Originally Posted by: srpianojrguitarhow exactly is he a god? He is good yes, but a ton of his songs are covers and a lot of guitarists that are better than him. i can think of 10 off the bat.

dimebag, randy rhoads, zakk wylde, slash, kerry king, mick thompson, tommi iommi, jimmy page, eddie van halen, and kirk hammett there is a lot more too, those are just a small feild. .....u kno what, i think ive said enough im only namin one feild too, metal. Theres lennon clapton....

and ndont think im biased towards metal, because im not even that HUGE of a fan of it, classic rock, like hendrix, is my favorite. he might be the best of his time, but certainly no god

my friend says steve vai

Ok first off...most are technically better than him because they had him and other people to learn off of!!! The only influences he had were buddy guy, howlin wolf, robert johnson, people of that sort, and he turned in to something absolutely different as where : dimebag, randy rhoads, zakk wylde, slash, kerry king, mick thompson, tommi iommi, jimmy page, eddie van halen, and kirk hammett . All started of with rock or metal influences and turned it to guess what...More of the same thing with a little variation. But Jimi was all original! before him there was no divebomb on the whammy bar, vicious wah solos, prominent lead guitar, use of modulation effects (univibe, rotary speaker, wah, flanging some.) And he accomplished this in under 3 maybe 4 years with something like 4-5 albums.

And by the way if you want to talk of cover songs, all of his were completely original interpretations.

P.s. Jimmy page didn't do cover songs, he blatently stole/ plagiarized not all but most of led zepps hits.