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Favourite Guitarists

This discussion was inspired by the recent article about our 3 favourite female singers.

Because it was impossible for me to pick just three female vocalists ( I love women singers), I will not put a limit as to how many you wish to vote for. I limited myself to a dozen. However, if you list more that 50 I will seriously question your decision making skills.

In no particular order, except for Rory at number one.

1. Rory Gallagher

2. Peter Green

3. Roy Buchanan

4. Joe Bonamassa

5. David Gimour

6. Slash

7. Johnny Winter

8. Duane Allman

9. Stevie Ray Vaughn

10. Mark Knopfler

11. Glen Campbell

12. Guthrie Govan

 

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bigpopsmusic
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This is a good list for a select few genres…expand your music genres and you’ll expand your list….there are many many “great” guitarists and few, probably less than 50-100 “spectacular” guitarists.  

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vonharaland
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Bobby Fripp deserves mention in this Pantheon.

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m002d2
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No love for Cory Wong? Or Lucky Peterson...shame

 

https://youtu.be/9VMFw3QW8nA

danknowlton
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Two of my favorites that have not received any mention - 

Andrés Segovia

Eric Johnson

Ask any virtuoso guitarist what they think about them...and then be ready for an hour or so of enthusiastic comments on their playing!

 

BTW - I am NOT a guitarist, I am a bassist and drummer/percussionist.  

stuartk
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@bigpopsmusic 

"This is a good list for a select few genres…expand your music genres and you’ll expand your list…"

Good point. There's a heavy Rock bias here. Perhaps it's a generational thing?  

I listen to a lot of Jazz and my favorite Jazz artists are not guitarists. Perhaps 5% of my Jazz listening features guitar. 

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