No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
Prince
Tom Morello
Johnny Marr
Honourable Mentions:
Johnny Ramone
James Dean Bradfield
Jimi Hendrix
Kurt Cobain
4 Likes
Isaac Brock
John Squire
Jeff Tweedy
Nels is amazing but when I realised that Jeff did everything I love on A Ghost is Born before Nels showed up, my estimation of him grew loads
ah fuck but Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, the folk masters hmm
3 Likes
Ira Kaplan
Vudi
Tom Verlaine
8 Likes
Fred Durst
DJ Khaled
Lil Wayne
20 Likes
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
Annie Clark (St Vincent)
Nick McCabe (Verve)
3 Likes
Ronald Jones (The Flaming Lips).
Neil Young (Neil Young).
Greg Sage (The Wipers).
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4 Likes
Peter Buck, Johnny Marr, J Mascis
6 Likes
andy gill, josh homme, james hetfield
John Dwyer
Buzz Osbourne
Duane Denison
5 Likes
I never think about this sort of stuff
Vini Reilly (The Durutti Column) - a subtle wizard
Nile Rogers - Iconic and joyful innit, that sound
Bernard Butler (but only really for what he did in Suede) love how he could be slashing and direct as well as all convoluted and quite proggy
3 Likes
Luiz Bonfa
Stephen Malkmus
Takashi Mizutani
6 Likes
Ira Kaplan
Vini Reilly
Delicate Steve
2 Likes
a man of taste
1 Like
Flimsy’s brother?
9 Likes
Lindsey Buckingham
James Dean Bradfield
Luke Bentham (The Dirty Nil), arguably the greatest rock’n’roll guitarist currently playing in grimy clubs
Ooh my answer would change a lot here depending on the day.
Fredrik Thordendal from Meshuggah
The lad from Pom Poko
Joe Pass
2 Likes
John Dwyer
Mick Turner
David Tattersall
1 Like
Maybelle Carter
Cate Le Bon
Peter Buck
1 Like
Ira Kaplan
Nels Cline
Dave Navarro (concession to teenage Trev)
3 Likes
Maybelle Carter
Doc Watson
Molly Tuttle
3 Likes