Your Five Favorite Guitarists

I worked very hard at pairing this list down; I was not very successful at keeping to 5... but as my word is my bond I did try. The following could not be ignored. In no particular order.

James Burton
Jeff Beck
Jim Hall
Earl Hooker
Rory Gallagher
Steve Cropper
Bill Frisell
Tommy Emanuel
Hubert Sumlin
Danny Gatton
Baden Powell
Greg Leisz
Neil Young and Old Black

 

Not going with technical ability, but lead guitar in classic songs.

So ..Eric Clapton :While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Ritchie Blackmore: Black Night

Todd Rundgren: Black &White

Link Wray - Rumble

Jimi Hendrx - All Along The Watchtower.

 

Jeff Beck
Steve Howe
Robert Fripp
John McLaughlin

The one, the only Allan Holdsworth

 

Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ritchie Blackmore
Adrian Smith
John Sykes

 

Pete Townshend
Davey Johnstone
Dave Davies
Wally Bryson
Neil Young

 

Okay, i'm cheatin....but here are The Manificent Seven:

Rory Gallagher
Duane Allman
Dickey Betts
Derek Trucks
Warren Haynes
Jimi Hendrix
Gary Moore

(which would be followed by Eric Clapton and David Gilmour )

 

Will Sargent
Terry Bickers
Daniel Ash
John McGeoch
Tom Verlaine

and Robert Fripp

 

I'm adding from a different part of the world Sabicas and El Nino Miguel to my list and calling it a night.

 

Eric Clapton
Jerry Garcia
Freddie King
Albert King
B.B. King

 

Michael Schenker
Jeff Beck
Adrian Smith
Chris DeGarmo
Ronnie Montrose

 

Other than Lennon, I have no idea who they are

 

Jimi Hendrix
Rory Gallagher
Peter Green
Eric Clapton
Ronnie Earl

 

Jeff Beck
Ritchie Blackmore
Tony Iommi
Freddie King
Andy Summers

 

in no order

Al Nichol
Brian May
George Harrison
Barry Gibb
Roger Hodgson

 

Bloody hell how can I have missed Link Wray!

 

In no order, currently they are

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Dave Davies
David Gilmour
Maybelle Carter
Jimi Hendrix

 

If only Five that would be a changing/rotating list for me.

Today I'll select: Ernie Isley, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, David Gilmore and Larry Carlton.

 

Todd is a killer guitarist!

 

Ian Anderson is a phenomenal acoustic guitarist, almost always overlooked when discussing acoustic players.

 

Bill Nelson
Geordie Walker (Killing Joke)

Thats it.

 

Todd is God.

 

Oops!

Photo 1 is of course, John, followed by Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine), Johnny Ramone (Ramones) and Izzy Stradlin/Slash (Guns N' Roses).

The majority -- save Ramone (mid-Seventies) -- came to prominence years after Lennon's death. All are (or in the cases of Cobain and Ramone, "were") players in the rock/punk/alternative vein and, while stylistically varied, in my opinion share(d) the same exciting, rebellious sensibilities as Mr. Lennon.

 

Today it's

Tom Verlaine
Bob Mould
Thurston Moore
Lee Ranaldo
Joey Santiago

and a host of others for a different day

Great to see Rory Gallagher getting lots of luv.

 

Like those choices because, regardless of how "technically" difficult the parts were to play, all of them had a sound crucial to their band's overall sound.