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I see some of the names in these posts of guitarists and wish I would have mentioned them.
I have a non-ending list.
Terry Kath of Chicago I also see was mentioned.
Many guitarists also must like Chicago's output from their more jazz and rock heavy period from the early to mid-seventies.
Or at least better than their later stuff.
I just like Chicago.
Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues springs to mind too. Maybe more for his songwriting.
Not that this is related to guitars, but I always believed that The Moody Blues modernized rock.
Their keybard player (Mike Pinder) worked in a synth factory. And creating his own unique type of mellotrons to try and imitate The Royal Philharmonic Orchastra, used on Days Of Future Passed, brought the keyboard shadings in rock beyond an organ sound and to an orchastral sound.
I know I probably ought to save that for the keyboard forum.
I'm sure there are guitarists that would rather play to that organ. If not without keys altogether.
I'm kinda a sucker for that old Deep Purple sound though.
I plan on doing more of the organ sound with guitar.

Robert Fripp of King Crimson in a sense may be under appreciated too. Although that might be an overstatement since he has been all over the music press.
Not that I get into King Crimson too much, but just in how Fripp made both the guitar and keyboard (he played keys also) squeal and broght more out of the instrument.
Phil Menzenera must have been quite a guitar strategist himself to put his guitar to what Brian Eno did. Eno was quite a bit like Fripp with those odd sounds.

Matt