Discussion Best/Favourite Guitarist?

[Squll2]

Who is your favourite guitarist? Please post why or if you pick other, say who it is and what band he belongs, songs hes made etc.

Personally my favourite is allen collin From the band Lynyrd Skynyrd
(freebird, sweet home alabama, call me the wind, saturday night special, that's how i like it) are my favourite ones of theirs, but they are all great.

 

[Wiseman_2]

Joe Satriani, of course. He isn't in a band, but is an individual artist, and most songs are just incredible guitar solos. See "Surfing with the Alien", "Summer Song", "Clouds Race Across the Sky" and pretty much anything by him for a great example of his awesomeness

 

[Demi666]

Lead guitarrist of MillenColin
I dont know his name though

 

[duyen]

Dave Farell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Farrell

 

[Lord_Phoenix]

John Petrucci

Satriani's solos are very.... spastic. While he is a good player, his solos tend do be lacking melodicly. When he does free improv it sounds pretty unstructured and like he's just playing as fast as possible, not caring if it sounds good or not. Petrucci plays very well, and his improvizations are very pleasent and musical.

 

[Dakho]

Daron Malkian of System of a Down, he's not necessarily the best but his style is awesome and their songs are always very coordinated and perfectly in tune, even with time signatures and all that good stuff.

 

[New_U.S.]

Frank Iero - MCR. MCR cover are some of the best ever :thup:

 

[Jindo]

Buckethead - In no way am I stating that Buckethead is the best, but he is by far my favourite ;P.

Most people here will probably recognize Buckethead for his song 'Jordan' which was featured in GH2, Buckethead has written songs in so many different genres, my favourite song by Buckethead would be 'Nottingham Lace', a longer, more diverse take on Jordan.

 

[MasterOfABCs]

How could you exclude John Frusciante RHCP's own musical genius as well as my personal favorite guitarist?

 

[sqrage]

Alexi Laiho and Mikael Akerfeldt.

Their guitar solos and riffs make me feel so amazing.

 

[ZeroThirteen]

I'd have to agree with John Petrucci. He is incredible! 2 amazing solos by him are the fast (although the other is awesome) of the 2 solos on Erotomania and the one on Under a Glass Moon. Other than that, Jimi Hendrix and Tony MacAlpine - 2 "brothas" who can seriously shred.

 

[Zakyath]

>Frank Iero - MCR. MCR cover are some of the best ever

isn't it Frank that sucks on guitar? I know one of the guitarists is great, but the other one's worse than I am.

my favourites are the guitarists from the 69 eyes, they're very far from the best guitarists, but they play very, very well

 

[Lord_Phoenix]

I admit that my Petrucci-gasm is partially fromt the fact he dropped out of Berkely after a year and a half.

EDIT- listening to liquid tension experiment right now.... Awesome stuff.

 

[Polak]

you forgot herman lee

 

[Crusher]

Where is Flea from Rhcp???Damn he is the best!

 

[Squll2]

you forgot herman lee

no i didnt.

 

[Wiseman_2]

Where is Flea from Rhcp???Damn he is the best!

He's the Bassist, not guitarist.

 

[Zakyath]

he's a guitarist. the instrument is called "Bass guitar".

btw, I had forgotten Tim Sköld; he's pretty damn great.

 

[ZeroThirteen]

no i didnt.

Nice one. Owned!

It's Li, not Lee, and his writing style is repetative and only hard on Guitar Hero. Actually, the song isn't hard. It's the intro that's difficult to play, and that's on keyboards. He overuses the Digiwham and everything he does sounds screwed up and show-offy.

 

[Lord_Phoenix]

If we're going bassists, John Myung

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