favouruite guitarists

[healdie]

Guitars have been mentioned somewhere so think we should start a discussion on them, so list your faves i'll start

Rory Gallagher
Peter Green
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Frank Zappa
Kieth Richards
Eric Clapton

[db05]

my 1st guitar teacher
my other guitar teacher
Kaori Muraji
Jamie Andreas
Kyle Hicks "Kole"
db05     

[elspeth]

Antonio Forcionne

[thalbergmad]

Hendrix - Rock
Sergovia - Classical
B B King - da blooz
Django - Jazz

[berrt]

Hendrix - Rock
Sergovia - Classical
B B King - da blooz
Django - Jazz

Nice to see another hendrix-fan survive 

B

[thalbergmad]

I am almost old enough to have "been" there

[minor9th]

Rock/Metal:
Jimi Hendrix (saw him too!)
Ritchie Blackmore
Trey Azagthoth

Classical:
Eliot Fisk
Kazuhito Yamashita
Jorge Caballero
Frank Bungarten
Antonio de Innocentis
Hubert Kappel
Remi Boucher
Wolfgang Lendle
Paul Galbraith

[healdie]

ah yes ritchie blackmore one of the first guitarists to combine classical music into his songs some of his solos are very Barouqe influenced,

I never really got what all the fuss was about with Jimi Hendrix i (personally) think that there were much better guitarists arounds at the time

[cherub_rocker1979]

Jimi Hendrix
Billy Corgan
James Iha
Jake E. Lee
Slash
Michael Schenker
David Gilmour
Dave Mustaine
Marty Friedman
Trey Azagthoth
Dimebag Darrell

[minor9th]

ah yes ritchie blackmore one of the first guitarists to combine classical music into his songs some of his solos are very Barouqe influenced,

I never really got what all the fuss was about with Jimi Hendrix i (personally) think that there were much better guitarists arounds at the time

Jimi was not such a mind-blowing technical player, although he was remarkably clean overall, but he was such a revolutionary and turned the guitar into an expressionistic instrument. He could coax sounds and emotions out of it that no one has equaled, although there are plenty of players who can play more difficult licks and more notes per second, which is not necessarily a measure of a "better" guitarist.

[lucylucy]

HENDRIX ROCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKS
Pete townshend
and the guitarist of the band "the scorpions"
 

[rc]

I've gotta give another vote for Django, what a style!

I used to dig the guitarring of Donald Roeser from Blue Oyster Cult.  Tasteful!

and the guitarist of the band "the scorpions"
 

Michael Schenker

[healdie]

Jimi was not such a mind-blowing technical player, although he was remarkably clean overall, but he was such a revolutionary and turned the guitar into an expressionistic instrument. He could coax sounds and emotions out of it that no one has equaled, although there are plenty of players who can play more difficult licks and more notes per second, which is not necessarily a measure of a "better" guitarist.

I was not saying he wasn't hugly influential, and i never said that his lack of speed was an issue i think Eric clapton and peter Green managed to coax the same amount of emotion from the instrument and they are not the most technical players out there

Even Eddie Van Halen said that he believed Eric clapton to be a better guitarist than Hendrix and B.B King said that Peter Green was the best in the world

[mad_max2024]

I think Elvis Costello is my favorite. But more as an overall musician than as solely a guitarist.

You seem to be forgetting guys like Brian May and Mark Knopfler, or doesn't anybody like them?
I don't know that many guitarists...

[healdie]

I do like Brian May his sound is so distinctive you coud pick him out of a room full of guitarists all playing at once, I think Queen were truely original band that will never be as good again as they were

[richard black]

What Thal said -

Hendrix - Rock
Segovia - Classical
B B King - da blooz
Django - Jazz