About the only time we see ratings are in guitarist polls in crap mags like 'Rolling Stone' and NME, with voters probably mostly clueless 3 chord merchants impressed by anyone who knows a fourth. An alternative title to this thread could be, 'Who should and shouldnt appear in top 10 ot top 20 guitarist polls'. I'm generally pretty unimpressed by most 'name' rock guitarists Clapton, May, Slash, Richards etc. A while back someone here mentioned Shawn Lane so I checked him out. Well impressed, esp his stuff with Jonas Hellborg. A huge shame that he died without wide recognition. He could play the arse of any of the big names in electric guitar.