Who's your top 5 favourite guitarists.

tone1

Angus & Malcom Young
Gary Moore
John Mayer
Keith Richards
Billy Duffy 

But ask me tomorrow 

slacker

1 Blackmore
2 The Edge
3 Seasick Steve
4 Nile Rogers
5 George

and cos I feel guilty 6 Keef 7 Jimi

DrBob

Dave Gilmour
Jeff Beck
Kim Thayil
Tom Morello
Michael Casswell 

daveyh

Scott Holiday
Warren Haynes
Marc Ford
Allen Collins
Billy Gibbons

chris78

In no particular order and because of the passion they play with rather than necessarily being technically great:

John Frusciante
Mark Knopfler
Eric Clapton
George Harrison
Bruce Springsteen

I’m a bit pissed I couldn’t find room for Duane Allman though 

Barnezy

Frusciante 
Hendrix
Knopfler
Harrison
Clapton 

mrleon83

Devin townsend
slash
mark tremonti
wes borland
dude from incubus 

soma1975

chris78 said:

In no particular order and because of the passion they play with rather than necessarily being technically great:

John Frusciante
Mark Knopfler
Eric Clapton
George Harrison
Bruce Springsteen

I’m a bit pissed I couldn’t find room for Duane Allman though 

As a huge Duane Allman fan I have come to the realisation in the last couple of years that what I thought was Duane a lot of the time was Dickie. 

TINMAN82

DrBob said:

Dave Gilmour
Jeff Beck
Kim Thayil
Tom Morello
Michael Casswell 

Michael Casswell, such a great teacher too. Sad loss.

S56035

Slash
Hetfield
Cantrell
Home
Hammett 

MikeB

Randy Rhoads
Gary Moore
Andy Timmons
Joe Satriani
Marl Tremonti

TTBZ

Jimi Hendrix
Bill Kelliher (+ Brent Hinds but I'm more into Bill's solid rhythm work)
Tom Morello

Jerry Cantrell

Tim Sult

Honourable mention to Tom Delonge as I actually really rate all the guitar parts in a lot of the Blink stuff. Simple but often catchy and different to just chugging power chords.

TINMAN82

Clapton
Angus
Bonamassa
Page

Slash (more a nostalgic vote these days as, for me anyway, GnRs music hasn’t aged as well as many other guitar based bands eg Black Sabbath).


5 really isn’t enough when you start thinking about it more carefully.

PonchoGreg

In no particular order...

Mayer

Clapton

Larry Carlton (I think I'm the first one?...)
Prince

SRV

definitely not set in stone though

Philly_Q

My minds gone a bit blank so I'm going to say, with a slight bias towards things I've listened to recently....

Robin Trower
Reb Beach
Isaiah Mitchell
Tony Iommi
Marty Friedman

Could be a completely different list tomorrow.  I might have Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth in there.  Or Leslie West and Rick Derringer.  Or Frank Marino.  Or Ronnie Montrose.  And I didn't want to use two votes for Andy Powell and Laurie Wisefield but I do want to mention them.

imalrightjack

Dave Mustaine
Marty Friedman
Wes Montgomery...

Struggling to choose actual favourites beyond that. 

jamesoliver1234

Bill Kirchen
Redd Volkaert
Danny Gatton
Elmore James
Junior watson

Nerine

I really don’t know. But in any top 5, which could be different depending on what week of the year it is, Joe Bonamassa would always make the list. 
I think he may be my favourite. Which I feel leaves me open for a panning. 

It always used to be Iommi, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Bettencourt Etc, but as I’ve grown a bit older, I find them less relevant to the instrument and regardless of how many of Slashes solos across all the GnR albums (and the Snakepit stuff) I absolutely adore and can sing them back as nauseum, he doesn’t do it for me quite as much any more. He’d probably always be in my top 5 with Joe too. Just simply for being so memorable (I’ve always cited Guns N Roses as my favourite band), even if I find the technique and licks not particularly to my current tastes. That could change next week, though. 

Ive just always been mesmerised by Bonamassa’s playing though, since I first heard him. 

Stylistically he really puts me in a weird place. I love to try to copy him, but ultimately I don’t really class myself as a blueser. I’m more into hard/heavy/classic rock etc.

What I do know though, is that Joe makes me want to try to copy him and it inspires me to play my guitar more and keep improving. Can’t really ask for more than that. 

vanlooy1

Prince 

Bellycaster

Ever changing Top 5, but tonight I am going towards:

Larry Carlton
Dan Huff
Paul Jackson Jr.
Jimi Hendrix
Nile Rodgers