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May 21, 2024 · Adrian Smith. Main superpower: An incredible melodic sense combined with tasteful phrasing and immaculate sonic textures. Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden. The Iron Maiden axeman is somewhat underrated in the larger-scale guitar world.
- Angus Young and Stevie Young (AC/DC) What a comeback – we didn't even know who was still in AC/DC at the start of 2020, or if we'd even hear them again.
- John Mayer. He hosted an impromptu online guitar masterclass, made a song about yachts, played a socially distanced set with Dave Chappelle, collaborated with Leon Bridges, starred in a strangely engaging Land Rover Commercial… and released a watch.
- Tom Morello. With Rage Against The Machine unable to even start their reunion tour in 2020, Morello refused to mope. Instead he recorded an EP with some of his best music in years.
- Stone Gossard and Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) The longest wait between Pearl Jam albums ever (seven years) became an anticlimax only because there were no gigs to support it – including a whole European tour we'll now have to wait until 2021 for.
- Mark Tremonti. Mark Tremonti’s Track record as a songwriter is close to unmatched in modern heavy music - the Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist, who we’ll call Captain Riff, has sold more than 50 million records over his career.
- Tosin Abasi. “There’s so much beauty in what I would call ‘foundational’ playing, like becoming a better blues guitarist,” Tosin Abasi tells Guitar World.
- Gary Clark Jr. emerged on the scene with a breakout performance at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, and ever since he’s been hailed as the new face of the blues.
- Nita Strauss. Far be it to say that anyone can upstage Alice Cooper on his own stage, but the shock-rock legend may have met his match in current guitar foil Nita Strauss, whose ability to tear it up on the fretboard is matched only by her consummate showmanship and unabashed love of performing - she’s the Flash, in every stylistic sense of the word.
- Best rock guitarist, 2021: Jake Kiszka (Greta Van Fleet) The Greta Van Fleet guitarist stretched his wings on 2021’s The Battle At Garden’s Gate. Kiszka is a player who still treasures his classic rock influences, but he has broadened his reach, incorporating bits of Rush- and Journey-like melodic complexity alongside his previous knack for Jimmy Page-esque pentatonic histrionics.
- Steve Vai. It’s been a year of experimentation for Vai. He debuted his insane Hydra guitar build, injured his hand while holding a chord for 20 minutes (thankfully, he made a full recovery) and appeared on a a killer track, Diamond Ring , with Dirty Loops’ Jonah Nilsson and Quincy Jones.
- Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear (Foo Fighters) 2021 was the year that Foo Fighters released their 10th record Medicine At Midnight. Enjoying the disco influences that fed into it, they then put out their covers collection, Hail Satin, under the alias of the Dee Gees, schooled Westboro Baptish Church in disco outfits and made us all welling up when they finally played live with Nandi Bushell.
- Tom Morello. Morello hit a rich seam in 2020, paradoxically finding a focus and creative freedom in the lockdowns of 2020. It led him to a huge range of off-the-cuff collaborations.
- Jonathan Horsley
- Joe Bonamassa. The world’s most high-profile blues guitarist has spent 2019 packing out pretty much every large, red-plush seated theater he can find in support of last year’s masterly Redemption.
- Eric Clapton. For a player who made his bones in the ‘60s with Cream and Blind Faith, back when the color TV was still novel, Slowhand made a respectable attempt at breaking the internet when he played While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Peter Frampton at this year’s Crossroads Guitar Festival.
- Derek Trucks. Is there a better slide player in the world right now? Trucks is the highest slide specialist in our voters’ list, and perhaps that is because his sensibility is such that he never overpowers the jam, often positioning his Gibson Artist Series Dickey Betts SG somewhere in the uncharted frequencies shared by vocals and guitar, and as an enigmatic counterpoint to his wife Susan Tedeschi’s Strat or Les Paul.
- Buddy Guy. Profiled in the New Yorker as “the last of the bluesmen,” Buddy Guy might be 83 years young but he has more than plenty sap in the tree, and can presently be found, Strat in hand, at venues up and down the length and breadth of the United States.
Dec 9, 2021 · 1. Best new guitarist, 2021: Tristan Thomas (Florence Black) The melodic hard rockers released their barn-storming debut, Weight Of The World this year. Guitarist Tristan Thomas has an incredibly versatile sound that spans Dimebag grind through to clean country-like licks and shred freakouts. 2.
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Jan 16, 2023 · The best alternative and indie guitarists. Trailblazers. The best punk guitarists of all time. The best acoustic guitarists of all time. The best jazz and fusion guitarists of all time. The best guitarists in the world right now. (Image credit: Olly Curtis/Future) 1. Nita Strauss.
