Favorite guitarists – besides Syn Gates and Papa Gates

[Henry Cheuk-pang Wong]

Kind of surprised that no one mentions Zacky. Poor Zacky.
And apart from that, Kiko Loureiro is amazing. Totally blown away by his live performance.

 

[Charles Ray]

Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ace Frehley, Eddie Vanhalen, Toni Iommi,Adrian Smith, Dave Murray, Mathis Jabs, and I would Say Randy Rhodes, Jake E Lee, Zakk Wylde and Kirk Hammett are my biggest influence

 

[Dan Gray]

Alex Skolnik: Testament, AST, and TSO
Kee Marcelo: Europe
Those two were huge inspirations to me.
On the new scene, I really dig Jacky Vincent
Glad to be here. Have a fantastic day everyone!

 

[Salerno Salerno]

jeff lynne from elo is one of my favorites, also joe walsh and don felder, david gilmour, stevie ray vaughan, AND LIL WAYNE!!

 

[Cody Kennedy]

Steffen Kummerer, Slash, Dave Mustaine, Tosin Abasi, and myself of course! lol

 

[Gerben]

John Petrucci, David Gilmour, Steve Rothery, Dave Mustaine

 

[Ekrem Taha Ünlü]

JASON BECKER. Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Satriani, Alexi Laiho, Nuno Bettencourt and a few more…

 

[Donnie Keeney]

Paul Waggoner of Between the Buried and Me, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, John Petrucci, AJ Minette, Angus Young, and of course Eddie Van Halen.

 

[Josh Bailey]

Ever since In Flame’s Battles came out I’ve been on a Bjorn kick. He’s got that Zakk Wylde wah soaked lead style but his riffs are slick and thoughtful. Matter of fact I’m holding his signature Les Paul right now browsing through here. Besides him it would have to be Joseph Milligan from Anberlin. I’ve loved them for years and their sound just comes naturally out of me when I write music.

 

[Ana Psuturi]

John Petrucci, Steve Vai, Satriani, James Hetfield, Ritchie Sambora -who got me inspired to start playing, Paul Gilbert -who inspired to get better and of course a lot of blues players like bb king,Clapton, Garry Moore.

 

[Cody Sauser]

syn is who originally got me playing but some guys i found afterwards who really inspired me where alot of guys on youtube like Rob Chapman, Rob Scallon, and Jared Dines. Ive also always looked up to more well known Guitarists like Zakk Wylde, James Hetfield, And David Gilmour.

 

[Luke Klempner]

Randy Rhoads, Dave Mustaine, Dave Murray, Marty Friedman, and too many others

 

[Romain Tassan]

Jari Maenpaa who is the singer/compositor/lead guitarist for Wintersun. Well he doesn’t play guitar for the band anymore on stage but still compose guitar tracks (and basically everything else) for the albums. He’s absolutely insane at composing and he has incredible guitar skills technically speaking.
Then Steve Vai, Marty Friedman, Satriani, Buckethead, Petrucci. And some others.

 

[Ed Seith]

Mark Tremonti, Matt Heafy, Paul Gilbert (dude is so intensely in love with music and playing guitar without pretension that you can’t help but love him), Adrian Smith, Frankie and Tommie from Tesla, Keith Douglas from Tora Tora, Brad Paisley, Richie Sambora (check out the solo in “Dry County” to see why), Randy Rhoads, Criss Oliva (Savatage), Mark Holcomb and a mountain of others.
So many people I wish I could play like… But every time I plug in, I just sound like me.

 

[Hayley Frederick]

yngwie malmsteem, dimebag darrel, jason becker, paul gilbert, joe satriani

 

[Sondre Nordjore]

Joe Bonamassa, Tony Iommi, Guthrie Govan, Slash, Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Knopfler, Allen Van Wert and a bunch of other guys.

 

[Barış K]

John Petrucci, Steve Lukather, EVH, Nuno Bettencourt, Zakk Wylde and Miika Tenkula.