Favorite Guitarist

[orangekick]

Alex Lifeson

 

[racer_j]

No one's said

ACE?!?!

Definitely the reason I play guitar.

 

[WashburnX50]

Alex Skolnick, Chuck Schuldiner and Dave Mustaine.

 

[FortinAmps]

Andy Larocque for Metal

Greg Howe for Fusion

 

[MrDan666]

As far as rock players....Im with dan, I Switch between a few guys.


EVH -John Sykes.

Good choices!!! Im playing the Boog right now and jamming to Blue Murder

 

[Deleted member 3860]

...

 

[bunghole]

Andy Larocque for Metal

 

[MisterBulbous]

Birelli Lagrene, Ray Gomez, Jimi

I saw a clip of Birelli on PBS. Holy shit. he was (is) quite good.

 

[Doodleface]

Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal
Guthrie Govan
Brian May
Steve Rothery
Steve Howe
Joey Eppard
Alex Lifeson
Jimmy Page

 

[Screaminsaint]

I met this guy over the weekend playing for a band called Ashes Remain from Baltimore, MD.

Rob Tahan. He's a sick lead player with awesome tone. Kind of reminds me of Petrucci.

 

[AmpliFIRE]

I met this guy over the weekend playing for a band called Ashes Remain from Baltimore, MD.

Rob Tahan. He's a sick lead player with awesome tone. Kind of reminds me of Petrucci.

yup...he's also a forumite here!

 

[thegame]

Rock - Jimmy Page
Old school metal - Glenn Tipton
Thrash - Gary Holt
Death Metal - Pat O'Brien
"Alternative" - Bob Mould

 

[Superunknown]

Yngwie

 

[shredhead666]

Ron Thal. It's not very often a guitarist like this comes along with a sense of humor that you can hear in his phrasing.

 

[Elric]

I'm gonna say: Nuno Bettencourt

Since everyone else has said the other two that'd be in the running for me: EVH / Lynch

 

[Anonymous]

Of all time: EVH

Currently: Guthrie Govan

Steve

 

[mctallica1]

Brian Setzer

The man is amazing. Now that I am exploring something other than chugga-chugga wuggy-wug weeee I have truly come to appreciate his influence.

Not my number one, but a GREAT choice!


My number one, without question is Hetfield. He is the reason I picked up a guitar when I heard "No Life til Leather" and has remained a steady influence.


Have a shitload of number 2's from all types of music from country to blues to metal and rock.

 

[joshsage]

ok so I guess I'm the only SRV dude here...
SRV

 

[stephen sawall]

I think Page,Gilmore,Jimi,Beatles have the most effect on how I play. But that is the stuff I learned early on. Adam Jones has had me re-think the role of the guitar in a few ways and saw I a KISS dvd not to long ago and figured out where my big wide slow vibrato came from. Favorite maybe Prince?

 

[tituba]

charo!!!