Who Are Your Favorite Electric Guitarists?

[TCgypsy]

Any style, any era, who do you think is/was iconic?

 

Three of my faves:

 

Carl Perkins for popularizing rockabilly into so many musical styles.

Jimmy Page for coming up with SO many riffs that influenced metal and rock for decades.

Steve Vai for fusion shredding and his genius use of the whammy bar.

 

I could name 20 others but I wanna leave some for you guys.

 

Peace,

TC

Edited June 27, 2015 by TCgypsy

[Peggy]

Fun topic.. good list you started ...

Jerry Garcia

Jeff Beck

Django Reinhardt

There's a lot of fav's but these came to mind with a quick think of "iconic" and now I keep coming up with others

Peggy

Edited June 27, 2015 by Peggy

[TCgypsy]

Fun topic.. good list you started ...

Jerry Garcia

Jeff Beck

Django Reinhardt

There's a lot of fav's but these came to mind with a quick think of "iconic" and now I keep coming up with others

Peggy

Good ol' Django with only 2 usable fingers on his left hand! He did more with 2 fingers than I can do with all 4.

 

Peace,

TC

[Jim622]

So many - don't really feel like typing though. Great list so far.

 

I'll add a couple.

 

Pete Townshend

Roy Buchanan

Jeff Beck

Santana

Buddy Guy

Larry Carleton

Sonny Landreth

on and on it can go

[Rudi]

Jimmy Herring (my favourite living player)

Jerry Garcia (my favourite of all)

[TCgypsy]

Surprised no one has mentioned:

 

Ry Cooder

Chet Atkins

Jimi Hendrix

 

But there are quite a few - keep em comin'!

 

TC

[Rudi]

Steve Kimmock

David Hidalgo

[Stova007]

SRV

Hendrix

Jimmy Page

David Gilmour

Clapton

[Just1L]

Eddie Van Halen

Jimi Hendrix

Joe Satriani

Steve Vai

Eric Clapton

Robert Johnson

Edited June 29, 2015 by Just1L

[TapperMike]

Santana

Hendrix

Clapton

Page

Gilmour

Kenny Burrell

George Benson

Ed Bickert

Eddie Van Halen (yes as much as I complain about him)

Satriani

Eric Johnson

Ed Bickert

Johnny Smith

Grant Green

Wes Montgomery

Al Dimeola

SRV

Jimmie Vaughan (extremely underrated)

Edited June 29, 2015 by TapperMike

[Rudi]

Eddie Van Halen

Jimi Hendrix

Joe Satriani

Steve Vai

Eric Clapton

Robert Johnson

 

Robert Johnson played electric?

[Just1L]

Robert Johnson played electric?

 

Whoops. Just went with guitarists. On the other hand, I do find his playing to be electric.

[Rudi]

Whoops. Just went with guitarists. On the other hand, I do find his playing to be electric.

 

I nearly did the same thing.

 

Agreed. RJ's playing was electrifying.

[davidmichael]

I could fill pages on this one broken down by styles of music,but it would take forever,so Ill shoot for my favorites that I try to apply there style to my playing.

Joe Satriani

Paul Gilbert

Andy Timmons

Steve Vai

Michael Schenker

Etc .....

 

And I dont know how I forgot to mention one of my all time favorites RIP Gary Moore.

He put so much emotion in his playing it was truly amazing !!!!!

Edited July 10, 2015 by davidmichael

[Jim622]

Jimmy Herring (my favourite living player)

Jerry Garcia (my favourite of all)

Jimmy Herring definitely!

[mississippidave]

Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Richard Thompson, Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Monte Montgomery (plays acoustic electrified), Stanley Jordan, Chet Atkins, Steven Wilson, James Iha, Johnny Greenwood, Reverend Horton Heat-  There are lots more but these come to mind first.  

 

I'm probably more in to acoustic guys like Michael Hedges or Antoine Dufour though in terms of what I like to listen to most these days. Really in to Explosions in the Sky too... Instrumental guitar driven stuff. It isn't flashy guitar-wise, but just cool to listen to. 

Edited July 1, 2015 by mississippidave

[TCgypsy]

I don't know if anyone mentioned one of the most influential players EVER (in more ways than just his performance and writing, too):

 

Les Paul

 

Also, don't forget:

 

Peter Frampton

 

-TC

[TapperMike]

Funny you mention that. I've recently (not that I could ever afford it) fascinated with The Gibson Les Paul Custom Peter Frampton. Or to name it correctly the new Gibson 1954 Custom Modified by Steve Marriott Played by Peter Frampton Signature Re-envisioned by Gibson and finished at the Gibson Custom shop.

[TPistilli]

Jeff Beck,  I could listen to him for hours....when depressed....lol

Eric Clapton.

[TCgypsy]

Perhaps not as iconic but still excellent players:

 

Neil Geraldo (Pat Benatar)

Tommy Shaw (Styx)

Trevor Rabin (Yes on the 90125 album)

 

For iconic players did anyone mention:

Steve Howe

Alex Lifeson

Randy Bachman (BTO, The Guess Who)

 

-TC