Favorite 80's guitarist?

[Rhett Oracle]

I know nobody's posted in this thread since my hair was brown, but it was a whole thread about favorite guitarists from the '80s and no one has listed Adrian Belew from King Crimson. So I will!

 

[dr wu]

Whoever Tom Petty's lead picker was.Highly definitive of its rock times......................

That would be Mike Campbell.

 

[dr wu]

Hmm...that depends on what style you are after.....hard rock: Randi Rhodes, Eddie Van Halen, pop rock: Elliot Easton, Mark Knopfler, Andy Summers, blues rock: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, jazz fusion:
Alan Holdsworth, John Scofield, Pat Metheny....and many others.

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