[Helena4]

I'm feeling a guitar crazy phase coming on...

So I'm asking everyone - who's your favourite guitarist?

Mine is Johnny Marr


Then maybe liiiiike Tom Morello.

[tone]

Oooh we haven't had one of these threads for a while. I'm going to say Prince - and not because he recently died - he's been one of my fave guitarists for ever.

I'm also going to throw in George Harrison for pure melodic song-hijacking, and Jeff Buckley, because I can't figure out how he does it (did it). I really like Scott Matthews' playing too, and Kelly Joe Phelps - damn!

[S.T.C]

Going to be boring and say Jimi Hendrix,David Gilmour ...i also have renewed my appreciation of Mick Ronson.

[Sing4me88]

I'm a non-guitarist so I guess I'm probably limited in the guitarists I've to pick from but I'm gonna go with Brian May or Mark Knoppfler. I'm not sure how great either are as guitarists but I love Queen and Dire Starits and the guitars on their tracks sound pretty good to me.More musically minded guitarists probably have a broader range to pick from and are more attuned to the particular skill sets a guitarist can have  - I can just about play the E Minor chord so the bar for how I judge ability is set phenomenally low.....

[tone]

They're both phenominal guitarists! Try to play any Queen or Dire Straits song and you'll quickly hate yourself

[Sing4me88]

They're both phenominal guitarists! Try to play any Queen or Dire Straits song and you'll quickly hate yourself

I just might - that is if any of them one chord E Minor songs

[pompeyjazz]

Hendrix, Neil young, Brian may, johnny Marr, Harrison, James Honeyman-Scott, Hugh Cornwell, Robert Smith, BB King

[jaywar76]

Rory Gallagher

[hardtwistmusic]

My favorite guitarist is whoever I'm listening to at the time as long as he/she can play better than I can.  

So.... pretty much everyone who can play guitar.  I love listening.  

Two guitarists I particularly admire are Trace Bundy on Acoustic guitar playing a finger pick style, and Eric Stadler on electric guitar.  

Eric is from St. Louis Missouri, and Trace Bundy is from Colorado.  It's unlikely anyone here has ever heard of either, but if you listen, you'll understand why I'm impressed.  

You could find either (and both) on reverbnation with a search.

https://www.reverbnation.com/ericstadler

https://www.reverbnation.com/tracebundy

https://myspace.com/tracebundy/music/songs?

[PaulAds]

Townshend. Visceral. Not widdly. Cool.

[MartynRich]

Tina and DelBoy

[ShinyThang]

Don't have many 'favourite' things in life that I'm conscious of* but I do have a favourite guitarist; David Gilmore. Absolute guitar mastery IMO. Whatever he plays seems to 'lock-in' so beautifully and, whilst he may often sound as though what he's playing is simple, his technique is so refined that any note from his fingers will always sound better in some way. Okay, perhaps a bit of hero-worshipping going on there!

...i also have renewed my appreciation of Mick Ronson.

Thanks for reminding me ... Had I been asked this question when I was 15 I probably would have said Mick Ronson.

* Favourite snack; Marmite toast and milk!

[Neil C]

Paul Kossoff, just so emotive.
 
Neil

[tina m]

oooh i like this thread!
hmmm im a bit fickle when it comes to fave guitarists i would idolise one for a while but then get disapointed so id find another one & move on... i havent actually had one for quite a while now
but guitarists i have idolised are:

old guys: neil young... jimi hendrix...jimmy page
blues: billy gibbons.... gary moore
hair metal: warren demartini...vinnie vincent
punk: johnny ramone
funk; prince
female guitarist: alison robertson...jennifer batten... poison ivy

Tina and DelBoy

yeah 

[Boydie]

Another vote for Prince here

I saw him live in '95 (squiggle era) and wasn't particularly a fan as I was taking my wife and sister to the show as they loved him

They were a little disappointed as he didn't play his old stuff - but I was blown away!!!

He played a soaring rock solo on his symbol guitar, threw it across the stage and then picked up a jazz arch top guitar and played the most phenomenal jazz solo guitar for the next 5 minutes!!

Got to see him 2 other times after that and have amassed a large collection of bootlegs of him playing live because that is where the magic happens

I have recently got hold of 3 guitar picks he actually used on stage so hopefully some of that magic will rub off!