Favourite guitarist then vs favourite guitarist now...

sticker

Then Slash

Now ...errrrr Paul Davids , JamesJames or Josh Turner from Youtube I guess as I don't really listen to much "guitar music" these days .

wesker123

Then Page, Slash, Gilmour

Now Nile Rogers, Gilmour, Kevin Shields, Joey Landreth, Blake Mills to name a few.

LuttiS

Then:



Now:

Blaendulais

Then Tino Troy

Now Tino Troy

newi123

@Schnozz - Chris Holmes was awesome. He always had is own legato style too. Did you catch him this yr on tour?

For me,

Then: EVH

Now: Mike landau (subject to changing my mind)

Matt_McG

My initial inspirations were bands, not individual guitarists. So ...

Then: Dave Murray and Adrian Smith -> Steve Vai (specifically DLR era Vai)

Now: various - Mark Lettieri, Julian Lage, Marc Ribot, Kenny Burrell, Derek Trucks, Anabel Montesinos, and many others.

JezWynd

SteveRobinson said:

Always and still Mick Ronson, Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner

Have a Wis.

I must be well outside the loop. Based on photos I don't have a clue who any of these people are.

EricTheWeary

I did have rock guitar heroes as a yoof but didn’t play guitar. By the time I learned my three chords I wanted to be Muddy Waters or Hubert Sumlin.
Now if I pick up a guitar it’s usually in an attempt to sound like Roddy Byers although if I want to listen to guitar playing it’ll probably be Jim Campilongo. Despite my fetishising of pedals I seem to most like players where you can hear the wire and the wood. 

cornishlee

Then: Hendrix

Now: Gilmour

Matt_McG

@EricTheWeary Campilongo is a good shout, and should have been on my list. 

SidNewton

grappagreen said:

Then Yngwie.. now Matt Schofield .. I’ve changed a little over the years

I can relate to that totally. When I started playing it was early Yngwie, Vai and Satriani. The only guitarist I listened to back then that I still like now is Schenker.
I much prefer Robben Ford, Mike Landau and  Matt Schofield these days.
That said if we're talking bands as opposed to guitarists I still listen a lo to the likes of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.......especially when the neighbours are pissing me off.

scrumhalf

Then: Hendrix

Now: Hendrix

I might have made a lucky choice, but when you start (or indeed, strat) at the top why bother changing?

MikeB

Then: Randy Rhoads 

Now: Andy Timmons 

Skinnyhead45

Then: Stevie Ray Vaughan 

Now: Buddy Guy

I'm normally into heavy rock/ metal but these guys are up on my list. SRV inspired me to pick up a sunburst strat and start learning the blues. I can listen to Buddy Guy for hours. Man that guy can play 

Winny_Pooh

Back in my teens it was Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson, EVH, Michael Hedges (inspired a 3 yr acoustic instrumental gigging phase)Steve Tibbetts, SRV, Satriani, Hendrix.

Went through a middle phase in my 20's digging tele players: Jim Campilongo, Marc Ribot, Manuel Galban, Jonny Greenwood and forgot about shredders totally. 

At present: still love Gilmour & the classic guys (although I'd only put Dire Straits on) plus still influenced by Johnson after all that time practicing his stuff.

I've however discovered Alan Holdworth and while I don't listen to him too much, after you've heard the pinnacle of intelligent shred you can't listen to these 80's or current melodic instrumental shredders seriously anymore.

One person I do listen to alot nowadays is Julian Lage and to a lesser degree other jazz guys like Kurt Rosenwinkel/Grant Green although I dont play jazz. 

Funkfingers

Difficult to single out one amongst so many.

THEN: Jeff Beck

NOW: Jeff Beck

stratman3142

Then: Paul Kossoff

Now: I don't have a single favourite guitarist. The list would be too long to mention them all, but Guthrie Govan, Robben Ford and Nuno Bettencourt immediately spring to mind.

Jonathangus

Then:

Now:

tone1

Early days... Steve Jones, Angus Young, Clapton.

Middle period..... Gary Moore, SRV, Angus Young, Clapton

Now....John Mayer, Angus Young & some youtubers like Kentcarllevi, Jamesjames, Pilky27, Jamie Harrison..

thecolourbox

The hardest button to button by the White Stripes got me playing guitar in the first place back in 2003 and the last album I bought was Jack White's Boarding House Reach, so I'm still the same