Name your top 3 guitarists

Blaendulais

Hmm
1 James Dean Bradfield
2 Michael Schenker 
3 Richey Manic. A guitar antihero

koneguitarist

Been rethinking mine, I love certain guitarists yet I must admit the guys that have definitely influenced and shaped my playing are the following 3. 
1 Dave Edmunds
2 Robbie Robertson
3 Rick Parfitt 

usedtobe

Jack_ said:

Holy bump, Batman.

How do you even find a 3 year dormant thread on this forum!?

Search function..

Xsmnmy

Sterling Morrisom
John lee hooker
Johnny Ramone

CHRISB50

usedtobe said:

Jack_ said:

Holy bump, Batman.

How do you even find a 3 year dormant thread on this forum!?

Intense boredom

FTFY

AustrianJohn

1. Gilmour
2. Clapton (Cream era)
3. Akkeman (Focus + early solo work, more recent stuff is lift music)

markblack

Jason Isbell
John Squire 
Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National)

Freebird

John Frusciante



Mick Jones



J Mascis

Placidcasual79

impmann said:

I've rewritten this *A LOT*... today it is mostly...

Gilmour

Nels Cline

Graham Coxon

But that may change by the time I've sent this...

Nels Cline - such an underrated guitar player

Placidcasual79

I am going to go -


Eddie Hazel

Steve Cropper

Peter Tosh

Dan86

Gary Moore
Slash
Joe Satriani

NotNowJohn

Brian May
David Gilmour
Prince

mburekenge

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MagicPigDetective

BintyTwanger77 said:

1. Johnny Marr

2. Nick McCabe

3. Bernard Butler

(and if I was allowed a 4th, Graham Coxon...very close between him and BB, for me).

@BintyTwanger77 .......nice......when I was 15/16 and started playing  these were amongst my top guitarists of the time, along with several other 'indie' guitarists such as Andy Bell, Mark Gardner, Martin Carr, John Squire of course..... However, attempting to play or work out their songs proved very difficult form basic blues/pentatonic skills.......... you really need to know your chords and the major/minor scales......... it was much easier when grunge came along! 25 years later I think I'm ready to go back and tackle the songs of this period. The first two Suede albums, Modern Life is Rubbish, A Storm In Heaven... incredible and inventive playing on these. Johnny Marr tho.......... so hard to play the Smiths. 

Moss

markblack said:

Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National)

Agreed

Also:
Kevin Shields
Thurston Moore

Strat54

Yesterday: Chuck Prophet, Doyle Bramhall, Jimmie Vaughan
Today: Robben Ford, David Grissom, Danny Gatton.
Tomorrow: Jim Campilongo, Allen Hinds, Redd Volkaert
............

BloodEagle

Jeff Hanneman (Slayer)
Gregg Ginn (Black Flag)
Jimi Hendrix

Exorcist

Hanneman was close to my top 3, I brought Iommi on from the bench at the last minute though. Hanneman was a savage live R.I.P.

vale

john mcgeoch.
manuela rickers.
nick zinner & oliver ackermann joint third (& because i'm 2 laze to decide)

BluesyDave

Matt Schofield
Oz Noy
Robben Ford