I'm a young, stupid lead guitarist that has always thought I knew "so much" about guitars and guitarists and solos and such. Not ever have taken any guitar lessons has made the mere 4 years that I've been playing a world of disillusionments. In other words, when you all talk of diatonic, pentatonic, minor, major, sweep, shred, and all that other cool lingo...I'm lost. The only scales I really know are the minor pentatonic, a small blues scale, and some other crappy scales of about 12 notes.
But I'm not here to talk about my lack of guitar experience. I have searched long and hard for really fast guitarists. It wasn't til today when I read all of this forum thread that I actually got some input on the top speed demons.
Before today, I thought that people like Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, my idol Kirk Hammett, Stevie Ray Vahn, and the great Dimebag Darrell were THE GODS of guitar. Boy, was I wrong!!!