Best Prog Guitarist From the "Classic" era

David Gilmour that in the lead.....thats no good.  Phil Miller's feel alone makes him dominate Gilmour

I find it weird that Gilmour has so many votes, though I don't complain, he's one of my favourite guitar players. It's also weird that Hackett is so far behind votes, and even Fripp should be closer, I guess.

yanch wrote: Have to give a plug for Martin Barre of Jethro Tull. Very under-appreciated, but absolutely critical to Tull's sound. His solo albums show just how good he really is.

Nice to see some love for Barre, who I agree is very under-appreciated and always has been. He's a very tasteful player who happens to have great chops when he is allowed to show them. He's also a super-cool guy, and although IA steers the reigns, Tull would not have sounded the same without Lancelot.

I wanted to vote for him too. But this poll is one of the toughest I've seen so far on this board. Simply too many amazing players to pick one. Wildly varying styles. How could I pick Howe but not Hackett? Zappa but not McLaughlin? etc. etc. etc.... so in the end, I went for my all-time favourite guitar player, Alex Lifeson. That does not mean he is technically better or more proficient, or any of that stuff. In the end, that is unimportant.

It's more important to say that I love almost all of these guitarists for sometimes very different reasons. All hail King Lerxst!

Had to vote for Howe for versatiltiy-  but was hoping to see Holdsworth on the list .

Fripp and Hackett trailing Gilmour? You dissenters can pull your heads out any time now. You all oughtta' be ashamed of yourselves.

Mr. S. Hackett.

And (of course) Mr. R Blackmore.

I wanted to vote Latimer.But Pye Hastings has no vote.So,I voted Hastings.

Jan Akkerman, followed by Stewe Howe, Robert Fripp and John Mclaughlin

Fripp and Zappa, surely.

I'm going to go with Gary Green today, which I think is a very underrated musician, although I love both Steves and Gilmour as well.