Tremonti is the man... check out a guy named Bill Peck http://www.bill-peck.com/ He is kind of the guitar teacher to Mark Tremonti and you will see where Mark gets his chops. haha. But yeah, Tremonti is a great guitarist and he's widely overlooked. I think in the Creed days Stapp dampened the oppertunity because they would always have to play in tuned down tunings so Stapp could sing over the top. Now Alter Bridge has a singer that can belt it out in any tuning. I think Tremontis style is awesome... he doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. It always seems to me like all these young guys come up and think they have to play their guitars as fast as they can... that's cool but emotion is a bigger part of a solo than speed... Tremonti can get down with the blues too... I love "Broken Wings" on the Alter Bridge CD... that was the first song I learned off that CD.