Hmm their breakthrough work was pretty much contemporaneous with Appetite For Destruction through to Use Your Illusion, but yep for playground or Clapham Omnibus recognition think you'd just be talking Brian May
possibly the guy out of Muse, although the fact I am so extremely confident I have never known his name rather than recently forgotten it would probably be a strike against
I think they are niche though relative to gnr. Part of the issue is that post grunge, grimacing at the top of a cliff soloing couldn't be done non ironically. So they got less showy and then the camera never focuses on them so they are never a mainstream figure.
I helped the primary school take a load of Y6s on a field trip a while ago and a girl who has a probably underserved rep as The Troublemaker saw a Joe Bonamasa poster and was like "wow Joe Bonamasa he is so awesome" so the kids love their virtuoso blues apparently
I recall playground* arguments in 1991 as to whether Slash or Steve Vai played the gnarly guitar solo on Michael Jackson’s ‘Black or White’. I only recently found out that it was neither and some of it wasn’t a guitar at all.
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*common room actually, we were 15-16.