I believe EVH deserves that rank before Mick Taylor.
Listen sometime to a 20 minute version of CYHMK I think its the early show at the Lone Star Club NYC July 4th 1987. check it out at tela.sugarmegs.org Or listen to Mick Taylor during the 73 Stones tour. Killer stuff. EVH is okay, but it ain’t the blues baby! And afterall, Mr. Taylor had his apprenticeship under the esteemed John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, I think it was EC himself that suggest John take the boy in ...