Who’s the greatest guitarist on the planet? On the face of it, that question’s a no-brainer. It’s Jimi Hendrix. No, wait, it's Eddie Van Halen. Or maybe it's Eric Clapton - he was "God", after all. Or Page. Or Beck. Or May. Or... is it?
Perhaps it's just easier to ask guitarists what they think. You'll get a bunch of different answers, none will be any less valid than the others, and along the way you'll get some stories and perhaps learn a thing or two. So back in the day we asked Mountain's Leslie West, a man whose mastery of tone and riff would surely make him as good a judge as any.
