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Mine would have to be either Paul Gilbert or Jason Becker. If you've never heard of either of 'em there are plenty of videos on youtube of them showcasing their abilities.

Paul Gilbert:
-Get Out of My Yard Intro
-Terrifying Guitar Trip


Jason Becker
-Serrana
-Fifth Caprice
-Air

David Gilmour, hes got the number one solo of all time.

kurt cobain. period.

angus young

Eddie Van Halen

umm.. that must be alexi laiho.. from Children of bodom .. hes top 100 best ever

Pwnd.

i'm with antknee, van halen all the way baby

Jimmy Page or Jimmy Hendrix!
lol, I guess jimmys are just good at playing guitar.

Van Halen. Crazy solos!

im still sticking with Angus Young :D

rofl Angus Young isn't that good Chris Cheney all the way or however you spell it. he's apparently the best rock guitarist Australia's had in 10 years.
btw anyone here play guitar. I DO :D

From: rkroxpunk
rofl Angus Young isn't that good Chris Cheney all the way or however you spell it. he's apparently the best rock guitarist Australia's had in 10 years.
btw anyone here play guitar. I DO :D

Oh I beg to differ! He IS the best guitar player! And I play guitar and bass.

Buckethead. He's so fast and good.

If you have never seen or heard of him, check out you tube, there are plenty vids out there of him

From: Mjordan
Oh I beg to differ! He IS the best guitar player! And I play guitar and bass.

Rofl I still think he's awesome. Have you seen him in concerts. he wears like old school, school clothes. but i'm still annoyed at them that they moved to the UK and call themselves English now. Our best band went to England :duh:

From: rkroxpunk
Rofl I still think he's awesome. Have you seen him in concerts. he wears like old school, school clothes. but i'm still annoyed at them that they moved to the UK and call themselves English now. Our best band went to England :duh:

Yeah I have a few of their concert DVD's(one of them is live at Donnington). And yeah, thats one of his famous attributes, the schoolboy clothes :D

Aaron Barrett :D

IEATJOO could i ask wtf ur name means :D i been wondering for a while now

Yeah..I don't know. It's random. I don't even eat babies. I have no clue what it means either. I just didn't want to use the same name on this forum as another runescape forum..that way they'd know it's me. :P

And yeah, it is random.

hmm do u know jerry C ??
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
this is not jerry C but real good gituar solo!

Probably would have to be Larry Sparks, that guy is good. :)

Grrr Mopar I'm still banned at your dang site for no reason and you won't reply to my e-mail/pm….

bucket head ftw!

Donald Trump. All the way. =]

Hmm, Mini List :D .

- Jimmy Hendrix
- Steve Vai
- Paul Gilbert
-David Gilmour
-Kurt Cobain
- ME!
- Chuck Norris (lol).

Dude Herman Lee for all you noobs who don't know him…

He's the dude with the really long hair…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3gdjyA1kayE

I like bucket head better than herman..idk why..just do

are dragonforce drum beats even real..I try to listen to them closely and they sound all wierd.

probably Bob Dylan i think

Most of them aren't drum beats it's their guitarists… like in that vid its just the two guitars… but yea they also have a keyboardist but their drummer is pretty crazy.

Banjo Bill

Buckethead

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8akmP6Sjv2o
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vYxrdrzmuUw

Alexi Laiho

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjZXUyvFQDA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nbr89uDTr9Y

Steve Vai

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4f6aL_d30Do

Buckethead, Steve Vai, and Herman Li are the best IMO.

I play guitar too.

From: whales
David Gilmour, hes got the number one solo of all time.

yes man! pink floyd all the way. then jimmy page, hendrix, eric clapton. oldies players mostly. it doesnt take that much skill to thrash somthing out. just fast fingers lol

Uh it most definetely does take a lot of skill to thrash something out if you want it to sound decent. Speed takes a backseat.

My favorite guitarist would have to be Aaron Fink or Ben Burnley from Breaking Benjamin, whoever created the guitar solo for "Here We Are" in the new album, Phobia.

Well i dunno. Speed is cool but sometimes its just lame and gets boring.

I love adam jones from tool. When you first hear it doesnt sound all to great. But just some of the like swirling effects stuff is real cool. I saw them live earlier this year and it just blows your mind.

Chris cheney is ok for whoever said him :p Saw him last year and he was ok :p

Also <3 jack white. Haha he may not be the best but man he is awesome for coming up with cool little riffs. And when he wants to break free my god he unleashes hell. I saw him same day i saw living end and it was no contest. Jack just stood at front of stage while the crowd went ape and he just pulled massive 5 minute solos of all different styles. Was amazing

Also omar from mars volta/at the drive in s f-ing amazing. No one compares. Even if he does play weird shit. Saw them earlier this year. And my god. Even though the place i saw them has shitty accoustics it was just insane. Never stopping. They played for about 3 hours. With one break in the middle but other then that each song just flowed and they just kept going. It was awesome.

And just adding bass playing. cliff burton wins hands down. There is no chance anyone can beat him. Except for some people who have played slap all there life and that is there life. But yeah cliff rocked.

Also whoever said angus young was the best….. good grief…..

Im more into rock guitarists. Blues and stuff is ok. But i dunno.

Improvisational blues can be fun. I like Mars Volta, but yeah, they play some weird shit.

I saw Styx, Foreigner, and Def Leppard in concert about a week and a half ago. Styx was good, Foreigner sounded great for the five songs they play (pissed everyone off), and Def Leppard was amazing. Having it storm like crazy and being totally soaked just added to it. It was lightening and thundering all over, and it looked and sounded insane with the guitars going. . .Plus there was a mudslide, what more can you ask?

Awesome. A lot of the old school guys have their own definite style. It's much harder now for a player to make that same kind of niche. That being said, nothing beats a nice guitar solo from Brian May of Queen :)

Well if your talking classic rock dang mang of corse Hendrix an since Zeppelin is so good Jimmy Page and if your talking death metal oh well then ALEXI LAIHO FROM CHILDREN OF BODOM W000000000000000000TTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Morello FTW

From: i owned u
Tom Morello FTW

Its interesting. Everyone picks this guy. ANd in rolling stone and what not but hes somewhat like i dunno boring to me…. He is a awesome guitar player. But he never really shows it in his songs with rage or audioslave… I mean name any rage song. And with the right effects units there is no doubt that all average guitar players can play it. I learned pretty much there whole first album when i first started playing. He is great when he is just doing his thing but he never shows it…

O AND I FORGOT TO ADD THE GREATEST PLAYER/SINGER IN MY OPINION…. I cant believe i forgot him though. But matt bellamy from muse is astounding. Knights of cyndonia or super massive black hole are both awesome. And he playes really really hard stuff while singer perfect. Saw him when i saw tool (was a festival thing eariler this year) and it was the best few hours of my life in music.

I have a long list,

I like David Gilmour and Sid Barret of Pink Floyd
I like Jimmi Hendrix of Dave Mathews
I like Slash of Guns n Roses
and I like Kirk Hammet of Metallica.

The 3 guitarists of iron maiden are also good :/

I have problems with finding the BEST guitarist, so I decided to make a list. These are my favorite guitarists, no particular order.

Kirk Hammet
Eddie Van Halen
Zakk Wylde
Dimebag Darrell
Steve Vai
Slash ;)

I hope I didn't forget anyone that I like :(

Edit:

I just saw a few posts above me. I didn't know exactly what the best Guitarist/Singer meant. I took it as the best guitarist who also lead sings. I would have to say James Hetfield, or Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society) would be the best guitarists who also lead sing.

Synyster Gates - Avenged Sevenfold, He's a great player. Don't particularly listen to their music except for the immense solo's :D

Jimmy hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Dave Mustain… all greats

yngwie malmsteen - if you've never heard of him go on youtube and search him hes insane. he wins for sickest.
uhh probably favorite is jimmy page, eddie van halen, eric clapton, paul McCartney. all the classics. i play guitar btw.

From: LameCat
I have a long list,

I like David Gilmour and Sid Barret of Pink Floyd
I like Jimmi Hendrix of Dave Mathews
I like Slash of Guns n Roses
and I like Kirk Hammet of Metallica.

The 3 guitarists of iron maiden are also good :/

jimi hendrix of dave mathews? :P

It's got to be Jimmy Hendrix! He's the King. You seen Jake Shimabukuro play While my guitar gently weeps? He's an awesome player. Technically ukele not guitar but…. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo

Herman Li. From Dragonforce.
His hands are worth their weight in gold x4

1) Buckethead
2) Angus Young (AC/DC)
3) Slash (Guns N' Roses)'
4) Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) (Dead)
5) Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)

Buckethead is just insane…
Angus makes killer sound. Awesome
Slash is just good. His style is good.
Dimebag Darrell did a load of good stuff in Pantera
Eddie is just sickly fast.

-Knives

From: teh_lulz
Herman Li. From Dragonforce.
His hands are worth their weight in gold x4

Sure, he plays fast. So does his counter part Steve Tatertots or whatever his name is. That doesn't mean he's good. I'm not saying he's bad, it's just that 60%-70% of his solos is purely finger tapping-an easily masterable technique. A little finger exercising (Grip master ftw) and about a month of practicing tapping (5-8 fingered) and you could probably do an acceptable job on his solos. To be a good guitar player you need skill, style, and songwriting ability. Along these guidelines, I'll go with:

1) Jimi Hendrix (a.k.a. Jesus :f: )
2) Jimmy Page
3) Stevie Ray Vaughn
4) Slash:cartman:
5) John Mayer (PLEASE READ: before you judge this selection, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sPmTgPvx28 Personally, I hate all of his songs, he is just an amazing guitar player. If only he played it once in a while….)

From: Doreauxgard
Sure, he plays fast. So does his counter part Steve Tatertots or whatever his name is. That doesn't mean he's good. I'm not saying he's bad, it's just that 60%-70% of his solos is purely finger tapping-an easily masterable technique. A little finger exercising (Grip master ftw) and about a month of practicing tapping (5-8 fingered) and you could probably do an acceptable job on his solos. To be a good guitar player you need skill, style, and songwriting ability. Along these guidelines, I'll go with:

1) Jimi Hendrix (a.k.a. Jesus :f: )
2) Jimmy Page
3) Stevie Ray Vaughn
4) Slash:cartman:
5) John Mayer (PLEASE READ: before you judge this selection, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sPmTgPvx28 Personally, I hate all of his songs, he is just an amazing guitar player. If only he played it once in a while….)

Nice point. I was learning Little wing by jimi hendrix on guitar. And told someone omfg this song is hard and they were like…. where does it get hard?… That song is such a awesome song. Not really fast. But just little notes here and there that make a perfect sound

And yes John Mayer is a awesome guitar player.

Dick Dale is the best of all time..:rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmbF1Zyvk

Oh and Eric Clapton isn't the fastest player of all time but he is amazing with the guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY04yo0C0fI

From: Pyro
Nice point. I was learning Little wing by jimi hendrix on guitar. And told someone omfg this song is hard and they were like…. where does it get hard?… That song is such a awesome song. Not really fast. But just little notes here and there that make a perfect sound

And yes John Mayer is a awesome guitar player.

Thats the thing about Jimi Hendrix. You can learn a song and get all of the notes right in a row and in time, but it sounds horrible and absolutely nothing like the real song.

OMG… Cant believe I've just read through 3 pages and couldn't find John Petrucci - Probably one of the greatest guitarists of all time!

And Eric Clapton is alright on acoustic by the way.

John petrucci
Dick Dale
Alexi Laiho - Lives 200 meter away :P
Herman Li

From: Cheesehunk
Dick Dale is the best of all time..:rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmbF1Zyvk

Oh and Eric Clapton isn't the fastest player of all time but he is amazing with the guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY04yo0C0fI

watched the dick dale thing. Interesting. It was pretty good, but a lot was just…noise. Really long bends and slides all based in a certain key. He also did the flashy over handed fretting thing that Herman Li does. I do commend him for playing the guitar with the strings upside down though…..if i were him i wouldve just switched them.

Laiho… great guitar player, insane solos

mmk, maybe these arent "the best" but they're my favs

jimi hendrix (course)–you ever try to play voodoo child?
you might know the notes but you never get it to sound like he does.. XD
slash – plays VERY well and… i like his style lol (top hat/glasses ftw)
lenny kravitz – sometimes goes a bit overboard with the love songs,
but his earlier stuff is awesome
Alex Laiho – not really my genre of music, but hes ultra-badass…
John Mayer – also goes a bit overboard with love songs ,
but his blues stuff is incredible..

hmmm… those were just kinda off the top of my head, more now =D
Joe Walsh. – you cant deny that ….
BB King – set the standard with Lucille

From: Pyro
matt bellamy from muse is astounding. Knights of cyndonia or super massive black hole are both awesome. And he playes really really hard stuff while singer perfect. Saw him when i saw tool (was a festival thing eariler this year) and it was the best few hours of my life in music.

Plug In Baby is sick from Muse too.. Matt Bellamy FTW. sings super-high lol.

From: ecclesiastes
OMG… Cant believe I've just read through 3 pages and couldn't find John Petrucci - Probably one of the greatest guitarists of all time!

And Eric Clapton is alright on acoustic by the way.

Wow, I was reading through this and thinking the exact same thing. My favorite guitar players, in order:

1. John Petrucci
2. Yngwie Malmsteen
3. Joe Satriani
4. Kirk Hammett
5. Steve Vai
6. Eddie Van Halen

EDIT: Forgot to mention, my favorite bass player is probably Les Claypool. I don't really like Primus, they're okay, but he's an amazing bass player.

Joe Satriani…love him:P

Carlos Satana!!!!!!!!!

Kurt Cobain :D

i have to say buckethead :D

adam sandler! :P

my favorite 2 guitar palyers is tom delounge and kurt cobain

and i play guitar and bass

Jimmy page, best guitar player ever.

Yngwie Malmsteen pwns all your bitches.

Slash

BucketHead was a replacement for slash when he got kicked out of GnR.

Jimmy Hendrix or Angus Young

~Penguin

I would probably go with van halen on this one…

The all time best guitar player was Jimi Hendrix

I have to say Randy Rhoads. :D

Got a huge list of 'em. I've played mostly John Petruccis songs so he is probably the personal favourite.

jerry C is god at sweeps….
but i love slash!

There's only one right answer to that question. It's John Petrucci! :D