the 10 most influential guitarists on YOU.

[FourDown]

Hmmmm.....

Hardly anyone mentions Carlos Santana.

Saw him in NYC Central Park in '66. Absolutely the reason I started playing.

Then

On July 5th, 1967 I was at a Rheingold Beer Central Park Music Festival featuring The Young Rascals (please don't ask, it was a girl, she loved them, I wanted her, 'nuff said) and the announcer gets on and says the opening act didn't show up and replacing them was a new group, just arrived from England, "Ladies & Gentlemen...The Jimi Hendrix Experience!".

Music changed forever.


My other eight are: Clapton, Page, VanHalen, Beck, Billy Gibbons, Trower, BB, and Edge.


Peace... 4D

[ChubbyD]

My list may be a little different from most on this thread. I will start with:
1. Chet Atkins
2. Marty Stuart
3. Alan Gaines
4. Neal Schon
5. James "JY" Young
6. Jerry Reed
7. Duane Allman
8. Steve Wariner
9. Joe Walsh
10. Don Felder
Call me eclectic?

[Terry Wetzel]

cause I'm pretty particular as to who I like but, here goes.
Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Link Ray, Cliff Gallop(deceased) & Johnny Meeks,(Both from Gene Vincents' Blue Caps), the late, great Chet Atkins and more recently, Mark Knopfler, and my all time favorite, The great James Burton. By the way, I forgot to mention that I'm a senior citizen. If any of you youngsters want a history lesson in Rock and roll guitar 101, check out some of these guys! They created rock guitar and unfortunately most of them passed before Eric Clapton bought his first guitar!.Hey, that's 10.!

[GM Reszel]

M. Schenker
D. Gilmour
K. Livgren
A. Lifeson
G. Moore
A. Dimeola
E. Vh
A. Smith
D. Murray

And,,,Kiss - they are the reason I picked it up!

[JP2]

Why is no one mentioning Steve Howe or Alex Lifeson? Two of the best ever!!!

Page, Gilmore, Clapton, Howe, Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's Mcgee, SRV, Lifeson, Beck, Hendrix, Santana, May, in no particular order.

[MoneylessRecording]

In no particular order, we'll see if I can get 10

Tommy Emmanuel
Randy Roades
Sean Watkins
Joe Perry
Angus Young (yeah, I know he's not that great, but he's cool)
Lincoln Brewster (the contemporary Christian dude)
Dave Mustaine
Recently, have been wanting to play like Orianthi and Ted Nugent.
And, last, I hafta say, my favorite guitarist, Zakk Wylde.

That's 10, here's a few extra: Jimmy Page, Brad Paisely, Keith Urban, Dimebag Darryl, Chet Atkins, A guy at church named Michael (he's pretty good), and I'm sure there's a few I missed. Will update as I think of more that influenced me.

Live well, rock on.

[CuteLunatic]

1. Eric Clapton
2. Mark Knopfler
3. B. B. King
4. Carlos Santana

[GM Reszel]

There's just too many to make a top list but some that knocked me out:

Michael Schenker
Adrian Smith and Dave Murray
David Gilmour
Gary Moore
Yingyang Palmspleen (i am your new god little boys)
Brian May
Eddie
Keith Scott (Brian Adam's guitarist)
Kerry Livgren

[Rarity]

In order...

1. Keith Urban
2. Tom Morello
3. Herman Li
4. Mark Tremonti
5. Carlos Santana

All I got.

[spacerobot]

In no particular order:

Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
Alex Lifeson (RUSH)
Larry Lalonde (Primus)
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Jay Mascis (DInosaur Jr.)
Steve Albini (Shellac)
James Hetfield (Metallica)
Kirk Hammet (Metallica)
Stephen Egerton (Descendents / All)
Scott Ian (Anthrax)

[Hapi]

1. Jeff Beck
2. Jimmy Page
3. David Gilmour
4. Randy Rhoades
5. Rik Emmett
6. Alex Lifeson
7. Michael Schenker
8. John Petrucci

[dbstock]

Really hard to narrow it to 10, there are just so many great ones,depending on what your tastes are but here goes
Peter Green(he taught Gary Moore most of what he knew)
Duane Allman
Ian Anderson (if you've ever seen him live and acoustic, you'd know why)
SRV
Jeff Beck
Robert Fripp
David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
Carlos Santana
Albert King
I know I've left off a ton of great players,but had to narrow it to 10, but if I'd have had more room I would have added Gary Moore,Eric Clapton,BB King,Robin Trower,etc...etc...and that's not even any number of great country artists, but I am not a country fan.

[Dave Burris]

Really hard to narrow it to 10, there are just so many great ones,depending on what your tastes are but here goes
Peter Green(he taught Gary Moore most of what he knew)
Duane Allman
Ian Anderson (if you've ever seen him live and acoustic, you'd know why)
SRV
Jeff Beck
Robert Fripp
David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
Carlos Santana
Albert King
I know I've left off a ton of great players,but had to narrow it to 10, but if I'd have had more room I would have added Gary Moore,Eric Clapton,BB King,Robin Trower,etc...etc...and that's not even any number of great country artists, but I am not a country fan.

A notable list But Ian Anderson ahead of Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, or Frank Zappa?

[mfk412]

I've been trying to learn to play for about 2 years now...here are my picks:
1. Mark Knopfler
2. Eric Clapton
3. Tommy Emmanuel
4. Michael Hedges
5. Pat Methany
6. Chet Atkins
7. George Harrison
8. Jeff Beck
9. Carlos Santana
10. David Gilmore

[raindog]

Time for Raindog to weigh in (better late than never):

1. Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult)
2. David Gilmour
3. Alex Lifeson
4. Dan Fogelberg (before he really went soft)
5. Dick Dale
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. Eddie Van Halen
8. Jimmy Page
9. Robbie Krieger
10. Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)

...for what it's worth!