favorite guitar players? electric/acoustic/bass

[cbcbd]

What was that guys name from Extreme?

Nuno Bettencourt

 

[bigcc63]

Tom Morrello - Rage against the machine
Billy Howerdel - A Perfect Circle

 

[xelderx]

Has anyone said Les Claypool yet. I'm not really into Primus (used to be), but the guy is talented as hell.

 

[peepsalot]

haha, that pic reminded me of bootsy.

 

[vindication]

Has anyone said Les Claypool yet. I'm not really into Primus (used to be), but the guy is talented as hell.

yeah les is really really good too. has anyone seen the live video for "Ballad of Buckethead". if not, do yourselves a favor and download it and wait for les' solo. he does some crazy solo

 

[Apocalypso]

A few more:

Jason Becker
Yngwie Malmsteen
Buckethead

And, if we're throwing bassists into the mix:

Victor Wooten
Jaco Pastorious
John Myung

And my God, yes Les! Tommy The Cat's main riff is one of the coolest bass lines ever!

 

[vindication]

^^buckethead is les claypool. thats why I said to check out the vid

 

[mazdaowner123]

buckethead is not les claypool.

buckethead is a guy named brian carroll.

~brian

 

[torque222]

tony mcalpine, joe satriani, george lynch, yngwie malmsteen, stevie ray vaughn, randy rhodes, steve vai,

 

[hazeXban]

Adam Jones - TOOL

Repeats:

tom morrello-Rage against the machine
John Petrucci - Dream Theater

 

[niv]

I don't really know all that much about guitarists, but I've just liked what i heard from these guys:

Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Eddie Van Halen
Zakk Wylde
Yngwie Malmsteen

 

[yashooa]

Whoever said Al Dimeola gets rep points. Another guitar genious that was unfortunately killed a while back...Micheal Hedges. If I remember correctly he won Guitarist Magazine's reader's poll for best Acoustic Guitarist of the year 5 years in a row and wasn't allowed to run anymore. He died in 1997 from a car accident.

Yeah I love all that Spanish, fast, pounding guitar it sounds like the thinking man's thrash to me
I just vaguely remember Micheal. I have been out of music for a while and just got back into playing. I will go buy some of his music and get some tabs.

 

[Brad]

and for bassist my favorite is Victor Wooten.

 

[vindication]

buckethead is not les claypool.

buckethead is a guy named brian carroll.

~brian

are you sure?? in the vid, when buckethead comes out, it looks just like les. Unles brian carroll is identical in looks. but I'll do more research on it, cause you prob know more, I'm just going off that vid

 

[vindication]

brianmcd, you are right. I retract my previous statement of les claypool being good(cause I thought he was buckethead). I actually fell releived that he isn't les claypool actually. The more you know. haha

 

[mazdaowner123]

hehe. les claypool can play some bass though... les and buckethead have done a lot of work together.

~brian

 

[Apocalypso]

Oooh! Can't forget Michael Angelo Batio.

 

[THE Phen]

Ooo, here's an old thread to bump.

My top 5:

Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Petrucci
John 5
Devin Townsend
Dimebag Darrell

 

[SimonMarsden]

Slash
Eric Clapton
Yngwie Malmsteen
Mark Knopfler
Stev Vai

 

[genericuser]

quality old thread to bump!!!!

bassist here.. so here's my top ten in no particular order.

1. Marcus Miller
2. Jaco Pastorius
3. Chris Squire
4. Les Claypool
5. John Entwhistle
6. Flea
7. Tony Levin
8. Geddy Lee
9. Stanley Clarke
10. P-Nut