Who's your top 5 favourite guitarists.

Caffeine_Vampire

Cliff Gallup
T-bone Walker
Robben Ford
James Burton
Jimmy Vaughan

viz

0) Ritchie
1) Eddie
2) Steve
3) Greg
4) Al
5) Wes

punchesjudy

Ian MacKaye. 
J Mascis. 
Lee Ranaldo. 
Kurt Cobain. 
Billy Corgan. 

Mojopickups

Neil Young

Ira Kaplin

Jim O'Rourke

Lee Ranaldo

David Pajo

SidNewton

Bit of a struggle as the stuff I enjoy listening to most isn't necessarily about the guitarists but the band as a whole. But at this moment I'll go for......

Jimmy Page
Michael Schenker
Mike Einziger
Dean DeLeo
Matt Schofield

stickyfiddle

Not 5, but these guys fairly consistently above all others.

The Edge
George Harrison
Pete Townshend
Jason Isbell
Peter Buck
Thom Yorke
Malcolm Young
Bruce Springsteen
Aaron & Bryce Dessner

kossofffan

Paul Kossoff
Jimmy Page
Alex Lifeson
Gary Moore
Glen Buxton

dogload

Steve Hillage
Steffy Sharpstrings
Randy California
Syd Barrett
Dave Brock

Honorable mention goes to Ian Anderson!

Fishboy7

This week it's: 

John McLoughlin 
Neal Casal 
Derek Trucks 
Grant Green 
Jerry Garcia 

lasermonkey

Robin Guthrie

Dave Fielding

Tony Iommi

Nick Drake

Richard Lloyd 

dazzajl

Seems like the 5 bit is already out the window here, so if you want just 5, put them in a hat and pull them out at random

In absolutely no order order at all, the ones that have had the most impact on me are

Nile Rodgers
Brian May
James McMurtry
David Gilmour
Kenny Burrell
Joni Mitchell
Richie Blackmore
Mark Knopfler
Malcolm Young
John Tropea
Larry Carlton
Joe Walsh
Chris Hayes
Carlos Santana (Though very little after Zebop has really done much for me)

hollywoodrox

EVH
  Slash
  yngwie
becker 80s 
Vai 80s
  

It’s hard to say , as I have favourite guitarists who shred 
  Favourite guitarists who play what I like
  favourite guitarists who seem really nice people and play great (Hammet,vai) 
  Favourite guitarists who’s skills I wish I had 
  Guitarists in favourite bands 
   Guitarists who are cool

Hammet , evh ,slash fit a few categories , there’s just so many great 80s guitarist I love to pick 5 
although overall EVH is pretty damned hard to beat as covering all bases and slash and yngwie but you cannot compare them to each other . 

I basically love all the 80s shrapnel guys , the hair metal guys like DeMartini , Lynch  bratta etc
  EVH is something though ain’t he

hollywoodrox

Max ostro is the guy for the 20s he’s brilliant 

guitarmangler

Allan Holdsworth 
Jimi Hendrix
Django 
Mark Speer (Khruangbin)
Allan Holdsworth 

Hoof

Jimi Hendrix
Joshua Homme
James Hetfield
Brent Hinds
Johnny Ramone

Logie

Nuno Bettencourt
David Gilmour
Simon McBride
Brian May
Slash

Blueingreen

Kurt Rosenwinkel

Nile Rogers

Peter Green

Carlos Santana

Wes Montgomery

A list of the guys I'd be most likely to listen to nowadays might look quite different, but Green and Santana meant so much to my teenage self I think they have to go on the list.

PonchoGreg

Is there a poll function on the site (with multiple votes allowed)? Could be fun to see what the consensus is.

I for one am surprised to see Clapton popping up on a lot of lists (including mine). I always thought he wasn't too much in vogue these days

downbytheriver

Tricky but... 

Eric Clapton
Lindsey Buckingham
Joe Walsh
Alvin Lee
Hubert Sumlin. 

Which leaves John Martyn out of the top five. Which is clearly ludicrous...

ManWithoutSkin

Richie Sambora

Keith Scott

Brian May

Eddie Van Halen
The Edge