Best Guitarists of all time

The following list is a personal choice of mine. I have listed them according to their skills and playing style. And again this is not a fact, this is a list according to personal preference.

1.Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix (born November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter . Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century . The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music” .

2.Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk “Eddie” Van Halen is a Dutch-American musician, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, occasional keyboardist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. The most famous of was eruption.

3.Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. He has also been a member of Derek and the Dominos.

4.Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen “Stevie” Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. In spite of a short-lived mainstream career spanning seven years, he is widely considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of music, and one of the most important figures in the revival of blues in the 1980s.

5.Kirk Hammett

Kirk Lee Hammett is the lead guitarist and songwriter for the heavy metal band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. He is well know for his Wah involvement in albums of Metalica, which is both liked and disliked by many metalheads

6. Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American multi-instrumentalist musician who has received critical acclaim for his innovative electric guitar playing. His music spans many genres, including progressive metal, funk, blues, bluegrass, ambient, and avant-garde music.

7.John Petrucci

John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist, composer and producer. He is best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Compared to his level of skill, John Petrucci is relatively unknown in the modern music industry. He also has his own signature guitar Ernie Ball Music man JP-6.

8.Steve Vai

Steven Siro “Steve” Vai is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer, born and raised on Long Island, New York. His all time best For the love of god is still in the minds and hearts of all guitarist. His Ibanez JEM-7 is also a guitar all guitarist love to have in their guitar collection.

9.Randy Rhoads

Randall William “Randy” Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. He was killed in a plane crash. Though he lived a very short life but still in his small life span he gave the music industries some great all time hits such as Crazy train.

10. Dimebag Darrell

Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as Diamond Darrell and Dimebag Darrell, was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of two bands, Pantera and Damageplan, alongside his brother, Vinnie Paul. Abbott died in 2004 after he was shot by a mentally unstable fan.

By -RNKH(Rohan Khadka)