I guess I'm just one of very few people (if any) that is completely unimpressed with the sheer technicality and lack of true feeling in both Vai and Satriani's music. Yes, they are excellent guitarists and good at what they do, I'm just not into the whole "technical" thing. I'll take even a mediocre blues guitarist over either of them any day...

But, that's just my opinion...

That being said, I would also pick SRV's Lenny over Little wing - just because of the fact that Lenny was an original...