Favourite Guitarists

Allan Holdsworth / Masterful technique, otherworldly imagination.

John McLaughlin / Technique galore, emotive and ecstatic soloing. 

Steve Hackett / Great acoustic and electric playing, solos that sound like they are from another planet.

Robert Fripp / phenomenal composer, innovator, player.

Franco Mussida / Guitarist for Italian prog band PFM. Amazing player, with loads of beauty and emotion.

Pat Metheny / Fusion great.

Pat Martino / One of the orginal fusion players. Innovative with technique. Does not get the credit he should.

Steve Howe 

Frank Zappa

Ralph Towner / Ridiculous acoustic technique. Beautiful compositions.

Others: Alex Machacek, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucia, Steve Hillage, Corrado Rusticci.

With apologies for not reading all the previous posts, I’d submit Eddie Hazel, who played with the early Funkadelics. Listen to the track Maggot Brain and he deserves the mantle of successor to Jimi as much as anybody.

There’s a somewhat obscure guitarist named Ollie Halsall who was a vibraphonist and had that touchtone harmonic thing going on the guitar- he could play these ripping lead lines with harmonic overtones. You can find his work on the two Patto albums released on Vertigo Swirl.

I always loved Leslie West for his tone- his Theme for an Imaginary Western with Mountain is very moving and powerful, with props to Jack Bruce as the songwriter.

Jimi Hendrix

Jeff Beck

Tom Verlaine

Robert Fripp

Robbie Robertson

Jerry Garcia

Bill Frisell

Jorma Kaukonen