SRV-Zeppelin Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Sorry, I know this topic has been beaten to hell already, but what if you had to pick just three? I'd say mine are: Stevie Ray Vaughan (duh) Jimmy Page (duh) The Edge I'd say Jimi Hendrix gets honourable mention... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 In no particular order: Stevie Ray Vaughan Jimi Hendrix Alex Lifeson Neil Young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Tough one as there have been many but, also in no particular order: Chuck Berry Greg Ginn Angus Young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJman Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Duanne Allman Dickey Betts Eric Clapton Esteban... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Jimmy Page Freddie King Eric Clapton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonicchaos Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Screw three... I can't narrow it down that much! (in no particular order) David Gilmour Adam Jones Billy Howerdell Jerry Cantrell Neil Young King Buzzo Kevin Shields John Frusciante Josh Homme The guys from Isis (Aaron Turner, Bryant Clifford Meyer, and Michael Gallagher) Mikael Adkerfeldt Thom Yorke Jeff Buckley I think that covers most of them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmann199 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 again in no real order freddie king bb king eric clapton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvansickle Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Jimmy Page Ace Frehley Michael Schenker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG dude Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Angus Young - he was the one who got me started. Jimmy Page - just, WOW! Eric Clapton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swmcv2007 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Keith Richards Brian May Robert Fripp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevezapp Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Page, Gilmour, Clapton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannusguy Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 hendrix page leo kottke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluezboy Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 SRV Hendrix Clapton The SRV's first and the other two tie for second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbomb76 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Angus Young, Paul Kossoff and Keith Richards runners-up: Ron Wood, Mick Taylor, Mick Ronson H-Bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoyt Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Dylan McGuinn Earle W Guthrie, if four is OK. Lots of good ones in the previous posts too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 No order Death Slayer Some hendrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swmcv2007 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Angus Young' date=' Paul Kossoff and Keith Richards runners-up: Ron Wood, Mick Taylor, Mick Ronson H-Bomb[/quote'] Hbomb those are all the guys I almost put on my list. I feel like you and I are SG compatriots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJustice Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 David Gilmour Alex Lifeson Buckethead Being a fumbling beginner, I wouldn't say that any actual influence has had the chance to take hold in practice, but these are inspirational players for me. DJ -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbomb76 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hbomb those are all the guys I almost put on my list. I feel like you and I are SG compatriots. Cool man, it's nice to have a kindred spirit! Most of my peers (sadly) don't even know who some of those guys are! H-bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner1994 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 john mayer jimi hendrix eric clapton for acoustic jack johnson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swmcv2007 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Cool man' date=' it's nice to have a kindred spirit! Most of my peers (sadly) don't even know who some of those guys are! H-bomb[/quote'] I know what you mean. It is sad especially since all of those guys are on all the classic rock stations almost every day, and people love the riffs, but they don't know who did them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Clapton SRV Al DiMeola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Actually... at the earlier years 50s and 60s? John Lee Hooker, the whole Glen Miller and Duke Ellington band sounds and harmonies rather than just a solo guitar, and probably all the guys and girls I went to college with who were pickers - which seems in memory to be about half the student body whipping off folkie-grassie stuff. For what it's worth, actor Peter Coyote was a pretty good picker when he was a college senior and I a freshman guitar beginner. Rev. Gary Davis reeeeeally made you think about using right and left hand together with some fantastic fingerpicking that sounds a little crude in ways, but still "wow!" (I think he was playing that jumbo Gibson acoustic when I got to see him a bit.) Ian Tyson's nice clean and relatively simple flatpicking was rock solid and a good influence on anybody whether in the 60s or today. I joke that I had a flamenco period that was inflamed after my first year at flamenck-ing by getting to sit less than 20 feet or so away from Carlos Montoya. Yup, it was a long time ago. Big Joe Williams was a wild man and that electrified 9-string blues was something else. I think he was playing an electrified Kay in the '60s, but had used a Gibbie L7 earlier and a 12-string with an open tuning later on. John Koerner and his 7-string (doubled G with octaves) and finger-picking ragtime and blues influenced me as a kid, too... How can you listen to Django, Joe Pass, Kessel and such without being in awe of a first generation of jazz guitaring that set a standard and style for pretty much all who followed? Or the incredible artistry of listening to such as Segovia or later on, Christopher Parkening? I was too "folkie-rockie-classically" to listen as much to Chet as I should have... or I'd say that the world's most incredibly versatile guitar picker influenced me more than all put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Duane Allman - Warren Haynes - Clapton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameswithesg Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 too many to mention, you cant define your personal style like that no way just my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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