Who is your all time favourite guitar player/s? Mine are John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Daniel Johns (Silverchair) and Brian May (Queen).

Wow... really, really rough. So many. Alex Lifeson (Rush) is definitely one; arpeggiations, creating soundscapes, not doing the blues thing for every solo, etc. Jake E Lee, Badlands. Simply amazing. Chris Poland!!! Mr Bend-it-awesomely!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PsJEYU1n...7fpStErc   (and, how to bend Poland style) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qua_N3O03CI

Jimmy Page, but also John Paul Jones, for orchestration and variety in tone. Steve Vai, partially for his playing, but more so for his insight (copyrights, publishing, studio work, etc). Marty Friedman for his beautifully exotic playing on Rust in Peace. David Gilmour for.. being himself. Petrucci for Under A Glass Moon. Brian May for his "regal delay harmonies" and so much more. Steve Howe for being Steve Howe. Steve Rothery (Marillion) for more beauty. Mick Ronson, for making Bowie just that much better, and for providing a bit of "stage" for Randy Rhodes. And Randy Rhodes for his style (but not his tone... ugh). Eddie Van Halen for being himself. And, of course.. Mr Frank Zappa! (RIP).

Sykes, Hendrix, Eric Johnson, Fripp, Steve Morse, Knopfler, Lindsay Buckingham, Paul Simon, Iommi, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Blackmore, Townshend, Uli Jon Roth, Schenker, Jeff Beck, Malmsteen, Shawn Lane, Lukather, Gibbons, Johnny Marr, The Edge, Martin Barre, Schon, Tipton + Downing, Murray + Smith, Dimebag (RIP), Nugent, Steve Stevens... just far too many to list!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

This was pretty bloody good

This post was last modified: 08-17-2010 02:47 PM by Bloke.

John Butler....

Indeed. Hell of a guitar player

my favourite guitarist (currently) is jade puget from AFI.

other guitarists i really like include stephen carpenter (deftones), stuart braithwaite/john cummings (mogwai), mike vennart/steve durose/gambler (oceansize), jesse lacey/vincent accardi (brand new), tom keeley/steve pedulla (thursday), jonny greenwood/ed o'brien/thom yorke (radiohead),tom fowler (million dead), christian hejnal (scarling.)... lots more in that vein. not into wanky solos as you might have guessed.

This post was last modified: 08-17-2010 02:52 PM by nialll.

Warren Haynes (Government Mule) for blues

Keith Urban ...modern country

Les Paul   (well....   Les Paul)

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath fame.

I would never claim a musician is the best guitar player. I would however say some who are among the best.

Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Jason Becker, John Petrucci are a few that certainly make the list. I think Buckethead could be included with them as well. I guess Micheal Angelo Batio too though I am not a big fan of him...

My favorite would have to be Jason Becker since his career got cut short much too soon. No, not because of substance abuse or something like that but because of ALS (Lou Gherig's disease). He was great back then and still composes music though he can no longer play it himself.

Altitudes by Jason Becker

Might as well be fair and put one for each... (in no particular order...)

Black Star by Yngwie Malmsteen
Scarified by Paul Gilbert
For the Love of God by Steve Vai
Always with me, Always with you from Joe Satriani
Glasgow Kiss by John Petrucci
Soothsayer (dedicated to Aunt Suzie) by Buckethead
No boundaries by Micheal Angelo Batio

Those are just examples and shouldn't be thought as their best... or their worst... Each one of them have many good songs...

This post was last modified: 08-22-2010 08:24 AM by Patrice.

some of my favorites

Jack White
Jeff Beck
Steve Vai

Never really saw the point of guitar.

nihilism is not restricted to a musical instrument...