Favorite and/or most influential guitarists (for you as a player or in general)

[Bengalholic]

Man, a lot of great talents mentioned in this thread. A couple of people brought up Buckethead (Brian Carroll). I love his work. I'll put on my Bose headphones and just let his music take me to another place.

Another guy I really dig along the same line is Ewan Dobson. The guy is insanely talented, IMO. Here's one of my favorites from him...