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PostSubject: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 12:22 pm

This list is akin to what Uncle Sax posted awhile back, but this list is the "Greatest Guitarist" list (as if the thread title didn't give you a clue).

List your Top 5 guitarists in order, with No. 1 being the highest and No.1 being the lowest

Points System:
No. 1 - 5 points
No. 2 - 4 points
No. 3 - 3 points
No. 4 - 2 points
No. 5 - 1 point

As for genres, I don't think it'll matter. You can include jazz, blues, reggae, rock, and whatever else you want. A little diversity would be cool, but don't intentionally try to be diverse for diversity's sake. Remember, it's YOUR OPINION. Very Happy

At about the end of December, I tally up the points and name the top 20 guitarists and the "Honorable Mention" lists.

I'll start:

  1. Eddie Van Halen
  2. Randy Rhoads
  3. Eric Clapton
  4. Jimmy Page
  5. Brain May


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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 1:11 pm

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Edward Van Halen
3. Jeff Beck
4. Ritchie Blackmore
5. Yngwie Malmsteen
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Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy P Brown II
Eric Clapton
Joe Perry
Slash
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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 2:18 pm

Ritchie Blackmore
Gus G
Yngwie
Angus Young
Jonny Lang

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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 3:08 pm

tohostudios wrote:
Ritchie Blackmore
Gus G
Yngwie
Angus Young
Jonny Lang

Surprising pick of Johnny Lang, great blues guitartist, btw who is Gus G?
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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 3:11 pm

manny wrote:
tohostudios wrote:
Ritchie Blackmore
Gus G
Yngwie
Angus Young
Jonny Lang

Surprising pick of Johnny Lang, great blues guitartist, btw who is Gus G?
Guitarist for Firewind. Also used to be in Mystic Prophecy, Dream Evil and a half dozen other metal bands.

From Wikipedia:

Quote :
Kostas Karamitroudis (Greek: Κώστας Καραμητρούδης) aka Gus G., born September 12 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece is an acclaimed heavy metal guitarist currently with Firewind. He has also played in Mystic Prophecy, Nightrage, Arch Enemy and Dream Evil. At the age of 18 he left Greece to enroll in the Berklee College of Music, but left after only a few weeks and began working on making a name on the Metal scene. During his brief time at Berklee Gus came into contact with Joe Stump, who he credits as a great influence on his career [1].




On July 2005, he temporarily replaced Christopher Amott as guitarist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy on their Ozzfest dates, and also contributed to their album Doomsday Machine by playing lead guitar on the song "Taking Back my Soul".

He has made guest appearances for various artists, such as providing solos on the songs "Felonies of the Christian Art" and "Life Deprived" by Old Man's Child, from the album In Defiance of Existence, and a few solos on the album Gallows Gallery by the Japanese avant-garde black metal band Sigh).

The stage name "Gus G." has two sources of origin - "Gus" is a common Greek American English translation of the name "Kostas," and "G" was a nickname given to him by a friend during his time living in the U.S..

Gus G was chosen as the third of the three best guitar players all over the world in 2003 by the Japanese magazine BURRN!.


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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 3:16 pm

Thanks for the info Toho
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1.Dave Mustaine
2.Brian Robertson
3.SRV
4.Jimi Hendrix
5.Marc Ford
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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 5:24 pm

1. Marty Friedman
2. Larry LaLonde
3. Tony Iommi
4. Billy Gibbons
5. Buck Dharma


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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 5:33 pm

1. Ronni LeTekro
2. Steve Lynch
3. Andy Mckee
4. Yngwie Malmsteen
5. SS Priest (for shits and giggles)
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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeTue Dec 09, 2008 6:09 pm

I'll list the guitarists that have influenced my playing the most.

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Tony Iommi
3. Alex Lifeson
4. Ty Tabor
5. David Gilmour
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1. Mark Tremonti
2. Jorn Viggo Lofstad
3. John Petrucci
4. Jeff Loomis
5. Rich Ward

and 30 more lol
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Not going on techniques, rather a popularity thing for me.

1. Ritchie Blackmore
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. John Sykes
5. Doug Aldrich
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1. Tommy Bolin
2. Gus G
3. Randy Hansen
4. Lord Tim
5. Mato Nanji

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1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Uli Roth
3. Ted Nugent
4. Frank Marino
5. Ace Frehley

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1. Rowland S. Howard
2. Andy McCoy
3. Kim Salmon
4. Spencer P. Jones
5. Billy Zoom
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1. Tony Iommi
2. Richie Blackmore
3. Robin Trower
4. Zal Cleminson
5. Andy Scott
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Metal graduate
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1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Eddie Van Halen
3. Carlos Santana
4. Mark Knofler
5. Brian May
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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeWed Dec 10, 2008 1:04 pm

Man, I totally forgot to include Stevie Ray Vaughn... just add him to 5 and make it a tie.
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PostSubject: Re: Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List   Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List Icon_minitimeWed Dec 10, 2008 7:17 pm

To keep it easier for me:

If you at some point change your mind, go back and edit your old post to avoid confusion.
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Thanks to this thread, I dug out the first Dream Evil CD I ever heard. I'd forgotten how much I love "Dragon Slayer"; Gus G freakin' tears up this disc!

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Schenker
Criss Oliva
Rory Gallagher
David Enos
Uli Roth
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1.Criss Oliva
2.Phil Keaggy
3.Rikk Agnew
4.Dean Ween
5.John Portelly
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1.Chuck Schuldiner
2.Angus Young
3.Tony Iommi
4.Eddie Van Hlen
5.Yngwie Malmsteen
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