favorite current guitar player

[mejames]

David Gilmour...

[homestar]

omar rodriguez...i just love frantic dissonant/math-ish guitar playing.

[Brother Schenker]

52 posts and no one mentions Michael Schenker or Robin Trower.
Admittedly, Schenker ain't hot these days cause he's too old to play
like the blistering virtuoso he was back in the 70s and early 80s.
But his recordings are timeless. Check out Force It or Strangers In The Night by UFO.

Robin Trower can still tear it up--but his game ain't shred, it's sustain & harmonics, bluesy acid rock...pure stoner zones...check out his best album Bridge of Sighs.

And no one will ever blow your mind greater than Steve Vai.
He makes it look very easy...and yet also impossible...
You won't believe your eyes or ears...
I don't like everything he's done...but check out his album Passion & Warfare or try to find the mp3 entitled Blues Improv. It was recorded in 1999 for Guitar Player Magazine. You'll drop to your knees.

[poiuyt]

SLASH!!!!!!!!He is so under rated.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

My choice is petrucci

[Kryzco]

Carlos Santana
Kirk Hammett (I know theres bound to be a flame or two for this but I don't care because those old school solos still fuckin rock)
Joe Stratini
Angus Young


and I agree on Steve Vai

I picked up guitar world a while ago, and I saw the tabs for 3 songs, and I was like holy shit

and as for old skool, the guitarist from Sabbath, totally forgot his name, the guy that lost his fingers..., and hendrix

[mejames]

black Sabbath guitarist is tony iommi it was some sports injury to his right hand that made him switch to playing left handed which makes some of his chords unique

[Kryzco]

there ya go, I couldn't think of the name

but I heard he lost two finger because of his last day at work, he was using one of the machines and he put his hand in the wrong place and cut both his fingers clean off

[welshkillabee]

Gilmour

[yoda]

Carlos Santana
Kirk Hammett (I know theres bound to be a flame or two for this but I don't care because those old school solos still fuckin rock)
Joe Stratini
Angus Young

i agree with you on those, i wanna hear the music they made together, plus hammett is gonna appear on santana's next cd. im also a huge fan of clark dumae(of rufio, listen to the 1986 cd) and john frusciante.

[RaoulDuke45]

tommy iommi lost his finger tips on his left hand by somesort of cutting machine, and he mad little plastic and leather finger tips to help him play, and because the strings where tough on his fingers tommy tuned his guitars to a lower sound, thus creating a deeper, "metal" sound