Top 3 favorite guitarists?

[Blytheryn]

1. Alexi Laiho
2. Dimebag
3. The dude from Dissection

Honorable mention to Doyle from the Misfits.

 

[oc616]

1: Dino Cazares. Don't care about his skill level, he will always be THE father figure of how I play guitar.

2: Devin Townsend. If only for his ability to make nonsense sound sensible.

3: Stephen Carpenter. Big. ....ing. Riffs.

 

[Random3]

Impossible to pick 3.

Gun to my head if I had to pick my personal favourites:

Steve Vai
John Petrucci
Joe Satriani

But really I could rotate any of these in as well:

Guthrie Govan, Paul Gilbert, Dimebag, Tosin Abasi, Luke Hoskin, Devin Townsend, Paul Waggonner, Alexi Laiho...

 

[DownTuner]

My top 3, not in any particular order:

Steve Vai
Paul Gilbert
John Petrucci

Some honorable mentions: Per Nilsson, Marco Sfogli, Guhtrie Govan, Shawn Lane, Joe Satriani, Jason Richardson, Marty Friedman and lots of others, not even gonna write down everyone because no one wants to read a list that long.

 

[Mprinsje]

tough choice this.

James Hetfield
Jim Root
Kurt Ballou

 

[Carvinkook]

Iommi - The Godfather
Jerry Cantrell
Alex Skolnick

 

[RUSH_Of_Excitement]

John Petrucci
Synyster Gates
Adrian Smith

 

[posmaster]

Alex Lifeson
John Petrucci
Jeff Beck

 

[Reverend Chug]

1. James Hetfield
2. Jeff Loomis
3. Dimebag

 

[Pablo]

1) Ritchie Blackmore - my first and to this day biggest inspiration - "Rising" is all you need to know!
2) John Petrucci - from the early '90's until the release of Octavarium, JP ruled my world!
3) Shawn Lane - IMHO one of the most jaw dropping MUSICIANS of all time. I still get the chills whenever I put on "Two Doors" by Jeff Sipe...

 

[gunch]

Vogg
Luc Lemay
Marlon Friday

 

[extendedsolo]

Steve Vai
Marty Friedman
Tosin Abasi.

Really is genre specific.

 

[Floppystrings]

Hizaki
David Gilmore
Björn Gelotte

 

[Forkface]

hmm hard to come up with an answer but

Govan
Gilbert
and probably Paul Waggoner
...
yeah im going with that, final answer.

 

[Possessed]

Dave Mustaine
Yngwie Malmsteen
Gary Moore

I even put these three guys in the acknowledgement of my PhD thesis lol

 

[M3CHK1LLA]

hetfield

hammett

phil collen (not to be confused with phil collins)

 

[works0fheart]

Vogg
Luc Lemay
Marlon Friday

Anyways, it's really hard for me to pick just 3, but I'll go ahead and name some that quickly come to mind.

1. Mike Gilbert
2. Ryan Knight
3. Jonas Bryssling

 

[Louis Cypher]

Too many to choose but todays favourites are all old school:

- Van Halen
- Randy Rhoads
- George Lynch

 

[OmegaSlayer]

Jason Becker
Guthrie Govan
.






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Kiko Loureiro

 

[theFraz]

James Hetfield
Slash
Josh Homme