Keith Richards and Jack White. Just love R&B and they both walk the walk.

depends on my mood. but… hendrix. Machine Gun is just a killer!

freebird the worse song ever,cmon ,so you dont like it but to call it the worse song ever you have to be a bit of a knob and have very limited musical knowledge imho

Coincidentally stumbled upon this just now.

Yeah I was a bit harsh but I absolutely hate how overrated Freebird is, haha.

Stecve Vai is OK with 7 string!

Bob Fripp, hands down, especially with Adrian Belew, although Randy Rhodes and Robert Cray are right up there too.

Tim Pierce

Chris de Garmo is an excellent call but you'd have to include Michael Wilton too

Django Reinhardt and the many gypsy jazz guitarists that emulated and improved on his style. Oh, and don't forget to check out Jimmy Rosenberg.

John Squire
Johnny Marr
Flea (no one said they had to be lead guitarists)

Guitarists that go well beyond the three chord trick, but still realise that their in a a group and not a solo.

Angus Young

Angus with the Stones

Let there be rock

Hmmm probably for sheer energy and presence Angus young or Kerry King.

John Fahey

Ron Asheton

Tony Iommi. He had ALL the riffs.

Plus whole genres simply wouldn't exist without his influence.

Kyle Glass (Dude, where's my f**king schnitzel?!?!)

Angus is the most entertaining.

Zappa for being so creative but that's more than in his guitar work of course.

Bob Mould can thrash louder than most and also do beautiful acoustic numbers.
Watching him play his flying V a few years ago in Sheffield was the most intense guitaring (?) I've ever seen, he didn't stop for an hour and a half.
Couldn't hear for 2 days 🙂

Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine.

Alex Lifeson of Rush. Probably the most talented but overlooked of the three members. Listen to the solo on Limelight, it's sheer genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXjnVICb3I

Also very partial to Andy Summers, Fripp/Belew and Vernon Reid (of Living Color). And whoever the guy was in the Spin Doctors – his rhythm guitar work was really nice.

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Yeah I was a bit harsh but I absolutely hate how overrated Freebird is, haha.
Harsh, but fair.

Fave:
Andy Gill. So original, so copied. His playing gives me goosebumps.

also Matthew Ashman, Townshend, Hendrix, Keef, Jack White, Steve Jones, John McKay, Julian Bream, Paco De Luca, Ry Cooder, Daniel Ash, J Mascis… I'm sure there's more..

(Freebird is still shit)

FREEBIRD!

John Martyn
Davey Graham
Mark Knopfler
John Renbourne
Martin Simpson
Peter Green
David Gilmour
James Taylor
Ali Farke Toure

etc, etc 🙂

Wilko Johnson, innit?

Although Tom Verlaine gives me the shivers and Clive Gregson is a bit special too.

yep, John Martyn – bless him, RIP

and from me yoof, James Patrick Page, however Jeff Beck's been amazing over his career …

Wilko – good call 🙂
forgot Marc Bolan and Mick Ronson and Neil Young!

If you like Django Reinhardt then this guy is pretty good. He's actually an old school friend who even at the age of 16 was something very special on the guitar and used to teach us budding guitarists some of his licks.

oooh, Tom Verlaine

good shout

Oh, both Frank and Dweezil Zappa were/are superb too, as was Lowell George.

Dave navaro (Janes Addiction)
Another for Jonny marr
Kim Deal (pixies)
Sly Stone
Sly (of Sly and Robbie)
and another for Angus Young.

Ben Harper
voodoo chile

burn one down

For me? Billy Gibbons – excellent rhythm guitarist with such a laid back style.

+1 Frank Zappa

+1 Ali Farke Toure

Also, Ry Cooder & antonio Forcione ( http://video.mail.ru/mail/ememe/386/391.html )

Donks.. Kim was on Bass.. You don't rate Joey Santiago?

Of the more recent crop, I rather like John Frusciante. Versatile yet very soulful and musical.

I love the simplicity and feel of the great funk guitarists – from Catfish Collins playing the same deep in the pocket riff over and over again on Sex Machine to Eddie Hazel's tripped out lead wailings on Maggot Brain.

The 'Oreo Cookie' trio on many of the great Motown records were quite something – one skanking the backbeat, one finding a perfect arpeggio or counterpoint, one playing the lead hooks or licks: Robert White, Joe Messina and Eddie Willis.

And Tom Morello just rocks, yet never loses that deep groove.

For me? Billy Gibbons – excellent rhythm guitarist with such a laid back style.

La Grange, oh yeah!

Martin Taylor

Jaco Pastorius

Robin Trower

Mark Knopfler

Jaco Pastorius

I don't know if Jaco would approve of being in this list – he always said he didn't just play bass, he played bass guitar, but as a bassist he certainly doesn't feel like a guitarist to me!

Dave Navaro – Jane's addiction (anyone that uses a vibrator to get mental "wibbly" sounds from guitar pickups whilst going bonkers get my vote)

If we're having bassists them Lemmy is yer chap, along with Keith Th'Bass from Here & Now. Paul McCartney is a bit of a bass god on the sly as well.

Oh and for the guitarists, I forgot Rory Gallagher.

Rory Gallagher for me, ta.