)
4: Malmsteen.
5. Satriani
6. Vai.

on edit:

FORGOT DICK DALE! He's the real #2, shame on all of you for not mentioning him too!

[realisticphish]

21. just about to say petrucci

whoa, you like in flames too. "Dialogue With The Stars" is my favorite song of all time. if you like phish too, im gonna get paranoid...:scared:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[PittPoliSci]

22. recovering phish fan.

i used to like them, but they just don't do it for me any more. i know trey is an awesome guitar player, i just can't get into the music any more.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

23. Just a few of mine.....

Sonny Sharrock
Larry Coryell
Django
Kenny Burrell
Bill Frisell
John McLaughlin
John Ambercrombie
Grant Green
Bobby Broom

[DeepGreen]

24. My favorites

1. Hendrix
2. Gillmore
3. Clapton when he was in the Cream
- Crossroads - one of his best !
4. Satriani
5. Steve Vai
6. Joe Perry
7. Mick Taylor
8. Robin Trower when he was with Procol Harum
9. Jeff Beck
10.Jimmy Page
11. Neal Schon
12. Santana

[ZoCrowes]

35. Hate to be an ass but its Gilmour

[Zorra]

25. SRV, Gilmore, Harry Leahy, Page, Segovia, Jimi,

Al DiMeola, Roy Buchanan, John Fahey, Michael Schenker (when he was with UFO), Freddie King, Otis Rush, Danny Gatton, Clapton, Keith Richards, and John Fogerty.

Lots of great guitar players in different "genres" with different styles, it's hard to pick favorites.

[opiate69]

26. My faves.. in no specific order...

Tony Iommi
Randy Rhoads
Martin Barre
Steve Vai
Stanley Jordan
Gary Hoey
Ian Anderson
Stevie Ray
Alain Johannes (from the band Eleven.. also produced and played on Cornell's "Euphoria Morning")
Jimi

[Pepperbelly]

27. Page, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Hendrix, & yes- Robbie Krieger nt

[porkrind]

28. Vai, Satriani, Steve Morse, George Lynch, Randy Rhodes, Eric Johnson

[rbnyc]

29. Kristin Hersh, Sterling Morrison...

...Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, Thurston Moore

EDIT: typo

[6000eliot]

31. No Jeff Beck?

No Les Paul? No Mark Knopfler? Aside from these three, I think nobody has the control over feedback of Jimi Hendrix and Brian May. Also unsung are Elton John's first guitarist, Davy Johnstone, amazing on any number of axes, Phil Manzera from Roxy Music, Bill Nelson from Bebop Deluxe, and Paul Kossoff from Free.

[ZoCrowes]

34. Favorites in any order

Clapton
Paul Weller
Hendrix
Lightnin Hopkins
Grant Green
Django Reinhardt
Page
Noel Gallagher
Burt Jansch
Eddie Hazel
Robby Krieger
Mick Taylor
Ron Wood(Faces era)
Keef
John Squire
Marc Ford

I could go on all day

[paulk]

36. It would be impossible to list my favorites/ who I listen to

but the one's who've had the most influence on my own playing are -

Phil Manzenera - roxy music - Probably the biggest influence. Or at least who I was trying to sound like -

Tony Iommi - Black Sabbath - hey, I know that seems an odd choice - but they were my favorite band between the ages of 14-16, when I first decided to play guitar. Definitely an influence, even though I don't like to admit it.

David Torn - eclectic, wierd, hard to describe. He played in a local band I saw more times than I can remember - changed the way I thought about music more than his style - which I could never even come close to. Went on to work with people like David Sylvian, Bowie, lots of studio and movie soundtrack work. Google him up sometime!

Neil Young - whenever I jammed with people, they would say - "You sound like Neil Young!" Not that I wanted to...

Sonic Youth - they came along later, and once again changed the way I looked at music and how to make it. Real eye openers when it came to what sounds could come out of an electric guitar.

[6000eliot]

37. I love Phil Manzera

Have you heard anything by 801 or his solo stuff?

[paulk]

38. I've got a few old LPs

"Primitive Guitars" and

a pretty rare one called "Quiet Sun"

I've heard some of the other stuff, but I always felt his work with Brian Ferry and the solo Eno work brought out the best in him.