20. Slash
Slash’s excellence with a Les Paul has been celebrated for more than 30 years. Though the intricacies of his work was on full display on Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion records in the early 1990s, the rock world was introduced to him earlier on in 1987. That was the year the band burst onto the hard-rock scene with Appetite for Destruction. Slash’s play on G N’ R classics from that album like “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Nightrain,” “Paradise City,” “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “Rocket Queen” is simply legendary.