Top 5 favorite guitar duos

[Given To Fly]

The Assad Brothers
The following is the Tango Suite by Astor Piazzolla. Be forewarned, the video and audio quality is really bad, its also over 30 years old. If you want to jump to 2:20 that is where the tempo becomes lively. The video is also out of sync with the audio so what you see and what you hear are two different things. This was done in 1 take, no editing, and none of it is improvised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llxil-PuRf0

 

[rokket2005]

Billy Corgan/James Iha -Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Howerdel/ Troy Van Leeuwen -A Perfect Circle
Dallas Green/Wade MacNeil -Alexisonfire
Peter Wichers/Ola Frenning -Soilwork
Richard Z/Paul Landers -Rammstein

 

[axxessdenied]

Vai / Townsend - sex & religion
Friedman / becker
Poland / mustaine

 

[Jlang]

Besides all of the ones mentioned already.
Sucimez/Munzner - Necrophagist

 

[onefingersweep]

My top five has already been mentioned in this thread.

I think it's a little bit sad that we can't include keyboardists also beacuse there's plenty of great guitar/keyboard-duos. Some bands only have one guitarist and one keyboardist instead of a second guitarist.

A few examples would be:

Deep Purple
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Yngwie Malmsteen
Derek Sherinian (has worked with many great guitarists)

 

[J7string]

I don't want to repeat any, but I have to put John Haughm and Don Anderson of Agalloch in here.

 

[MUTANTOID]

I'm shocked nobody has mentioned Deftones. Although they are not really a guitar duo Chino and Stephen can meld two of the most differing guitar styles into an amalgamation of beauty.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Plenty I agree with on here for sure, such great taste the members of SS.Org have

Would add:
Perry & Whitford from Aerosmith
LaRocque & Denner (On KD's Abigail)
Rich Robinson & Marc Ford - Black Crowes
Rudolf Schenker & Matthias Jabs - Scorpions (personally I prefer a certain Mr M Schenker with UFO but equally the Schenker bros were pretty amazing together!)

 

[vilk]

Chuck / Andy LaRocque (Individual Thought Patterns)

Dave / Marty

Sanders / Toler-wade

Alex Skolnic / Chris Poland (on the song Ashes Of The Wake)


um... that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I might update with a 5th pair later.

 

[Kwert]

Friedman/Mustaine
Schuldiner/LaRocque
Azagthoth/Rutan
Tipton/Downing
Smith/Murray


These are the 5 that come to mind immediately so I'll go with that.

 

[TheStig1214]

Brent Hinds/Bill Kelliher - Mastodon
Tosin Abasi/Javier Reyes - Animals as Leaders
Robert Fripp/Adrian Belew - King Crimson
Josh Homme/Troy Van Leeuwen - Queens of the Stone Age
Chris Letchford/Travid LeVrier - Scale The Summit

Honorable Mentions to Thordendal/Hagstrom (Meshuggah), Akerfeldt/Akesson (Opeth), Hoskin/Millar (Protest the Hero), White/Benson (The Raconteurs) and Mansoor/Bowen/Holcom (Periphery, even though they are a trio, or quad with Nolly on recording).

 

[Kwert]

Brent Hinds/Bill Kelliher - Mastodon
Tosin Abasi/Javier Reyes - Animals as Leaders
Robert Fripp/Adrian Belew - King Crimson
Josh Homme/Troy Van Leeuwen - Queens of the Stone Age
Chris Letchford/Travid LeVrier - Scale The Summit

Honorable Mentions to Thordendal/Hagstrom (Meshuggah), Akerfeldt/Akesson (Opeth), Hoskin/Millar (Protest the Hero), White/Benson (The Raconteurs) and Mansoor/Bowen/Holcom (Periphery, even though they are a trio, or quad with Nolly on recording).

Oh damn, how could I forget Fripp/Belew...

 

[TheStig1214]

Oh damn, how could I forget Fripp/Belew...

So obscure, yet so obvious. "Discipline" (both album and song) remains one of the most mindblowingly tight dual guitar pieces ever imo.

 

[NorCal_Val]

They've probably already been mentioned but...
Marty Friedman & Jason Becker
Paul Gilbert & Bruce Bouillet
Head & Munky
Brett Stine & Eddie Head(Hajis Kitchen)
Dave Murray & Adrian Smith

 

[inhuman666]

Hoffman brothers
Hobbs/Cerrito
Downing/Tipton
Smith/Murray
Mustaine/Friedman