I like the dude from AOR.

Frank Zappa.

okai for real.

lee ranaldo
t.moore
j.mascis
tom verlaine
sonic boom
nels cline

Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire and other projects i've never heard is pretty rad.

Billy Corgan (I find he is really underrated)
Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg
Bernard Sumner
Matthew Good
Jonny Greenwood
the guitarists of Controller.Controller

Shit, I forgot about Dick Dale! Yay,surf rock!!!!!

I met Dick Dale once. Nice guy. I think he broke three of my fingers when I shook hands with him. It was like a vise.

me too!!!!

man, a great inspiration!!

Savage Clone: that's sounds both awesome and intriguing

Jimi Hendrix

Dick Dale is the man. To bad he ripped off the Black Eyed Peas.....siiiiike:fuckyou:

the no jive five

Jimi
Sonny
Skip
Muddy
Buddy

Annie Clark from St. Vincent is amazing.

Danny Ash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e3mILuRfY0

Someone I know and speak to occasionally recently told me about the time he went to go see him in NYC back in the 80s. Which... if I would've been able to experience I might've been content dying afterwards. That's a blissful way to put it.

Ron Asheton
Buddy Guy
Jimi
Cheetah Chrome
Lee Ranaldo
in
no
particular
order
always
subject
to
change
sans
ronnie
and
lee r.

Favorite guitarists? Can't really think of any offhand.

Alan Sparhawk
Vic Chesnutt
Efrim Menuk
Lou Barlow
J Mascis
Neil Young
Lee Ranaldo
Peter Visser (Bettie Serveert)

I agree with Fahey.

Most of my favorites are probably pretty ordinary. The usual suspects. Verlaine, Mascis, Shields, Ranaldo.

I think my list would be different if I played the instrument myself. Wish I did. :(

ditto most of the people listed here, plus:

Davey Graham
Kenny Hakansson
Bo Anders-Persson
Reine Fiske
Richard Thompson
Omar Khorshid
Ibrahim Ag Alhabib
Mick Turner
Susan Alcorn
"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow
Link Wray
John Renbourne
Michael Rother
Rafael Toral
Debashish Bhattacharya
Brij Bushan Khabra
Dr. Kamala Shankar
Rev. Blind Willie Johnson
Bola Sete
Roebuck "Pops" Staples
Junior Kimbrough
Bruce Langhorne
Santo and Johnny Farina
Duane Eddy
John Abercrombie
Stacy Sutherland
Alessandro Alessandroni