In your opinion best guitarist!!!

[Grizz83]

SRV
Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Joe Satriani
Zakk Wylde
Dime Bag

^^Those are my favorites off the top of my head.

Some that havent been mentioned that I think deserve to:

Steve Vai - surprised no one has mentioned him
Les Claypool (Primus) - Bass guitartist, but there isnt anyone else in the world that can play like him.

And believe it not, even though I dont like the music that's made him popular, John Mayer is a phenomenal blues guitarist.

[Todd-ty729]

Bass guitar is a whole different animal.

A good bass player is not heard, he is felt! All rhythm. Holds the band together along with the drummer.

Les Claypool and Billy Sheehan were guitarists trapped in a bass guitar cabinet!

They had as many or more pedal effects than any guitar players.


Steve Harris of Maiden wrote pretty much all of the guitar parts on bass guitar. That is why all of his bass lines mimic the guitar parts. He was good!

[AtTheWall]

Flamenco Guitar...the measure of an Acoustic guitarists melodic creativity at speed meet - Oscar Lopez from Chili now transplanted to Canada.


At the end of his song LUCIA - listen to his fingers work the close at SPEED! UNBELIEVABLE MELODIES!

Oscar Lopez playing Lucia - SWEET WORK!

As the song closes...his supporting band start to clap and cheer as he tears the STRINGS UP! AMAZING WORK!

http://youtu.be/XA-E82Dvq2o

[mikemorvan]

Flamenco Guitar...the measure of an Acoustic guitarists melodic creativity at speed meet - Oscar Lopez from Chili now transplanted to Canada.


At the end of his song LUCIA - listen to his fingers work the close at SPEED! UNBELIEVABLE MELODIES!

Oscar Lopez playing Lucia - SWEET WORK!

As the song closes...his supporting band start to clap and cheer as he tears the STRINGS UP! AMAZING WORK!

http://youtu.be/XA-E82Dvq2o

Well - I'll be adding this cat to the "new to me" artist list and buying some of his stuff. Greatness.

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Bass guitar is a whole different animal.

A good bass player is not heard, he is felt! All rhythm. Holds the band together along with the drummer.

Les Claypool and Billy Sheehan were guitarists trapped in a bass guitar cabinet!

They had as many or more pedal effects than any guitar players.


Steve Harris of Maiden wrote pretty much all of the guitar parts on bass guitar. That is why all of his bass lines mimic the guitar parts. He was good!

Most metal is this way, hence the power.

[scotth89]

Brent Mason
Brad Paisley
Vince Gill

[Texas Tracker]

I give you Al di Meola. Go 3 min in and see his talent.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGWfDkx4zyY"]Al di Meola - Race with Devil on Spanish Highway - YouTube[/ame]

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

You are late Rig. LOL.

[rossivey]

SRV became one with the guitar or vice versa!

The way he played the thing was hard to fathom. How could he make his hands and fingers do that was cool!

To watch him play live was almost a spiritual experience! If it didn't memorize you then you had no soul whether you played an instrument or not.

His style of play was his style of play. I don't think anyone has really come close to copying it.

I saw a video clip of him playing with an old black blues guitarist, may have been BB King or someone like him, and to watch the old legend look on in awe spoke volumes.

Never got to watch him live cuz I'm too young but SRV is my favorite guitarist for those very reasons. Dude is amazing! One of my favorite things about Austin is the SRV statue on the river!

[Texas Tracker]

You are late Rig. LOL.

I should have known that you had him on the list.

[CaptJack]

this is TALENT

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTVLIZaxMk]Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins - Instrumental Medley[/ame]

[BIG IRON]

Your avatar cracks me up Sean

[wassaw]

honorable mention

Alex Lifeson (Rush)

Duane Allman

Gary Rossington

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

I should have known that you had him on the list.

Dude blew my mind in the mid 80's at a guitar clinic at the music store at LBJ and Preston.

[Black Ice]

Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Paige
Toni Iommi
Zack Wydle
Tom Morello
Jerry Cantrell
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Dimebag Darrell


I do not think these are the greatest just who I like the best.