Who are your favorite guitarists?

[ExousRulez]

Chuck fucking schuldiner!

 

[Rock4ever]

Het
Pet
Satch
Akerfeldt
Dave Mustaine
Devin Townsend
Dave Matthews
Warren Haynes
Slash
Dave Murray
Al Pitrelli
Zakk Wylde
Adam Jones
Some dude in Blind Guardian.. I dont know who plays what in that band

Of youtube fame Keith Merrow and Ola Englund

 

[Mordacain]

My shortlist:

• David Gilmour
• John Petrucci
• Mark Knopfler
• Rory Gallagher
• Jeff Beck
• Guthrie Govan (is new to my personal list, but I dig anyone that shreds that I don't find completely boring)

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

At the moment:

Tymon from Exivious
Holdsworth
Greg Howe
Dude from Haarp Machine

 

[TRENCHLORD]

Hoffmans from Deicide were probably my biggest influence towards my current (and seemingly un-evolving, lol) style.

 

[Kaos-G]

David Gilmour
Joe Satriani
John Petrucci
Jimi Hendrix
Mark Knopfler
Matt Bellamy
Steven Wilson
Wes Borland
Frank Zappa
Paul Gilbert
James Hetfield
Chris Broderick

 

[Cabinet]

I think I have to redo mine.
Allan Holdsworth
Shawn Lane
Dominic Frasca
Tosin Abasi
Guthrie Govan

EDIT: I forgot Scott Henderson! Shit!

 

[Force]

Victor Smolski
Adrian Smith
Kee Marcello
Joe Satriani
Henjo Richter
Kiko Loureiro
Jeff Waters
Jani Liimatainen
Steve Vai
Zakk Wylde
Alex Lifeson
Phil Collen
Andy LaRoque

So many more................

 

[mpb]

George Lynch
Marty Friedman
Joe Satriani
Criss Oliva
Tony Macalpine
Per Nilsson
Paul Gilbert
Dave Mustaine

 

[FatKol]

Tosin Abasi
Javier Reyes
Acle Kahney
Mikael Akerfeldt
John Petrucci
Chris Letchford
Allan Holdsworth
Tymon Kruidenier
Paul Masvidal
John Browne
Paul Antonio Ortiz
Fredrik Thordendal

There are maaany more... but those are the most important ones (especially Javier and Tosin ).

 

[uptheweight]

its nice to see Tosin getting his due...not only is he an amazing guitarist, hes the NICEST dude!...my old band played with his old band Reflux a couple times...that dude is extremely humble and kind....if you ever get a chance to meet him, you will like him even more

 

[brutalwizard]

ME
I
THIS guy
ECT

 

[Slunk Dragon]

Buckethead
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Eddie Van Halen
Tosin Abasi
John Petrucci
Devin Townsend
Matthew Bellamy

 

[s4tch]

I'm surprised Andy Timmons isn't on here

This.

Tasty as hell. He's the man.

Runner-ups: Nuno, Satriani, Friedman, Skolnick!!!, Guthrie, Sfogli, EVH, Petrucci, Russ Parrish (Satchel), Pete Lesperance, Eddie Head, Jeff Beck, George Lynch, and so on. Not to forget some great jazz/fusion players: Gambale, Holdsworth, Garsed, Scofield, Scott Henderson, Bireli, DiMeola, etc.

And yes, I have to admit that I like Yngwie actually.