first of all Bodders dude, calm down a bit

He is right about steve vai and such.. they are not shredders . same about michael angelo.. he is a typical metal-head ..thats it..
yes ive heard "atitudes" by jason becker. in my opinion its tasteless rip-off from classical music.
seriously, he is a good guitar player and such, has a good technique but his music is like classic music only much more boring..
in steve vai's stuff you have much more then one fast guitar.. its always about the whole composition. michael romeo - the guy could play in any 70's band, only he has better technique than all of the hard rock guys from 30 years ago, he has a great sound, plays amazingly clean and usualy has real phrases and not up and down runs.
Jason becker? i can summarise it in "scale up , arpeggio x 100, sweep x 100 and so on"
if you let those two guys (michael romeo and jason becker) to play same song/piece i cant tell that one of them will play it better.. im sure they are pretty much techniqly equal but when it comes down to stuff they write jason becker sounds like any other guitar player who plays electric 6 string, loves classical music and listened to ritchie blackmore when he was a kid..
its nice and everything but not my kind of thing