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1. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
2. Brian May (Queen)
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)
5. I also would like to add the Iron Maiden's main guitarist but I don't know his name.
Not gonna put them in order (may not even make 10)
But here goes:
Hendrix
Page
Malmsteen
Clapton
Jeff Beck
Van Halen
Eric Johnson
Randy Rhoades (rhodes?)
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Al Di Meola
_________________ (fill in the blank: Mark Knopfler, Joe Satriani, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Kirk Hammet, Santana, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, )
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I find it extremely unsettling that PRINCE made the list, but nowhere do I see any mention of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Albert King needs a nod. Consider Leo Kottke for a darkhorse (his stuff is just so unique). I like the mention of Knopfler, but if you go with Knopfler you need to recognize Chet Atkins. Les Paul was great. I would grudgingly acknowledge Slash because he just has that sound that no one else has. To me, that's what makes a great guitarist; you can hear a few lines of a new song and know who the artist is...
I love guys like Malsteem, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani for their technical proficiency and accomplishment in music theory, but I personally feel that there is less substance in the music and if they were all on the same stage I'm not certain that I could pick out which one was playing just by listening. In other words, if each of them played Joe Satriani's guitar with Satriani's equalizer settings, would you be able to tell who was playing? I'm not sure that you could.
Anyway, my top 10 in no particular order...
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Albert King
Freddie King - I love that "crunch" he puts in the blues
Mark Knopfler
Leo Kottke
Eddie Van Halen - a true technician with soul
Chet Atkins
Jeff Beck - when he was with The Faces
Jeff Healey - the blind guy from Roadhouse...
Honorable Mention: Joe Bonarossa, Carlos Santana, Slash and a whole host of others that I am forgetting about.
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