Ok, this time I'm gonna choose
Rory Gallagher for me.
Jeff Beck makes a lot of music that I don't like, as well as some I think is amazing.
Clapton - again, plenty by him I'm not into, as well as stuff I am.
Green - spent too long away from the game, not enough catalogue to choose from. I think his playing may have developed more if he hadn't been away from it all for so long.
Alvin Lee - haven't really heard anything by him
Jimmy Page - hmmm, difficult one. Comes very close.
But nope, Rory is top for me. Probably something to do with my love for blues, which Rory has done more of than Jimmy. Also, Rory was a great frontman, a guitarist's guitarist, and seemed somehow to come across as almost a friend, whereas Jimmy always seemed a bit aloof from his audience, too much of the superstar trip, intentional or not. Rory just seemed so
enthusiastic about it all. I do wish Page had done more stuff after Zep though, seems he pretty much sat on his laurels after them.