Your Five Favorite Guitarists

Jonny Greenwood
Neil Young
J Mascis
Thurston Moore
Johnny Marr

 

Joe Walsh
Dr Know
Page
Angus Young
Joe Perry

 

Great list. Add EVH, Joe Walsh, Johnny Winters, Alvin Lee

 

Oooops. EVH made it.

 

Duane Allman
Mick Taylor
David Gilmour
Craig Chaquico
Jeff Beck

 

Kid Congo Powers
Greg Ginn
Peter Buck
Roger Miller

... but the best guitarist of all time is Ricky Wilson.

 

Jeff Beck



Rory Gallagher




Allan Holdsworth




Bill Nelson - Be Bop Deluxe



Neil Young

 

Hm, I've never thought about this before. I'll try to think of it in terms of guitar playing, sounds, and styles, and ignore songwriting. Let me give it a go...

George Harrison

John Squire

Jimi Hendrix

Joni Mitchell

Scotty Moore

 

Bill Nelson-Syd Barrett-Andy Gill-Nick Saloman-Jerry Reed

 

Order subject to change depending on mood:

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Richard Thompson
Edward Van Halen
Brian Setzer
Keith Richards

 

Nice. About as diverse as a list can get!

 

And thats just off the top of my head...so many others come to mind

 

Second 5 would include Billy Zoom, Keith Levene, Ward Dotson (didn’t do very much beyond Fire of Love but, what an incredible record), Eddie Janney

 

Eddie Hazel-John McGeoch-East Bay Ray-Mitch Easter-Steve Howe ....and on and on.....

 

Carl Perkins - Scotty was the first rockabilly guitarist but Carl was better
Jimi Hendrix
John McLaughlin
Richard Lloyd
Mdou Moctar

 

I like all the usual suspects but my favourites are probably not quite as obvious:

Steve Lukather:
He can play anything and he is a master at giving a song just what it needs. He can shred, he can solo, he can emote so well...phenomenal player.

Fridrik Karlsson
Icelandic guitar player best known as a founding member of the jazz-funk instrumentalists Mezzoforte. The Live In Reykjavik 2007 DVD really shows just how good he is - the studio recordings (especially pre-1996) don’t always do him justice in my opinion.

Derek Trucks
Just a genius - I’ve never heard him play the same thing twice. Midnight In Harlem solo alone is some of the best slide playing I’ve ever listened to.

Lindsey Buckingham
Similar to the way The Edge gets his own unique sound out of a guitar, this guy is a monster - mega-fast finger-picking drenched in delay creating these epic sound collages - best heard in his solo work.

Jeff Baxter
Another guy who is just total class. He just always comes up with the best parts and some of my favourite ever solos. His three solos on My Old School and his work on Living On the Faultline are incredible.

 

Phil Keaggy

Mike Campbell

Brian Setzer

Brian May

Ty Tabor

 

Top 5 honourable mention:

John Squire
William Reid
Bernard Butler
Bob Mould
Lindsey Buckingham

 

Mark Knopfler
David Gilmour
Reggie Young
Paco De Lucia
and Larry Carlton when he plays like this :

 

George Lynch
Eddie Van Halen
Johnny Marr
Steve Howe
Jimmy Page

 

Bernard butler
Graham Coxon
Grant Green
Jimmy Page
Glen Buxton

 

Based on the entirely subjective yardstick of my belief that I could listen to them play all day, I’d say Duane Allman, Santana, Neil Young, Hendrix, and Slash, with lots of honorable mentions.

 

Mark Knopfler

Neil Young

Kurt Cobain

John Frusciante

Jim Hall

 

Nels Cline
Clarence White
Pete Townshend
Lowell George
Keef.

Each had a style that was their own and didn’t fall victim to the usual ‘60-‘70s blues-rock pentatonic “guitar god” image.

 

Love the Scotty Moore choice. Don't see that often but I love it! Well played.