http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTpKG5jQIo>
There is a live version on YouTube, as well...Hillage really "gets into it".
You're not the only one, but I don't think that I've listened to his stuff since highschool, nearly 30 year now. His slide playing was really something else. IIRC he used a "surgical instrument" like the handle of a scalpel as his slide.
I think that the way I learned about him was I somehow got him mixed up with Steve Hackett, who is another amazing guitarist who hasn't been mentioned yet. But I liked his work in Genesis and early solo work better than his more modern jazz style, though the guy has some of the most amazing technical abilities on the guitar, rivaling that of John McLaughlin.
And while John has been mentioned, why hasn't anyone mentioned the trio of John, Al Dimeola, and Paco DeLuca?
Or "Chester and Lester?" (Chet Atkins and Les Paul)
Or for that matter, Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp? ARGHHHHH!!!!!!
Mark