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| My Favourite Guitarists
Guitarists who have influenced me, and my style. Some have been picked for technical reasons, others for the genre which they helped define, and a few for their originality which prompted me to start playing guitar. | | 1 | David Gilmour
From Pink Floyd. His soaring solos and slow space-rock style create a dichotomy of psychedelic rock and down to earth creative technics. His skills of making his guitar actually speak, are why he's number one on this list. | | 2 | Jimmy Page
From the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. This guy needs no introduction. His bluesy smashes head on with hard rock style has defined him as one of the greatest guitarists ever. His originality and use of technique turns his guitar into a battle-axe ready to slice any creative dimension into two. | | 3 | Jimi Hendrix
From Jimi Hendrix Experience. His wailing chords and heavy, drug-tripped solos give a good rise to what the Woodstock generation was all about. This guy broke through the glass ceiling of rock guitarists and defined a generation of music. Plus, setting a guitar on fire is pretty cool too. | | 4 | Tom Morello
From Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. This dude speaks politically with his wild, in-your-face riffs. His use of the Wah-pedal and other guitar techniques make him part of this list. | | 5 | Alex Lifeson
From Rush. Although Geddy Lee and Peart are seen as the sole contributers to Rush, Lifeson's progressive style, creative approaches and head-pounding solos make him an imperative factor of the band. His wild, all-over-the-place, yet grounded guitar work, puts him up there with other well-known prog. guitarists. | | 6 | Ani DiFranco
This indie folk musician duct-tapes fake nails on her fingers so she can connect with her guitar as much as possible. Her crazy, FAST, wild, off-tune fingerpicking make any guitar player reel back and say "huh?" Her work is both sincere, and creative. Making ms. DiFranco a true guitar poet. | | 7 | Robby Krieger
From the Doors. This psychedelic guitarist backed up the trippy organ tunes and the deep voice of Jim Morrison. The fact that he doesn't use a pick, and pursues such intricate solo work with grace and ease makes him one of my faves. | | 8 | Robbie Robertson
From the Band. This fellow has backed the likes of Bob Dylan, Clapton, Neil Young, Muddy Waters and Joni Mitchell. His diversity in rock, folk, country, bluegrass, and blues has made him one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His guitar-playing confidence can serve as inspiration to many aspiring guitar players. | | 9 | Kaki King
She creates both rhythm and melody with her jazzy style as she beats on the side of her guitar and plays with her fretting hand upside down. Kaki King is one of the most obscure guitarists on this list, as well as underrated. Her intricate guitar, finger work can stand alone in a song and not need any accompanying instruments. She provides a full context with her playing. | | 10 | Eric Clapton
From the Yardbirds and Derek and the Dominoes. This blues guitarist has been influenced by muddy waters, robert johnson, and SRV, he's merged all of his blues style with a contemporary rock, guitar voice, thus creating a both enjoyable and technical way of playing. His guitar speaks volumes into the past and still provides much insight for any guitar player to learn from. | | 11 | Robert Fripp
From King Crimson. His progressive style has set the path for the likes of Adam Jones. His warped sound pulses out of the speakers like a bullet through the brain and his after-sound bleeds out. Fripp is on this list because he has helped to mark the beginning of progressive guitar playing, thus contributing to true creative expression and freedom of the guitar. | | 12 | Jeff Beck
From the Yardbirds, the Jeff Beck Group. He has stood in the shadows while Clapton and Paige rose from the ashes of the Yardbirds. His bold, ballsy sound grips any guitar lover. He is a technical guitarist who thrives on exploring the true potential of what he can do creatively and honestly with his work. | | 13 | Jerry Cantrell
From Alice in Chains. This grungy guy has pushed Kurt Cobain's simple songwriting style to the next level. By using the gods of grunge as a template he adds technical, flowy riffs and chunky chords to really give a sense of the limitlessness of the genre. In AIC Unplugged, he proves that he can work as well with an acoustic guitar (if not better) as with an electric. | | 14 | Omar Rodriguez
From At the Drive-In, and the Mars Volta. This player is an architect for jazzy, trippy riffs and odd "ugly notes." He creates a feeling of deja vu with his Gilmour and Barrett-est style and his freedom and confidence of improvisation is unmatchable. Rodriguez is a newer face, but one who is as bold in the guitar scene as those who have set the mark prior. He creates his own acid-inspired genre of playing and inspires those fearful-beginner guitarists to want to play even moreso. | | 15 | Adam Jones
From Tool. Like Rush, the guitarist from Tool isn't as acknowledged as the drummer or the vocalist. But Adam Jones contributes greatly to the playing field of prog. guitarists. His dark, haunting sound clashes head on with Chancellor's bass, and his organic solos and effects set him apart from other prog. musicians. | | 16 | Claudio Sanchez
From Coheed and Cambria. Although this band is revered by few, Claudio explores a progressive, conceptual world with his guitar work. His technique is well-rehearsed and well-delivered. His true rock goal flies out of his guitar work faster than a dragonfly and changes just as quickly. He is diverse to work with 12 string guitars, electrics, acoustics and even a double-neck like Paige himself. | | 17 | Peter Green
From early Fleetwood Mac. This blues guitarist is under-rated, but his classic style can still be heard in the first few FM albums before they gained commercial success. His dedication to music and loyalty to his genre is exemplified in his work. He is truly a significant addition to this list. | | 18 | Dave Mustaine
From Metallica and Megadeth. This metal-god took his knowledge from the world of metallica and created his own band. His confident, heavy, dark riffs push metal a step further, in a time when it felt like it was dying. He is one of the most creative metal guitarists and can pretty much create a bar for metal guitarists everywhere. | | 19 | Chuck Berry
This guy practically created blues-rock. His songs are well known, even if his guitar playing isn't. His method of strumming double strings to create a fuller bluesy sound, give him a chunky move-worthy rhythm sound. His wild, up-beat guitar voice has helped define his place in rock and roll history. | | 20 | Jerry Garcia
From the Grateful Dead. This guy is on this list because of his work in the Jam band, psychedelic scene. His confidence, yet lack of technical training produces a natural, and ecclectic sound. His ability to improvise and have fun really puts him as one of my favourites. | |
Otisbum
10.28.06 | You are influenced by 20 people? Pretty weird, but great guitarists on here. | metallicaman8
10.28.06 | Pretty nice list. | MrKite
10.28.06 | pretty good list. | AnyColour74
10.28.06 | nice list, lots of variety | KoraX
10.28.06 | Jeff Beck instead of Jimmy Page and you get my top 4. | Patrick
10.28.06 | Haha you spelled Page wrong. Thanks for putting Peter Green on here, as Fleetwood Mac is my favorite. | Bfhurricane
10.28.06 | I find it very hard to see Dave Mustaine fitting in on this list of a lot of classic rock guitarists. However it's still pretty good | Jimmy
10.29.06 | Gilmour is one of my primary influences as well. | Yield
10.29.06 | When you mention Dave Mustaine not fitting in with the classic rock guitarists, it seems like you overlooked Tom Morello! | The Jungler
10.29.06 | Claudio Sanchez is a guitarist?
| Hatshepsut
10.29.06 | Claudio Sanchez? | Bfhurricane
10.29.06 | yeah morello too, but in general this is very classic rock-ish and full of a few guitarists i havent quite heard of... | CognitiveVertigo
10.29.06 | Thank you very much..
yes i am aware that Mustaine doesn't fit the template as the others do, however I wanted to create a list that captures the diversity that I try to encorporate into my guitar playing, and songwriting.
There are a few blues guitarists, folk guitarists, rock, metal, prog...But yes, very classic rock based.
I've been influenced to try new guitar styles, new techniques, new methods by 20 different guitarists, yes...That, and I just really respect all the ones on the list here. :) ty for ur comments. | aristotelis
10.29.06 | And Harrison.Leately I understand his greatness | Kyle
10.30.06 | Kaki King :) |
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