Love some Pat Metheny .
Glen Campbell was super talented as well and Brad Paisley ain't no slouch.
CGP. One of the best produced albums I have ever heard.
Scofield played a nightclub I was managing (never again), dude was the humblest superstar I've ever met (Mix Master Mike right up there)...
Saw Chet play at a "dinner concert", back when I was a long haired headbanger guitar hero wannabee. The place was filled with senior citizens enjoying their lamb chops and mint jelly, my buddy and I at the front table just mezmerized by this old fucker tearing it up.
Yea, prince should be toward the top of the list.For all those who are saying EVH (don't get me wrong, I love Eddie), let's remember that he wanted to get guitar lessons from Glen Campbell at one point.
I don't know the truth of it, but it's been said that at one time a reporter asked Eric Clapton how it felt to be the best guitar player in the world and he said, "I don't know, you should ask Prince". Sometime later another reporter relayed that story to Prince and asked his feelings on it. Prince was said to have said, "I don't know, ask Glen Campbell".
^^^^Don't forget Jerry Reed
Man I always experienced
Yngwie was not quite as sterile in a live setting while opening for ACDC.... he missed quite a few notes when compared to the studio stuff where you can “do over” when you need to. But it might have been an alcohol related incident.
As guitarist's know....It's easier to make it sound bad than it does to make it sound good. Too much virbrato. 
Poorly played Pink Floyd solo with an Ernie Ball Music Man guitar, plugged into a Mesa Boogie Mark 5 combo amp, on Ch. 3. 
:It's not the amount, it's the speed of the bends (way too fast). That's what makes it shrill - just like Stevie Nicks' vocal vibrato. If she cut the vibrato speed in half with the same (or even more) amount of bend, it would sound waaaay better, more natural. That's C.C. DeVille-style vibrato. Drives me nuts. It's the anti-SRV vibrato.She's good, I'll give her that. But, her over use of virbrato is nails on a chalk board to me......She over uses it WAY too much.
YOU, my friend, picked the one guy who very few people know but have all heard, and belongs near the top of any list like this (It's actually "Dann" Huff). He played the hot guitar solos on all the pop artist's albums in the 80s as a studio musician, virtually unknown to the public back then. Guitar Player magazine did an article on the Top Five studio rock guitarists back in the late 80s, and he was on that list along with Steve Lukather and Michael Landau. I had the privilege of sitting about 3 feet away from him in a control room while he laid down a solo for an album we both played on in 1991, and I'll never forget it. Mind blowing. He later became (and still is) a Super-Producer in the Country world, the mastermind behind the best-selling albums from Keith Urban, Faith Hill, and Jewel, etc.
Yeah man….There’s a fine line between bending a note up to pitch and completely butchering it with added vibrato once you reach the correct pitch tone. It’s easy to not bend the string to the correct pitch(half, whole or whole and half step/tone) and add too much vibrato if you don’t have “an ear” for it. She does both excessively. She’s a good player, she just needs some pitch refinement with her style.Well, I didn't really. You said "over-use" and "too much", and I knew what you meant because I heard the same thing you did, but it could mean several things - too pitchy, too fast, or too often. I zeroed in on too fast as the culprit, just to clarify. Zakk Wylde puts way more pitch on his vibrato and sounds great within his genre (he doesn't do that when he's chicken-pickin' country-style). SRV rarely lets a note get by without vibrato (i.e. "often"), and is one of the masters of the technique and proof that sooo much of tone is in the hands. But get the speed of the vibrato too fast (C.C. as an example) and NO ONE sounds good, unless it's a special effect for a particular note.Well, thanks for essentially repeating what I just said! Ha!
