Rinji Fukuoka and Akira Yamanouchi of Overhang Party
Maurice Deebank
Robbie Basho
Bert Jansch
Keiji Haino
Paul Metzger
Jack Rose
Chris Martin (Of Kinski, not Coldplay)
Gibbons Bros of Bardo Pond
Munehiro Narita of High Rise
Michio Kurihara of Ghost
Iommi
Dude from Flower Travellin Band
Manuel Gottsching
Jason Kesselring

More will come to mind later....

Have we got certain criteria by which to make these judgements? Skill, stage presence, experimentation, nice ass, best mullet?

I always thought if Slash had a couple of hot oil treatments, he could do Pantene commercials.

I always thought slash would look great locked inside an iron maiden.

Funny, I always thought Steve Harris and Slash would look great locked together...

Preevert.

you might be poking fun but you remind me of another guitarist i forgot.

rudolf's brother:

michael schenker of ufo

i think i'll just post my favorite reggae guitarists, so as not to confuse myself with a seemingly endless list....

peter tosh and earl "china" smith and the most outrageous and technically proficient guitar players in reggae, period.

Oh stop, that word gets me all kinds of hot 'n bothered.

Like you don't live in a constant state of arousal.
You can't blame me.

I'm not the one who needs to surround myself with interactive genitals.

i also really like leo kottke's early instrumental folk stuff. some inhuman shit right there.

James Iha was always great. He's really psychedelic, man. He plays toy rayguns through his pickups. What a legend.

Oh, and Nigel Tufnel.

Jimmy Page was a big influence on me. His playing got me into guitar.
Now my main influences are Thurston and Lee. I've tried so many different tunings and different ways of playing guitar (using a screwdrive/drumstick) because of them.

Some great ones i havent seen listed so far:
Steve Howe
Mark Knopfler
Dave Navarro

Thurston, Lee, Joey Santiago, Greg Ginn, East Bay Ray... probably more.
Ray was really awesome, fast and inventive and you never really hear anything about him.

Kevin Shields & Eliott Smith.

of coure the collectiveof sy...
and so on,,,
tom verlaine
j mascis
lou barlow (style points yesi)
dave pajo
billy corgan (shut up)
johnny greenwood
who ever plays guitar in built to spill
lou reed (metal machine music!!!)
ronald jones (was in the flaming lips around transmissions to clouds)
avey tare and deaken (animal colllective)
keith richards
easy bay ray (i second that notion)
ron ashteon

man, who else can play a guitar solo with two guitars and a violin at the same time?

no one else!!!!