My 8 top favs:Steve Vai-Love his sound, tone, instrumental masterpieces, and he has a great atmosphere at his concerts its so awesomeJoe Satriani-Basically the same reasons as Vai but a little more dark and mysterious (i like to think of him and vai as twins)Jeff Beck-Absolutely amazing live, love freeway jam the best, and he sounds so psychedelically but also modernly awesome. His new stuff is p…