Top Ten Guitarists Who Use Double or Multi-Neck Guitars

The Top Ten
1 Jimmy Page 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.

Gibson EDS-1275. Is still one of the most popular guitar models of this kind. He used it in Stairway to Heaven. Helped to raise the popularity of the model.

2 Michael Angelo Batio Michael Angelo Batio also known as Mike Batio or MAB, is an American heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois.
3 John McLaughlin John McLaughlin, also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer.
4 Don Felder
5 Steve Howe Stephen James "Steve" Howe is an English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist in the progressive rock group Yes.
6 Alex Lifeson Aleksandar Živojinović, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush.

The Gibson double neck made Xanadu possible. I love it.

Alex Lifeson also used Gibson's EDS-1275.

7 Steve Vai Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer, born and raised on Long Island, New York.

3-neck guitar (his Heart guitar)

8 Mike Rutherford

His toy has bass and guitar necks, not only guitars

9 Dave Mustaine 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.
10 Rick Nielsen

5-neck guitar

The Contenders
11 Rik Emmett

Lead singer and guitarist for Triumph - he was good at both singing and playing.

He Played Magic Power in the 83 US festival with a broken doubleneck.

12 Uli Jon Roth Uli Jon Roth is a German guitarist, who became famous as the Scorpions lead guitarist, and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre.
13 Herman Li Herman Li is a Hong Kong-born, British Chinese musician, record producer, and lead guitarist for the British Power-Metal band Dragonforce.
14 Jim Hall

This list has nothing to do with "best Guitarist" because when I was growing up and listening to Hendrix and Clapton I had been brought up listening to jazz who had some wonderful players and from the 50s to the 70s, anytime someone cut a record, Jim Hall was the guy most would try to get for accompaniment and for his improvisational skills. Check out his album with Bill Evans, Undercurrent, where he and Evans extemporaneously toss musical ideas back and forth with amazing ease. I know of few rock guitarists who could do that. Most on the list don't improvise like Hall and other greats like Burrell, Herb Ellis or Barney Kessell. Tal Farlow? The same greatness. John "Mahavishnu" McLaughlin played rock, jazz and free form jazz. Played on Jack Bruce's fine instrumental album and worked with the great Miles Davis. Davis was harsh and intimidating to work with or for but even Miles was so impressed he titled a song from the album Bitch's Brew John McLaughlin, a great tribute from Miles. ...more

15 Bill Bailey Mark Robert Bailey better known as Bill Bailey, is an English comedian, musician, singer, actor, TV and radio presenter and author. Bailey is well known for his role in Black Books and for his appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You and QI, as well as his extensive stand-up work.
16 Joe Bonamassa Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. When he was only 12 years old, Bonamassa opened for B.B. King. He was born 8th May 1977. He is known to be one of the greatest blues guitarists ever.
17 Joe Maphis

A country guitarist who played on a lot of records in the late 50s and early 60s. He played a double neck Mosrite guitar; this makes him the first guy on the list (so far) to have one.

18 Richie Sambora Richard Stephen "Richie" Sambora is an American rock guitarist, producer, singer and songwriter who was the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi for 30 years. He is known for his work with Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013. He is a very praised guitarist who played solos for songs like Dry County, Stranger ...read more.
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