Who is your favorite guitar player of all time?

Frank Zappa for sheer astounding use of all musical styles.He influenced great guitarists & musicians alike...

Haha what a bad representation of the jazz guitarists.
Sticking to more modern work.
Scott Henderson is awesome and Frank Gambale.
Youtube them to see some of the tightest fusion ever played on the guitar.

Yeah Frank Gambale is awesome, I've given people a few suggestions from some of his lessons.

I don't really have a favourite, but I'll name some.

John McLaughlin
George Benson
Chanan Hanspal
Andy McKee
Charlie Christian is cool, though I haven't yet heard enough to big him up.

id have to say yngwie malmsteen and mab

Check out Shawn Lane and Allan Holdsworth for fast and fluid Fusion.

I dont want to brag but I've seen all of these guys in small clubs in the L.A. area:
Frank Gambale, Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin. I saw Return to Forever a couple of months ago in L.A. Simply awesome. Anyways, I don't get a chance to brag about these guys at work cause these yahoos don't know who these people are! I think you guys would appreciate it.

Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Jimmy Page, Kirk Hammet, Adrian Smith,........and the list goes on

You should ask for their autographs next time you see them, macandkanga. I missed John McLaughlin when he came over here... No one would come with me! which was very annoying. I would love to see all of them live. That must have been awesome.

For harmonized solos try out
Joe Pass and Tuck Andress

Also thats a sweet list!

Who are you talking to when you say that's a sweet list?

Joe Pass is awesome. Tuck Andress I'll admit I haven't heard enough of his music, but I shall.

Dimebag Darrel? I heard he was known as "Teabag Darrel" at his old job...

Mac and Kanga's recent live shows :)
My teacher had lessons from Scott Henderson actually... It was funny before I knew about Scott Henderson I'd always get confused about some faces my teacher made when we were playing together, then I learned about their relationship and his love of Scott and noticed the similarities :P

for good measure I'll throw in a cool guitarist.
Eef Albers
Oooooh and of course Charlie Christian
enjoy :)

haha thats funny.. and gross lol

jimmy page- alot of feeling- i like that
slash- just awsome all round
david gilmour- beautiful stuff
skold- just for aggression
jim root- really technical solos in one he went through 2 pentatonic scales an arabian scale and a lydian scale
synster gates- hes cool
alex laiho- fast
matt heafy- fast
and a few more

just felt i had to justify my reasons =D

I LIKE THE ONES WHO WRITE GOOD SONGS AND PLAY NOT JUST SHREDING BUT YOU GOT TO PLAY SOME SHRED SOMETIMES
ERIC CLAPTON
JIMMY PAGE
KEITH RICHARDS
JIMI HENDRIX
PETE TOWNSHEND
RITCHIE BLACKMORE
ETC.

@ REDSTRAT

Thank goodness someone mentioned Richie Blackmore. That man's been so underrated for so many years it's a crime!

I haven't got a clue who he is, mind filling in the blanks for me? :D

gasp! crawl in a hole a die!!! *psssssssssst...deep purple ring a bell?*

lol.. theres a good laugh for the morning!

Oh no, I hate that infernal pear!

I prefer:



Grrr... *** fruits wastin' my internets

"favorites":
mark knopfler, robbie krieger, jimmy page, BB King.

others worth mentioning:

- Jody Fisher > haven't seen a lot of him, but i love this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476vNb6thyM

- Salif Keita > heard about him, looked for him in youtube and got amazed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGBExhxpF4

- Hannes Coetzee > he's the one :D:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCKTeRW3OhQ

How come nobody's mentioned Paul Gilbert?
Has anybody heard his rendition of Spanish Flamenco?

skold as in tim skold as in marilyn mansons old guitarist lol pretty simple but aggressive and effective stuff he does

Thim Skold? Meh.

@ JazzMaverick



Sorry about the picture quality but it's the best example I can find of Blackmore's capabilities.

And it still falls well short!

Awesome tone though. Look at all those people! That'd be amazing.

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Herman li, no doubt

WHAT?! Herman li can't even play what he's playing! ALL of the songs he's supposed to be playing in are sped up. As in, they're not really playing it that fast. Sam made ALL the solos, too.

lol at musical magic, if ur trying to be funny, it worked, if you serious...well then your on freaking crack.

lol he has been mentioned

david gilmour. sooo soulful

LOLZOR :D

Mark Knofler \m/____(-_-)____\m/

woh. nice call, most underrated guitarist ever.

hmm ive been changing my mind about this for a long time. the truth is i dont have just one purely on the fact that theyre all just great! im not really for the guitarist but the playing itself. favourite solo of all time you can ask me though and id say november rain everytime lol

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There are a lot of new people on the site. I would like to hear their opinion.

sure would.

JIMI HENDRIX, KURT COBAIN,van halen, buddy guy, bb king, eric clapton