Can't spell either. Buchanan!

I agree with Eddie; What's wrong with being 14(+26)?
Here's a bunch more cats I like:
Leo Kottke
George Van Eps
Frank Marino
Joe Pass
Radiohead
Roy Nichols
Sonny Landreth
Pat Metheny
Mike Bloomfield
Clarence White
Jim Hall
Don Rich
George Lynch
James Burton
Scotty Moore
Tommy Bolin

That should do it for now.

Here goes...
in no particular order:

Tom Verlaine(television and solo)
Guy Picotto and Ian Mckaye(Fugazi)
Will Seargent (echo and the bunnymen)
Peter Green
Terry Bickers & Guy Chadwick (house of love)
Jimi Hendrix
Archers of Loaf
Kevin Shields
Andy Bell (Ride)
Mogwai

1. Pete Townshend. I don't play anything like him, but I HAVE to pick up a guitar when I listen - especially an air guitar! Can't afford to obliterate my real one!
2. Paul Simon - again, I don't play like him but he was a huge influence on my concepts of guitarists before I even started playing.
3. A bunch of acid rock improvising guys I heard growing up (just 3 or 4 years old or so) on AM radio. Nothing specific, just a general impression. Everthing else back then too.
4. A series of guys during my youth who would play at cookouts, on porches, camping, gatherings etc. on acoustic. I KNEW I wanted to play guitar.
5. Clapton
6. Neil Young
7. The Edge (his atmospheric stuff, circa October)
8. Carlos Santana
9. Jerry Garcia
10. Duane and Dickey. I had a whole phase here!

Chuck Berry, Hendrix, Lightning Hopkins, Steven Stills, Richard Thompson, Dave Alvin, George Thoroughgood(sp?!), the Eagles guys, the Stones guys, hell - the Beatles. Buddy Guy.

Lots of non-guitar jazz. I never liked jazz guitar though. Classical as sort of general impression.

A bunch of unknowns in bar bands - I get totally psyched sometimes.

All the guys I've jammed with.

I guess I'm not that original.

1. Hendrix/SRV (i count them as the same person. SRV was the second coming)
2. Jimmy Page - my original guitar hero
3. Eric Johnson
4. Randy Rhoads
5. Chet Atkins
6. Nuno Bettencourt (Eddie van who?)
7. Django Reinhardt
8. Steve Vai/Satriani
9. I have to throw Al Dimeola, Pat Metheney, Andres Segovia, Mark Knopfler, John Petrucci, and Slash in there somewhere
10. Duane Allman/Dickey Betts/Warren Haynes/everyone who's played with the Allman Bros

Runner-up goes to.......Buckethead.....bwahahaha sorry couldnt resist

I have come up with a new list.


1)Johnny Cash
2)Ringo Star
3)Neil Diomand
4)Conan O'brien
5)Dan Acroid
6)Bill Murry
7)Jimmy Hendrix
8)Me
9)SRV
10)Paul McCartney

I'm pretty tired but folks that really made me pick up the guitar and main influences on my style are below. However, almost every single person I hear play influences me in a positive or negative way.

1. Hendrix
2. Van Halen
3. Santana
4. SRV
5. Michael Landau
7. Satriani/Vai
8. Zappa
9. Leo Kottke
10. Steve Howe
11. Stones, esp. Richards & Taylor
12. Andy Summers

For bass, I heard Whooten's "A Show of Hands" and got a bass & amp a week later.

1. Victor Whooten
2. Marcus Miller
3. Geddy Lee
4. Billy Wyman ("Live with Me")
5. James Jamerson
6. Flea
7. Will Lee
8. Chris Squire

Oh my god, I left out J e f f B e c k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And...

Neil Young
Clapton
Billy Gibbons
Mike Campbell (of Tom Petty)

Hmmmm, in no particular order -

# Robben Ford
# Danny Gatton
# Mike Landau
# Jeff Beck
# BB King
# Mark Knopfler

Jimmy Page
Johnny Winter
Joe Perry
Jeff Beck
Jimi Hendrix

Neil Young
Todd Rundgren
Kirk Hammett
David Gilmour
Eric Clapton (Cream ala mode)

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01. PHIL KEAGGY
02. THE EDGE
03. ERIC JOHNSON
04. NUNO BETTENCOURT
05. SATRIANI

I think I'm gonna list a bunch of peopole nobody thought of

#Micheal Mullins of Beanbag (my fav band) is a huge influence, and does some really cool chord progressions

#Mike Eininger of Incubus

#Marcos Curiel of P.O.D.

#Randy Rhoads (haven't seen his name much)

#Tom Morello (the reason I started)

#Stephen Carpenter from Deftones

#Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead

#Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains (haven't seen him either)

#Travis Meeks of Days of the New (best acoustic work I'[ve ever heard)

#Soundgarden (cool riffs and nice solos)

1- Billy Gibbons
2- Billy Gibbons
3- Billy Gibbons
4- Billy Gibbons
5- Billy Gibbons
6- Billy Gibbons
7- Little Jimmy Dickens
8- Billy Gibbons
9- Billy Gibbons
10- Billy F. Gibbons

In no particular order:
1)SRV
2)Ritchie Blackmore
3)Billy Gibbons
4)Ty Tabor
5)Doyle Bramhall II
6)Jimi Hendrix
7)Albert King(where would Stevie have been without this man)
8)Robin Trower
9)Lightnin Hopkins
10)Me. I don't say it to be arrogant, I just like what I play. I think every guitar player should learn to appreciate themselves. I'm not on par with the rest of the guys on my list, but after 17 years of playing I've mixed my favorite parts of each of them into something that I enjoy playing as well as listening to.
Lawrence D.

Greg Howe
Eric Johnson
Jimi
Chris Poland
Allan Holdsworth
Jason Becker
Whoever did the solo in
Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street"
Eric McFadden (various S.F. bands)
Paul Gilbert
Darren Housholder
And as soon as I hit "Post Now", I'm going to think of twenty other people!

Greg Howe is the greatest living guitar player!

Jazz:

Grant Green
Kenny Burrell
Wes Montgomery
Django Reinhert
Charlie Christian
Jeff Beck(Blow by Blow)

Rock/Pop:

Richie Blackmore
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton(Cream)
Johnny Marr
Dave Gilmour
Brian May
George Harrison
DeLeo brothers
Jimmy Page
John Frusciante

Blues:

Robert Johnson
SRV
Eric Clapton(Bluesbreakers)
Peter Green
T-Boe Walker
Robben Ford

Funk/Surf:

Dick Dale
Duanne Eddy
The Ventures
Nile Rodgers
Bootsie Collins (Parlament)
John Frusciante
Jimmy Nolen

There are many comtemporary guitarists that I also love: Adrian Utley, Gaz Coombes, Nick Zinner, Josh Homme etc...

Of course, there are many more.

1. David Gilmour
2. Frank Zappa
3. Eric Johnson
4. Steve Morse
5. Chet Atkins
6. Bill Frisell
7. Roy Buchanan
8. Angus Young
9. Eric Clapton
10.Billy Gibbons

KEEP ROCKIN'

Eddie Van Halen
SRV
Mark Kendall
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Satriani
Eric Sardinas
George Lynch
Steve Vai
Ritchie Blackmore
John Petrucci
Jimmy Page