[Rick Lee]

Sunk as low as White Lion? Geezus! Vito Bratta is AWESOME. His stuff is as technical as it gets. Sure, it's not the hardest stuff to play with a band. But the guitar work is serious. I was also (still kinda am) into Loudness from Japan. I saw them open for AC/DC when I was 16. Their guitar player kills.

But I'm still a Van Halen disciple to this day more than anything else. I got their first album when it first came out when I was in 2nd grade. To this day, I can still listen to almost any of their stuff and hear or learn something new from it. 20-30 yrs. and thousands of listens later and it never gets old. I still get goosebumps on my arms from a lot of it.