Tell us 5 guitar players you like the most

[Unknown Doodl3.2]

Chuck Schuldiner
Daniel Mongrain
Fredrik Thordendal
Alex Skolnick
Steve Vai

Honorable mentions to Bob Vigna and Trey Azagthoth

 

[Arteriorrhexis]

Tosin Abasi
Trent Hafdahl
Steve Jones
Paul Masvidal
Steve Whitworth

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

In no particular order

Allan Holdsworth
Adam Jones
Fredrik Thordendal
Jeff Loomis

and of course...


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Mikael Akerfeldt!!!!

 

[MFB]

Guitar players with instrumental songs.

1 - Guthrie Govan
2 - Mattias "IA" Eklundh
3 - Jeff Loomis
4 - Chris Letchford
5 - John Petrucci

 

[zimbloth]

Drakkar: Fallon Bowman? Really? The girl who was in Kittie for one album then was never heard from again?

Anyways, I'm not much of a instrumental music fan, but I'll list some of my other favorites in no particular order:

Christopher Amott
Jeff Loomis
Karl Sanders
Matt Bellamy
Tony Iommi

 

[gdbjr21]

Jeff Loomis
David Gilmour
Buckethead
Randy Rhodes
Paul Gilbert

 

[adaman]

In any order:
Mats Haugen
John Petrucci
Mikael Akerfeldt
Pat O' Brien
Steve Vai

 

[awesomeaustin]

for non-instrumentalist:

Jason Mendonca
Chuck Schuldiner
Buz McGrath
Devin Townsend
Jean-Francois Dagenais

 

[yingmin]

Drakkar: Fallon Bowman? Really? The girl who was in Kittie for one album then was never heard from again?

I'm having a really hard time determining whether his entire list was sarcastic.

 

[Rashputin]

John Petrucci
Joe Satriani
Marco Sfogli
Guthrie Govan
Bulb

 

[hypermagic]

Sebastien Chaput
Scot Hull
Paul Masvidal
Greg Kubacki
Joe Haley

 

[BrainArt]

In this order:
Vai
Gilbert
Buckethead
Petrucci
Satch.

 

[hufschmid]

Steve Vai
Karim Pandolfo
Jona Nido
Michael Angelo Batio
Pacco DeLucia

 

[CrushingAnvil]

Oh 8Fingers, you're so mature not picking Malmsteen. Yeah well he'd look like a bit of a fagnozzle if he just got up and started playing wanky progressive shred with his volume knob turned down wouldn't he?...

Mike Davis

Trey Azagthoth

Rob Barrett

Edward Van Halen

Jon Levasseur

 

[Joeywilson]

at the moment its:

Tosin Abasi
Mischa Mansoor
Jason Becker
Josh Travis [<---very recent addition]
Guthrie Govan

I should mention dimebag because hes the guy who made me want to be a good guitarist

 

[suffo20]

Paul Gilbert
Jason Becker
James Murphy
SRV
Marshall Harrison

 

[darbdavys]

John Petrucci
Jeff Loomis
Tosin Abasi
Devin Townsend
Mikael Akerfeldt

 

[Anthony]

Tosin Abasi
Michael Keene
Christian Muenzer
Per Nilsson
Fredrik Thordendal

 

[keeper006]

Buckethead
Steve Howe
Paul Gillbert
John 5
Allan Holdsworth

 

[Unknown Doodl3.2]

Oh 8Fingers, you're so mature not picking Malmsteen. Yeah well he'd look like a bit of a fagnozzle if he just got up and started playing wanky progressive shred with his volume knob turned down wouldn't he?...

Mike Davis

Trey Azagthoth

Rob Barrett

Edward Van Halen

Jon Levasseur

I approve of this list