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You can't ignore those already mentioned, or Nile Rogers, but if you want lessons in great rhythm playing a lot of lead players are among the best at it, like Hendrix and SRV.
Bollocks. I thought I had it I had it all boxed off.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
But not mentioned yet... Steve Cropper. He often played very little though - just in the right places! - so in some ways it's not 'rhythm'.
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@Winny_Pooh beat me to it with Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard - has a great sense of timing and *always* plays for the song.
In Guns n' Roses, back in the day, I think people sometimes missed the groove that they had. Some of those nasty riffs really had a swing, a lot of which must have come from their love of Aerosmith and the Stones. A big part of it was Izzy Stradlin who had a lovely sparse sound, locked in with Adler and McKagan. Quality rhythm section, was never the same with Matt Sorum on drums and thingy-whatsisface on second guitar.
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Not mentioned so far: Curtis Mayfield, Reggie Young, Jimmy Johnson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Johnson_(musician) <-- that's a discography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Young <-- so's that.
There are loads of players who are really good contemporary rhythm players -- Mark Lettieri springs to mind -- but who aren't widely known or influential, so probably not useful for this.