All the folks mentioned above are great. Eric to me at least seems to have played better for the last ten years than ever. When the man's got a jaming band behind him he can do no wrong. He seems to me a least, at his best playing other folks music and jaming with other guitar slingers. As far as stealing other folks licks. There hasn't been a lick than has not been hit before by someone in many many moons. There are only so many notes you know. Its just in how you string them together.