From a homepage about the 5 best and the 5 worst guitar players:
http://rockhole.bravepages.com/guitar.html
But here is the highlight!
#1 Richie Sambora. Alice Cooper commented to Guitarist magazine that if he could choose just two guitarists to be in his band for the rest of his career, Richie Sambora would be one of them. "Richie is one of those guys who can play just anything you say", he enthused, "he can play Jimi Hendrix, he can play George Harrison, and he can play his own style." Richie's total versatility made him perfect for Bon Jovi. Most hair metal players were just rockers, but Richie has the blues flowing in his New Jersey veins, giving tremendous soul to his guitar solo outbursts in lovesick power ballads. So great is his grasp of the blues, in fact, that Eric Clapton guested on his first solo album. Sambora chooses interesting runs within the standard blues framework, meaning his note choice is rarely clichéd. His appreciation for the Beatles shines through in most of his solos: very short, melodic outbreaks which compliment the song perfectly and are usually almost as catchy as the chorus itself. To top it all off, his fat, screaming harmonics, exciting tapping, and whammy bar madness mean that he also includes the best bits of Eddie Van Halen's style. To cap it all off, Richie's one of the best songwriters you'll find. Being in a commercial band like Bon Jovi means that he'll never get the acclaim he deserves from critics or musos, but the owners of the 100 million Sambora-related albums sold worldwide know how great he is. Defining moment: "Dry County", from Keep the Faith, 1992
Well, we knew this earlier, didn't we.