If there is a better guitar player going today......

[stirs]

I would not know who he would be. Guy kills it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UFXQVSnKs

[Mother Grabber]

total badass...plus he wears the same amber Maui Jim sunglasses that I do. :)

[Sapper]

Reminds me a lot of Knopfler - great stuff.

[Kevin Greene]

Reminds me of one of my all time Favs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8F1t0fmyc

[Crixtala]

buckethead

and when he plays with claypool... holy poo

[Johnny Rockets]

I don't remember who created the thread on this guy awhile back but I haven't been able to stop listening to Gary Clark Jr. since I opened it. The guitar solo @ the 4:00 mark gives me chills and sends me into convulsions at times.

http://youtu.be/t84xXXrzBhc

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

buckethead

and when he plays with claypool... holy poo

bonamassa probably couldn't play quite like buckethead yet buckethead probably couldn't play quite like bonamassa.

joe has some of the best tone around for what he does. an arsenal of vintage guitars and boutique amps helps of course but he's got fantastic technique to go with it.

[Cary Kollins]

Derek Trucks ftw.

[stirs]

I have listened to all these guys, save Gary Clark, whom I will now check out, but JB seems to be able to cover the blues and incredible solos and acoustics, sort of the whole package. Guess I would give him the MVP so to speak. On to Gary Clark.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxqYoZiYPU

[Bronn]

lol in truth all your genres bow to the metal guitar gods

this band isn't even fair, having 2 amazing guitar players

another band with 2 great guitarists

[Bronn]

and how can anyone negelect to add one of the GOAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntRIb0wa9A

[Anybodyhome]

Yeah, there's little sense trying to compare someone like Derek Trucks to Zakk Wylde or Robin Trower to John Lee Hooker. Each of the axe men mentioned in this thread are pretty damn good in their own right.

I'm not a big fan of Joe Satriani's solo stuff, but he's still an outstanding player. I personally think John Butcher Axis is really underrated and most people have never heard of the guy.

I watched Derek Trucks as a kid and, before he got his own band, play alongside Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule. And if you like Trucks, you might want to listen to his wife, who is also a pretty damn good blues guitarist- Susan Tedeschi.

[Bronn]

here's some guitarists some of you purists/non-fans of heavier music may like

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

here's some guitarists some of you purists/non-fans of heavier music may like

After high-school I registered to go to GIT(Guitar Institute of Technology) to play pretty much this exact style of progressive, fusion metal bc I loved Fates Warning and Dream Theater. My best-friend who was the only proficient guitar play I knew that could keep up skill wise decided to back out of moving to L.A. the day we were going to get our airplane tickets.

I had a little tear listening to this. Some techniques I thought I invented(lol) with two hand "Stanley Jordan"- to- metal now is the norm..nice stuff.

But in this thread are all good guitar guys of all styles..however GOAT is definitely not Johnny P of Dream Theater..he is technical and plays nice..but his style just has a soulless characteristic I cannot really describe sorta like Mike Portnoy is to drums. Just because you own a lot of toms does not make you a great drummer.