Your Top 5 Guitar Players

Hmmm:

1. Dick Dale. The guy is just amazing.
2. Buck Dharma. Part of that is my fondness for BOC.
3. Eddie Van Halen. We all thought the greatest of him in the 80's. He was doing really freaky stuff.
4. Colonel Bruce Hampton. Who will play anything with strings in a kind of Captain Beefheart level of craziness. Even did a passable job on a Chinese one-string fiddle he was handed in between sets one night.
5. Greg Lake. Over Fripp. He's most known as a singer, but his guitar work always struck me as impressiveFor an audition, check out The Sage on ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Hell fucking yes, Paul. Daniel Ash. Daniel Ash may be my all time favorite guitarist, actually. When I first heard Bauhaus, I was playing in a band and I immediately wanted to play like him. I didn't much want to look like him, however. That whole Elizabeth Taylor meets Wolverine look is not good.

5. The guitarist for Alice Cooper

Glen Buxton? Good pick.

Tommy Victor is a really good choice too- very underrated. Prong sort of dropped off, but their first couple of albums are outstanding.



Top five is tough, but let's see:

1) Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
2) Geordie (Killing Joke)
3) Mick Ronson (Spiders from Mars)
4) Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls, Heartbreakers)
5) Prince (come the fuck on, y'all!)

Michael Barnes wrote: Hell fucking yes, Paul. Daniel Ash. Daniel Ash may be my all time favorite guitarist, actually. When I first heard Bauhaus, I was playing in a band and I immediately wanted to play like him. I didn't much want to look like him, however. That whole Elizabeth Taylor meets Wolverine look is not good.

5. The guitarist for Alice Cooper

Glen Buxton? Good pick.

Tommy Victor is a really good choice too- very underrated. Prong sort of dropped off, but their first couple of albums are outstanding.



Top five is tough, but let's see:

1) Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
2) Geordie (Killing Joke)
3) Mick Ronson (Spiders from Mars)
4) Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls, Heartbreakers)
5) Prince (come the fuck on, y'all!)

Man, I totally forgot about Prince. He's amazing.

In no particular order

Dick Dale
Eric Clapton (really, no one thought of him, really?)
Dave Davies (The Kinks)
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Johnson

I knew Barnes would be around to pick Prince, so I left him off my list. (really, part of my thought process)

He's one like one of those virtuoso guys all over the first page. Huge gobs of undeniable talent, but I just don't generally dig what he chooses to do with it. When he just gets down to playing guitar he's unreal, though.

I don't think any of my five guys are going to win any technique prizes, but that's not why I picked them.

Anybody who's posting in this thread that hasn't seen "It Might Get Loud" better get out and do so, though.

Wayne Rogers (Crystalized Movements, Magic Hour, Major Stars)
David Roback (Rain Parade, Opal, Mazzy Star)
Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention)
Tom Verlaine (Television)

bubling under:
Bert Jansch
Zoot Horn Rollo
Ron Asheton

1) David Gilmour
2) Joe Satriani
3) Neal Schon
4) John Petrucci
5) Zakk Wylde

Also ran:
Gary Moore
SRV
Herman Li
Steve Vai
BB King
Steve Miller (before 1973)
Duane Allman
Dimebag Darrell

Not Sure wrote: Anybody who's posting in this thread that hasn't seen "It Might Get Loud" better get out and do so, though.

That movie was made for me, because I love U2 and the White Stripes. Very fascinating documentary. I think it was on Netflix at some point, it might be gone now.

Jack White
Eric Clapton
Adrian Smith
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Eddie Van Halen

And yeah, because I can't follow directions:

Prince

Good calls on
Prince
Steve Morse

Frank's list was interesting. I always think of Greg Lake as more of a bassist.
Adrian Belew is probably better than Fripp and Lake.

But Allan Holdsworth is the best I've ever seen, and influenced virtually everyone mentioned by everyone else.

Chet Atkins
John Fahey
Leo Kottke
Michael Hedges
Alejandro Silva


But no one mentioned so far has done anything to top this:



HEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAWWWWWW!

SRV
Albert Collins
D. Boon
James Mankey
Scott Hull

just to throw some new names into the mix how about, in no particular order

Dominic Frasca


Dufour/Gauthier (I just think this is a cool video)


Nick Drake !!!

Leo Kottke (oh, someone mentioned him)


Michael Hedges

The Edge
Jack White
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Carlos Santana