Who is your favourite guitarist?

edre-v · 2008-08-26T21:37:27+00:00

Hi I thought it be interesting to see who everyones favourite guitarist.

Who is your favourite guitarist?

StormBeast

I would have to concur with Jason Becker, one of my all time favourite guitarists.
Also, Marty Friedman, for his work with Megadeth and with Jason Becker in Cacophony.

henrebotha

Matt Bellamy is one of my favourite guitarists at the moment.

Though I'm not a huge Opeth fan at all, I like Mikael Akerfeldt's playing a lot.

...yeah, I'm not so big on the player as on the playing. ?

Lieutenat-J

3 at the moment

1) Slash
2) John Petrucci
3) Steve Vai
:applause:

doc-phil

Reinhardt Matthysen wrote: Kriss norris is one of my favourate, he plays in "Darkest Hour". And Oli Herbert from "All That Remains".

Kris Norris is also one of my favourites, too bad he has left Darkest Hour ☹

Here is my list of some of my favourites (in no order):

Synester Gates (Avenged Sevenfold)
Dimebag Darrel...RIP (Pantera)
Kris Norris (formerly Darkest Hour)
Nick Hipa (As I Lay Dying)
Paul Waggoner (Between The Buried And Me)
Mark Tremonti (Alter Bridge)
Mike Mushok (Staind)

Werner77

Hi,

Steve Vai
Tommy Emmanuel(fingerstyle guitar)
doyle dykes
Michael Hedges
Kirk Hammet

SA:
dan patlansky
steve newman

Theres lots More but could think of those for now,

Cheer
Werner

inflames

I will have to go with:

Alexi Laiho - Children Of Bodom
Herman Li - Dragonforce

So much style with all that speed!

Keira-WitherKay

my favourite all time guitarist must be paco di lucia .... although i have a long long list of incredible players.... but you asked for favourite.... so yeah paco is my favourite...can listen to him all day

peace and light
Keira

Byron

I dig John 5 . Any of you guys like him? I love how he mixes styles and stuff

I also like that Will Adler guy from Lamb Of god.

Micheal Amott! Arch Enemy
The Dimebag ( Rock In Peace )

others others others

doc-phil

I like some of John 5's stuff, i'm not into his freaky make up tho ???

And Will Adler is a beast on guitar!! But Mark Morton is better ? Definitely one of my favourites

Tragedy-Wire

Joe Satriani
Jimi Hendrix
Astennu Lead Guitarist of Dimmu Borgir
Me
Myself
I

hehe no particular order though :applause:

Dirk

What about Steve Lukather. Richie Sambora also rocks! And the ofcourse there's the classic guys like Eric, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray(the Boss), Jimi, van Halen..

To many to mention..

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TOMMY EMMANUEL!!!!! ?

Ray

Keira WitherKay wrote: my favourite all time guitarist must be paco di lucia .... although i have a long long list of incredible players.... but you asked for favourite.... so yeah paco is my favourite...can listen to him all day

OK, so I've got an album of his from years back - Siroco (summin like that). I like it but it scares me a bit because I am bitten by this nylon thing and this guy is seriously capable at what he does. But tell me plse, suggested Paco listening. Also, other artists that do same sort of thing.

deanBailey

inflames wrote: ...Herman Li - Dragonforce...So much style with all that speed!

I...agree...fully ?

AlanRatcliffe

Ray wrote: OK, so I've got an album of his from years back - Siroco (summin like that). I like it but it scares me a bit because I am bitten by this nylon thing and this guy is seriously capable at what he does. But tell me plse, suggested Paco listening.

Almoraima (1976), Castro Marin (1981), Siroco (1988) and Luzia (1998)

Also, other artists that do same sort of thing.

Gerardo Nuñez, Cañizares, Tomatito, and Vicente Amigo.

Riaan-Combrink

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Also, other artists that do same sort of thing.
Gerardo Nuñez, Cañizares, Tomatito, and Vicente Amigo.

I believe Tomatito's next album is called: You say Tomatito, I say Tomatato. OK, that's just plain bad. I'll go work now ... :-[

aubs1

Re: Who is your favourite guitarist?
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One of the best is Tuck Andress, Check it out[/quote]

Is this Tuck from the duo "Tuck and Patti"? I have one of their albums somewhere, he plays acoustic on there .....absolutely brilliant!

I have many famous favourites, but will not bore anyone with that list.........A virtually unknown would feature HIGH on that list....
FUNTWO...... a little Korean kid... take a listen if you have not heard of him..... here goes....

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Hard to argue with most names on here, and everyone knows all the big names already, but a relatively unknown guy I rate quite highly is Jim Mankey (who once, I think, played with the Mael brothers in Sparks, and then went on to do most of his work with Concrete Blonde). Great feel; plays for the song; I like his style.

Squonk

@ Stratisfear

What good stuff has Jim Mankey done. I actually bought some Sparks singles long years ago.

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I should also list Bernard Butler, whose work with Suede on their first two albums was great (and I don't think he's been mentioned here up till now). It's weird that I should admire two heavy whammy users so much when I prefer playing straight hardtails...but there you go.

@Squonk

I actually haven't heard anything Jim would've done with Sparks (I think, like with the early Yardbirds, he was relegated to bass by internal politics, like Page was), but I first came across a few Concrete Blonde tracks from some old surfing videos I had, and i loved his work. If you can, check out a few songs like: Over your shoulder; God is a bullet; Help me; Scene of a perfect crime...