Guitarists whose technique you admire

What are some guitarists whose technique(s) you admire? This doesn't necessarily have to mean that the guitarist is a Steve Vai or Yngwie Malmsteen type, as long as you like the way they play.

 

paul gilbert

 

Fucking Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Robby Krieger, Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan. Is this a trick question?

 

keller williams. jack johnson.

 

mark knopfler

 

Erm, Bob Dylan? I can think of many folk guitarists much, much more technically proficient, original and plain better. Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs to name a few.

 

hey, i just started learning guitar...before i broke my wrist. anywho, i'm loving looking at all these people. never heard of some of them.

 

corey bealiue

can't spell his last name lol

 

Oh and:
Robert Fripp
Elliott Smith
Kevin Shields
Steve Wilson
Ry Cooder
Mick Ronson

 

When Dylan was playing folk his guitar wasn't anything special. When he went to rock it was a different story.

 

Steve Howe and Kaki King

 

Bert Jansch, Davey Graham. Richie Blackmore. I don't have technical knowledge about guitarplaying though, but I really dig the guitar in modern jam/psychedelic rock bands like Tia Carrera and Earthless as well.

 

I was always impressed with the thumb picking of Toy Caldwell from the Marshall Tucker Band. I tried to play that way once and I just didnt have the dexterity in my thumb to do so.

 

Maybe so, but the thread is about guitarists whose technique you personally admire, whether or not they are the most technically proficient in their genre.


By the way, lovely choices, all of you.

 

Quite a few guitarists whose technique I admire have already been posted so I won't repost, but here are some others:

Johnny Marr
Jose Gonzalez
Thalia Zedek
Crispin Gray
Lee Ranaldo

 

james gurley of 'big brother and the holding co.'... leigh stephens of 'blue cheer'... john mclaughlin... yurp. and a certain anastasio fellow

 

almost forgot keller

 

Fair enough, Like a Rolling Stone has a nice riff.

 

Jerry Reed And Chet Atkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE

Jerry Reed - Lightning Rod 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOGiW-y-Vhs&feature=related