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"Mick Ronson!" I second this. Also, another Bowie collaborator for a brief period was Stevie Ray Vaughan, often cited as one of the greatest ever by guitar maestros themselves, died tragically and very young. | |||
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"Prince, the best IMO, but the others, and many others besides, are all awesome." Prince was a freak, he was a master of something like 24 different instruments, all self taught. The like we will never again witness. | |||
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"John mcgeogh" Forgot him in my list, for Punk, although really he was more art-rock, as was Tom Verlaine. | |||
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"Prince, the best IMO, but the others, and many others besides, are all awesome. Prince was a freak, he was a master of something like 24 different instruments, all self taught. The like we will never again witness." | |||
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"Hank Marvin" Very basic, easy to play string twanging stuff. | |||
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"Hank Marvin Very basic, easy to play string twanging stuff." But deceptive. Not many people can play that "basic, easy" stuff with Hank's panache and touch on the wang bar. Technically he's very underrated and because of when he appeared, hugely influential. Pretty much every British rock guitarist will tell you how Hank was their first real hero. | |||
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"Angus Young" My favourite too | |||
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"Prince, the best IMO, but the others, and many others besides, are all awesome." Hey don’t disrespect Prince lol he may not of been a shredder or virtuoso but what he did was amazing anyway, no one else has the feel he has or uses scales the way he did , so from that point of view he is worthy of being rated as awesome ! | |||
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"Angus Young My favourite too " I actually prefer Malcolm. Together with Phil Rudd they were the glue that held AC/DC together. | |||
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"John Martyn." John Martin was fantastic agree | |||
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"SLASH without a doubt "Agreed | |||
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"George Harrison is very underrated." Rightfully so | |||
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"Angus Young My favourite too I actually prefer Malcolm. Together with Phil Rudd they were the glue that held AC/DC together." No better rhythm section in rock music in my opinion…..May you rest in peace Mal | |||
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"+1 For Ritchie Blackmore Others who are great Hendrix Rory Gallagher SRV Jeff Beck Alan Holdsworth Eddy Van Halen Pete Townshend Chuck Berry Robert Fripp Kieth Richards Steve Howe Adrian Belew Frank Zappa Brian May Jimmy Page Bil Frizzell Mike Stern John McLaughlin Alex Lifeson Brian Setzer BB King Eric Johnson Joni Michell Tony Iommi Randy Rhodes AND More" Missed out on Carlos Santana And take a Liston to big boy bloater | |||
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"Most influential guitar player of all time........easy Burt Weedon ." Yup, I have his tuitional guitar book 'How to Play with yourself in a Day' Worked for me!  | |||
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"John mcgeogh Forgot him in my list, for Punk, although really he was more art-rock, as was Tom Verlaine." ... Roy Buchannon and his 52 Tele fits in there somewhere! | |||
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"Playing guitar isn't competitive, there's no such thing as 'best'. A lot of the answers here are older, historic choices, probably to do with the age of the poster and what they grew up with. Nothing wrong with that, there are some excellent choices but there are still some younger contemporary guitarists worthy of mention as well. My pick would be Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, who mainly plays blues rock, along with married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks." a young current player would be Johnny Strings... check out his jam with Tommy Emanuel on the tube!  | |||
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"The exact quote: "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats"" His tone was partly down to his Les Paul guitar having a pick up installed accidentally out of phase during repair... so the story goes! | |||
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"John mcgeogh Forgot him in my list, for Punk, although really he was more art-rock, as was Tom Verlaine. ... Roy Buchannon and his 52 Tele fits in there somewhere! "I know lots of people rate Roy and I can't really fault his technique, he was a player in total control of the guitar, but I just find him a bit boring and precious. Also appalling dress sense | |||
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"Hendrix and SRV ! " SRV playing voodoo child on you tube live Absolutely awesome | |||
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"Tommy Emmanuel" He's outstanding. | |||
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"George formby " This is a good shout actually. George Harrison was a huge fan of George Formby and he said despite the years of practice playing ukulele he could never reach the technical ability of Formby. Apparently relatively easy to play basic there are devilishly difficult chords to play that Formby did with ease. | |||
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"+1 For Ritchie Blackmore Others who are great Hendrix Rory Gallagher SRV Jeff Beck Alan Holdsworth Eddy Van Halen Pete Townshend Chuck Berry Robert Fripp Kieth Richards Steve Howe Adrian Belew Frank Zappa Brian May Jimmy Page Bil Frizzell Mike Stern John McLaughlin Alex Lifeson Brian Setzer BB King Eric Johnson Joni Michell Tony Iommi Randy Rhodes AND More Missed out on Carlos Santana And take a Liston to big boy bloater" some total legends that stand the test of time | |||
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"I find it strange no one's mentioned Michael Schenker" At his best when young, blond, skinny and beautiful in UFO. I still can't play his double stopped lead bit in Doctor Doctor after 40 years of trying. | |||
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"[Removed by poster at 15/02/26 09:43:15]" Seen him a few years back, his rock bottom solo went on for ever and he's definitely still got it | |||
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"Johnny Ramone - such skill!" Full Barre chords with maximum downstrokes 👌🏼 | |||
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"Eric Clapton (there is but one God and he shall be called Eric) david gilmour mark Knofler" Pity about the stench of racism from your 'God Eric.' | |||
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"Ry Cooder" Ry Cooder knows where the groove is... even guitar god Steve Via was in awe of him when they collaborated on the film 'Crossroads'... watch the guitar duel in the film which ends up at Paganini's door! Ry Cooder, Steve Via... Paganini (the devils violin)! We are not worthy!  | |||
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"I find it strange no one's mentioned Michael Schenker At his best when young, blond, skinny and beautiful in UFO. I still can't play his double stopped lead bit in Doctor Doctor after 40 years of trying." Lel, we all have them! Some toons are just not meant to be! | |||
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"Eric Clapton (there is but one God and he shall be called Eric) david gilmour mark Knofler Pity about the stench of racism from your 'God Eric.'" Oh dear... you obviously don't know about Eric, god, the wall, the dog and how slow Eric's hand is! Racism... b@ll@cks! | |||
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"Eric Clapton (there is but one God and he shall be called Eric) david gilmour mark Knofler Pity about the stench of racism from your 'God Eric.'" Oh dear... you obviously don't know about Eric, god, the wall, the dog and how slow Eric's hand is! Racism... b@ll@cks! | |||
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"Playing guitar isn't competitive, there's no such thing as 'best'. A lot of the answers here are older, historic choices, probably to do with the age of the poster and what they grew up with. Nothing wrong with that, there are some excellent choices but there are still some younger contemporary guitarists worthy of mention as well. My pick would be Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, who mainly plays blues rock, along with married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. a young current player would be Johnny Strings... check out his jam with Tommy Emanuel on the tube! "Apologies, my dyslexia showing... I meant Billy Strings ^ Must have been thinking of Johnny (B Goode) | |||
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"Clapton said that SRV opened the nights entertainment and that he was stood with Knopfler and they looked each other, both wondering " how the hell do you follow that?" " When you're God, to be blown off stage by one player (Hendrix) is unfortunate, but to experience a repeat (SRV) smacks rather of carelessness (thanks Oscar) | |||
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"Johnny Ramone - such skill! Full Barre chords with maximum downstrokes 👌🏼" I was never a great fan of The Ramones. My favourite guitarists from the punk era would be Steve Jones, and Derwood Andrews from Generation X. Not only could they play but both had very distinctive guitar sounds. | |||
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"Wilko Johnson. Zal Cleminson." I saw both of those live, 3 times each I think. It's a shame their careers didn't carry on at a high level after the premature deaths of their individual front men. | |||
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"Jack Bruce" He was a bassist. | |||
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"Jack Bruce He was a bassist." Is not a bass guitar a guitar? | |||
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"Jack Bruce He was a bassist. Is not a bass guitar a guitar? " People who play guitar are called guitarists, people who play bass guitar are called bass guitarists, or bassists. It isn't a difficult concept to understand. | |||
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"Steve Jones, and Derwood Andrews from Generation X. Not only could they play but both had very distinctive guitar sounds." I've heard it said that Steve's sound was a half-inched Fender Twin Reverb cranked to 11. If you've ever stood close to a stage where somebody's playing a Twin anywhere above 2, you'll know how loud that is | |||
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"Jack Bruce He was a bassist. Is not a bass guitar a guitar? People who play guitar are called guitarists, people who play bass guitar are called bass guitarists, or bassists. It isn't a difficult concept to understand." Even a fuckwit would know a “guitarist “* is one who plays a stringed guitar. Oxford English Dictionary. If the topic was about a specific type of stringed instrument then you would have a point. Except you don’t. | |||
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"Jack Bruce He was a bassist. Is not a bass guitar a guitar? People who play guitar are called guitarists, people who play bass guitar are called bass guitarists, or bassists. It isn't a difficult concept to understand. Even a fuckwit would know a “guitarist “* is one who plays a stringed guitar. Oxford English Dictionary. If the topic was about a specific type of stringed instrument then you would have a point. Except you don’t. " So The Beatles had 3 guitarists with no differentiation between them, whilst Led Zeppelin had two? | |||
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"Keith Richard. - might not be the most technical guitarist but a unique sound which is instantly recognisable as him." Being a huge Stones fan..I have to agree…my ringtone is JJF… | |||
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"Prince, the best IMO, but the others, and many others besides, are all awesome. Prince was a freak, he was a master of something like 24 different instruments, all self taught. The like we will never again witness." Most musicians will stick with one instrument better to be a master of one than a jack of all trades but prince was different master of about 30. He put in the time only other one similar was stevie wonder. | |||
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"Jack Bruce He was a bassist. Is not a bass guitar a guitar? People who play guitar are called guitarists, people who play bass guitar are called bass guitarists, or bassists. It isn't a difficult concept to understand. Even a fuckwit would know a “guitarist “* is one who plays a stringed guitar. Oxford English Dictionary. If the topic was about a specific type of stringed instrument then you would have a point. Except you don’t. So The Beatles had 3 guitarists with no differentiation between them, whilst Led Zeppelin had two?" Go away. | |||
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"Back in the day the Melody Maker used to run a poll Every year Rory Gallagher won " He influenced most of the guitarists already mentioned | |||
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"Jack Bruce He was a bassist. Is not a bass guitar a guitar? People who play guitar are called guitarists, people who play bass guitar are called bass guitarists, or bassists. It isn't a difficult concept to understand. Even a fuckwit would know a “guitarist “* is one who plays a stringed guitar. Oxford English Dictionary. If the topic was about a specific type of stringed instrument then you would have a point. Except you don’t. So The Beatles had 3 guitarists with no differentiation between them, whilst Led Zeppelin had two? Go away." I'll do nothing of the sort, stop talking about things you have no knowledge of. | |||
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" Go away. I'll do nothing of the sort, stop talking about things you have no knowledge of." Go away. | |||
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" Go away. I'll do nothing of the sort, stop talking about things you have no knowledge of. Go away." Make me. | |||
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" Go away. I'll do nothing of the sort, stop talking about things you have no knowledge of. Go away. Make me." 68??? Grow up ffs. | |||
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" Go away. I'll do nothing of the sort, stop talking about things you have no knowledge of. Go away. Make me. 68??? Grow up ffs." Battling Banjos!  | |||
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" Go away. I'll do nothing of the sort, stop talking about things you have no knowledge of. Go away. Make me. 68??? Grow up ffs." You're the one who started the stupidity, and who can't admit he was wrong. Next you'll be telling us that Jean-Jaques Burnell was the St(r)anglers' guitarist. | |||
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