Favorite guitarists

This is in no particular order:

Michael Karoli
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Fripp
Prince
Carlos Santana
John McLaughlin
Tom Verlaine
Richard Lloyd
Peter Buck
Andy Summers

 

Robert Fripp, Mike Einziger, Ler LaLonde, my guitar teacher, you.

 

Tom Verlaine
Jimi Hendrix
Michael Karoli
Robert Fripp
Frank Zappa
Eddie Hazel
Phil Manzanera
Fred Frith
Mike Oldfield
Django Reinhardt
Daevid Allen
Eric Clapton (pre-solo career ONLY)
John McLaughlin
Curtis Mayfield
David Gilmour
Pye Hastings
Manuel Gottsching
Dick Dale

 

lets see...

lightnin hopkins
james gurley
robby kreiger
jerry cantrell
chuck berry
djengo
muddy waters
elmore james
bob dylan (he's an excellent finger picker)
curt kirkwood
santana
hendrix

and my all time favorite...
Mr. Jerry Garcia

 

Dave Matthews - Crush, Lover Lay Down
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Van Morrison - Gypsy Queen

 

Ler Lalonde
Bucket Head
Trey Anastasio

 

Jeff Beck

Carlos Santana

Ritchie Blackmore

 

Bass:
Victor Wooten
Flea(Michael Balzary)
Jaco Pastorius
Tom Jenkinson(squarepusher)
Guitar:
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
John Fruschante

 

Jimi Hendrix
Duane Allman
Eric Clapton (pre-1971)
Carlos Santana
Joe Satriani
Derek Trucks
Frank Zappa
Dickey Betts
Stevie Ray Vaughn

 

Jimmy page
Hendrix
Clapton
Beck
Allman
Gilmour
Stevie Ray
Eddie Van Halen (eruption)
Victor Wooten
BB King
Muddy Waters
Bela Fleck

 

Favorite guitarists (and their best stuff)

Steve Howe (Clap, Meadow Rag, Anything by Yes between 1970 and 1977)
Michael Hedges (Breakfast in the Field, Arial Boundaries, Taproot)
Jimi Hendrix (Machine Gun, the Star Spangled Banner)
John Frusciante (Blood Sugar Sex Magic, If You Have to Ask)
David Gilmour (Echoes, Time, Wish You Were Here)
Brian May (Killer Queen, Good Company, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy)
Andreas Segovia (Chaconne)
Jerry Garcia (. . . oh, please . . . well uhm . . . the solo on Candy Man)
Trey Anastasio (Stash, Divided Sky)
Adrian Belew (Naive Guitar)

Me - I am sorry if it seems immodest, but I think what I play is beautiful. I wish you could hear it.

 

Walter Becker
Bill Haley
Jose Feliciano
Steve Cropper

 

Tiny Tim - Oh, sorry, I guess he was a ukelelist.

 

I second that! Tiny Tim kicked ass.

 

john mclauglin

frank zappa
jon gulilweg
kirk hammet
trey anatasio
robert johnson
jeff "skunk" baxter
jimi of course
jerry cantrell
mike mccreedy
and extra special Mr. Garcia

 

Tony Iommi
Steve Viah
Zakk Wylde
Joe Satriani
Rud and Guug of Mudvayne
Jimmy Page
Nick Hexum and Tim Mahoney of 311

and to a lesser extent

Cobain
Justin Sane

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi
Nuno Bettencourt
Paul Gilbert
EVH
Angus Young
Mr. Page
Muddy Waters
Joe Bonamassa
Ricky Skaggs
Vince Gill
Lindsey Buckingham
Merle Travis
Chet Atkins
Frank Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Mato Nanji (Indigenous)
David Gilmour
Joe Walsh
Roy Clark



Just a few off the top of my head..............

 

favorite guitarist: John Petrucci (Dream Theater)

favorite bassist: John Myung (Dream Theater as well)

 

Jimmy Page
Eric Clapton (Pre-2005)
Jimi Hendrix
Peter Green
B.B. King
Albert King
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Paul Kossoff
Eddie Hazel
Tony Iommi
Brian May
Carlos Santana
Jeff Beck
Mike Bloomfield
Johnny Winter
Frank Zappa
Duane Allman

 

JIMI HENDRIX!!!
frank zappa
keith richards
B.B.king

peace