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Page, in terms of composition....least back when he was in Led Zep.
Beck, in terms of overall technique.
Clapton.........nope. Nothing there for me. Never was. Just 'cuz EVH says he loved Clapton doesn't mean anything to me. Some of the stuff he did with Cream live back in the day was decent, but NONE of it was anything that would make me say 'Clapton is God' (methinks EC spray-painted that himself)
I like Page's total body of work best of the group, and voted so.
Jeff Beck is the best pure player of the group, hands down. If you don't know him, go pick up the CD Guitar Shop, and go in either direction from there.
Clapton has failed to impress me since the Layla record (a must have, btw). Especially live. Very sterile and cold. I like feeling, thus my slant towards Page.
MP3 files suck. Lossless baby, lossless! Because no one likes to lose.
Well Eric and Jimmy say Jeff is the best of three. My favorite is Page.
I like things about each one of those guys. Like Clapton or not, he did give us the rock staple of a Les Paul into a Marshall, and his early playing was pretty smoking.
Beck has the best dexterity of the group, and can play some whacked out shit, but he seems to lack the focus of Page or Clapton. Beck probably cares more about his cars than his guitars.
Jimmy is hands down the best songwriter and riff writer of the three. Jimmy is one of those players that has times when he is "on" and "off." Catch him when he's on, and very few guitarists can compete with him in terms of sheer power, catch him when he's off and it might be close to a train wreck.
Bottom line....I can't imagine what rock guitar might be like if it had not been for the Big Three. It is hard not to marvel at the contributions each made to the art of rock guitar. These guys charted new ground and techniques, and that is just something that doesn't happen every day. My hat off to 'em.
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