My top ten wouldn't include any of these, with the possible exceptions of Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen. Where is Steve Vai? Joe Satriani? Yngwie Malmsteen? Steve Morse? John Petrucci? If you prefer classic rock, where is Steve Hackett? Steve Howe? Alex Lifeson? Brian May?
This is more like a list of the Top Ten Guitar Solos Loved by Beer-Sodden Seventies-era "Rock and Roll" Dinosaur Fans Who Still Drive the Same Beat-Up '73 Camaro They Owned Back Then. ;)
Page, Hendrix and Clapton get "grandfathered" into every single one of these lists, when their primary contribution has really not been as players, but as influences to their vastly superior successors. Their time is long, long past. Far more young guitarists today grew up on Yngwie and Satch than Page and Clapton, and while both of those guys name Hendrix as a primary influence over their own playing, they have taken the art of rock/metal guitar light years beyond anything Hendrix ever produced. Either one could put five or six of their best solos on any such list before Hendrix merited mention of even one.
I wholeheartedly and completely disagree.
Forgot about him... where did he go? He got booed off the stage in South America in 2001 or 2002 because he stood up for the United States. He told them to go “eff” themselves...
I would totally disagree on Hendrix. He has no peers on the guitar, living or dead (except maybe Leo Kottke or Yngwie).
(I can play Suicide Solution (Randy) or Bloodbath in Paradise (Zakk) note for note, just to give you a reference for skill level.)
I cannot believe it took this long for first mention of The Master Of *Sounds* -- I will toss in Hackett's solo on Genesis' Firth of Fifth as an example of how to truly make your guitar sing ...