Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Mick Ronson
Carlos ALomar
Davy johnson
Earl Slick
Bill Nelson

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

1-Slash
2-Jimi Hendrix
3-Kyle Gass
4-Van Halen
5-Alice cooper

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

sinister gates
van halen
Marcus henderson
zackey v
slash

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

James Burton
Eric Clapton
Peter Frampton
Joe Walsh
Gary Moore

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Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

There is no electric guitar or tracked recording without Les Paul

So in no particular order

1. Les Paul
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd (Television)
4. Eric Clapton (Bluesbreakers...Cream...Dominos)
5. SRV

and then a bunch of guys.....

Michael Gourley (Dada)
The Late Great Chris Whitely
The Late Great Robert Quine
etc. etc. etc.

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

1. Randy Rhoades
2. Joe Satriani
3. Stevie Ray Vaughn
4. Dimebag Darrell
5. Eddie Van Halen

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Doc Watson
Rory Gallagher
Jeff Beck
Richard Thompson
Jerry Garcia

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

1.Jimmy Page
2.Robert johnson
3.Eric clapton
4.B.B King
5.John Lee Hooker
(not in specific order)

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

1) Edward Van Halen
2) Jimi Hendrix
3) Stevie Ray Vaughan
4) Jimmy Page
5) Ritchie Blackmore

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Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

carlos alomar
mick ronson
stevie ray
slash
daron malakian - SOAD (currently listening too)

"It's all about the Calluses, once you got them, you can't get rid of em!"

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Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Eric Clapton
Rory Gallagher
Neil Young
Alvin Lee
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

1. B.B. King
2. Sevie Ray Vaughn
3. Johnny Winter
4. Eric Clapton
5. Alvin Lee

Also like the Blues or Robert Cray, and the Jazz of George Benson

But, here's the secret about the guitar: It's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more that you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.
                 Les Paul  March 2007

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

The obvious and well-known:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Eric Clapton
3. Jimmy Page
...and not so well known:
4. John Fahey
5. Django Reinhardt
...do we have to be limited to 5?!
because I'd definitely add Jorma Kaukonen, Leo Kottke, and the immortal Chet Atkins!

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Gosh, only 5? big_smile

In no particular order:

1. James Burton
2. Chet Atkins
3. Les Paul
4. Robert Johnson
5. George Friend

I also really enjoy Scotty Moore's work, especially in his Sun Records days with Elvis smile  I'm also a big fan of Dick Dale and Link Wray due to their innovations in the early days.  In modern times, I never tire of Brian Setzer or Jim of Reverend Horton Heat.

I'm actually pretty ecclectic in what I like...I appreciate Slash, Dimebag, etc. from that era of playing. 

I'm not a purist in my tastes LOL...I prefer the 1950's rockabilly sound with lots of echo, tremolo, and slapback, but because I'm a music lover, I love so much of it ALL smile

Love this thread!

Blessings,
L

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Syd Barrett

Jimi Hendrix

Kurt Cobain

"Policeman shouts but I don't see him/ They're one thing I don't believe in"
-Tomorrow, 'My White Bicycle'

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Jeff Beck
Rory Gallagher
Frank Zappa
Joe Satriani
Jimmy Page
...
Not necessarily in that order... and can include these on any given day
Al diMeola
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
Mark Tremonti
Django Reinhart
Greg Lake

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

Order can change !!

1. Cliff Gallup
2. James Burton
3. Mickey Green
4. Johnny Winter
5. Jimi

Stronger than the sun....harder than a gun

Re: Your Top 5 Guitarists of all time

crsnj wrote:

There is no electric guitar or tracked recording without Les Paul

Just as a point of history, Les Paul innovated the solid body electric, but people had been mucking about with electric amplification using pickups for a couple of years before that.  A dude named Beucheau (?) actually has the original patent (1935) for that.

The more you know!  smile

Someday we'll win this thing...

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