Do you have a favourite guitarist? If so, who is it?

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Whether their styles are Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Metal or whatever, there have been quite a few.

Mine include:
Peter Green, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Ian Moss, Ritchie Blackmore,
Van Halen, Slash and Prince amomg others.

The link below features an Italian group, The Poddighe Trio who I had never heard of until a few days ago and features a really excellent guitarist!
They are playing the Santana style version of Black Magic Woman and they do a pretty fine job of it as well, especially the guitarist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_Xykasy...re=related

Black Magic Woman, was written by Peter Green, who was the founding member of Fleetwood Mac,
back in the late '60's. Subsequently, because of his possibly excessive use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD and other drugs,
he kind of lost his way for quite a while, left Fleetwood Mac in the early '70's
and eventually ended up going to various mental institutions.

In the early '80's, he disappeared from the music scene for a long time
and there were many rumours and a lot of speculation as to what he did during that time.
He returned to playing the guitar publicly again, in 1996.

I heard the other day on TV, that Black Magic Woman, which he wrote in 1968, has currently had over 4,000,000 radio plays,
which is pretty incredible and almost quite unbelievable really.

There are many guitarists today, including Santana, BB King and Noel Gallagher of Oasis among many others,
who consider that Peter Green was and maybe still is, one of the finest, if not 'the' finest blues guitarist that has ever lived!
He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1998.

A good example of him playing some very fine blues guitar can be found at the following link below.

There are 2 tracks here, but the first one is the best and is called 'Greeny'.
The whole thing is great, but it has a really excellent little break between 2:59 - 3:06 as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTp10hzfswk

He also had a nice voice for singing the blues as well and can be seen and heard here, with Need Your Love So Bad, by Fleetwood Mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxeQKQQ6k4s&feature=fvw

Some of my favourite guitar solo's, in no particular order include:

[Note - The times may vary, depending on which versions you listen to].

Van Halen - Beat It - Michael Jackson -
02:49 - 03:20.

Slash - Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'N' Roses -
02:07 - 03:10.

Ritche Blackmore - Highway Star - Deep Purple - [Taken from the album Made in Japan] -
04:23 - 05:43 - [Original].

The version at the link below is from the 3 CD Live In Japan album, although the cover of the Made in Japan album is shown.
This version is okay, but not as good as the version from Made in Japan, made a day earlier,
which is considered by many in the music industry, to be one of the finest live rock albums ever made!
It also features some excellent keyboard skills from Jon Lord.

The guitar solo in this version is between 04:32 - 05:57, but it's not so clearly defined or as good
as the version from the Made in Japan album, which I did spend an hour or so looking for, but just couldn't find it unfortunately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6-0hL3wt...re=related

Ian Moss - Forever Now - Cold Chisel -
03:49 - 04:25.

Forever Now is a very cool song from Cold Chisel, an Austrailian band, recorded in 1982:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjZrf_g-...31&index=0

There are others, including Jimmy Page, Brian May and Yngwie Malmsteen, but it's not possible to list them all.

Rock on dudes.

[Codine]

I quite like slash from guns and roses

[Jordan L.]

I quite like slash from guns and roses

[Kirtaner]

In agreeance with the OP, I'd have to say Jimi Hendrix.

[DAMINK™]

Cliff Burton.
Metallica's Original Base player.

[Uhriventis]

Frank Zappa as he inspired many to go out of the norm and was truly original.

[ktmrider530]

Slash FTW, he owns shait.

[Uhriventis]

Slash FTW, he owns shait.

I'd have to respectfully disagree. Really check out some of Franks music. Check out the album Joe's Garage. It's funny and smart.

[ktmrider530]

I'd have to respectfully disagree. Really check out some of Franks music. Check out the album Joe's Garage. It's funny and smart.

Oh i'm by no means saying he is the best, but he is one of my favorite.

[Uhriventis]

Oh i'm by no means saying he is the best, but he is one of my favorite.

I can see it. I just think those type of artiest are sort of poster boys. Not that I'm above mainstream music. In fact the only music I listen to at the current moment is classical. No guitar. So much stress in my life it seems to work.