Post your top 10 favorite Guitar Players
kala
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1.Charlie Christian2.Grant Green3.Allan Holdsworth4.Django5.Hendrix6.Jeff Beck7.Fripp8.Zappa9.Eddie Van Halen[pre hagar only]10.Uli Jon Roth
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Paco de Lucia
John McLaughlin
Jimmy Page
Steve Howe
Grant Green
DJango Reinhardt
Terry Kath
Eddie Hazel
Jeff Beck
Django
Ravi Shankar
Paco De Lucia
Michael Karoli
Leo Nocentelli
Tony Iommi
Kenny Burrell
John Mclaughlin
Hendrix
Howard Roberts
Eddie Hazel
Nick Drake
Robert Fripp
Slash
Larry Coryell
Carlos Santana
Makoto Kawabata
George Harrison
Jimmy Nolen
Omar Rodriguez
- spidey
2. Eric Schenkman (Spin Doctors)
3. Lindsey Buckingham
4. Jimmy Page
5. Alex Lifeson
6. Eddie Van Halen
7. Cream era Clapton
8. Neil Schon
9. Andy Summers
10.Uli Roth (fo sho!)
Or Stevie Ray Vaughan.
- spidey
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Fripp
John Mclaughlin
Phil Upchurch
Grant Green
Django
Eddie Hazel
Ry Cooder
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Robert Johnson
Zappa
John Cipollina
Steve Cropper
Jimmy Page
Eric Clapton (CREAM era)
Freddie Greene
Clarence White
Keith Rowe
Willie Nelson
Ali Farke Toure
Patti Smith
Ernie Isley
Chris Spedding
Fred Frith
that absolutely need inclusion:
Tiny Grimes[/b]!!!
Johnny Jones
Paul Burlison
James Burton[/b]!!!
Kerry King
Mickey Baker[/b]!!!
Charlie Christian
Grant Green
Django
Hendrix
Deniz Tek/Chris Masuak (tag teams)
Wayne Kramer/Sonic Smith (tag teams)
Brian Setzer
Jimmy Page
Ritchie Blackmore
George Harrison
Robbie Robertson
Keith Richards
Ron Ashton
Ross the Boss
Glen Buxton
Just the rockers today-top 12
Leslie West
Carlos Santana
Johnny Winter
Duane Allman
Freddy King
Roy Clark
Bo Diddley
Pat Hare
Jimi Hendrix
Pete Drake
Ernest Ranglin
Odetta
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Lynn Tait
Grant Green
Christian Fennesz
Lil Wayne
Jimi
Dr. Know
Greg Ginn
EVH
Prince
D. Boon
John McLaughlin
Jeff Beck
Robin Guthrie
Bucky Pope
Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction era only!)
I could make this list everyday for a year and have a different list every time, but Jimi, Dr. Know, and Ginn would always make the list.
sonny sharrock. "ask the ages" is a masterpiece.
Angus Young
Rikk Agnew
Luther Allison
Magic Sam
Rory Gallagher
Dr Know
Johnny Ramone
Scotty Moore
Kenny Burrell
Albert King
There are soooooooooo many more though!
Jazz Soul
Jazz Founders
Django Rienhardt
Freddie Green
Jazz Benson School
George Benson
Dominique Gaumont (Played with Miles Davis)
Stanley Jordan
Ernest Raglin (Ska guitarist and producers and long time Monty Alexander sideman)
Henry Young
Volker Kriegel
Jan Akkerman
John Mclaughlin
Jazz Pass School
Joe Pass
Charlie Hunter
Monnette Sudler
charlie byrd
Lenny Breau
Tal Farlow
Barney Kessel
Ron Afife (First I ever heard of this guy, I will have to check it)
Kenny Burrell
Howard Roberts
Jazz Avante Gard
Derek Baily
Sonny Sharrock
John Abercrombie
Nels Cline
Robert Fripp (really a rock guitarists, but Avante)
Buckethead
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
Raoul Bjorkenheim
Keith Rowe
Bill Frisell
Vernon Reid
John Scofield
James Blood Ulmer (bass)
Pre Hendrix Rock
Chuck Berry
duane eddie
Link Wray
Dick Dale
Bo Diddley
Danny Gatton
Cliff Gallup, Gene Vincent's guitar player
Post Hendrix Rock
Jimi Hendrix
PETE TOWNSHEND
Eric Clapton
Santana
brian may
andy summers
joey santiago
rivers cuomo
CC from Poison
Slash
Manuel G??ttsching
Johnny Marr
Jimmy Page
Ace Frehley
Lee Ranaldo
Thurston Moore
Eddie Van Halen
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
tom verlaine
kim thayil
Eddie Phillips
Bryn Hayworth
John Du Cann
Duncan Brown
steve vai
Joni Mitchell
Johnny Thunders
jeff beck
Tony Iommi
David Pajo
Neil Young
Lindsey Buckingham
Alex Lifeson
Tom Morello
Zak Wylde
Joe Satrianni
Michael Rother
FRANK ZAPPA
Dr Know[ Badbrains]
Mark RiBot
D BOON
JASON BECKER
ULI JON Roth
Caspar Brotzmann
Shawn Lane
tom verlaine
ron asheton (stooges)
andy gill (gang of four)
Fred Frith
Mick Abrahams
Duane Allman
Carlos Alomar
Tommy Bolin
Eddie Clarke
Kurt Cobain
Ry Cooder
John Frusciante
Rory Gallagher
Ollie Halsall
Page Hamilton
Michael Karoli
Terry Kath
Danny Kortchmar
Robert Quine
Keith Levene (PIL)
Andy Gill
SM (pavement)
alex lifeson
Paul Kossoff
Stephen Stills
Mick Ronson
Bryan Maclean (why didn't he do more of his own songs in Love)
David Crosby
Angus & Malcolm Young
Celtic Folk
Richard Thompson
Bert Jansch
davy graham
Mike Heron
Robin Williamson
Nick Drake (Maybe more of a roots rock, or folk rock)
John Martyn
Acoustic Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins
Robert Johnson
Son House
John Fahey
Blind Willie Johnson
Mississippi John Hurt
Electric Blues
Albert Collins
Freddy King
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Peter Green
Bonnie Raitt
Houndog Taylor
Howlin?? Wolf
Tony McPhee (Groundhogs)
Muddy Waters
Brazil
BADEN POWELL
TOQUINHO
AGUSTIN LUCENA
Luiz Bonfa
Emily Remler
Others
Les Paul (Championed the solid body guitar and sound on sound.)
Vinnie Bell
Leo Fender (amp maker, solid body bass inovator.)
Jim Marshall (Hendrix???s amp maker)
Kevin SHEILDS (I have no idea who this is, new rock noise?)
Mike HEDGES (Michael was a Windhimhill artists, finger style acoustic. Worked in many unusual tunings. Drove his car off the road.)
Roger Mayer (Created guitar effects for Beck, Clapton, Page and Hendrix)
Willie Nelson
Chet Atkins
Al Caiola
Jerry Reed (Pickin and a grinnin)
Sol Hoopii, Hawaiian Steel Badass (We sure could use more Hawaiian guitarists on this list, where is John Book?)
Beatles
george harrison
Paul McCartney
(No love from strutters to John Lennon I guess.
This is a great list.
I saw the Basie band toward the end of his life. It was in a ball room and every guitar player in Portland was pressed against the front of the stage at the feet of Freddie Greene. A lot of bands went on without their guitarist that night.
Willie Nelson is really original and creative and so out side the country box it's rediculis.
Fahey is all you need.
Well, unless you want to collect all the private sub-fahey records.
I also enjoy
Derek Bailey
Sonny Sharrock
Robbie Basho
Sandy Bull
Steve Cropper (Syd Barrett's fav)
Bola Sete
Bo Diddley
Most rock guitarist get boring.
Yes, he should be in my list. 10 for all genres is un-possible
Interesting list Laserwolf.
but..
Mclaughlin under jazz benson?
Buckethead under avante garde jazz?
Joni Mitchell under Post hendrix rock?
Leo Fender, Roger Mayer, Jim Marshall are non players.
-spidey
i think i saw him on one list?
yeesh.
oh, and just saw that sex pistols doc "the filth and the fury", so steve jones (who admittedly took a lot of johnny thunders riffs) should be on that list too. killer tone, and mos defnitly:
When he was starting to make a name for himself in the early 1990s, he played in Company '92 (with Derek bailey and John Zorn), released some pretty "out" recordings on *ahem* Bill Laswell and John Zorn's label, on his own, as well as with the band Praxis. Those were considered quite "avant garde"-ish rock for its day.
Of course...joining GNR is another story altogether.
I think Pete Cosey+Reggie Lucas deserve to be included in LaserWolf's list as well.
- spidey
Come to think of it, he's been playing the same licks over and over for the past decade, I think he IS butt rock.
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