Who is your favorite? You can make a list too, because there are so many great guitarists. Yes and I make the start.

1. Ritchie Blackmore
The best, the absolutely best. He plays his songs never exactly same, when he play them again. The master of improvisation and plays with all five fingers, blind. I saw him live, it was unbelievable.

2. Tony Iommi
He has the hardest riff ever.

3. Jimmy Page
Genius, hear Dazed And Confused or Since I've Been Loving You live and you now what I mean.

4. Jim Matheos
Can play extremely hard, but then so melodic, great, only great. A master of the music arrangement.

5. Chris deGarmo and Michael Wilton
Best guitarduo ever. Can only post together. A perfect synchronisation. These riffs and solos they play are only amazing.

Ooh, so many.
Two of the best: Alexi Laiho and Kirk Hammett. Brilliant.

Metal

Devin Townsend
Mikael Åkerfeldt
John petrucci

Shred:

Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Paul Gilbert
Buckethead
Guthrie Govan

I recommend cheking those out if you are serious about playing guitar. I have many more I would like to pick but those are probably my most favourite players.

Yes, John Petrucci is a really good guitarist. I saw him live. The man was increadible. Joe Satriani, he's amazing. But I don't know many songs from him, like Steve Vai. Both are one of the bests, for sure. I think it is time, that I hear more from these both. The other ones... I will check out, thanks. Do you know Michael Romeo? He's also a very good player. Or David Gilmore, the guitarist of Pink Floyd? A player, who created an own style too.

Old school eric clapton imo.

Randy Rhoads
Tak Matsumoto
Buckethead
Tony Iommi
Jason Becker
Frank Zappa
The Focking Fury
The Maiden guys
The Priest guys
Prince
Andy LaRocque

Kirk Hammet.....rofl

Oh my god I forgot Hendrix.
Voodoo child added to my list.

I love Petrucci... *_____________*
I'm a Dream Theater fan, and i love it so much!
I saw Blackmore live too... Amazing!

There's a lot of Big Guitarist my favorite is Hendrix

1.jimi hendrix
2.jimmy page
3. bb king
4. john frusciante
5. tom morrelo

1. John petrucci
2. Ritchie Blackmore
3. Tony Iommi
4. Steve Vai
5. Glen Tipton

1. Slash
2. ANGUS
3. Keith Richards
4. Jimi Hendrix

ARGHHHH! Is there anyone who knows Robert Fripp? Guitarist from King Crimson, KC is one of the base of progressive rock. watch :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJQHOFJs6mw

Robert Fripp is mad crazy, the three Peace songs are so beautiful.

1-Tom Delonge (blink-182)- Sure his guitar riffs are very simple to play, but they are catchy and they always sound good.

2- Jared Leto (30 seconds to Mars)

Check out the Anthologys by Satriani and Vai. They are basically a best-of, but there are 2 or 3 songs from every CD they have published on it, so it basically reflects their entire career as musicians.

And yeah, Romeo is amazing as well, although I only have 1 Symphony X CD at the moment

What Symphony X album do you have? I have The Divine Wings Of Tragedy and V, damn good albums, Romeo's tapping is ridiculous.

We (my father and I) have The Divine Wings of Tragedy, Twilight in Olympus, V and The Odyssey. All very good albums. Yes I know you mentioned Walshy, but I wanted to post it too. The Anthologys? I will check out, thank you. Oh, there is one thing left. In my opinion, Mr. Romeo is better than Mr. Petrucci. Why? He plays with more feeling. His way to play is more melodious.

I really want Twilight In Olympus, but I'm up to my man tits in money I owe, so no dice until I get that straightened away. Petrucci sucks, he's a wanker of the worst degree, I'd rather listen to Michael Romeo anyday. I agree with you about Dave Gilmour, he's one of the most soulful players I've ever heard, Comfortably Numb has one of the best solos ever too.

yes Michael Romeo is really good. Saying Petrucci sucks is a little bit provocation? lol! And as I love Pink Floyd, I agree with everyone who says that Gilmour is a great guitarist! I would add Chet Atkins, Marcel Dadi, Mark knopfler for their feeling.

I've read this topic and I noticed that Yngwie Malmsteen was missing,and to me he's the best guitarist ever.
I also enjoy Steve Vai, Petrucci, Kirk Hammet , David Gilmour and many others.

Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Carlos Santana

Do you know Karl Groom from Threshold? Super guitarist. Michael Schenker is one who plays with much feeling, always underestimated. It is amazing what he wrote in the early times of UFO. Petrucci is a really good guitarist. But he is an absolute technician, plays with little feeling. Yeah, Malmsteen is also one of the best, can play increadible fast.

Michael Schenker is great, early UFO is awesome. He played Lipstick Traces completely with his feet, and Rock Bottom has a killer solo. When Malmsteen is at the top of his game, you can't touch him, but he hasn't really done anything great in a long long time.

Love to Love is my favourite UFO song. Rock Bottom is a very good song too and I love Doctor Doctor.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bQzwqGBLYn0

This is a video with Ritchie Blackmore, my favourite. He improvised nearly the complete solo. I love it to see him playing so I wanted to share this great solo with others. Hope you like it.

Child In Time, my favourite Deep Purple Song.

Meh, emotion lies always in the eye of the beholder, in this case, the listener.

Most people claim that instrumentals don't have any emotion in them, just because of the missing vocals, I personally don't find any sight of emotion in today's pop / rock / emo / mallcore genres...

In order to avoid listing anybody on Rollings Stone's "100 Greatest" list, I'm gonna say Joe Walsh.

I agree with you. Mainstream, only the money is important. It's sad, but true. In the past, artists wanted to express themselves and critizised politic, society and economy.

1. Neal Schon (Guitarist for Journey, I think he's really underrated)
2. Eric Clapton (Freaking amazing...)
3. Jimmi Hendrix (Seriously, how can he not be on your list?)
4. Claudio Sanchez (Guitarist/Lead Singer for Coheed and Cambria, I'm not trying to say he's one of the best, but definitiely one of my favorites)
5. Joey Eppard (Guitarist/Lead Singer for 3, find and listen to the song Bramfatura, you'll know why I think he's amazing)

Just one

Andreas Segovia

I love Hendrix. His style is so unique and beautifully complex. Though millions may try I don't think anyone has a chance to duplicate his sound.

Jimi Hendrix

Walter Becker

John Hiatt

Steve Lukather


Also some locals here in the philippines,

Riki Gonzales

Butch Victoriano


And my very own big bro,

John Mendoza

Jimi Hendrix

Eric Clapton

George Harrison

Jimmy Page

The Edge

Buckethead, great at guitar and quite the entertainer as well

1) Slash and he's from england, ROCK ON!!!
2)Kirk Hammet fucking legendXD
3)Synyster Gates from avenged sevenfold, i love his sols, i especially like beast n the halot, he made that song greatXD
4)the maiden guys in the cd conver insted of there names it should actually say THE MAIDEN GUYS
5)Dave Mustaine (even if everybody hates him :/ )
6)Dave Bashik (or however its spelt) who was in sum 41, i loved his solos
7)Whoever hes called from my chem who does the solos
8) gota admit, Tom Delonge's riffs are catchy XD

1-Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein
2-Dez Cadena
3-Alexi Laiho
4-Paul Allender
5-Charles Hedger

Not in any order.

Jimi Hendrix

Chris Henderson

Matt Roberts

Jimi hendrix
John Frusciante
Hillel slovak

John Petrucci
Dave Mustaine
Ritchie Blackmore
Tony Iommi
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix

Those are the ones I can remember now.

Steve Howe - The guitarist of Yes, he is one of the greatest guitarists of the progressive rock genre

Tony Iommi - An awsome guitarist who provides great riffs for Black Sabbath

Peter Green - The original guitarist and founder of Fleetwood Mac. He's an awsome blues player.



EDIT: And RITCHIE BLACKMORE. I don't believe I need to say more. =P

1. Agnus Young.

Nuff said.

john Petrucci from dream theater and Chris Oliva from savatage
and ofcourse...Jimmy hendrix

Haaaa...
Jimi Jimi Jimi

1. Slash
Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver

2. Frank Hannon
Tesla

3. Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin

4. Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen

5. Rik Emmett
Triumph

Michio Kurihara!

He's a japanese psychedelic guitarist and he's amazing!

Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Frank Zappa, John Fahey, Neil Young, Keiji Haino and D. Boon.
They all are absolutely wonderful in heir own ways; even Page has been inspired by Fahey's works, as well as Haino. Maybe the best of them is just Fahey.
D. Boon and Neil Young got suc a particular style, its terrific.

I would have added Oxbow's guitarist, but I might would have been taken for someone who's just here to make "the wise one that got style". It's not my purpose, but they're all my real thoughts.

TobyD : thanks for this name, I may check this out very soon!

1. Pete Townsend-The Who

2. Eric Clapton

3. Jimi Hendrix

4. George Harrison-The Beatles

5. Chuck Berry

Randy Rhoads is my favorite. He is the man that inspired me to play guitar.

Eddie Van Halen

Steve Vai

Dimebag Darrel

Joe Satriani

Michael Romeo

Gustavo Gurrera

John Petrucci

Mark Tremonti

Paul Gilbert

Marty Friedman

Yngwie Malmsteen

Tony Maclapine

Johnny A

Angus Young

Slash...

... jus to name a few XDDDDD