Your top twelve favourite guitarists.

bluecat

It is not supposed to be ranking guitarists Yorkie.
It is just members picking their personal favourites, that's all.

Yorkie

bluecat said:

It is not supposed to be ranking guitarists Yorkie.
It is just members picking their personal favourites, that's all.

I know, I was just expressing my general disgust for rankings :-)

Nerine

Yorkie said:

I think rankings are absurd, but I can name a few whose songs I sometimes try (and fail) to emulate due to the way they made me feel when I heard them for the first time. 

- Mark Knopfler
- The Young brothers (sorry Stevie)
- BB King
- Duane Eddy
- Chet Atkins
- Albert Collins
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Brian May
- Tom Morello
- Saul Hudson
- Carlos Santana
- John Lee Hooker

Sorry, no Sister Rosetta here. I’m 100% against male privilege and I’m fully conscious that I have produced an all-male list, but this is not a ranking and I don’t write for the Rolling Stone. 

It’s just a bit of fun mate. 

Nerine

Fuck the haters. 

In order. 

1. Joe Bonamassa. My all time favourite. 

2. Slash
3. Zakk
4. Tony Iommi
5. Tony Bourge (purely for Napoleon Bona Part 1 and 2 which is just fucking epic.) 
6. Robertson/Gorham
7. Vai
8. Petrucci - maybe. 
9. Guthrie just for discovering what’s possible. 

Only the top 5 really matter to me as being the most important though. 

Logie

Most of the music I listen to is 70’s or 70’s inspired rock with the odd wrinkle but here goes :-

Simon McBride
David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
Andy Summers
Jimmy Page
Uli Jon Roth
Brian May
Ritchie Blackmore
Lindsey Buckingham
Gary Moore
Joe Bonamassa
Ricky Wilson


Plenty of others I listen to but these popped up first.

francer

I guess some of these are more for their use of guitar as a songwriting tool, but I still really like their playing.

Roger McGuinn
Johnny Marr
Keith Richards
Paddy McAloon
PJ Harvey
Thurston Moore
Lee Ranaldo
Paul Banks/Daniel Kessler
Twooba (Hollow Bastion)
Antonia Sellbach (bass - is that allowed?)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Thom Yorke

HPhillipsmusic

probably change tomorrow but

george harrison
robbie robertson
Elliott smith
 neil young
Johnny marr
John leventhal
 Lowell George
 mike campbell
 ry cooder
Blake mills
Julian lage
 joey Santiago

 Bloomfield, jj cale, Doug pettibone, mark linkous could be in there

thomasross20

No time to list all 12 but my fave has always been Slash

RocknRollDave

Marcus King
Warren Haynes
Jimmy Page
Greg Koch
Johnny Marr
Charlie Starr

Edit: I KNOW it’s not 12. Can’t actually think of 12 favourites.