Top 10 players I dug while still in my teens:
1. Wes Montgomery
2. Michael Roe
3. David Gilmour
4. Eric Johnson
5. Bill Frisell
6. Joe Satriani
7. Jim Hall
8. John Pizzarelli
9. Vinnie Moore
10. Mike Stern
Top 10 players I heard after I’d already been at it a while, who made me rethink something (or everything) about guitar:
1. Ben Monder
2. Marc Ribot
3. Nels Cline
4. Jeff Beck
5. John Scofield
6. Frank Vignola
7. Marc Ducret
8. Sonny Sharrock
9. Tim Sparks
10. Tsuneo Imahori
Top 10 players I enjoy listening to today:
1. Kurt Rosenwinkel
2. Vic Juris
3. David Fiuczynski
4. Oscar Moore
5. Billy Gibbons
6. Dom Minasi
7. Henry Kaiser
8. Junior Brown
9. Marshall Crenshaw
10. Adam Rogers