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I can't believe no one has mentioned <b>Frank Zappa</b> yet.
Then there's Paco De Lucia - best flamenco guitartist ever.
Clapton. People used to write "Clapton is God" on walls without a trace of irony.
Robert Fripp. From the anal retentive school of perfection.
As for the rest - All the ones that folks have mentioned here in all honesty are great (Heck, Steve Vai was Zappa's "Stunt Guitarist").
Eddie Van Halen could be the greatest guitar player in the world, but he has a goofy image that will never go away until he is old enough that people confuse him with Andres Segovia. C'mon, you name your kid Wolfgang Van Halen and you cannot expect to be taken seriously no matter what you play.
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