Top 10 Best Artists of All Time

Don't know about BEST 10 of all time but my favourites are:

1. Ratt
Equal 1. Candy Harlots
3. Queensryche (imo the best of all time even if not my No 1 favourite)
4. A New Dawn
5. WASP
6. Saxon

A bit harder for me to single out the last 4 of my top 10 but probably Tyketto, Vanishing Point, Majister and maybe Within Temptation.
 
Randy Rhoads > Tommy Iommi.

Though Tommy was awesome on Heaven and Hell.

Both of them are good and not really comparable guitarists. Rhoads was definitely more technically proficient and had quite a knack for creating great melodies, but I still prefer Iommi's playing style and seemingly endless supply of amazing riffs.
 
Yep, and I'm glad Aussie left Black Sabeth - that way there was room for Ronnie Jane Devo to take the spot.
 
My best trying to take into account everything are probably:
*Iron Maiden
*The Beatles
*Savatage
*Guns N Roses
*Moody Blues
*Jesper Stromblad in his glory days as a writer/guitarist/drummer/violinist so In Flames.
*Therion
*Marc Bolan
*Led Zeppelin
*Pink Floyd
 
Randy Rhoads > Tommy Iommi.

Though Tommy was awesome on Heaven and Hell.

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Randy may be a technically proficient player. But Tony was just fucking creative. He was an innovator... with, as Omni said, a seemingly endless supply of awesome riffs (shame he saw fit not to use them in the later 80s :V). But still, Tony >>>>>>>>>> Randy by a longshot.