Your favourite or most highly rated guitarist?

Badger

Ritchie Blackmore
Yngwie Mamlsteen
Tony Bourge

Absurdistan

Dave Murray

BigAndyCAFC

Mark King - Level 42 Base Guitar at its best

EpsomAddick

Johnny Marr - listen to this recent rendition of 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JU3bogr4oc

Godstone

Brian May
George Harrison
Francis Rossi

Melodic lead players

Sillybilly

Knopfler
Clapton
Richard thomphson
Malcolm jones
John Martyn.

TEL

For me, the master of bass, acoustic and lead
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=RRvvhcBO5hU

A-R-T-H-U-R

BigAndyCAFC said:

Mark King - Level 42 Base Guitar at its best

I'll see your king, and raise you a Watt-Roy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3oaTnVMjsA

StubleyAddick

Special mentions for Wilko Johnson and Johnny Marr too.

In terms of bass players:

JJ Burnel and Bruce Foxton.

legaladdick

Got to be 'Earl' from the Wonga adverts

TEL

http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=ysiKsmRwfx0

Nice acoustic rendition

seth plum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jdH1T8hc9c

Stig

Dave Gilmour, Frank Zappa (with or without Steve Vai), Django Reinhardt, Roland S Howard.

Stig

And of course, Wilko Johnson.

CostaFortune

Jimi Hendrix electric
Gordon Giltrap acoustic

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Richard Thompson

Lazy_eye_metaphor

Peter Buck. Can't understand how he had not already been mentioned.

iainment

Robbie Krieger
Carlos Santana
Although not a lead as such I really like Ry Cooder as well
Pete Green

EastTerrace

Dean Wareham

dickplumb

Eric Clapton,
Peter Green,
BB King
Richard Thompson
Michael Chapman

Latimer

Mick Ralph's
Brian May
Steve Hackett

Saga Lout

Paul Kossoff
Jimmy Page
James Marshall Hendrix

RedPanda

Trey Azagthoth in Morbid Angel.

cafctom

James Hetfield (Metallica) - absolute riff master
Eric Clapton
Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains)
Brian May
Slash
Matt Bellamy
Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) - great tone, and he's actually a top singer too