# Great Guitarists

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-guitarists/401500>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 24, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-guitarists/401500 "2007-04-24T19:50:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-guitarists/401500/161 "2008-10-26T00:32:07Z")

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What, no mention of Pete yet? Not surprising, really–he’s not a virtuoso by any means. But I’ll put him up there with **anyone** in the category of pure visceral stage presence.

([Thread that dropped into obscurity earlier this week](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=489294))

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**Author:** ![DanCorleone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DanCorleone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanCorleone)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-guitarists/401500/162 "2008-10-26T03:05:26Z")

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Given the “obscurity” of Chet Atkins to some in this thread, I may be reaching here, but anyone else a fan of Bucky Pizzarelli?

I’ll second Larry Carlton and Steve Hacket as two of my other favorites…

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