Hendrix (hammer on chord changes effected a lot of songs)
EVH (took tapping and Trems to the masses)
Les Paul (Inovator of guitars, parts, multitrack recordings etc)
(if Leo fender had learned to play guitar he'd be on my list as well)
Les Paul almost didn't make the list but the title is
what guitarist changed music forever, he didn't change it
musically as much as he did with invention..
Honorable mentions (just to name a few and give reasons)
Uli Jon Roth, I understand although he was/is amazing I don't think he impacted mainstream music as much (the title is 4 guitarists that changed music forever)
Chet Atkins wasn't even listed (he was doing too handed tapping in country long before EVH invented it.)
Satriani effected guitar music very profoundly as an instructor
as well as a player. How many groups would have never even
been what they were?
If the title was "4 guitarists that changed music forever in a bad way"
then I'd add Kurt Cobain and Korn to the list
