Guitar Week keeps on jamming with a roundup of FINNEAS’ favorite guitarists of all time, taken from the Consequence Guitar Survey. See our list of the 100 Best Guitarists of All Time, and check out Kerry King of Slayer’s personal top six guitar heroes.
As a songwriter and producer, FINNEAS has taken leaps into experimental territory, but often gravitates right back to the guitar. From the earliest Billie Eilish releases like “bellyache” and “idontwannabeyouanymore” to his latest indie pop solo LP, For Cryin’ Out Loud!, he’s executed clean, dreamy guitar work – while also offering some chaos when necessary (see: the last 90 seconds of “Happier Than Ever”).
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So, it was fitting to see FINNEAS partner with Fender for his Signature Acoustasonic Telecaster guitar last year, which he’s been bringing out on the road both solo and with Eilish. The acoustic-electric instrument speaks to FINNEAS’ hybrid approach, which itself takes inspiration from some of his personal favorite guitar players.
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But despite now having his own line of guitars, FINNEAS is still humble about his skills. “I don’t think of myself, nor does anyone else think of me, as a particularly extraordinary guitar player,” he says in a chat with Consequence last year about his Acoustasonic line. Instead, FINNEAS is reverent towards the guitar players who inspired him to pick up the instrument in the first place, including classics like Nile Rogers and George Harrison as well as newer heroes like Leslie Feist and Annie Clark.
Read on for FINNEAS’ picks, and see where they landed on our list of the 100 Best Guitarists of All Time. You can also enter to win a new Fender Player II Modified Telecaster® so you too can rock like FINNEAS and his heroes by entering here.
Meanwhile, FINNEAS is currently in Europe completing a headlining tour, but he returns to the states in August to play Lollapalooza. Get tickets to see him here.
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Nile Rodgers (Chic)
Nile Rogers, photo by Ben Kaye
Nile Rogers is a super important guitarist to me. This is demonstrating my age, or lack of age, but I was really introduced to Nile Rodgers by way of Daft Punk when the Random Access Memories album came out, and then retroactively learned that he was a genius musician and a genius producer also. But what a guitarist.
