Your Five Favorite Guitarists

danny gatton was amazing. I knew him off and on for many years after first seeing him with buddy Emmons and redneck jazz. really nice guy too.

 

Steve Lukather, Brian May, and The Edge are my top three. The rest of the list down is completely subjective on my mood.

 

Martin Simpson
Ollie Halsall
Richard Thompson
Jeff Pevar
Jerry Garcia

 

David Gilmour
Pete Townshend
Lindsey Buckingham
Steve Howe
Terry Kath

 

@Sordel also put richard thompson. I wasn't familar with him so I did the google. I came across this, which he wrote in response to his place in the (then) most current Top 100 guitarists Rolling Stone poll:



Rolling Stone, the popular music and related arts and culture magazine, dropped 50 places in Richard Thompson's annual assessment of periodical publications. When asked to comment on the sudden decrease in popularity, Thompson said, "It was a close-run thing for number 68, but I thought Cheese Gourmet Monthly just edged it for their terrific piece on Blue Wensleydale in the August issue. I placed RS above Woman's Realm, which has had some fairly insipid knitting patterns lately." Rolling Stone were unavailable for comment.

 

Lifeson
Gilmour
Fripp
Beatles (cheating, but still... )
The Edge

 

1) D
2) A
3) V
4) I
5) D

 

Leo Kottke
Nick Drake
Steve Howe
Richard Thompson
Jimi Hendrix

 

Ritchie Blackmore
Robert Fripp
Tommy Bolin
Jimi Hendrix
Robbie Blunt

 

TERRY KATH (pictured)
CHET ATKINS
GEORGE HARRISON
JOHN TROPEA
EARL KLUGH

 

Top 25 Favorite Guitar Players

There's my top 25.

For those with a short attention span:

Top 5

Frank Marino
Uli Jon Roth
Michael Schenker
Eddie Van Halen
Eric Johnson

 

Only five?
Jeff Beck
David Gilmour
Ritchie Blackmore
Jimmy Page
Buddy Guy
So hard! Depending on the day and my mood, I could list any of about twenty other guitarists in my top five!

 

Jimi Hendrix
George Harrison
Sylvain Luc
Carlos Santana
Bireli Lagrene

 

I learned of that wonderful display of guitar prowess called The Humbler from Amos Garrett, who lived down the highway.

You knew at Great Gatton! How wonderful!

 

Martin Simpson
Rory Gallagher
John Fahey
Stefan Grossman
B. B. King
But tomorrow it'll be...........

 

Nice to see so many mentions of Steve Hackett

Jeff Beck
R Blackmore
Steve Hackett
Jimmy Page
Fripp

 

Eddie Van Halen
Gary Moore
Brian James (Damned, Lords Of The New Church)
Geordie (Killing Joke)
Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)

 

Hendrix
Page
Blackmore
Rory Gallagher
Buck Dharma

 

EVH
SRV
Mick Taylor
Ace Frehley
Tony Iommi

 

Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jerry Garcia
Jimi Hendrix
Mike Bloomfield

 

Ronnie Montrose
Django Reinhardt
Jerry Garcia
Alex Lifeson
Tony Iommi

 

Hah !!!! You just have to love Richard.

 

The correct answer to the OP's original question is :

Richard Thompson (of course....)
Robin Trower
Michael Bloomfield
Jorma Kaukonen
Manuel Barrueco (or his pupil Franco Platino).

 

saw danny many times. many people don't know that jack casady of Jefferson airplane and hot tuna fame played with danny in Washington d.c. when they were young. they got together for a show in the late 80's that I attended. I was at a show of danny's at a club in nyc and jack was there. I asked him what he was doing there and he told me about growing up in d.c.

 

Steve Howe
John Petrucci
Michael Schenker
Tony Bourge
Guthrie Govan