What musician do you most respect?

Jon Nödtveidt, dimebag Darrell, cliff burton, Alex webster, Mike Portnoy, Ihsahn, Fenriz, ola englund, Quorthon, Sammy Duet, Pat O'Brien, Dave mustaine and many more.

Chet is up there. Groundbreaking musician, producer and pioneer of multitrack recording.

Just one? Then you post a bunch of blind links? I'm not clicking all of that.

If it's just one, then I would probably lean towards Mike Portnoy.

For me it's Pepper Keenan. Phenomenal riff-master and, for my money, the best songwriter in all of heavy music. His bluesy style of Sabbath-esqe guitar playing does it for me on every song he's recorded with Corrosion of Conformity.

Plus I love it that a guy with Sabb-Core roots has the potato sack to occasionally play an ES-335 or a Telecaster.

I really think that providing a link without a description (song/artist at minimum) should be ban-worthy on this board.

To answer OP's question:

Jack White
Lady GaGa
Arturo Sandoval
Gustavo Dudamel

Justin Vernon

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Probably those who were associated with Prince in the 80s. All those were frighteningly proficient instrumentalists but overshadowed by Prince, and deservedly so. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are arguably the greatest music producers to exist in the last 30 years and wicked good musicians in their own right. Dez Dickerson and Jesse Johnson are incredibly talented guitarists who are arguably on par with Prince in terms of guitar skill. The members of the Revolution, even dating back to Andre Cymone, were insanely talented at their respective instruments yet immensely overlooked in terms of the mainstream community. The Minneapolis scene may have contained the most talented musicians we've ever witnessed, but never overly acknowledged beyond simply Prince.

Clapton