Hard to say...I'm no longer a musical fan in the sense of worshipping musicians on their talents, more on what their music does for me.... Love the early Hendrix sound (before he killed it with some shitty effects), fender strats and marshall amps are a winning combo.... Quite like some Beatles stuff (probably George Harrison) for tone, really crunchy naturally distorted sound, and love the 12 strings on the likes of day tripper etc. Trever Keith from Face To Face, whilst not being the most advanced player, has a great tone and good ideas, fuller sound with a Les Paul and the nice Top Hat King Royale amp.....never distorts past 4 and gets a nice cutting clean old pure tube driven sound Brian Baker from Dag Nasty (and later Bad Religion) is probably my "fave" guitarist I can think of.....love his style, lots of open notes or repeating patterns with one note changing...isn't afraid to wack in the old 12 string, or some nice old sounding clean sounds (gretsch)....my guitar playing comes from this guy! (as Does Billie Joe, who mine first came from) Ian MacKaye and Guy Piccioto have got some cool stuff going on aswell....nice tones too Pete Townshend (early who days) aswell...again good tones (strat and marshall, ricky and vox, can't say much for the sg and hiwatt, his sound got real shit from woodstock onwards....)