The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players

The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players
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Yngwie Malmsteen
The Swede's superfast "neoclassical" style — he credits Bach and Paganini as influences — is a blur of scales and technical precision. It almost makes you forget that the great bulk of his music is so fast that it's unlistenable.