Name your top 3 guitarists

frankus

Barbaloot Kendra McKnee.
Leopold Mttambuni, The Arch Duke of Quunge.
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HAL9000

Obviously I've got too much time on my hands. If anyone's interested Lord David of Gilmour is currently in first place, and Hendrix and Page are joint second.

EricTheWeary

frankus said:

Leopold Mttambuni, The Arch Duke of Quunge.

I have his first album, he was much better then before he went all commercial.

bertie

depends what day it is

JackGriffiths

Jeff Beck & Guthrie Govan take joint top spot. Third place changes every day. 

SimonC

As of today:

Andy Timmons  -  I thought his Sgt Pepper album was a bit cheesy at first, but it's actually genius.

Michael Schenker - If I could listen to only one album for eternity, it would be Strangers in the Night

Steve Clark - one of the most creative and underrated guitarists to come out of the old NWOBHM. Def Leppard are just a cabaret band after he died.

Nunogilberto

Brian May
Nuno Bettencourt
Paul Gilbert

fandango

In no particular order ...

Robert Cray
Tommy Emmanuel
Hubert Sumlin

But honourable mentions to:

Duane Allman
Chuck Berry
Dave Gilmour


But it's hard hard hard to choose a top three, as best guitarist doesn't necessarily mean greatest musician. It's the same when choosing your all time best football team. Would have been a whole lot easier 50 years ago.

Jack_

Holy bump, Batman.

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

guitars4you

SRV
Robben Ford
Then a close shout between R Gallagher and Jeff Beck

but could easily add another 50 with Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell pushing for that 3rd spot and Brian Setzer making a strong charge to get in the play offs

Barney

1 Dave Gilmour

2 Allan Holdsworth

3 Chris Caine

Teetonetal

Richard Thompson
Richie sambora
Ben howard

Exorcist

Jimi Hendrix
Lesley West (Mountain Era)
Iommi 

3rd was really hard!!

thebreeze

JJ Cale
Mark Knopfler
Chet Atkins

(Jerry Garcia) It's a Friendly so you are allowed subs.

StanleyAccrington

1)Me......2)Jeff Beck.....3)Jerry Garcia.

guitars4you

Has anyone mentioned Glen Campbell - Brent Mason - Vince Gill - Brad Paisley - James Burton and Merle Travis - At a quick glance I saw no mention - Shows how strong this market is in the USA and how little of it travels over here

stimpsonslostson

Old school: Page. I considered Hendrix, but Page if only for his riffs! 

New school: Gates & Vengeance- both blindingly good players & I think it's unfair to separate them. 

Wild card: Trucks. Tasteful & tuneful. I play a fair amount of slide, Trucks shows how it SHOULD sound. 

olafgarten

It's tough to pick just 3 but if I class by quality as a whole rather than just raw talent it would be

1) Stephen Stills - Just watch this, not much else to say.


2) Neil Young - A lot of people don't like Neil Young, but he just has this amazing agressive style to playing. It sounds chaotic at times but the melody is still clear.


3) Jack White - This song was written in ten minutes, and sounds great.

chromatuna

Gosh, difficult to settle on three but here goes...

Jerry Garcia
Jimi Hendrix
Richard Thompson

Bucket

I really don't know, I change my mind every five minutes but as of right now:

Mateus Asato
Gary Moore
Ginger Wildheart

Mateus because he's probably my single biggest influence as a guitarist at the minute, Gary because he's always been my main influence and one of my favourite players, and is one of the main reasons I started playing, and Ginger because he's written so many of my favourite songs and a boatload of incredible riffs, and is also a great and underrated guitarist with a massive sound.