LickLibrary.com are pleased to announce that the winner of the special Steve Vai Guitar Idol award has been won by Italian guitarist, Daniele Gottardo. Guitar legend Steve Vai chose his personal favourite from the finalists of Guitar Idol, the world's biggest online talent search to find the hottest undiscovered guitarists on the planet.

Organised by online magazine AllOutGuitar, and leading online guitar tuition community LickLibrary.com, Guitar Idol 2009 saw the public and professional judges select the best guitarists from around the world. The 12 Finalists included contestants from Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hungary, Bosnia, Italy, Thailand and Chile, each of whom were invited to play live for an audience of thousands via live webcast and to an enthusiastic crowd at the London International Music Show.

A special ‘Steve Vai’ Award Category was created, to be judged by none other than Mr Vai himself. Steve Vai chose Daniel as his winner after watching live footage of the competition broadcast on licklibrary.com, and was' blown away' by Daniele's playing on the track 'Cardiology' which he deemed worthy of the special prize; an Ibanez Jem signed by Steve. After watching the contestants, Steve said

"There is a whole new breed of guitar players emerging. Players that are redefining the parameters of guitar virtuosity. It was a pleasure to judge the Guitar Idol contest and see many of these young innovators in action."

You can watch Daniele’s winning performance from the Guitar Idol final at the London International Music Show on www.licklibrary.com/Channels/Guitar-Idol

For more info visit:www.guitaridol.tv

Welcome to Guitar On The Edge.co.uk A Web site dedicated to the best guitarists of all times. A "Reference Website" of some of the best guitarists out there. A few of them passed away but they left us with an irreplaceable music legacy, others retired, and many others still playing for us.

This is NOT a site to show to the world which guitarist is the best. This is a site where people have different opinions and preferences about a particular guitarist. You can vote for your favourite guitarists here and write any comments about who you think is worth to mention and to hold attention.

So you decide who guitarist is in the top of each style. Many guitarists could be classified in more than one style but I tried to classify them in his/her predominant style.

We have the privilege to start with 69 of the greatests guitarists (I will add many more with time!!), which as I said before, it doesn't mean they are the best in any case but they are the most famous and the most considered for the majority of the people. If you see that your favorite guitarist is not on the top of the ranking, don't panic! It doesn't mean that your player is worse than the ones on the top. It only represents taste people tendencies. guitarontheedge.co.uk doesn't compare guitarists. Each player is considered as a unique source of musicality. Best and worse are not contemplated in music and less in this website.

You can have a look in the Biography (retrieved from Wikipedia - (which is a FREE source of information we can use!!), Gallery, or Albums; you can listen to them with a short MP3 sample or watch them in action!! I included another section dedicated to Female guitarists. We always tend to forget that sometimes females play better than males!!!

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