Favorite 80's guitarist?

[Tattoo'd Lady]

easily these two:

Johnny Marr


Al Di Meola


^^ some serious studs on the guitar

 

[Sunny]

Great to see him mentioned! ............ RIP Stuart

and also Randy Rhoads!

.............. also want to add Tony Iommi on here

 

[Rocker440]

If I have to pick only one, then I would say George Lynch! From the early Dokken releases through 1988, or so, he contributed many great riffs, solos and overall sounds!

 

[Macca]

Eddie Van Halen would have to be the best guitarist of the 80's...I mean people like clapton and Brian May were active then, and are definetely better than him, but he was the best...newb of the time

 

[invader]

chris holmes from W.A.S.P

 

[rtbuck]

oh you'd be very surprised how many EVH fanboys there are around... I hate to admit it but I think Van Halen is one of the most overrated bands...the first album was cool, after that you can hear the ego in teh music, but, my opinion, for my favorite guitar player of the 80s I'm going to have to go with umm....
hmm.. I don't know, gimme a while to think on this one, does zappa count as 80s? I have some show from him from like 1982? maybe, does that count? if not maybe Neilson from cheap trick or something



Coverdale/Page
The firm

i think there was one other project Page was a part of in the 80s, probably more, but one other major one

I know he did an album called 'Outrider' which was a good record from what I remember(I have that on vinyl along with one of the Death Wish soundtracks that he was on but I don't remember anything about that one)

 

[Foxhound]

oh you'd be very surprised how many EVH fanboys there are around... I hate to admit it but I think Van Halen is one of the most overrated bands...the first album was cool, after that you can hear the ego in teh music....

I agree. Van Halen pains me. And i fume every time I hear Van Halen's covers of "You Really Got Me" and "Oh, Pretty Woman".

 

[elfranco]

Ec

 

[Smoke The Sky]

How could you forget Michael Angelo! He's probably the speed god

 

[architect]

Randy Rhoads, George Lynch, EVH