Directors The Greatest Guitar Players: The Official Poll (1 Viewer)

Ok folks, let's get it on. This is a 64 slot tourney, with one matchup running at a time. I've never run a tourney before, so I don't know much about it, but with this one I'll try to match up players from the same genre (as long as that's possible).

In the tournament:

Alden, Howard
Atkins, Chet
Beck, Jeff
Berry, Chuck
Bream, Julian
Brown, Junior
Cantrell, Jerry
Christian, Charlie
Clapton, Eric
Cooder, Ry
DeGarmo, Chris
Diddley, Bo
Edge, The
Gilmour, David
Greenwood, Johnny
Hackett, Steve
Hammett, Kirk
Harrison, George
Hendrix, Jimi
Hetfield, James
Howe, Steve
Iommi, Tony
James, Elmore
Johnson, Eric
Johnson, Robert
Jones, Adam
King, Albert
King, B.B.
Knopfler, Mark
Lang, Eddie
Leadbelly
Lee, Jake E.
Lifeson, Alex
Malmsteen, Yngwie
Marr, Johnny
May, Brian
Metheny, Pat
Montgomery, Wes
Moore, Gary
Moore, Vinnie
Morello, Tom
Page, Jimmy
Perkins, Carl
Petrucci, John
Reinhardt, Django
Richards, Keith
Rhoads, Randy
Rothery, Steve
Santana, Carlos
Satriani, Joe
Schenker, Michael
Scofield, John
Segovia, Andrés
Slash
Summers, Andy
Thayil, Kim
Townshend, Pete
Vai, Steve
Van Eps, George
Van Halen, Eddie
Vaughan, Stevie Ray
Wylde, Zakk
Young, Angus
Young, Neil

I myself am going to second Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page and David Gilmour.

edit: realized I had seconded my own nominee, and that's a no-no

Nominations:
John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche)
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden)
Second:
Zakk Wylde

I'll second Jimi Hendrix

I'll 2nd George Harrison

I'll second:
John Petrucci
and I'll nominate:
Joe Satriani
Adam Jones (Tool)

I Second
Satriani
Jones
and nominate
Steve Vai

I used all my noms already, but hoping we can expand the musical spectrum, I'd like to suggest a few others.

Roy Clarke

Mark Knopfler

Ry Cooder

Chet Atkins

Robert Johnson

George VanEps


I'm tempted to post some mp3 excerpts from these guys.

I'll second Steve Howe. I'll nominate the highly underrated and influential Alex Lifeson.

I'll second
Jimi Hendrix
Michael Schenker
George Harrison

I'll nominate Neil Young, Junior Brown and Bo Diddley.

I'll second Leadbelly.

Michael and Jan, Steve Howe was already in the tournament. He was one of my nominee's.

I kind of wish I'd nom'd Willie Nelson. I saw him live a several months ago, he was very impressive.

I'll second:
Tom Morello
and save my other two for later. (Slash ..hint hint)

I'll nominate Pat Metheny and Andy Summers

Ok folks I've updated the list of tourney contenders and nominations. All noms and seconds for already selected/nominated axemen were disregarded.