Feeling: David Gilmour
Speed: Michael Angelo
Technicality/Craziness: Steve Vai
Songwriting: Eddie Van Halen or John Petrucci
Originality: Eddie Van Halen
Heavyness: James Hetfield (pre black album)
Slide: Duane Allman
Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Overall Best Guitarist: Steve Vai