I gotta give it up to neil young. he's not particularly virtuosic in any way, but he's got a knack for throwing soul into his lead parts and i dig how he throws little riffs into his chord strumming to keep it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmZMdq-kwM"]Grateful Dead - 10-31-1980 Radio City, NY set1-04 Monkey & The Engineer (acoustic) - YouTube Jerrys pretty awesome...I dont know who to choose now that i listened to this song....I cant settle for one guitarist anymore LOL
Robin Trower... There's a lot of favorites, some quite obscure, and it's very hard for me to choose just one. But I always dig Trower, "Bridge of Sighs" era, as formative for me.
Tony Iommi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpSHR8x8Zg"]Heaven and Hell - Lonely is the Word live - YouTube
I never really liked Frank Zappa. He should have just stuck with the bicycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izDvYokFU7U"]Frank Zappa's Bicycle Debut - YouTube I like Clapton's work in Cream.
my late uncle. he wasn't the best at playing guitar, but he was one of the best people to play guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlAIECkHps&t=1m48s"]Frank Zappa - The Black Page #2 - 1981, Boston (audio) - YouTube skip to 1:48ish for the beginning of frank shredding, or just be patient. the man's a genius, i didn't know either... you just gotta listen to him a lil