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Joe Walsh
Robin Trower
Redd Volgaert
Mark Knofpler
Jerry Reed
Skunk Baxter
Billy Gibbons
Rick Vito
1. Dave Martin
2. Joe Satriani
3. Steve Vai
4. Synyster Gates
5. Paul Gilbert
Johnny Winter
Roy Buchanan
Rick Derringer
Jerry Donahue
Danny Gatton
Seek these men out on Youtube.
Joe Walsh
Robin Trower
Redd Volgaert
Mark Knofpler
Jerry Reed
Skunk Baxter
Billy Gibbons
Rick Vito
kinda like this list
ok...i guess this can be my first submission to the board-pleasure to be here...been enjoying the site for a long time and finally joined
here's my top five in no particular order:
Jerry Garcia
Johnny Greenwood
Trey Anastasio
Nels Cline
Andrés Segovia
this list changes almost daily but these are the guys who have been making my hear weep note after note lately
plus...i'm just spouting off my opinion here, but kurt cobain, bradley nowell and kurt hammet are terrible guitar players!!!
also, just my opinion here again, but how can people listen to guys like buckethead and yngvie(sp???) malmstein(sp??) and all those other wanking musical masterbators who seem like they play a million notes a second to offset their small penis'??
way to offend everyone on your first post vince!!
i hope no one took anything too seriously
Welcome to the Chordie forum bittermusicsnob! Great first post - no need to be shy around here, tell us how you really feel 
I agree with your sentiments regarding the musical masterbators - that said, the fact that I own an old red convertible muscle car does not necessarily reflect in any way the size of my manhood. LOL
ok...i guess this can be my first submission to the board-pleasure to be here...been enjoying the site for a long time and finally joined
here's my top five in no particular order:Jerry Garcia
Johnny Greenwood
Trey Anastasio
Nels Cline
Andrés Segoviathis list changes almost daily but these are the guys who have been making my hear weep note after note lately
plus...i'm just spouting off my opinion here, but kurt cobain, bradley nowell and kurt hammet are terrible guitar players!!!
also, just my opinion here again, but how can people listen to guys like buckethead and yngvie(sp???) malmstein(sp??) and all those other wanking musical masterbators who seem like they play a million notes a second to offset their small penis'??
way to offend everyone on your first post vince!!
i hope no one took anything too seriously
Great Choices...I love the way Trey Anastasio just jams! Segovia is a study in true mastery of the instrument! Yngvie? He's just a technician with no espression or feeling...self absorbed ego...I think you pegged it right! jg
Clapton
Jeff Beck
Carlos Santana
Joe Walsh
Hendrix
In no particular order except for Clapton as numero uno. I guess I'm showing my age.
Can't argue with that list at all baron - we must be about the same age 
Welcome to Chordie!
1.JIMI PAIGE
2.ANGUS YOUNG
3.Eddie Van Halen
4.Slash
5.Hendrix
Can't argue with that list at all baron - we must be about the same age
Welcome to Chordie!
ditto...
just 5 ? Impossible task.
I'll try.
My favorites, in no particular order....
Frank Zappa
Carlos Santana
David Gilmour
Toy Caldwell
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Terry Kath ....go ahead and laugh,he was a monster player!!
I know , that's six. Could'nt cut a favorites list down any further.
And then there's Jimi Hendrix,Buddy Guy, Ali Farka Toure, Duane Allman, Dicky Betts? sure why not, Leo Kottke, Chet Atkins, George Cromarty, Tommy Emmanuel, Rainer Ptcek, B. B. King, Scotty Moore, Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton( the Yardbird gang) Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard,Tom Verlaine , Richard Lloyd, Dick Dale, Nels Cline, Brad Rice,Mick Ronson,Steve Hunter, Eric Johnson, Danny Morris, Robert Quinne , Albert King, Alan Holdsworth, Johnny Winter, Billy Gibbons, Freddie King, Anson Funderburgh, Charlie Christian, Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Peter Green, Ry Cooder, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, David Grissom, Joe Bonamassa (who at twelve it was said " Plays the Blues like he's had women " to quote a local player), Michael Hedges, John Mc Laughlin, Paco de Lucia, Al Dimeola, Mark Knopfler, Mick Ralphs, Andres Segovia, Jim Hall, George Benson, and on and on for pages and pages.
There have been thousands of great players.
Right now , there are hundreds more, playing alone.
They will never be heard of outside a small circle of friends. And they would smoke anybody that any of us have listed.
1. Mark Knopfler
2. Keith Richards (Stones)
3. Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi)
4. Angus Young (AC/DC)
5. Klaus "Major" Heuser (BAP)
You're rightt... it can't be narrowed down. After reading some of these lists, I said "Damn, forgot Stevie Ray, or Johnny Winter, or Bloomfield, or B.B., or....
I give up, they're all great; it just depends on what you're in the mood for.
There are so many...can't narrow it down anymore...just got back from the Dallas guitar show last weekend and saw some phenomenal players... Will Ray, Doyle Dykes (acoustic), Michael Ault (with Paul Reed Smith), Bugs Henderson, David Grissom, Johnny Hiland, and Johnny A...all are tremdous players... One note of interest...Yngwie Malsteen played a set on the Fender Stage and many people walked back inside...about two or three minutes of his furious shredding and ego was a turn-off!
1. Slash
2. Ray Toro
3. Kirk Hammet
4. Tony Iommi
5. Billie Joe Armstrong
1-Hendrix
2-Gilmour
3-Knoffler
4-Paige
5-Sungha Junga
Well, this guy, now, too.
Scotty Anderson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_0F_UeoAUc
Well...
1. Hank B. Marvin. The first time I heard 'Apache', I was hooked
2. Duane Eddy. Gotta love that 'twang'
3. Brian Setzer. 'Nuff said
4. Chet Atkins
5. Colin Pryce-Jones. Who?...Lead guitarist of a London Band called 'The Rapiers'...and an old friend of mine.
All the best,
Phil
Man NOBODY put Eric Johnson. Cliffs of Dover is a MASTERPIECE
lets see...
1. Jack White - The reason i play the guitar.
2. Jimi Hendrix - No explanation necessary.
3. Bob Marley - Probably the greatest songwriter that ever lived.
4. Nels Cline - He can shred without being a shredder.
5. Jimmy Page - If you don't know this name, put your guitar down. Now.
6. Frank Zappa - If the fact he was a total weirdo wasn't enough, he can actually play circles around , well, pretty much everyone.
And of course, i can't ever forget:
Ben Harper
Jimmy Stagerd
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Iasac Brock
Lightnin Hopkins
Keb Mo'
John Lee Hooker
John Mayer
and god knows who i'm forgetting...
alvin lee
dick dale
page
rory gallagher
bb king.
Rory Gallagher? That's not that sort dude who used to smash watermellons with a huge mallet is it?
Slash
Kirk Hammet
James Hetfield
Eric Johnson
Eddie Van Halen
This will show my age but you guys all need tohave a serious listen to Buchanan and Gallagher. My twenty year old son was blown away.
No particular order:
Gilmour
Hendrix
SRV
Roy Buchanan
Rory Gallagher
Interesting: 4 of the 5 are entertaining upstairs, May their memories last forever!
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