In a bit of a rut with finding new music / guitarists to listen to as I feel I’ve absolutely hammered the 60’s and 70’s, so I was wondering if you could all help a brother out and name your top 5 guitarists to give me (and hopefully other members) some new players to listen to.
Doesn’t have to be in any particular order or even genre. Would love to see who people listen to. Doesn’t have to be too obscure either, I’m sure there’s some well known names I and others have not heard much of.
I’ll start:
1. Stephen Stills
2. Mike Bloomfield
3. Roy Buchanan
4. Robben Ford
5. Albert King
Could list loads more but thought 5 would keep it simple.
Cheers!
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Warren Haynes
….and a whole host of others who change on a regular basis, unlike my top 2
Black keys
Idles
Wet leg
Bodega
Slash
Joe Perry
Max Ostro
George lynch + Warren de martini + nuno
oh I can’t pick 5 there’s too many
It's called The Inner or Deep Part Of An Animal or Plant Structure, but I've had a quick look and can't find it atm.
Michael schenker
Dave Murray
Adrian Smith
David eugene Edwards
Steve Rothery
Johnny Marr
Wayne Hussy
Nils Lofgren
Dave Foster
Nels Cline
Ava Mendoza
Bill Frisell
Jonny Greenwood
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel player)
Julian Bream
Jimi hendrix
Johnny marr
Nile rodgers
Andres Segovia
Jack White
Nick Zinner
Johnny Greenwood
St Vincent
Laura Marling (a bit different than the others )
I'm a big prog fan, and my fave band is Pendragon. Guitarist/singer/sole writer Nick Barrett plays wonderful melodic proggy solos. He's right up there for me. My choices are pretty proggy all through, I basically like players who solo a lot, but more melodic rather than jazz noodly
I love strats and strat sounds, and my fave exponent is Thomas Blug. He plays instrumental music with wonderful tones, superb touch and feel. The one must have album is Thomas Blug live in Raalte. Beautiful.
I've been a long time fan of Joe Satriani, it's insane the number of melodic instrumental tracks he has written. Lots of great stuff, but my go to albums are the live ones, he turns it up a notch on them.
One of the most important guitarists for me was Steve Rothery of Marillion. Having said that its all about those first 4 albums with Fish though, I find post-Fish Marillion a bit dull. His solo effort Ghosts of Pripyat is also excellent.
Dipping yet again into the prog thing, I love Steve Hackett. Immense Genesis albums plus some amazing solo stuff. He played possibly my favourite ever solo on Firth of fifth. I have to see him live every time he goes out playing his 'Genesis revisited' shows.
Alex Lifeson
Steuart Smith
Craig Ross
Earl Slick
Hon mentions;
Gary Moore
Lindsey Buckingham
Adrian Belew
Glenn Tilbrook
Neil Finn
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Adam Granduciel (War on Drugs)
Peter Buck
Sam Fender (not a massive guitar hero by any stretch but man can he write a song)
Chris Stapleton