my 3 favourite guitar players are....

guitarmangler

Allan holdsworth
Django
David Gilmour

Honourable mention:
Hendrix
David Williams
Nile Rodgers

noisepolluter

Rory Gallagher

Neil Young

Richard Thompson

Honourable mentions:

Jimmy Page

Joe Walsh

Joni Mitchell

and probably loads of others...

ESchap

Kenny Burrell

Steve Howe

David Gilmour

Honourable Mentions

Clapton

Hendrix

Grant Green

Phil_aka_Pip

3 is not enough. I have a list of favourite players as long as your arm. Who exactly is my favourite can be judged from whose album is on my stereo. Recently its been Bill Nelson

jimmyguitar

Peter Green
Nels Cline
Eric Clapton

a blues rock sandwich with an alt rock filling

bluechargeboy

A pleasing number of Nuno fans here. :-bd

fretfinder

Clapton, Gilmour, Page and I'm lucky enough to have seen them all play live - Pagey at Earls Court in 1975, Gilmour on the original Wall tour twice, and Clappo several times at RAH.

Honourable mentions to SRV, Hendrix, Mick Ralphs, Neil Young, Mick Ronson, Jeff Beck.

VimFuego

Richard Thompson

Knopfler

Greenie.

viz

1) Steve Vai
2) Ritchie Blackmore
2) Al di Meola
3) Eddie van Halen.

OilCityPickups

Such a hard choice ... but if it was put to me that I could just listen to three guitarists for the rest of my days ...

Albert Collins

Albert King

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Honorable mentions to Hendrix, Wilko and Michael Shenker

stimpsonslostson

I'm keeping it to guitarists I've seen play and been blown away by:

Slash: one foot on the monitor, LP on his thigh, playing Sweet Child... 

James Hetfield: Best rhythm player in rock? I certainly think so!

Synyster Gates: Technical & melodic solos, played at facemelting speed... often in perfect synchronization with Zacky- jaw dropping.

brojangles

Johnny Marr, Neil Young, Nile Rodgers.

BilliBob

Alex Lifeson
Peter Frampton
Eric Clapton

wayneirie

Steve Cropper, Nick McCabe, John Squire

meltedbuzzbox

Graham Coxon

Django Reinhart 

Wes Montgomery

littlethoughts

Frank Zappa

Marnie Stern

Jim Campilongo

All for very different reasons.

siraxeman

Brian May
Eddie Van Halen
Gary Moore

But only cos you force me to choose 3.. There's loads more...Luke Morley and Satriani would be right up there to.

Samgb

Jimmy Page - childhood all-time hero. For the tunes, the shapes, the variety of playing, the mythology of Zeppelin, the sound of those records... fantastic.

Robbie Robertson - grown up guitar idol and i can not believe im the first to mention him! Great great songwriter and the epitome of tasteful playing. Play less and make it count.

Bert Jansch - my all time acoustic guy. Saw him twice in his latter years and he was still tremendous 

 

 

Samgb

3 is torture because im thinking of all my guys ive had to leave out

Neil

Jimi (obviously)

Clapton

Peter Green

I've seen the last two.