Best Guitarists Evah!!!

[diddley]

Townes!

 

[diddley]

Tim Buckley Honeyman

 

[dougi]

Roy Buchanan has not yet been mentioned.

I just picked up an old vinyl of "Roy Buchanan - Live in Japan" yesterday! He was fantastic.

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Some great guitarists here.

I'll just throw in a few I don't think have been mentioned. I'm not sure any would necessarily make the Top10, but all were influential and deserve honorable mention, and I don't think they've come up yet (apologies if they have).

Scotty Moore:

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Buddy Holly

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Paul Burlison

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Brian Setzer

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Billy Duffy

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

The Edge

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Nile Rodgers

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Jeff Buckley - the combination here, the way the song rises and falls with his guitar, is quite special

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Mick Ronson. From 'ull.

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Johnny Marr

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Bernard Butler

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

Geordie

 

[roffe]

Paul Burlison

Lead guitar: Grady Martin.

 

[ThePracticalPeasant]

The Edge

He was/is a pioneer of the (extreme) uses for a delay pedal, as well as other effects - in a way, did what Hendrix did in his day.

Interestingly, almost no mention of Vai, Petrucci, Satriani, Li, and other (more recent) shredders... though some of their students have been.

 

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Chris Flory

 

[Rottmannash]

Am I losing my mind? 8 pages in and no one mentioned Derek Trucks... You know... this dude

and

I dunno ... but... he ought to be a little more noticable in this discussion. "About as good as I've ever heard it...."

Truth

 

[Rottmannash]

Leslie West