Who are the 3 most Influential Guitarists right now? 

I think I'll go with Charlie Starr. That guy has a killer style.

John frusciante from the Chili peppers, is another guitar player who's influenced a lot of guitarists too

My "It Might Get Loud" redux picks: a) Keith Richards, Ed O'Brien, St Vincent b) Eric Clapton, Kim Thayil, Yvette Young c) Neil Young, Tom Morello, Scott Holliday All of these are a bizarre combination of eccentric personalities, playing styles, completely unique backgrounds, dichotomous lives lived & current, always a blues based player, always an effects based sound smith, always an eclectic/wildcard player. I'd watch any of these.

I still lean towards the guys I grew up with . I am 70 now so you should have an idea of the guys I'm talking about . I do agree with Billy Strings .

The three current most influential guitars are still to this day Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, and Jimmy Page!

There's a great video of Tedeschi Trucks band and Warren Haynes is guest guitarist when Billy Strings shows up and starts jamming with the band. He and Derek are hitting it off, they are making some great music together. Poor old Warren though, he's looking like Eric must've looked that night in London when Jimi Hendrix asked if he could sit in with him. Because all of the sudden his amp wasn't working, or maybe it was the mic, Yeah just unplug the speaker cable and see if that works, and he used to play for the Alman Brothers🙄

I saw Slash and the Conspirators at Caesars Casino here in Windsor, Ontario. Good show.

Slash and Sweet Child of Mine intro, is why I started learning guitar. There a countless Greats I’ve been put onto since, but THAT was the one that flipped that switch. 🤘🏻

Slash, Starr, Strings... second team Bonamassa, King and Jared James Nichols. I like everyone's list though!!

Lighting and studio look great

6:11 You forgot Tremonti and Heafy. Bonamassa should up there and Jared Nichols maybe? Cheers from NZ 😎🎸🤘

Eric Johnson, Steve Hackett and Warren Haynes

My take on It Might Get Loud 2: Josh Homme, Slash and David Gilmour

My third guy is John Notto from Dirty Honey.

So 2 of these guys are known for playing Jerry Garcia parts so when does Jerry get his proper due also who was the more influential guitar player missing a finger toni iommi or Jerry Garcia

All time: Jimi Rory G Gary Moore Page Paul Kossoff Today: Changes weekly

I guess it depends on what you're doing at the moment. My three (actually four) would have to be Pete Thorn, Tim Pierce, Andy Wood, and Brent Mason. It's these guys due to what I'm learning from them. If we're talking commercial success (radio play and sales), I'd have to go back a bit. But it would be more than 3 because I'm from the 60's and 70's. So, I give up.

Surprised Lenny Kravitz wasn’t mentioned nor Keith Urban or Brad Paisley.

I would go with Mark Tremonti, but it's rare to hear people talk about Alter Bridge or his Tremonti side project or his signature guitar with PRS.

the same Page, clapton, beck, Frampton, EVH, and many others

Baxter, Sean, and Jonathan! DUH!!! ❤

Derek Trucks Guthrie Govan Nuno Bettencourt Taj Farrant John Mayer (yes) Not Slash.. Yes he's cool.. but nothing lately Tim Henson Jared James Nicholas As a guitar tv nerd I feel these guys come up the most in conversations right now when talking about guys n the current.

I still love that movie...and all three. I'm also fifty so there is that. A Chapter Two?? EVH (RIP), John Mayer, and that polygamy kid (😂)

Jared James Nichols, Bonamassa and Charlie Starr

Matteo Mancuso is eating everyone’s lunch. Guys like Vai and Johnson are talking about him. He’s far and away the best guitar player out there and I’m a Starr,Strings,King fanatic but this guys the best.

G'day Baxter & Jonathon, I always thought that the first movie was missing the generation between Jimmy Page & The Edge. Jack White should have invited Lindsey Buckingham too. A good, mid 1970's guitarist would have gone well with the rest of them. Keep up the good work Andrew

It's gotta be a Major/Dominant Jam V A Mimor jam!!!.....

Derek Trucks hands down

ZZ Top video on RU-vid with Billy Gibbons and Slash on stage together. It was cool trading solos. Then the camera pans to the other side of the stage and John Mayer kills them both. That was my introduction to Mayer.

Paisley

My 3 patriarchs are: #1 Jeff Beck, followed by Eric Clapton and Gary Moore in no particular order. I'm a blues/ rock guy, so my opinions are going to be slanted toward that.

I'm gonna grow with my music or my music will outgrow me! I'm gonna say, Chris Buck, Mathew Scott and the youngster comin' up... Taj Farrant! Of course I'm cheating by Totally Ig-Noring "commercially successful". These 3 guys are 3 of the very best guitarists Right Now. That's it. I'm stickin' with my decision. Lolin' And Chris Buck has played live with Slash, so that's close enough.

In my opinion, most definitely 'RICHIE KOTZEN' should be notable on any influential guitar listing. Brilliant guitarist / Vocalist / Songwriter. In addition he is one of the few who actually 'USES' his signature guitars that he endorses! Cheers

Tim Henson. Tosin Abasi. Billy Strings.

Now I might have a slightly controversial pick or maybe it’s my mid 40s age showing here but I think you could also say Tom DeLonge. Now here me out, he’s had multiple widely popular signature models from the top 2 guitar manufacturers, with blinks resurgence he has now influenced multiple generations to pick up and learn the guitar, he writes simply, clever, and catchy riffs that average beginner guitarist can learn and feel like a rock star playing, he’s been selling out areas recently and his other band Angels and Airwaves shows more of a dynamic side of his song writing and guitar playing technique.

EVH, Eric Johnson, John Mayer

I'd put J Mascis ans the older player who is the huge influence today, with Tom Morelo in the middle and Beabadoobee as the young'n.

I don’t think PhilX gets enough love as being a great guitarist 😎

My alternate picks for the third spot would probably be Gary Clark Jr. (and not just because we share a name lol) or Joe Bonamassa. I think enough non players know who those guys are to be considered.

Its criminal how few mentions of Vai I'm seeing in these comments. Also they should have had Grohl instead of White in the movie

When I saw the thumbnail and realized I wasn't included I wept incessantly. I WILL BE AVENGED!

I agree with almost everything.... other than Slash... as much as I love Slash the clear answer is Clapton.

oldies is tough. jimi, srv, evh and on and on not sure how you pick. modern is also tough. i dont think we are in a guitar hero phase right now although guitar is well represented in about any genre you can think of.

Santana!

Yvette Young

Sorry, I got distracted by the cute little dog...what were we talking about...

Great Case for Mayer and Slash, but after those 2, there is no real Third everyone can agree upon, it's not like there is a BB King, Prince or a Jeff Beck, all who could have been the Easy 3rd

OH OH Polyphia vs Guthree Govan vs Billy strings???

You have left out so many it is sad to rock and roll! I have listened to Mayer please take me back to the 60's and 70's

3rd would be Gary Clark jr...🎸🤟😎

It’s about who is influencal. John Mayer, yes… but in all honesty I think it is the older guys! Simply because guitar players who have had great “ guitar hits” are generally pre-1999!!! Tremonti was hot in Creed even though his best playing is in Alter Bridge… Yet, most modern players love Eddie, Randy, Jimmy, Jimi , SRV etc

No issue with Billy Strings, but I would pick Monte Montgomery.

I am 45 and I go from my idols..Page, Gilmour, Clapton, Peter Green,SRV, Rory Gallagher, Albert King, Gary Moore & my list goes on but I don't go for any new musicians much & if I do it's a here and there as music is not what it was back then.. Which was creative & Talented. But that's just me. 🤘🎸🤘

I get it now, works for me.

I would choose John 5 as my number 3, Mayer and Slash are no brainers.

Tyler Bryant and Jared James Nichols

Bonamassa has to be the 3rd nerd! Slash, Vai, Bonamassa could be the next G3 IMO

John Mayer, Tim Henson, and Dave Grohl would be my picks.

I have my top 3 and only one of them is Jimmy Page. The other two are Tim Henson and Jim Root, although Jim is just a personal favorite 😂😂

I don’t know if anyone else will agree…but Tim Henson is pretty sick. Not exactly my type of music I usually listen to but I will from time to time. I like Buckethead but I know he’s not really commercial. And you just mentioned Polyphia…🤣. Derrick Trucks should be up there too!

Y'all didn't wanna mention Joe Bonamassa? John Frusciante? I'd say they're both pretty influential. Shaped the way a lot of guitarists think and play. Both commercially successful.

Tim henson seems a natural 3rd to me

I honestly didn’t think Mayer was relevant any more and I have no idea who the 3rd guy is.

disappointed to discover I'm not on the list :(

Anyone have an AI patience cover? It would sound amazing

I’d love that grouping but have Dave Grohl interview/moderate

James Hatfield Kirk Hammett

I have never listened to Polyphia or Billy Strings...wouldnt know them if I fell over them! its hard to look past the guitar players from the Foo Fighters in regards to being successful and influenciall..Dave Grohl and Pat Smear aside, Chris Shiflett is quite loved. I also think Jack White is still very much on tip of things AND also Kirk Hammett...people love Kirk!

John Petrucci, Mark Tremonti, Guthrie Goven

Definitely Taylor Swift!

Jesse Cook.

I was fitna say Billy Strings!

Of current players I like Samantha Fish, Sophie Lloyd and Hurricane Nita Strauss! Old school hero's are SRV, May and Kath. Mayer, Slash, Starr, Marcin and Mancuso are all killer players too!

Vai Petrucci and Yngwie J Malmsteen

How sad. For decades they were everywhere and now we have to dig for them and settle for less.

We need more dog!

Mike Dawes.

billy strings? seriously? he's an exceptional player, but bluegrass is about as niche as niche gets... unless you're in North Carolina... his appeal is extremely limited.

John Mayer is 46

What’s the cap on the older guy? Because I’d say more non-guitar players would think of Hendrix before Slash.

John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa & Tim Henson.

It’s always Jimmy and Jimi

Billy Strings no big song? AwayFrom the Mire.

Well, l threw my phone 🤔😏

The Fear Factor Guitar God challenges could be: Sleep with a snake. Play “Sugar Magnolia” every day for a week (this is gonna be a long documentary) And do meth in Michigan for a month.

Walter Trout

For me it's still Toy Caldwell, Dicky Betts and Glen Campbell. Them all being gone might put a cramp in the movie, though.

Are we talking about influencing us suckers to buy more guitars,or to the general public and kids to start learning guitar? Because at the moment average kids watching RU-vid or TikTok are watching Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes and Taylor Swift and thinking they could copy that. Maybe Chris Stapleton? Slash, Bonamassa, Paul Gilbert and John Mayer aren’t inspiring people to learn to play, they’re selling gear to long time players. Currently I don’t see a rock band like Kiss or the Clash or the Who that people see and think they can pick up a guitar and do what they are doing- which is really influential.

I will put my comments now and ask what language are you speaking? I took my bubble on the road, but I have not smoked a thing today...yet

Joe Bonamassa?

Joe Bonamassa

Never heard of Billy strings either I like old blues guys. Joe Bonamassa is way more known than this Billy strings dude.

Most influential right now? Like right now? I dont see how it couldnt be taylor swift.

Billy Strings, John Mayer (LOTS of young people are now into the Dead), and Slash in that order, although Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle and Tommy Emannuel on the acoustic side. Sadly, Taylor Swift is probably the most influential guitar player but that's purely on a technicality. I would totally agree that Derek Trucks is the best single player currently on the planet. And yes, I hell hate U2. I could NOT keep that horrible free album off my phone. Completely ruined shuffle anticipating some horrible whiney screeching track might come up at any time.

lol John Mayer would destroy slash. He’s got martial arts training 😂😂

The age of the guitar gods is over. 0/3 😂

First two were no brainers. Third? First to mind was Tim Henson. 2nd was Molly Tuttle which brought me around to Billy Strings. So pretty darn good choices!

Derek trucks

Seriously are you thinking anyone other than Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Cmon Man

Julian Lange…..