10 Rock Guitarists That Are Impossible To Duplicate

While the guitar may have had a firm voice in the '80s, you couldn't help but feel like it was getting a bit stale. Sure, there were bands like Ratt off of the Sunset Strip with some fantastic guitar players, but the entire scene felt like they were creating songs to grandstand instead of actually serving the song. On the other side of the pond in Ireland though, the Edge was creating lush soundscapes that no one has ever come close to.

That's not to say that some bands haven't tried. If you've listened to any of the pop friendly guitar bands of the last few years, you can tell that the delay settings on their guitars have come from the house that the Edge built. Then again, The Edge is pretty much singular in his way of composing guitar parts, taking the basic fundamentals of what everyone learns and turning it into a total environment of sound, whether that's the incredible percussive sounds of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For or stepping into the future on Where the Streets Have No Name.

Even when the band went through their radical change at the turn of the '90s, Edge never stopped experimenting, with approaches that had a lot more to do with hypnotic grooves like the blown out sounds of Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses. Though many bands have flirted with delay and reverb every once in a while, don't go thinking you're original. You sound like the Edge whether you know it or not, so you better just go back to the drawing board now.