And who you think is the best guitar player ?
 

My votes goto :

Marty Friedman
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
John Petrucci
Steve Morse
Paul Gilbert
Jeorge Lynch

Stevie Ray Vaughn

John Petrucci !!

This men can play super Guitar ! :thumbsup :thumbsup

I also like Slash and Ace Frehely.

Ooops, can't forget Tiny Tim though :1orglaugh

http://www.cmgww.com/music/tim/images/timt002.jpg

Carlos Santana

Oooppss I forgot him .
He is great :thumbsup

That's the fucking scariest picture I have EVER seen on GFY. I'm not kidding either.

Including Manny The Freak?

Yes.

There's a slight resemblance. Anyone else see it?

The horror....the horror...

who is that :eek7

Michelangelo - The worlds fastest guitarist! He is a fucking nut.

I thought the fastest is Mr. Malmsteen :winkwink:

also - its hard to say who is the best.There are differencies between techniques/styles of each top quitar players.For example Gilmour from Pink Floyd is no top tech. player but his sound and touch of melody is execellent.
My the most favourite is Pat Metheny :thumbsup

Yngwie sucks.

Don't forget about Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen,,,,,,,:glugglug

Tom Scholtz -- Boston

Eddie Van Halen

Peter Frampton

Hendrix

Brian May



Bassists:


Michael Anthony

John Entwistle

Hands down.

PETER FRAMPTON

he is a jazz/rock quitar player - one of the best players in the world.Hard to talk about if you don't listen/understand this music:glugglug

Pat Metheny is definitely one of the most noted guitarists of all time for his type of music, most definitely.

Richie Sambora
:321GFY

no i am not into jazz .
But a great Fusion player is Frank Gambale .

I was just going to name those two :)

another great player was Alex Skolnick . Really fast and clear player from earlier days of Testament !

There are alot of them out there to pick the best since there are so many styles of playing.

For me personally, I love to listen to hendrix's live recordings. The man was just a genius for what he did with the tools that he had available at that time. But, I also listen to many other styles of music as well where the guitar isnt in the front and its just as funky

If you are a guitarist, check out as many people as you can and learn the riffs that catch your ear, they will all come back out in YOUR playing.

Manny Charlton (Nazareth) is worth a mention.


How about Nancy Wilson of Heart? Saw them in '81 at an outdoor fest, she was awesome.

what he said:thumbsup
Thats why I love jazz - is never the same

well said...
here is my list (in no particular order):
SRV
Angus Young
Eric Johnson
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Steve Morse
Jimi Hendrix

and we have a winner !

With out a doubt, Stevie Ray Vaughn was the best ever.

http://www.hardrockhotel.com/rock/me...ghn/vaughn.jpg

I'm going to add Rik Emmett from Triumph. That dude can play.

For technique:
Steve Morse
Eric Johnson
Paul Gilbert

For Feeling:
Brian May
Stevie Ray Vaughn

For volume:
Ted Nugent......The loudest fucking guitar player I have ever heard. 200 feet back you can hear his stage amps over the PA system.

Eddie Van Halen

Tommy Morello

There a quite a few you don't have on your list.

I do think becker was better than friedman.

Maybe alan holdsworth - sick fucker.

I have to agree.. i lived in Austin for 10 years and I seen this man take a whole audience and make them go silent with his fantastic guitar solo's..and he played with his back to the audience when really getting into his music. On occasion I have been in a Bar where the Fab thunderbirds would be playing and SRV would show up to "jam" with brother..got pics..some great memories in Austin..

Stevie also liked to order smoothies from the restaurant inside of whole foods where i worked....He is an icon in the Austin history. :thumbsup

Alan Holdsworth is the sickest fusion player I have ever heard, and one of Eddie Van Halen's influences.............:thumbsup

Does this include 'Air Guitar' ?

takin slash all the way too

Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits
Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughn
BB King
Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker
Jimmy Page from Zeppelin
Santana
Bonnie Raitt
the edge from U2 (his early stuff before they turned into pop stars)

The blues.... gotta be BB King.



More noted rockers....

Alex Lifeson (Rush)

Wanna talk loud? Pete Townshend.

Tommy Shaw (Styx, Damn Yankees)

i don't see andres segovia or christopher parkening on this thread, but they should be here. segovia was one of the grand old men of classical guitar, and i remember hearing christopher parkening in concert when i was a teenager and being inspired beyond measure even though at the time i hated classical anything - but he went beyond all that.

i love watching michaelangelo play - i have an instructional video of his (of all things) and it's a crack up to watch. my friends watch him and say "that's done by fast forwarding the video" *LOL* that mutha is FAST!

if you live in l.a., alan holdsworth does occasional free in store performances at carvin on sunset blvd.

if you love hard crunchy guitar, pat lachman from deiselmachine and halford is pretty fucking good http://aramis.dieselmachine.net/main.html

SRV, santana, hendix, lindsey buckingham(very fast fingers, no pick:) and Eddie van halen are up on my list

:glugglug

What about Prince?

And Eric Clapton?

:thumbsup

You can go into every town in America and find guys who can play like there is no tomorrow.

There is no best guitar player but a lot of greats


Hitinface

I'll add Al Dimeola to the list.

Stevie Ray Vaughn sounds like he sat in his room playing to Hendrix all day and all night when he was a kid.

Eric Johnson
Tim Reynolds

George Thorogood carved out his own niche, certainly deserves a mention here.

Joe Walsh

Joe Perry