In looking at the list of five lesser-known guitar heroes I threw together late last week, I noticed something:  with the exception of Elliott Easton, by far the most conventional of the guitarists I cited, each those heroes tends to eschew clean lines and phrases…

All right, after yesterday’s utterly unprovoked salvo against commonly acknowledged guitar gods I don’t want to hear anymore, let’s do an about-face and accentuate the positive, shall we?  Here are five players whose work has just about KILLED me over the years, and who dismaying…