Best rock guitarist?

I go for Jeff Beck followed by Hendricks and Eric Clapton. Any thoughts? Jeff beck does not use a pick, and is a virtuoso of the whammy bar, a true rock and jazz virtuoso.

No doubt about your selections. All great indeed.
It's a hard comparison to make; between both style and era.

I'd also submit as candidates:
- Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Jimmy Page &
- Carlos Santana

My favs:

Page
Gilmore
Hendricks
Clapton
May
Knofler

And Stevie Ray Vaughn, if only for his version of Little Wing

Zappa, Garcia, Anastasio.

How many people can’t spell Hendrix?

...without doubt, the aforementioned and Nancy Wilson.

1. Hendrix
2. Clapton
3. Page
4. Beck

@divegeester said
How many people can’t spell Hendrix?

Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Stevie RV
David Gilmour

@drewnogal said
Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Stevie RV
David Gilmour

@badradger said
jimi wouldnt make my top ten.

in his prime at no 1 peter green
then Johnny Winter
gary moore
Roy Buchanan
robert cray
Ry cooder
dereck trucks
T Bone Walker
Son house
Clapton
All blues guitarists

@divegeester said
My favs:

Page
Gilmore
Hendricks
Clapton
May
Knofler

And Stevie Ray Vaughn, if only for his version of Little Wing

@badradger said
jimi wouldnt make my top ten.

in his prime at no 1 peter green
then Johnny Winter
gary moore
Roy Buchanan
robert cray
Ry cooder
dereck trucks
T Bone Walker
Son house
Clapton
All blues guitarists

YouTube

@drewnogal said
All this - on a headfull of drugs - in 1968. A beautiful charismatic man, a musical genius, only on the scene for a few years - then sadly gone.

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Died: 18 September 1970, Notting Hill, London

@suzianne said
What about Robert Johnson?

What about B.B. King?

Still, these folks are blues, not rock.