Best Guitarists In a Band

The Top Ten
1 Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits Mark Freuder Knopfler is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He is best known for being the frontman of the British band Dire Straits.
2 Jimmy Page - Led Zepplin James Patrick Page is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
3 Slash - Guns N' Roses

Dude, #5, seriously? He should be #1! Best guitarist of all time! And Jimmie Page should be #2 and then Brian May at #3.

The legend of canon rock and the bast musician

Slash deserves number 1

4 David Gilmour - Pink Floyd David Jon Gilmour is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He joined the progressive rock band Pink Floyd as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1968.

Actually most good guitarists are found in bands. I mean some guitarists who work for other artists, they are quite underrated.

5 Bryan May - Queen

George Harrison is cool, but my vote goes to brian may!

6 Ritchie Sambora - Bon Jovi
7 Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen
8 Pete Townshend - The Who Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the rock band The Who.
9 Eric Clapton - Derek and the Dominoes
10 Ritchie Blackmore - Deep Purple Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work in the hard rock/metal bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. He was ranked number 16 on Guitar World's "100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004, and number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. In 2016 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of original members of Deep Purple.
The Contenders
11 Synster Gates - Avenged Sevenfold

He is one of the most talented guitarist of all time... He deserve top 5 in this list...

12 George Harrison - The Beatles George Harrison (1943 - 2001) was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
13 Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Jimi Hendrix (born November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix is consistently ranked on lists of musicians who died too soon.

They are amazing. I love the songs voodoo child. Purple haze. Little wing. Hey Joe. Foxey lady.
Thet are totaly awesome ;-)
ROCK & ROLL

He's more of a solo guitarist

Hendrix 11? This list is a joke.

14 Tony Iommi - Black Sabbath Anthony Frank "Tony" Iommi is an English guitarist, songwriter and producer. Best known as lead guitarist and founding member of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, he has been the band's sole continual member and primary composer. At age 17, he accidentally lost the fingertips of his middle and ring fingers on his right hand, and considered giving up music. His boss encouraged him to continue playing by playing a record of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt who became famous even though his fretting hand was limited due to an injury. He carried on and down tuned his guitar for easier playing, which helped give birth to heavy metal music.
15 Matt Bellamy - Muse

The best part is when he plays with his glitterati

He wrote plug in baby!

16 Randy Rhoads - Ozzy Osbourne Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. He was killed in a plane crash.
17 Keith Richards - The Rolling Stones Keith Richards is an English musician—primarily a guitarist—singer, songwriter, best-selling memoirist, and founding member of the rock band The Rolling Stones.
18 Peter Green - Fleetwood Mac Peter Green was a British blues rock guitarist. As the founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
19 Tom Scholz - Boston Donald Thomas "Tom" Scholz is an American rock musician, inventor, engineer, and philanthropist, best known as the founder of the band Boston.
20 Brad Delson - Linkin Park Bradford Phillip Delson is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the Grammy Award winning rock band Linkin Park.

This man just rockx the concert! The way he plays his guitar in the Linkin Park songs like NO MORE SORROW ITS just AWESOME!

21 Ben Moody - Evanescence Benjamin Robert "Ben" Moody is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor.
22 Matthew Hoopes - Relient K
23 Tom Thacker - Sum 41
24 Dimebag Darrell - Pantera Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as Diamond Darrell and Dimebag Darrell, was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of two bands, Pantera and Damageplan, alongside his brother, Vinnie Paul. Abbott died in 2004 after he was shot by a mentally unstable fan.
25 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth David Scott "Dave" Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor and author. Mustaine is best known as a pioneer in Thrash Metal, being the former lead guitarist of Metallica before his dismissal in 1983, leading to finding and becoming the front man of his own band Megadeth shortly after.

17! Come on Dave should be higher, listen to holy wars or dialectic chaos, those have great solos but come on, he doesn't deserve #17

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