Does anyone know of any famous girl guitarists? The only ones I really know are Sheryl Crow, Michelle Branch and Liz Phair. But they're kind of hippie/pop rock acoustic stuff.

I'm a girl and I mainly play rock and blues, but I realized that most girls who play guitar sort of stick to the hippie acoustic sterotype. Any shredders out there?

Don't forget Bonnie Raitt is a great blues slide player. Lita Ford is not bad for the 80's metal stuff..

PJ Harvey

Im not sure if there are any so called "female shredders"...There are no female shredders like Randy roads,eddie van halen,vai and the list goes on however there are female guitar players that I like...They usually sing and play guitar.

All I could think of for retro guitarists were...

Chrisy hines of the pretenders...(Excellent band in my mind)

Joan Jett...I like that song "thats why I hate myself for loving you"...I think thats the name of it...it rocks for a simple power chord song.

Nancy Wilson...I think thats her name...shes from the band Heart...they had some cool tunes through the years.

Liona Boyd...shes a classical guitarist...although some might not call what she does as shredding however its tough to play what she plays so I would rank her up there with the best female guitarist Ive ever heard...ummm...let me re-phrase that...shes one of the better guitarists Ive heard regardless of gender.

:3pieceband:

Jennifer Baten is the only pure female guitarist I've ever heard. She can jam with the best of them. Lita Ford can play a bit. She's O.K at best.
I'm sure there's some unknown's who can rock their butts off!

Jan Kuehnemund {or something like that} from the band Vixen in the 80`s was the best I`ve heard I geuss.Don`t forget Nancy Wilson from Heart!

how abt avril lavinge?................she plays punk rock.

lavigne is just window dressing, a pop princess, about as punk as the backstreet boys.

How about Suzannah Hoffs from the bangles

Telefreak,
Where have you been? Nice to see you back in the forum.

Hi mate
Been at university with no internet access
Good to be back though, lots of catching up to do

Suzannah Hoffs YUM!

I've heard a few songs by Susan Tedeshi - good stuff, bluesy and a good voice too

Stevie Nicks
Courtney Love

Dont know many Female guitar players to be honest. The chicks from Veruca Salt, one of them is pretty good, dunno which one.

Jennifer Batten is a very high level player.

I can only think of one real "Female shredder", Katherine Thomas or "The great kat"

Wikipedia link :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Kat

Also you can youtube her, if i'm correct she does guitar interpretations of classical music.

EDIT: Worth to add tho is that she is very strange and some things on her website can even be revolting. She's not very pleasant .....

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Im not sure if there are any so called "female shredders"...There are no female shredders like Randy roads,eddie van halen,vai and the list goes on however there are female guitar players that I like...They usually sing and play guitar.

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you might want to check out donna austin she seems to be getting a lot of attention the past year or 2.

you need to check out donna austin. she is pretty darn good and has been getting a lot of attention the past 2 years,

you need to check out donna austin. she is pretty darn good and has been getting a lot of attention the past 2 years,

Hi im new here. . .Gibran Oliver is the name.

Well Bangles was my fav all girl band, but joan jett is the greatest female guitarist. and i think maybe the only female guitarist on the greatest guitarist list..

hear bad reputation, i love rock n roll

I'm surprised no one mentioned Lori Linstruth!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPG6H2_jpkQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NU3AkQDPac

I remember back in the 70's when the Runaways first came onto the scene, they blew everyone away. Seems to me there are still a couple of them still swinging an axe today.