Newton Faulkner His voice totally fits his style.

 

Al Di Meola
Steve Vai
Brian May (not for his virtuosity, but for his task as compositor after Mercury and these marvelous multi layered harmonies)

 

Doyle Dykes

Øystein Sunde

Jerry Reed

Chet Atkins
Frank Zappa
Hendrix etc etc..

I love the bluegrass folks..

 

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John McGeoch
Mick Ronson
Rowland S Howard

EDIT: Would like to mention as they're not be listed at this time Chris Spedding, Will Sergeant, Johnny Marr, Johnny Winter, John Valentine Carruthers, Keith Levene and Robert Smith for many gloomers inspirations

 

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Jeff Beck
Michael Schenker
Tommy Bolin - The very first fusion rock guitarist? inspired Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow

 

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Chet Atkins He was a great guitar player.

 

1. Carlos Santana,
2. Jimi Hendrix,
   
3. Mike Stern.

 

For my fourth, I'm gonna count myself. LOL

 

We have some good taste on board. I was going to list:

1: Geordie Walker
2: John McGeoch
3: Guy Kyser

 

Ass is the answer bro.

 

1. Me
2. Me
3. Pat Matheny

 

Mattias Eklundh

Shawn Lane

Alex Hutchings

Too many to choose from I guess

 

Mathias IA Eklundh, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather but i just mention theses casue they didnt see them mentioned yet.. There are so many.. differnt styles diffrent guitarists..

 

Today....Mick Ronson, George Harrison & JJ Cale

 

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Randy Rhodes or Dimebag yet...

 

Yngwie Malmsteen, Jennifer Batten, Stanley Jordan.

 

In no particular order of merit...

Andrés Segovia Torres
Carlos Santana
Joe Satriani

 

Great shout with Geordie, hugely underrated guitarist. Saw Killing Joke just last month, still as powerful as ever.

Another great shout, Siouxsie's favourite guitarist of the many that passed through the Banshees.

I'll also throw in Robin Guthrie, not for any great technical ability, but because he made sounds like nobody else before and has been massively influential.

 

1. SRV (took the overall "God" crown hands down imo) When he slung it behind his back and blazed... mind blown
2. Pete Townsend (yes teenage bias remains )
3. Peter Buck ( not some technical God, but just lovely chord pros, and 12 string work, I primarily play rhythm.. so...)

but then.. Syd Barrett - unfettered creativity

Glen Campbell.. that boy could play!
Roy Clark Hee Haw guitar (and banjo) God

and in some degree many already mentioned, and too many others to mention