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This was requested by Woks choose your top favourite guitarists
Three Catagories Maybe we need 4 categories
List as many as you like
Lead
Jimi Hendrix,Matt Belamy,Clapton, Steve Lukather Lou Reed Live cd,
Rhythm
Steve Marriot, John Fruciante,Carlos Alomar, John Lennon,Prince
Bass
Chris Squire, Paul Mcartney, James Lee Jamerson, Pino Palladino,Flea
Vocalist
Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel,Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley,Sam Cooke, Adele,Bowie, Prince,Michael Jackson,
this is very tough KB, but for now I will say
lead - Hendrix
rythhm - Malcolm Young
bass - Victor Wooten/John Paul Jones/Les Claypool
my top 3 will probably change in the next few minutes
Favourite bass player
Paul McCartney. Bass never the same.
Paul Jones
Other faves
Paul, John and George all came up with great stuff.
Caleb Fotherwill.
Angus
Bernie Leadon
Brewster Brothers
Dave Gilmore.
Hendrix.
Jim Moginie.
Deniz Tek
Mossy
Apologies to all the other greats I have forgotten\missed.
PS - Why does the HTML editor think we use US spelling?
Most people have probably never heard of a lot of my favs. Also as most bands I listen to only have 1 guitar I'm going to just group them all together.
Guitar: Rev Horton Heat, Brian Setzer (Stray Cats and the Brian Setzer Orchestra), John McGeoch(Siouxsie and the Banshees early stuff), Keme Kamogawa (Kinoko Hotel, you have to see them live to appreciate her) , Saki(Mary's Blood) Toki(Aldious) , Robert Fripp
Bass. David J (Bauhaus), Hideo Nekota(The Teenage Kissers), Steve Severin(Siouxsie and the Banshees), Barry Adamson( one time drummer with the Bad Seeds, solo artist and film soundtrack artist), Simon Gallup( Cure), Kiyoshi (plays with Marty Friedman)
Vocals: Siouxsie , Carl McCoy (Fields of the Nephilm) Tom Waits (yes seriously :p ) Barry Adamson
Dedman - haven't heard of any of them!
Hey Dedman, saw Robert Fripp play with Peter Gabriel, Setzer is a great Rockabilly and blues player, Simon Gallup was or maybe still is with the Cure great band made some great singles. Severin used to play with Siouxie And The Banshees, what happened to her great talent early on.
David Gilmour, proving that speed is not an essential ingredient to be a great lead guitarist.
Also, I've always liked Nils Lofgren. Not many people have heard of him. He was in Springsteen's E Street band (I can't stomach Springsteen) but he was a solo performer in his own right before that, and was in a band called 'Grin' before THAT.
Prince was a phenomenal musician on a multitude of instruments, including lead guitar.
I love Pete Townshend's finger picking acoustic stuff, and while we're on finger picking, you can't go past James Taylor.
Kimball, I still air guitar with Fripps solo on Eno's "Baby's on fire"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nItuhuY1U04
I love The Cure. Never knew name of guitarist.
+1 for Nils Lofgren
Yeah loved Nils Lofgren too. See what I mean how can you pick just a top ten guitarists lol. Dedman air guitars,what great practice lol.