[scottmandue]

I am also in "there is no best" camp.

But I will throw out Duane Allman as a pretty darn good guitar player.

I am also not all that impressed with the shredders (oh sure when I was young I got all wrapped up in the Vai Vs Satriani Vs that guy who's name starts with Y that I can't pronounce Vs etc, etc,) IMHO Eddie Van Halen was the best at that style, he can play at ten thousand notes a minute and still put feeling into it.