No kidding. this list is so top -40 and post-80s it's embarrassing.
the list of great guitarists--let alone individual solos--that the poll responders apparently never heaard of would itself make a better poll
Herb Ellis
Charlie Byrd
Pat Metheny
JOE SATRIANI, for goodness sake. Probably the best around today. so good you actually have to listen a few times and actually pay attention to get him.
Derek Trucks
jonny Lang
Mike Stern
Just a start
Django Reinhardt.
Joe Pass.
Let's not forget Gary Hoey.
Otherwise I would have had to include Grant Geissman's work on Chuck Mangione's Feels So Good album.
Nor could I leave out Al DiMeola's Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars.
Thanks for mentioning my man Pat Metheny.
"The Roots of Coincidence" rocks!!!