Michael Jackson

Prince

Elton John

David Bowie

Pete Townsend

Honorable Mention:

Lindsay Buckingham

Keith Richards

Anybody who says "Kurt Cobain" will be immediately suspected to taking way too many drugs.

Paul Mcartney

Hendrix

Pete Townsend

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Jimmmy Page

The list is vety long...

wheel,

I'm a HUGE Nirvana fan....

wheel,,

Sadly,

There's little genius in recent music,,,

wheel,

YEah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeaaahhh

Sure ,why not,,,

wheel,

Prince

David Bowie

Jaco Pastorius

Sly & the Family Stone

George Clinton/Parliament

Those that beat to their own drum. They're 10 years ahead of the pack. They tread where greatness follows.

Sadly, it's only when they're gone do most of the populace come to their senses.

James Taylor (can't read a lick of music, go figure)

Neil Peart

Billy Paine (Little Feat)

Skunk Baxter (Guitarist, Steely Dan, Doobies. Defense Department consultant, chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense. NASA Exploration Systems Advisory Committee. Advisor to the CIA. And you thought he was just a great guitarist...)

2pac

Nas

KRS One

Snoop

Kate Bush

Jeff Beck

Al Green

Laurie Anderson

Carlos Santana

K.D. Lang

.....at the top of my head immediately....

Les Claypool has the potential, but he's not quite there yet. Same with Bella Fleck, if he would just diversify a little bit more, he'd be there.

Edward Van Halen

Tom Scholz

Yanni

The De Franco Family

Milli Vannili