I think the 70s and the 80s. I totally agree with Necromancer. These decades had ample variety: there was Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Dixie Dregs (supreme Steve Morse!), Deep Purple, Rush, etc etc in the 70s; then what can we say about the 80s? Van Halen, Eric Johnson, Satriani, Megadeth, Frank Gambale (let's include him here, for he usually fell back on some distortion as well), etc etc. The 90s weren't that bad at all, were they? I may be forgetting to mention lots of top-notch bands indeedy.
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