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James Hetfield and Brian May. James has come up with some of the most bad ass metal riffs in history, and Brian May had a sound that would truly unique, the tone and quality of his solo/lead work was, in a word, "smooth". That's the best way I can describe it. There's a lot of other guitarists I admire, of course, but those two are the tops.