Favourite 5 guitarists?

[Kwert]

Tough one, but the five that come to mind for me right now are...

Guthrie
Andre Olbrich from Blind Guardian
McLaughlin
Robert Fripp/Adrian Belew (I had to group these two together since they complement each other so well)
Dan Mongrain from Martyr

Of course there are many more that are awesome/important to me but these five spring to mind with little thought.

 

[leftnotright]

no order

BILL STEER
IRON MAIDEN GUYS ADRIAN/DAVE
TONY IOMMI
JEFF HANNEMAN
JERRY CANTRELL

 

[larry]

damn, I have a lot of favorite guitarists. this might be easier for me to answer if I thought of it in terms of who's abilities I'd want, since my choices would be final. in order to prevent getting bored, I'd need to be able to pull-off anything I could imagine or hear. SO --if I could effectively assimilate the abilities of 5 guitarists under my own influence matrix-style, they would be:

-jeff loomis: metal aesthetic
-norman brown: improve, theory, harmony and jazz chops
-joe braccio: over 40 years of classical guitar and the guy can sight-read music like it was his first language
-gianni serino: clean technique, excellent slap chops
-chris broderick: to reinforce metal, classical & theory chops with a modern aesthetic plus his two-handed stuff which i like a lot.

I'm not necessarily all about speed, even though all those guys are machines in their own right. however, it's something i severely lack along with other things like; advanced theory, fret-board mastery, improve/comping, understanding of the harmonic series.. basically everything imo, that is essential but somehow beyond my attention span when attempting to become advanced .
with all that under my belt, i could eek out a decent living playing guitar & bass all day over multiple income streams while having a fantastic time.

i think.

 

[Universe74]

Jakub Zytecki
Martin Miller
Govan
Page
Vai

 

[imnotnollynollynolly]

Paul Gilbert
Friedman
The dudes from Protest the Hero
The guys from Periphery
Jimmy Page

Edit - not sure why I didn't put EVH. I was thinking of bands I listened to most and just listed their guitar players, even though I listen to Van Halen a lot.

 

[Mik3D23]

I'm pretty sure there's other threads on this already but oh well.

No order, I guess mine would be:

Ihsahn
Jari Maenpaa
Muhammed Suicmez
Chuck Schuldiner is a given
Karl Sanders
Steffen Kummerer
Christian Muenzner
Paul Masvidal
Daniel Gildenlow, maybe not as a guitarist but as a composer in general

Picking favorites is hard for me

 

[rokket2005]

In no particular order

Billy Corgan
Tom Quayle
Billy Howerdel
Nuno Bettencourt
Steven Wilson

Honorable mentions go to:
Richard Z
Steve Lukather
Christophe Godin
Michael Hedges

Tough question for me really. If you asked me who my favorite bass player is though, no question, Tony Levin.

 

[FretsOnFyre]

Changes fairly often, but here (in no particular order):
John Petrucci
Tosin Abasi
Mark Holcomb
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai

Honorable mentions: Mark Tremonti, Devin Townsend, Adam Jones, Buckethead

 

[FreighTTrain]

Jeff Loomis..
John Butler..
Jason Becker..
Norman Blake..
James Hetfield..

 

[Necris]

I can't come up with any.
When it comes to music I enjoy I don't really care about the individual player, per se, so unless I really like the band I'm largely unaware of their members names/what they play.

 

[BillPark]

Chris Brodrick
Per Nilsson
Misha Mansoor
Andy James
and some frakkin Andy McKee for good measure!

 

[jokerpanda]

aaron marshall
lucas d'angelo
jake bowen
keith merrow
ola englund

in no particular order

 

[HexaneLake]

Paul Ortiz (Chimp Spanner)
Plini
Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders)
Josh Martin (Little Tybee)
Scott Carstairs (Fallujah)




...eeeaAAARGHHH ONE MORE/srry

Michael Keene (The Faceless)

 

[Joose]

Drop (Sybreed)
Travis Montgomery (Threat Signal/Nociceptor)
Clint Lowery/John Connolly (Sevendust; sorry, one goes with the other)
Misha Mansoor (Like I have to say it)
Mircea Eftemie (Mnemic/Blood Eagle)

 

[Mischief]

In no specific order:

Will Swan (Dance Gavin Dance. Regardless of where you like their music, he's an amazing guitarist)
Dave Knudson (Minus The Bear, former guitarist of Botch)
Sam Halliday (Two Door Cinema Club, even when his leads aren't complicated, they stand out, and he has some solid tones.)
Mathieu Pascal (Gorod)
Keith Merrow
Ola Englund (Feared, other bands that you can Google to learn about)
Jeff Loomis (Nevermoooore)


And Lil Wayne

 

[source field]

Scott Henderson
John Mayer
George Benson
Guthrie Govan
Alex Hutchings

 

[Defrost]

Allan Holdsworth
Wayne Krantz
Tosin Abasi
Michael Landau
Tom Qualye

 

[Pweaks]

Stephen Carpenter
Mark Holcomb
Javier Reyes
Guthrie Govan
Jason Becker

 

[HoneyNut]

Guthrie Govan
Michael Amott (not his band though)
Vai/Satriani
Stevie Ray Vaughn

 

[guitareben]

Steve Vai
Guthrie Govan
George Benson
Joe Pass
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Honorable mentions:

Robben Ford
Brent Mason
Pat Metheny