Your Five Favorite Guitarists

In no particular order:

Vernon Reid
Robert Fripp
Jimi Hendrix
Frank Zappa
Reeves Gabrels

 

Geordie Walker
Daniel Ash
Steve Albini
Robert Fripp
Blixa Bargeld

 

Can't edit now but for some reason I wrote Steve Harrison when
it should be Steve Harris!

As a die hard Maiden fan that shouldn't have happened. I'm so sorry but I guess I wasn't thinking clearly.

 

In no particular order, the first five that came to mind ...

Joe Walsh
Pete Townshend
Glen Campbell
Jeff Baxter
Tom Scholz

 

This is a toughy. I didn't want to think about it too long, preferring to see what popped off the top of my head:

Jimi Hendrix
Otis Rush
Guitar Slim
Eric Clapton
Freddie King

So hard. Honorable mention to Duane Allman, Peter Green, Mike Bloomfield, Michael Hampton (P-Funk), T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy (especially on Hoodoo Man Blues) and Wayne Bennett (Bobby Bland).

 

Gary Duncan doesn't really belong. He was just as much a lead guitarist as Cipollina. Duncan even played some of the lead on Cipollina showcase Cobra.

 

SRV

Kenny Burrell

Grant Green

EVH

Marc Knopfler

 

Pretty standard list.

Neil Young
David Gilmore
Jimmy Page
Tommy Iommi
Jimmy Hendrix

My single favorite guitar performance is Lou Reed's playing on the VU's "I Heard Her Call My Name".

 

Jimi Hendrix
David Gilmour
Uli Jon Roth
Brian May
Pete Townshend

 

JEFF BECK
PETER GREEN
DEREK TRUCKS
BILL FRISELL
A tie - DJANGO, AMOS GARRETT(!), DICKEY/DUANE, HENDRIX, BLACKMORE, FRIPP, GARCIA, CARLOS, CIPOLLINA, WES, PASS, BUCHANAN, GATTON, JAMES BURTON, COODER, JANSCH/RENBORN, KOTTKE, HEDGES, SRV, ALBERT/BB/FREDDIE KING, EDDIE HAZEL, RICHARD THOMPSON ...
Boy did I cheat ... and there are more, many, many more.

 

I admire too many to narrow it to a top five. Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix are my two favorites, but after that, I love the playing and work by a number of players.

 

It ain't easy.
I started with good intentions and leaving some out I managed to narrow it down to 30.

 

Hendrix
Prince
SRV
Townshend
Magic Sam

 

Jeff Beck... then classical guitarists:
David Russell
Andreas von Wangenheim
Enno Voorhorst
Jozsef Eotvos

 

Howard and Nancy (HEART)
Phil and Steve (DEF LEPPARD)
John Norum (EUROPE)

Sweden's Kee Marcello was excellent.

 

Agreed. After Beck and Hendrix, the list gets long: John McLaughlin, Eric Clapton Peter Green, Michael Bloomfield, Albert Collins, Freddie King, BB King, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Tommy Bolin, Al Di Meola, Rory Gallagher, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, George Lynch, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Jerry Garcia, Mick Ronson, Mick Taylor, Wes Montgomery, Danny Gatton, Roy Buchannan, Brian May, Lindsey Buckingham, John 5, Allan Holdsworth, Paul Kossoff, Clarence White, James Calvin Wisley, Mark Knopfler, etc., etc., etc....

 

Ritchie Blackmore
Tommy Bolin
Tony Iommi
Robert Fripp
Ace Frehley

 

Jimi Hendrix
Duane Allman
Trey Anastasio
Jerry Garcia
Warren Haynes

... I like jamming.

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Billy Gibbons
Robbie Krieger
George Harrison
Jimmy Page

 

These are five of my favs...

Keith Richards
Pete Townshend
John Fogerty
Neil Young
Eric Clapton

 

George Harrison
Pete Townshend
Eric Clapton
Ace Frehley
Rick Nielsen

Honorable Mentions:

Michael Nesmith
David Gilmore
Mick Ronson
Scotty Moore
Buddy Holly

 

Grady Martin, James Burton

 

At the moment
Rory Gallagher
Frank Marino
Gary Moore
Uli Jon Roth
Allan Holdsworth

 

So true.Cipollina had a looks.
But Gary Duncan was a guitar,really.

 

Duane Allman
Eric Clapton
David Gilmore
Derek Trucks
Joe Bonamassa