Who's the cleanest electric guitar player you've heard

[sojourner]

I would love to see some examples of 'clean' guitar playing. Electric guitar players who can play fast and COMPLEX licks cleanly like a knife through butter.

Here are my top 15 so far (in no particular order):

-Rick Graham: Rick Graham Shredding - YouTube
-Allan Holdsworth
-Derek Taylor: Derek Taylor - YouTube
-Frank Gambale: Frank -Gambale playing the Rattletrap solo with VI. - YouTube
-Guthrie Govan
-Shawn Lane
-Paul Gilbert
-Marshall Harrison: Marshall Harrison 05 Lesson Part 1 - YouTube
-John McLaughlin
-George Bellas: Master Guitarist George Bellas Improvises Guitar Solos At HESSFEST - YouTube
-Jason Richardson: Lost Not Forgotten Crazy double up - YouTube
-Martin Miller: Monster Lick (Martin Miller) - YouTube
-Chris Impelliteri: 17th Century Chicken Pickin' - YouTube
-Al Di Meola: Al di Meola - Race with Devil on Spanish Highway - YouTube
-Andreas Oberg: Fast Guitar Solo (2005) Andreas Oberg - YouTube

 

[Spectre 1]

Eric Johnson

 

[TIMEwaveXERO]

Mark Knopfler ? Maybe. Not the fastest but yeah

 

[Speedos]

I'd say Andy James , amazing guitarist and amazing clean technique

 

[MrPepperoniNipples]

I'd say Andy James , amazing guitarist and amazing clean technique

Super clean and impeccable micro-timing, every note is dead on

Andy James is like the real life Skwisgaar Skwigelf

 

[Jogeta]

Emil Werstler.

 

[slapnutz]

Andy James and George Bellas. (more people need to hear George Bellas)

 

[Dana]

Vito bratta

 

[shanejohnson02]

Feodor Dosumov from Impact Fuze. Wow.

 

[Kwirk]

 

[canuck brian]

Easily Shawn Lane.

Thanks for mentioning Derek Taylor! Love that guy's work in Crimeny!!

 

[rapterr15]

Marco Sfogli deserves a mention.

 

[xwmucradiox]

Chris Arp from Psyopus is on point with all the crazy trem manipulation and tapping stuff he does.

 

[Xiphos68]

Just watch...

 

[bouVIP]

Josh Middleton is butter smooth.

 

[Andromalia]

I'm putting my vote on Dave Murray.

 

[JouniK86]

That Andy James really was something. :| Thanks for the tip!

My vote goes divided to Frank Gambale, Allan Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan and Shawn Lane. Each of them dominate their respective styles when it comes to cleanliness and polished sound.

 

[Mikebai]

When John McLaughlin was good he was far from clean.

 

[VBCheeseGrater]

Mark Knopfler ? Maybe. Not the fastest but yeah

Was going to say that too. His playing just sounds clean to me. Sultans of Swing, etc...

 

[cwhitey2]

Chris Arp from Psyopus is on point with all the crazy trem manipulation and tapping stuff he does.

He lives near me (like down the block) and played a show the other 10 min from house I can attest to his awesome clean playing. The time signatures he has going on and the stop and go...along with just random riffs thrown in blew me away, especially seeing it live....and with his amp making the most god awful squeal I have ever heard an amp make.