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About that top 100 guitarists of all time list, do you truly just accept that? Haha. It's more of a list where the most popular/most known guitarists earn the high ranks, definitely not the most talented ones. Where's Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, Shawn Lane,...? Most of the guitarists there may have been influential, but are way overrated. Btw the band Van Halen might have started in the 70s, but their prime time was in the 80s, they were an influential band that helped shape the music during that era, so Eddie is at least one 80s guitarist in the top 10. Dimebag on spot 92?? Are you kidding me?!?!
For me most of the 60s are not very interesting until at the end of that decade a few good bands emerged. The 70s are good mainly because of the emergence of the NWOBHM in the mid-late 70s to early 80s, which was mainly the matrix for the boom of metal bands emerging in the late 70s throughout the 80s.
You say the 80s have a big amount of cliché's? That's because the people/media/radio etc made it like that. Personally I find many songs (and bands) from the 60s dull and cliché and the most popular ones played too much by radio channels.

You convinced me you know nothing about the 80s, except for the handful of cliché songs played to death by the radio.