but Eddie Van Halen is great no doubt...and a disarming guy...David Lee Roth acts like a gay vaudeville act..very Catskills kitsch...entertaining though
as for number one...
I would place Hendrix in a class by himself ..as he actually was...emulators...Trower, Stevie, Marino...it's just a different thing
but overall best Guitar player to over 45 guys like me is after much consideration ..
...JEFF BECK
and he's the least commercially successful..
but just do this with the holy trinity of rock guitar 1966-1974
Yardbirds....Train Kept a Rolling
Beck, Clapton and Page..all played on many many versions of that great tune
go on Rhapsody or YouTube and compare who has the tastiest licks of those three
it ain't even close...
and Beck can still effortlessly tear up a guitar
Duane Allman has a special place for slide and his very young death
best guitarist I ever saw from only 10 feet away in a small club in Nashville and who also died young and tragic
Eddie Shaver...and I bet few outside some Texas freepers know who he was
when his daddy would say “hit it Eddie”..man he was quick chopped..alas...he had a tar problem
earliest guitar act to really impress me was Alvin Lee I'm coming Home" on the Woodstock movie-sountrack...it was something
man we could talk this stuff all day...I am sure glad I got to grow up in the best period before Rock died...from my Link Wray-Motown -Top-40-FM underground rock-Stadium rock-Punk rock youth....it was great to be there for the ride
Well, I'm a Virginia Freeper and I know who he is. I have all the Shaver albums as well as all the Billy Joe Shaver albums. Saw Billy Joe at a very small venue in Virginia a couple of years ago. One of the best shows I've seen. And Billy Joe is a great Christian and patriot. Unfortunately, I never got to see Eddy live, though his recorded stuff is great.
Another of my favorite artists is Todd Snider, even though he's a big lib. He was a good friend of Eddy's. You might enjoy this video.