Jeez so many greats
You guys have covered many of my favorites like
John McLaughlin
Robert Fripp
Steve Howe
Wes Montgomery
Santana (early)
Buckethead
and too many more already listed...
I will add a few folks that I find interesting in diferent categories - I have a strange range of tastes an I will miss many of my faves cause I have hundreds
Larry Coryell
Bill Frisell (with his old trio)
Bucky Pizzarelli (trad jazz and swing on a 7 string archtop)
Jorma Kaukonen
Django (amazing electric playing at the end of his career)
Jesse Ed Davis (Mostly blues - he had a beautiful tone - also worked with poet John Trudell)
Jim Hall
Jeff Beck (In his time, such a great feedback player)
Ted Nugent (near the end of the original Amboy Dukes - around the time of Marriage on the Rocks, Ted proved himself to be very expressive guitarist and an amazing feedback player - too bad he lost it)
Nicky Skopelitus - (a split personality, some things I cant stand and then he turns around and makes some obscenely beautiful sounds - at his best working with Bill Laswell in the studio)
John Abercrombie - Definately an innovator in my book and also great when he teamed with...
Ralph Towner
Tony Iommi - Just cause he did it first
Segovia
Ed Hazel - The original Funkadelic guitarist
Rich Gilbert (a new england favorite now gone country)
These are mostly oldsters cause I have been in that state of mind lately. I could go on for days.
Lets hear more of your faves.
Peace,
ST