Mental Health Break

The death of Les Paul has gotten me thinking about guitar players. Here's a long list of guitarists I love (only the top three are in order):
Allan Holdsworth -- the most talented electric guitarist in history
Robert Fripp -- the most innovative and daring guitarist in history
Ralph Towner -- the most talented acoustic guitarist/pianist/flugelhorn player in history
Eric Johnson
Byron Fry -- yeah, that Byron Fry
Steve Morse -- 100% picking
Jeff Buckley -- open tunings and effortless self-accompaniment
Leo Kottke -- 12 string master
Steve Hackett -- the sonic master of Genesis
Rick Dufay -- briefly w/Aerosmith, a blues master
Adrian Belew -- King Crimson, Talking Heads, solo work -- all brilliant
Joe Pass
Wes Montgomery
Larry Coryell
Jimi Hendrix
Kenwood Dennard
James Taylor -- amazing acoustic work his entire career
John Mayer -- have you heard this guy?
Ted Hall -- The Fents
David Torn
Bill Frissell
Pat Metheny
Peter Frampton
John Etheridge -- Soft Machine
Mike Stern
John Scofield
Jay Graydon -- his solo on Steely Dan's "Peg" is a masterpiece
George Harrison
Billy Zoom -- X, best punk guitarist ever
Brian Setzer
David Gilmour
David Cross -- Peter Gabriel's guitarist
Andy Summers
Steve Lukather
John McLaughlin
The Unknown John Clarke -- replaced Holdsworth in Bruford, did Holdsworth w/o a whammy bar
Steve Vai -- phenomenal hard rocker with equally phenomenal knowledge of music

Deliberately omitted because, while many revere them, I think these guys are mediocre to shitty:
Eric Clapton -- the most overrated guitarist in history
Jimmy Page -- most of the time he was too wasted to be good
Steve Howe -- can't play rhythm guitar to save his life
Eddie Van Halen -- used to be good, now just rehashes old licks
Al DiMeola -- speedster, but a single note guitarist only
Yngwie Malmsteen -- all show, no substance