Heart Of Metal's "Favorite Guitarist" List

Eddie Van Halen
Jeff Healey
Brian May
John Sykes
Rik Emmett

Damn, this was a lot harder than the top 5 bands list

Apart from the first two, this was hard. Too many great guitarists I had to leave off:

Chris Oliva
John Petrucci
Andy LaRocque
Dave Murray
Al Petreli

Because I had to leave so many off I will find the favorite guitarist thread and make a large list (not in order).

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Criss Oliva
Randy Rhoads
Jeff Loomis
Ace Frehley
Tony Iommi

Uli jon Roth
Jimi Hendrix
Mark Reale
Dave Pritchard
Michael Schenker

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Mark Reale

Talk about underrated! Great choice, bronto.

Tony Iommi
Slash
Ace Frehley
Ritchie Blackmore
Jimmy Page

1. Edward Van Halen
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Jimmy Page
4. Randy Rhoads
5. Ritchie Blackmore

brontotex wrote:

Uli jon Roth
Jimi Hendrix
Mark Reale
Dave Pritchard
Michael Schenker

good call on Pritchard, he should of been on mine but I chose somebody else.

no order

Jimmy Page
Frank Zappa
Alvin Lee
Jimi Hendrix
Jerry Gracia

I'll give it another week, and then I'll tally up the scores.

1. Jimmy Page
2. Eddie Van Halen
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Randy Rhodes
5. Joe Satriani

Am I the only one who voted for Mr. Friedman? Weird.

1. Steve Vai
2. Mattias Eklundh
3. Rusty Cooley
4. Jason Becker
5. Yngwie J. Malmsteen

1 - Eric Sardinas
2 - John Sykes
3 - Michael Schenker
4 - Akira
5 - Ty Tabor

Tallying it up right now. Here's the Top 5 for right now (could change, but probably won't)

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Eddie Van Halen
3. Tony Iommi
4t Ritchie Blackmore
4t Criss Oliva
5. Jimmy Page

1. Criss Oliva
2. Randy Rhoads
3. Dave Mustaine
4. Tony Iommi
5. Eddie

Tony Iommi
Jeff Loomis
James Murphy
Chuck Schuldiner
Nick Bowcott

Schbopo wrote:

Am I the only one who voted for Mr. Friedman? Weird.

It depends on what inspires you I guess. He has fantastic chops...but to me that's all he has...absolutely no emotion whatsoever, it might as well be a robot playing the guitar.

5. Tom Morello- Rage Against The Machine
4. Tony Iommi- Black Sabbath
3. Mike Jones- Nemesis
2. Matt Pike- High On Fire
1. Angus Young- AC/DC

theres my top 5 and heres the rest of my list it goes to 15 if anyone cares

15. George Harrison & John Lennon-The Beatles
14. Greg Ginn & Ken Gooney-Black Flag/SNFU
13. Kyle Thomas- Witch
12. James Rota-Fireball Ministry
11. Rich Robinson- The Black Crowes
10. Keith Richards- Rolling Stones
9. Albert King- Solo
8. Malcom Young- AC/DC
7. J Mascis- Dinosaur Jr.
6. Dennis D'amour- Voivod

detuned wrote:

It depends on what inspires you I guess. He has fantastic chops...but to me that's all he has...absolutely no emotion whatsoever, it might as well be a robot playing the guitar.

Just be glad no one voted for Buckethead.

detuned wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Am I the only one who voted for Mr. Friedman? Weird.

It depends on what inspires you I guess. He has fantastic chops...but to me that's all he has...absolutely no emotion whatsoever, it might as well be a robot playing the guitar.

When he was in Cacophony I can agree, but in Megadeth he def let the shred at home and made some pretty amazing solos.

Schbopo wrote:

detuned wrote:

It depends on what inspires you I guess. He has fantastic chops...but to me that's all he has...absolutely no emotion whatsoever, it might as well be a robot playing the guitar.

Just be glad no one voted for Buckethead.

you said it man omg that guy is a joke

Buckethead is fabulous and very creative and has some great music out there. One word "Padmasana" one of the most beautiful guitar pieces written.

MetalRob331 wrote:

Buckethead is fabulous and very creative and has some great music out there. One word "Padmasana" one of the most beautiful guitar pieces written.

Im not baggin the guys guitar playing abilitys but his whole "gimmick" is a joke and I would respect him alot more if he dropped the act

just my opinion tho