Your top 5 guitar gods?

Acoustic:
Davey Graham
Bert Jansch
Doc Watson
Dave Rawlings
Skip James

Electric:
James Williamson
Judah Bauer
D Boone
Teenie Hodges
Sterling Morrison

I cheated (so bite me…)

Jack White
Joe Perry
Hendrix
Slash
Dave Murray

Technicians:

EVH
Satriani
Vai
Brian May
Morello

Feel:

SRV
Rory Gallagher
Page
Kossoff
Buddy Guy

Peter Green
Jose feliciano
Jimmy Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page

in no order
joe satriani
slash
eric clapton
jimi hendrix
jimmy page

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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Niño 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 wankery 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?