Gary Moore is a guitarist's guitarist. He is a singular artist who combines feeling, technique, intelligence, control, and tone quality in an extremely eclectic and accomplished style. He is a truly diverse performer who is equally conversant with hard rock, dirty blues, funk, the heaviest of metal, gentle pop music, and esoteric jazz. He is a physical and emotional master of the instrument who prefers to create sounds using the natural capabilities of the guitar itself rather than rely on overt electronic effects. His taste, speed, and class have placed some of the greatest musicians of contemporary rock among the ranks of his admirers and stylistic disciples. He is, at once, a powerful voice in modern rock guitar and a link between the British blues tradition fostered by Clapton, Beck, Page, and Hendrix in the late 1960s and the hard rock innovations of Blackmore, Schenker, Schon. and Van Halen in the 1970s.