Yeah, I love Dave to death too but I don't know if he's the best. 

I might have to say Yngwie Malmsteen.  His album RIsing Force is my favorite album when it comes to guitar playing ever.  Too bad he sold out and starting playing poser music.

Damn you badgenome!  I just saw your post.

You can see everything that can be done on guitar here in ten minutes.  He doesn't pull out the electric until about 4 minutes in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNOa5Gjh2lc 

Emppu Vuorinen from Nightwish. Maybe not the best but I love his style.

idk how to post vids so here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCEXM9U8Z4







Him and Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom, that guy is freaking impressive.

Hard to pick a best, Tommy Emmanuel has got to be right up there. These two are another couple of my favourites, but for very different reasons.

Skip to about 1:45 to get to the juicy part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w2fNOEzR9Y

This guys is just a bit of a freak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUTXSql-o7o

edit: sorry I give up on embedding

im surprised no one has posted this guy yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_nFTpaWvU4

he has a lot more stuff from skyrim to careless whisper to other cool covers turned into metal

OT: how come i cant embed videos? on the preview it shows up ok though

The video is never visible even after you've posted your comment. You need to change thread and return for it to be visible (assuming that you're using the HTML-button).

Brian May from Queen, he built his guitar from a 100 year old fireplace,old parts of a motorcycle and a knitting needle. He has the best guitar tone of all time, no one can replicate that sound. Guitar greats such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Slash, Van Halen speak very highly of him and Jeff Beck christened him "the guvnor". Plus he has sold over 300 million albums.

John Petrucci is Jesus, and David Gilmour is God.

wat.

Post a video guys, this is the interent people are to lazy to search up your fav guitarist.