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Your top twelve favourite guitarists.
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Steve Hillage
Andrew Latimer
Bill Nelson
Robert Fripp
Johnny Marr
John McGeoch
Jimmy Page
Randy Rhoads
Otis Rush
Bert Jansch
Johnny Ramone
I had to leave so many out..
Most are obvious..
Some maybe less so..
I picked up the guitar because of William Reid and Johnny Ramone..
It wasn't technical music to play,,but sounded great to me at the time..
I learned Barre Chords very quickly playing along with the first Ramones album and was in my first band after 3 weeks of picking the guitar up..I had to be able to do it,I wanted it so bad,failure wasn't an option..lol
It seems many people admire technical players before they start playing..
Then after a few years of learning join a band...
I kind of did it backwards..lol
It goes without saying the band were awful,I never auditioned,friends asked me to join.
Johnny Marr
Bernard Butler
Ry Cooder
Barrie Cadogan
Jimi Hendrix
Nile Rodgers
George Harrison
Graham Coxon
Adam Granduciel
Eddie Hazel
Mick Ronson
John Squire
Scott Gorham
Tosin Abasi
Steve Lukather
EVH
Neal Schon
Michael Landau
Guthrie Govan
Dan Huff
Larry Carlton
Marco Sfogli
Malmsteen
Andy Timmons
Francis Dunnery
Nuno B
2 BB King
3 Freddie King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Peter Green
6 Gary Moore
7 John Mayer
8 Danny Kirwan
9 SRV
10 Billy Gibbons
11 Jimmy Page
12 Jesse Davey
redd volkaert
bill kirchen
micky gee
elmore james
johnny guitar watson 50s stuff
chuck berry
zoot horn rolio
grady martin
mick green
junior watson
t bone walker
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
1: Alex Lifeson
2: Andy Summers
3: The Edge
4: Nick McCabe
5: Jamie West-Oram
6: John McGeoch
7: Vivian Campbell
8 : Randy Rhoads
9: Steve Stevens
10: Gary Moore
11: Django Rheinhardt
12: Nile Rodgers
Jimi Hendrix
David Gilmour
Hugh Cornwell
John McGeogh
Keith Levine
Dean Ween
Will Sergeant
Nick Drake
Robert Smith
Tom Verlaine
Lou Reed
Neil Young
Paul Kossoff
Honourable mentions to -
Johnny Marr
Richard Thompson
Kevin Shields
Tim Gane
George Harrison
Kevin McKillop
Jake Burns
Andy Gill
Tom Dowse
Vini Reilly
Lindsey Buckingham
Ripley Johnson
Wayne Kramer
Edit - forgot to add Rory Gallagher (doh !). Don’t know how that happened !!!
My dad
Slash
Hendrix
Rory G
Nuno
Jimmy Page
Don McLean
Tony Rice
George Harrison
Peter green
SRV
I used to be into blues rock/heavy rock soloists. Clapton, Page, Green, May, Blackmore and so on. Jeff Beck is top of that pile for keeping his playing interesting over the decades.
As I've become more interested in pop rock and song wrting over the years (ironic since I've also lost any hope of being in a band!) I've become more interested in more rhythm playing and melodic stuff and stuff that serves the song more.
Less conventional players like Neil Young have kept my interest longer than say Clapton for example.
McCartney - love many of his solos and riffs over the decades as well as his other more obvious talents.
Marr, Richards/Taylor, Annie Clark, Doherty/Barat, all the dudes playing on 60s surf and RnB/soul records... don't know many names!
There's loads of great YouTube guitarists. Bukovac, Chris Buck and so on, but I've never knowingly listened to any songs they've written or played on so I've only really had a passing interest in them.
Anyway, not really a favourites person so not sure why I wrote this!
Check it out!
Doesn't seem so strange seeing him playing a non Washburn N guitar. I swear that's the same guitar he messed around with when he was at Rick Beato's.
Speaking of Nuno, in no particular order except for the top 3....
Justin Beck
Nuno
Dimebag
Eric Johnson
Vai
Hendrix
John 5
Jake Allen
Alex Skolnick
Slash
John Mayer (before he went Country)
Lewis Taylor