Also love some of the older guys:
BB king
Muddy waters
John Lee Hooker
T-Bone Walker
Django Reinhardt
Dave Navarro
Haven't really listened to much else. Not that into guitary stuff but thought he'd be worth a mention.
Nile Rogers
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Warren DiMartini
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NiƱo Bettencourt
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Peter Green (before he cooked his brain)
David Gilmour
BB King
T Bone Walker
Eddie Hazel
Satriani
Santana
Page
Gilmore
Slash
Eddie Van Halen
Billy Gibbons
Michael Schenker
Steve Stevens
Andy Summers
Dave Gilmour
Chris Rea
Jimmy Page
Jimmy Hendrix
Jack Bruce. (or Clapton)
Rick McCollum's stuff on The Afghan Whigs' "Gentlemen" LP is beautiful and painful enough for any other five guitarists.
Marc rizzo anyone ?
Skip James
Jimi Hendrix
Jack White
Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore
Joey Santiago & Charles Thompson
I kinda cheated there.
Agree with a lot on there, but some +1s for Django and Jansch
Tony Iommi
Billy Gibbons
Jake E Lee
Jeff Beck
Alex Skolnick
Brings back memories:)
Lots of stunt guitarists as to be expected, great to see Nile Rogers recognised. James Dean Bradfield and Jonny Marr.
I've got a couple to add Brian Setzer, George Thorogood.
Duane Allman
Derek Trucks
Matt Schofield
Robben Ford
Chuck Garvey
John Fahey
Blind Blake
Tommy Emmanuel
Jimi Hendrix
Junior Kimborough
My 10yr old son's in order
1. Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
2. Angus Young
3. Slash
4. Pete Willis (Early Def Leppard)
5. Jimmy Page
These are his favorite players not who he thinks are the best.
Dave Navarro
Brian May
Adrian Belew
Robert Smith
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Can't believe so few Eddie fans!
1. Eddie Van Halen
2. Hendrix
3. Angus Young
4. Eric Clapton
5. John Frusciante
Mark Knopfler
Johnny Greenwood
Peter Green
Dan Auerbach
Bert Jansch
David Gilmore
Nile Rogers
oops that's seven!
Mark Knopfler
Nels Cline
Matt Bellamy
I'm not immediately sure beyond that, maybe Gordon Giltrap, Ben Harper and/or Chris Rea. At some point it becomes hard to separate the guitars from the whole sound of the band they're in. E.g. I'm a Pearl Jam fan and Mike McCready is a very good guitar player but it's Pearl Jam as a whole I'm a fan of, I'm not passionate about McCready's playing in particular.
Tommy Emmanuel who manages to sound like an orchestra with just one guitar.
Most bands need two guitarists though so I'll suggest these:
Andy Irvine (with just five strings) and Christie Moore
Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones
Louis Bertignac and Jean-Louis Aubert
Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie (with just four strings)
So many other greats that others have mentioned but Junior Kimborough, Dan Auerbach and Nile Rodgers are so, so good!
Jonny Greenwood
Santana
Graham Coxon
Joey Santiago
I'm gonna come back with my 5th once I've thought about it.
Tim Pierce
The Edge for inventing a new language
France alonso - see you tube
Michael Schenker. 70-80
Me. Just cos I like the stuff I play which seems unusual amongst guitarist
Richard Thompson
Adrian Legg,
Tom Verlaine
Paul Kossoff
Nils Lofgren
I prefer originality, and the sort of distinctive style that tells you who it is within the first four or five notes. Fret ****ery is all well and good, but it gets pretty tiresome after a while.
Neil Young and Mark Knopfler get honourable mentions, too.
After thinking more about this I ve got to add one more to my list.
Steve cropper
Technically that's 6 but don't tell anyone.
Howlin Wolf
Slash
Peter Hook
Carlos Santana
Mani
For those haven't seen it I can recommend "It might get loud"
For those haven't seen it I can recommend "It might get loud"
Yeah but only for the edge bit
Jack is a twonk of epic proportions
Jeff Hannemann RIP
Scott Ian
Johnny Marr
Angus Young
Josh Homme
Wilco Johnson.
Robert Johnson.
Hendrix.
Lowell George.
Richard Thomson.
Hendrix
Then a big gap....
Iommi
Gilmour
Hammett
Page
3 pages in and no mention of bootsie Collins ?
Impossible to pick just 5. Those that I enjoy listening to at the moment.....
James Dean Bradfield
Graham Coxon
Noel Gallagher
Richard Hawley
Johnny Marr
Have we had Steve Hillage yet? Or what about Martin Simpson?
Are bass players Guitar Gods?
Are bass players Guitar Gods?
Yep, I think Jack Bruce has already been nominated.
Are bass players Guitar Gods?
I would say no myself and Mani has been mentioned as well.
Three pages in and no mention of Leo Kottke... Another vote for Lindsey Buckingham here too.
Might I throw [i]Robin Trower[/i] into the mix, don't believe he's been mentioned yet.
Absolutely all of the above and I'd like to throw in Jerry Garcia
Missing a finger on his picking hand and the ability to do what he did in what was usually, shall we say, an enhanced state of mind.
Robin Guthrie
Debbie Smith
Peter Hook
Robert Smith
John Squire
Eric Bell
Scott Gorham
Brian Robertson
Gary Moore
Snowy White
John Sykes
Get the theme ?
A first mention here for -
Steve Howe
followed by -
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton (early years)
Seasick Steve
Dave Gilmour
Not that I'm saying Steve Howe is better than Hendrix, it's just he's never mentioned in the top 5/10 threads.
As for bass players -
John Entwhistle
Chris Squire
Geddy Lee
Mani
John Paul Jones
Some way back I missed my 5th one because I knew there was one I hadn't thought of.
Now i have.
5 - Jeff Buckley.
