Best Guitarist You Ever Saw in Person

[bartski]

That Sum'b**** Rawks!

I don't know who was best, but here are a few from the top of the list:
BB King
Beck (you wouldn't know it, but he's crazy good)
Brian Setzer
Buckethead (with Les Claypool)
*apparently having a B name helps.
Jim "Reverend" Heath of Reverend Horton Heat
Tom Morello with Audioslave

and another B, just for kicks, Brian Stoltz of the Funky Meters... maybe it was the fact that we were in Key West, but he was killer.

So who you got? I will go on the fringe and say Unknown Hinson. That dude can shred!

 

[bartski]

Oh, I forgot... on 13 string steel guitar, Robert Randolph!

 

[vern1915]

Rick Derringer

 

[Jester7]

Eric Johnson

Excellent...

 

[captdave77]

Clapton
Alex Lifeson (way underrated)

 

[swampbuck62]

Prince is a beast. The guy can flat out play.

he actually plays quite a few instruments..

 

[Sneakypete]

Eddie Van Halen at the Monsters of Rock Concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in 1988

EVH in 1978 damn I feel in old,
Jeff Beck 2012 at Chastain

 

[strider12]

he actually plays quite a few instruments..

I read 30 somewhere. I don't know if I could name 30 instruments.

 

[Bottoms polaris]

Angus Young , Brad Paisley

 

[Tony2X]