Favorite players

[Steel and wood]

Originally Posted by BTF

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd (my Jedi Master)
Eddie Hazel (my Sith Lord), Glen Goins and Garry Shider of Funkadelic
Neil Young (my Yoda! )
Clarence White with The Byrds
Robert Fripp
Martin Barre of Jethro Tull
Dave Flett of Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Alessandro Alessandroni with Ennio Morricone
Bob Bain with Henry Mancini/Johnny Carson Band
Matthias Jabs of the Scorpions
Hubert Sumlin with Howlin Wolf
Keith Richards with Mick Taylor!

I too love the guitar soundscapes of Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Westerns.

[73171]

Shawn Lane -- a genius guitarist

...also played amazing classical piano....and bass, and drums.

[ocmcook]

doc watson and clarence white

[J Patrick]

....a few of my faves not yet mentioned...

Guthrie Trapp



Lyle Brewer



Redd Volkaert

[ElCamino]

Joe Bonamassa and John Mayer

[The Old Gaffer]

Originally Posted by The Old Gaffer

Derek Trucks
Warren Haynes
Jorma Kaukonen
Carlos Santana
David Hidalgo
Jimmy Herring
Steve Kimock
Jim Weider
George Benson
Bill Frisell

Maybe we could limit the discussion to those players that are still living. That's what I did in my response.

[redir]

Frank Zappa is probably my all time favorite on electric guitar. But there are so many. I like David Gilmore's elegant simplicity, The complexity of Robert Fripp, the fluidity of Jeff Beck, the powerful riff making magic of Iommi, the funky chops of Jimmy Nolan and so on and on and on and on...

[redir]

Originally Posted by ocmcook

doc watson and clarence white

???huh??? I'd have loved to see Doc on electric but I'm not sure it ever happened.

[Steel and wood]

James Calvin Wilsey is the most "expressive" guitar player on my list. (An original member of Chris Isaak's backing band Silvertone, providing sublime guitar tones (Stratocaster mainly) to complement Isaak's voice).

The man inspired me in part to learn guitar and own a Stratocaster.

[pieterh]

In no particular order:

David Gilmour
Francis Dunnery
Gary Moore
Alex Lifeson
Mark Knopfler
Jeff Beck
Carlos Santana
The Edge (early years before the delay took over)
Albert Lee
James Burton

Plus many of the others mentioned above.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by BananasCentral

Keith Richards because he was never a very good guitarist and people know all the Stones songs LOL.
Sympathy for the Devil is a wonderful sing along song.

Same with Johnny (two tone) Cash.
His vocals were never very complex either.

Bob Marley, everyone can sing along.

For me it's more about rock/metal
Iommi (really Sabbath as my Ozzy is pretty good)
Hendrix
Clapton
Tull (electric and acoustic, vocals)
Iron Maiden
everything played on a classic rock channel except Zepplin (just way outta my range)

I'll not name names but many of the new guitarists are so easy to copy, the songs are SO easy.
That makes it simple to play more current songs that everyone likes (flavor of the week)
"It's worse than what douchebags did to the guitar !" Petter Griffin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooyPX1ciFqo

Adrian Smith and Dave Murray are the reason why I picked up the guitar in the '80s. They're still my favorite (Adrian first).

[Bikewer]

Mine have changed over the years. Never was an electric musician....Always a "roots" acoustic guy.
Had a brief flirtation with a solid-body back in the 80s, mostly for blues.
I liked:
Clapton
Knopfler
King (both BB and Albert)
Sundry other folks in the same vein.

Then I went back to acoustic until quite recently when I started playing fingerstyle jazz.

So now....
Joe Pass
Earl Klugh
Herb Ellis
And various other fingerstyle jazz guys.

[Hurricane Bob]

What about Jerrrrry?

[mtcross]

In no particular order:
Buddy Guy
BB King
Freddy King
Roy Buchanan
Duane Allman
Alvin Lee
Hubert Sumlin
Albert Collins
Jimi
Jimmy Page

And a zillion other guys and gals for one song or one lick...

[aknow]

Peter Green
Eric Johnson
Mark Knopfler
Jeff Beck
Danny Kirwan
Gabor Szabo
Robben Ford
Ted Greene
Paul Kossoff