Best guitar player Live or dead. I say John Pettruci

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

Lot of great guitarists, didn't see this man mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY

And yes I mean Prince.

[KilyenaMage]

Originally Posted by murgle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If we're going with not only being a pro-guitarist but also a poet, how can we forget Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, George Harrison from the Beatles (rhythm not lead), and Clapton? Let's be honest, Jimi is a phenomenal guitarist, but I'd turn my head a bit before I called it poetic.

Vaughn is a definite.

Axis Bold as Love would like a word with you.

[Aarone]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Django Reinhardt

BIG thumbs up on Django!

Familiar with Joe Bonamassa at all?

Personally, I'm sentimentally attached to Garcia, Hendrix and Vaughn (must be my middle-aged white guys biases showing themselves) but, really, this is a bit like asking which beer is your favorite - the choice of simply one is too much to make!

It goes with out saying, though that none of us would be able to have this discussion without Les Paul. We owe it all to him.

[Torqumada286]

Lindsey Buckingham. When he left Fleetwood Mac back in the 80's, they had to hire two guitarist to take his place in the band.

His acoustic version of Big Love.
His acoustic version of Go Insane.

He reworked both of them from how they were originally produced.

Torqumada

[baub]

john petrucci and paul gilbert probably my two faves, don't make me pick =(

[quido]

Originally Posted by h0tr0d (shaere) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lot of great guitarists, didn't see this man mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY

And yes I mean Prince.

Haha didn't I turn you on to that Shaere? =)

Prince is probably the most under-rated guitarist that most people have heard of.

[Shaun421]

No love for Alex Lifeson? Rush isn't known specifically for crazy guitar solos, but that guy puts out so much sound.

Petrucci was a blast to see live as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3D-V7LoaQ

I went to this show a couple years ago and got to see Dweezil Zappa, John Petrucci and Steve Vai just jamming. Jordan Rudes came out with a keyboard guitar and jammed with them too.

[purist]

I'm glad you added alive or dead, because asking who the best guitar player is without specifying a genre wasn't broad enough.

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

You did Jeremy[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by quido [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Jimmy Hendricks

Jimi Hendrix
..fail, Jeremy; fail.