Eddie is king, Billy's best and Daniel is a young lion.
Common wisdom has it that alternative music has successfully been co-opted into the rock mainstream.
Certainly, the results of Guitar World's 1996 Readers' Poll point in that direction. Many ballots arrived with Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan rubbing shoulders with Edward Van Halen and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl's name pencilled in alongside that of Metallica's Kirk Hammett. And many of the same readers who paid tribute to Kurt Cobain did so with equal fervor for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix. As usual, the poll did cause us to raise our collective eyebrows. You set us straight, good readers.