Favorite Guitarists Of All Time

Dimebag Darrell best ever!

zak wylde is in the discussion as well

Me,,,Jerry Garcia,,,and my friend the guitar player.

Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Steve Vai,

There's this guy named Billy McLaughlin - played right handed then got focal dystonia, then retaught himself how to play left handed. His story is pretty inspiring: http://www.billymclaughlin.com/

I will go with Ron Jarzombek. He is not human, that's for sure and Muhammed Suiçmez from Necrophagist

Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Warren Haynes

Jimmy Hendrix.

I'd say dead so far my favorites would be:

SRV & Jimi

I know it's cliche and it's obvious, but I'm a sucker for phrasing and melody. I'm not really into just shredding on scale patterns and playing as fast as possible. I like John Petrucci and Steve Vai, and Malmsteen, and the list goes on and on, but to me to be the BEST means something different than it does to the next guy.

I appreciate downright ridiculous phrasing and I think that's what both of these guys brought to the table. Some speedy parts, but for the most part it's the groove, it jams, it makes you want to keep listening, not keep practicing.

As far as alive....

Clapton
Joe Bonamassa - hasn't even recieved a mention on here.....damn that's cold. I think he's one of these guys that can still put together a melody instead of just slamming licks together that don't really lead the ears.

So obviously I'm a blues head...not big on metal or any of that really obnoxious fast stuff. SUCKER for melody.

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JIMI HENDRIX WILL FOREVER REMAIN THE LEFT-HANDED KING.. his life was cut short but look at the impact he made 30+ years later
it was prolly hendrix who made YOUR favorite guitarist pick up the guitar in the first place lol

Couldnt agree with you more Zilla!

Avatar says it all. Forever missed and Always Loved...The one the Only...Mr. Dimebag Darrell

Mike McCready of Pearl Jam to name one... I don't believe I saw in the list of the 9 pages I looked through, but I didn't look at every damn page...this thread is thick!

Angus Young all the way.
Self-taught, he uses his own scale. Like a pentatonic but with an extra note. It took me years to work out.

Alright...No clues for ya guys...guess your gonna just have to guess it out...

Guitarist players mine favourite are :
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Randy Rhoads
3. Dave Mustaine
4. Gary Moore

cues said:

Angus Young all the way.
Self-taught, he uses his own scale. Like a pentatonic but with an extra note. It took me years to work out.

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it clearly is angus young, cause hes the only one thats been in a band since the age of thirteen, that is still the biggest band in the wolrd 40years later, beat those stats,

dont get me wrong, hendrix changed music forever, n eric clapton, cool for a white guy,

angus clearly may stick to a scale, but the shear number of songs created, and what he does in that scale, is unique,

stop arguing the award for worlds best guitarist goes to Angus young.

i honestly think "dimebag derrell" isn't that great..

steve Howe

There are some extremely talented guitar players, ones that when other guitar players are asked who is really good, surprise people like us and mention someone we would not expect, and those guitarists aren't getting much, if any, mention. Usually it's because of the style of music they play or the era they are/were from, but when it comes to pure talent, many of the players that have been listed so far would mention these players if asked who is good.

B.B. King
Chuck Berry
Albert King
Freddie King
Les Paul
Bo Diddley
Billy Gibbons
John Lee Hooker
Steve Cropper
Stephen Stills
Muddy Waters
Albert Collins
Robbie Robertson
Dickey Betts
Johnny Winter
Robbie Krieger
Lou Reed
Dave Davies
Alex Lifeson


All better than most here would rank them, or guess where to rank them if they don't even know who the heck they are. All made Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time, a good number of them in the top 50.

The voters for the top 100 were:

Trey Anastasio, Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Brian Bell (Weezer), Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple), Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket), James Burton, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Gary Clark Jr., Billy Corgan, Steve Cropper, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Anthony DeCurtis (Contributing editor, Rolling Stone), Tom DeLonge (Blink-182), Rick Derringer, Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Melissa Etheridge, Don Felder (The Eagles), David Fricke (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), Peter Guralnick (Author), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes), Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band), Brian Hiatt (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Lenny Kravitz, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Jon Landau (Manager), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Nils Lofgren (The E Street Band), Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Brian May, Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Scotty Moore, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Tom Morello, Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Brendan O’Brien (Producer), Joe Perry, Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Robbie Robertson, Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes), Carlos Santana, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Marnie Stern, Stephen Stills, Andy Summers, Mick Taylor, Susan Tedeschi, Vieux Farka Touré, Derek Trucks, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Nancy Wilson (Heart)

Sort of like I said above. When you ask some of the very best who they believe are the very best, you will get a number of replies that would surprise many who hear or read them.