Clapton, SRV, Gibbons, Hendrix,Gilmore are popular and I enjoy listening but the best?. All subjective. Hendrix can't flat pick like Roy Clark and he can't finger tap like Van Halen and he can't bend the strings like SRV and he can't slide like Dwayne Allman and he can't write melodies like...
I think Light My Fire is the song that influenced other bands to record those long drawn out jams. Anyways....goes way back for me. Me and some Boy Scouts piled in the back of a pick up and rode to the Smokies camping and remember that song on the radio. Song always reminds me of that