Off Topic Your Top 5 Players of all time!

[Coffeemug]

David Gilmour...
Eric Clapton...
Stevie Ray Vaughan...
Rory Gallagher...
Jimi Hendrix...

Can't leave out Mr. Albert Lee and Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck...and Steve Lukather...and Steve Morse...and...and...

Hard enough to pick only five, bringing them in a particular order is impossible!

 

[walleye]

steve morse
django reinhardt (spelling?)
paco de lucia
jimi hendrix
and .... me but nah, dont really have a fifth

 

[dwells]

Marty Freidman
John Petrucci
Jason Becker
Marco Sfogli
Jeff Loomis
the list goes on!

 

[sandmannn69]

VH
John Sykes
Page
Billy Gibbons
Clapton
Hendrix

 

[jamminjim]

Eric Johnson
Eric Clapton
Mark Knopfler
Keith Richards
Joe Satriani

 

[RiverCIty28]

SRV
EVH
Hendrix
Bonamassa
Ry Cooder

 

[browndog]

Alex Lifeson is the man! He inspired me to pick up the guitar.

Too many to list.

 

[Bravo Victor]

Steve Morse
Tommy Emmanuel
Jimmy Herring
Derek Trucks (representing the younger generation)
Mark Knopfler

 

[Jet_Captain]

1. Morse
2. Petrucci
3. Vai
4. Bonamassa
5. Van Halen

 

[Bad Taco]

Only five is a hard question! Here they are (I think):
--Billy F. Gibbons
--Randy Rhoads
--Chet Atkins
--Albert Collins
--Paul Gilbert

 

[Astrofreq]

No particular order...

Phil Keaggy
EVH
Michael Hedges
Steve Vai (but only from about 1983-88; after that was pretty uninteresting to me)
Ty Tabor

 

[Tung]

In no order:
early DLR era Van Halen
Steve Lukather
Pat Metheny
Nguyen Le
Paul Jackson Jr.

 

[bischero]

EVH
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Beck
Django Reinhardt
Robert Johnson

Honorabel mention : Jimmy Page This is purely opinion, as I read through this thread I noticed I wanted my list to go to 100 Fav players in no particular order

 

[davetcan]

Peter Green
Jimmy Page
Gary Moore
David Gilmour
Clapton

 

[Jonny Dubai]

Nuno
Richie Kotzen
Doug Aldrich
Stevie Salas
Steve Stevens

I could add another 40!

J

 

[lukather101]

Luke
Morse
Andy Timmons
Satriani
Ty Tabor

Luke's my no 1 .

 

[DannyB819]

I'm more of a lurker on this board but thought I'd throw in my $0.02. I'd don't necessarily think these guys are the "best," but rather my favorites, in no particular order:

1 - Richie Kotzen
2 - JP
3 - Nuno
4 - Morse
5 - Andy Timmons

 

[Richiesos]

Hard to do 5. It will change next week but...

Brian May
Joe Walsh
Django
Yngwie
EVH

 

[robelinda2]

Shouldve mentioned David Grissom in my top 5. Probably the most musical guitarist ive ever heard.

 

[Danserrano]

My fab 5 in no particular order...... Im a distant 382 on my own list lol.

1. Petrucci
2. Dann huff
3. Ty tabor
4. David Gilmour
5. Pablo Gilberto