"The most handsome prog guitarist title must go to Dave Gilmour. Just ask any lady."
I have one at home that drools over him all the time!
Floyd are an untypical prog band as their music is more ambience/atmosphere than technical (most prog bands have ambient/atmosheric parts, but then eventually do something technically sophisticated for the heck of it, only Floyd would always doze on!), in fact it is not very complicated at all, but rather simplistic, yet hugely effective. And Gilmour, who has great tone and taste and is immediately recognizable after two notes (of his total repertoire of about 5 1/2 notes
), could have never played with a band like Rush, Jethro Tull or Yes because at the end of the day he's "just" a Brit Blues Boom leftover, not an intricate guitarist at all (but an excellent blues player nontheless).