Best guitarist threads nominate

Erren Music

How many people here have heard the likes or Coryell, Martino, McLaughlin or de Lucia.

Every time I see the same nominations. The Edge, Slash, Kirk, Young. These guys have nowhere near the skill level of the guys above.

Listen to Dragonsgate by Coryell.

Who is your favourite guitarist

liah

I doubt he'd be considered the "best" but I'm quite fond of Paul Gilbert.

Andy McKee is up there, too. And I like Eric Johnson. There's a lot I'm forgetting, though, I can never remember single names.

Rigsby

Erren Music wrote: »

How many people here have heard the likes or Coryell, Martino, McLaughlin or de Lucia.

Maybe not in this forum, but there is a good chance that these names would be familiar to the people who frequent the "Jazz/Blues" forum

However, I agree that you get a bit fed up with the same old names popping up.

While they are probably not "the best", some of my favourite lesser known guitarists would be :

Larry Carlton

Emily Remler

John Etheridge

Bill Frisell

Kenny Burell

Kold

Jonny Greenwood because he's more musician than guitarist.

Notorious

I've always thought it's a shame that most of the best guitarists aren't very well known and that their work is usually overlooked by the majority.

Some of my favourites:
Frank Zappa
Rory Gallagher
Robert Fripp
Allan Holdsworth
Shawn Lane
Johnny Marr
Jason Becker
Mark Knopfler

MickShamrock

Best guitarist and The Edge in same thread. LOL! :pac:

kaki

Michael Hedges
Preston Reed
Kaki King
Erik Mongrain.