I think that Silverstein's Neil Boshart is up their.
Also i think that My Chemical Romances Ray Toro is the best in a new band. He is one of the only guitar players still playing awesome solos in that type of music.
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I believe guitar playing has gotten worse in music these days and I can't really say who I like most...I like alot of players that some people consider crap. I like System of a downs Daron malakian (Gotten much better with their new album out soon), Slipknots Mick Thompson (does give some solos a good try), I hope Limp Bizkits old guitarist will be back he had some cool sounding stuff although not brilliant, oh...69 Eyes have a good guitarist, HIM as well, Marilyn manson has a decent guitarist playing in his band...I dunno...more that I forget about...(all personal opinions)
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Yall are gonna hate this because it is pop, but Michelle Branch can play, and keeps the guitar current in a genre that it has certainly seen better days in.
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Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is pretty good. Check them out if you've never heard of them, I supposed it could be called garage blues rock.
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Henry Garza, although the style of Los Lonely Boys is a heck of a lot closer to older blues and rock than the current breed. He's still a phenomenal guitarist though.
"There's no easy ways man," he said. "You gotta learn the hard parts for yourself."
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Mr. Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Warren Haynes of The Dead, Gov't Mule, and the Allman Brothers. (yeah, he's been around a while)
The guitarist in Umphrey's McGee though I don't know his name.
Al and Chuck from MOE. are very good improv players.
"How could you possibly be scared of being bad? Once you get past that, it's all beautiful." -Trey Anastasio
Agreed on the Black Keys and Los Lonely Boys guitarists. Also, Derek Trucks can play some great guitar.
Definitly the dude from Los Lonely Boys, and derek trucks
Umm.Velvet Revolver's Slash ;)
blind melon.........- sick guitarist.....but i dont think ther together anymor after the singers death....
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How about those guys from Avenged Sevenfold? They really get some interesting solos pulled off.
They even have a little player on their site, so no reason to not check it out: http://www.avengedsevenfold.com/
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Euroboy in TURBONEGRO (their new album is due 9th of may) is really good. Got some wicked solos. If you're not into deathmetal he's also playing in a band called Euroboys, who plays nice smooth guitarmusic.
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Since somebody already mentioned my hero Henry Garza, sooo...
check out Corey Beaulieu and Matt Heafy of Trivium. Those guys THROW DOWN. New-school thrash metal with old-school virtuosity and an awesome sense of melody.
I'll have to check out The Black Keys - I'm on the tail end of a metal kick right now and going back into a blues phase :)
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Black Keyes are awesome.......check em out.
Yes the black keys do rock, the 2 man band that can't be beat.
Thanks Dudes!
Keep on Rockin'
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