I've found this question in another site and I thought that it would be interesting to discuss it here.

Some of the answers there were Ron Thal, Buckethead, Shawn Lane, Bireli Lagrene, Tommy Emanuelle, among others.





What do you think?

That would be jeff beck

I always saw Ron Thal as the Punk Rock brother of Govan! I would say they are pretty much in similar terms command wise.
Musically different though.

hahah what a great quote!! I think that even both of them would smile with this comment.

For those who are not familiar with Ron:

It seems that no one else....

He certainly has an awesome command of the instrument. Also he does everything in a very unique sounding way. He doesn't sound like other players imho,
he always sound like Guthrie. There are wads of great players around, but he truly amazing. Something to aspire to no doubt

Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Andy Timmons, Buckethead, Danny Gatton and last but not least, how could we omit Lil' Wayne from such an esteemed list!!

Really! He is the king!!!!!!

Guthrie won Guitarist of the Year at Wembley, held by Guitarist Magazine, he beat my friend and one time guitar teacher Simon Lees, Simon won the competition the following year

That's great Phil! Share some Simon's vids!

I shared one in the Reggae collab

I'll try to share some while I'm on holiday, he isn't as "organic" as Guthrie