Favorite Guitarists?

[PattyOfurniture]

Jimmy Page
Chet Atkins
Brian May
Eric Clapton
Jeff Beck
Alex Lifeson

wow.I read your list and expected to look over to the age and see someone like my age...lol
Ive played now 29 yrs,and appreciate that list.
not the hugest Page fan(but he is so original).and never really understood the Clapton/Guitar God thingy...looool
but where ya made me really smile was Chet Atkins.not many people i play with around my age even realize how great he was.
check out les paul,surprisingly glen campbell and especially Roy Clark as far as that style is concerned.
still,great list

 

[BlueMidnight]

wow.I read your list and expected to look over to the age and see someone like my age...lol
Ive played now 29 yrs,and appreciate that list.
not the hugest Page fan(but he is so original).and never really understood the Clapton/Guitar God thingy...looool
but where ya made me really smile was Chet Atkins.not many people i play with around my age even realize how great he was.
check out les paul,surprisingly glen campbell and especially Roy Clark as far as that style is concerned.
still,great list

Made me smile

Yeah, Chet Atkins. My grandfather, who is an amazing guitar player, and probably about the biggest Chet Atkins fan in the world had me listen to some of his stuff, and the man was just amazing. Chet was just so good, he was beyond most anything I could imagine. And very different than the other country players of his time. The tendency to use higher notes, jazzy little runs that nobody else, for the most part, seemed to really be doing. Functioning on a very different level than most, cause at that point, a lot of the country guitar guys were just rythym players with a few extra tricks, where with Chet, almost everything he played was a real showpiece. And his fingerpicking was incredible. As for those other artists, I'll definately look into them, thanks for the recommend

 

[monkeypsycho62]

John Petrucci, Michael Romeo, Buckethead, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert...........

 

[monkeypsycho62]

Oh, and I am VERY disappointed that I haven't seen Buckethead more on these lists.

He is a freaking guitar god. He can play ANY genre flawlessly, from funk to metal to jazz to rock to bluegrass to anything else, and can both shred your socks off and play with the most emotion I've ever heard. He is amazing.

 

[PattyOfurniture]

Oh, and I am VERY disappointed that I haven't seen Buckethead more on these lists.

He is a freaking guitar god. He can play ANY genre flawlessly, from funk to metal to jazz to rock to bluegrass to anything else, and can both shred your socks off and play with the most emotion I've ever heard. He is amazing.

I dont like the phrase Guitar God,only because growing up I heard that phrase and Eric Clapton always in the same sentence...lol
who is Buckethead,what group?

 

[Greatcloud]

Jimi Page
Alex Lifeson
Jeff Beck
SRV
Gary Moore
George Thoragood
Chuck Berry
Muddy Waters
Steven Stills
Michael Bloomfield

Heres 10 blues/rock/folk

 

[Christian Soldier]

Sabicas!

"The finest technique around has got to be Sabicas, the Flamenco player,"

--Chet Atkins
Guitar Player Magazine, March 1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2VROY01EAg

 

[marduke]

Gilmour is very very good,good choice 'kiwi'

JUST KIDDING!(about the kiwi thingy)...looooool
GBU

glad your kidding as im far from a kiwi... im all Aussie!

thought id add Albert Lee to my list. not a fan of country, but his playing blows me away!
and Steve Morse amazing guitar player, very original.

 

[rdonovan1]

On the Heavy Metal side Randy Rhoads is rumored to have been the best in the world and from what I know about him and his relationship with Ozzy Osbourne it is his death that put Ozzy over the edge in the early 80's and according to all of the reports that I have heard Ozzy never would have made it through the whole thing if it were not for his wife Sharon Osbourne.

 

[SparkyMaddie]

lorena garay
Segovia
and
kenny wayne shepherd

 

[Spiritinthesky]

Both Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck for me.

 

[trentlogain2]

I really enjoy listening to Phil Keaggy.

 

[david13]

John mayer, stevie ray vaughan and Jimmi

 

[~Love4ever~]

Stuart Garrard~Delirious?, one of the best in the world

 

[marduke]

ill add Guthrie Govan to my list

 

[jim_bob1961]

SRV (all time, saw him live in pittsburgh 10 times), Satriani (just saw him again in Nov), Alvin Lee, Robert Cray (pure blues fav, check out "Strong Persuader"), not much into country but saw this guy Brian Lonbeck play in Bakersfield (fantastic), and finally my 15 yo son, Rob (he could smoke me on guitar at 13 )

 

[jim_bob1961]

How could I forget Michael Hedges, yikes!

 

[cynth]

Satch

 

[GuitarHero4Christ]

Jimmy Paige, Van Halen, there my favorites as of now..but it changes quite often.

 

[marduke]

Andy James