Underrated Rock Guitarists

[Jamz]

Originally Posted by allphourus

I have posted in this tread already but in searching through my CD collection earlier I ran across Snakes and Stripes From Harvey Mandel,thought(?), I haven't listened to this in a while and put it on. Any one mention him yet?I've been listening to him since the Early 70's Canned Heat, Pure Food and Drug Act, and John Mayall.The album The Snake was a particularly influential recording for me back then.I think he is pretty much an unknown except to guitar heads.

The snake, the bear, the mole...Vito de la plata. Didn't Harvey also do some guitar work on the Stones Black and Blue album?

[allphourus]

Originally Posted by Jamz

The snake, the bear, the mole...Vito de la plata. Didn't Harvey also do some guitar work on the Stones Black and Blue album?

Yes He Did.

[jsteiger]

Originally Posted by DeathMonkey

Uli rules. Check out Klaus's fancy dancing!

Uli Jon is awsome! Not to slam MS (who is also great) but the Scorps lost a supreme bit of unique sound when Ulrich left. Every now and then I throw in one of his solo albums "Fire Wind". Some great playing on there. His vox are a bit "over done" after a while, but playing is great.

Speedy's Coming, Dark Lady, Hell Cat, Virgin Killer. God, I love the OLD Scorpions

[4stringerfinger]

Originally Posted by Dopamine

Andy Summers

First name that popped into my head. I'm a psuedo guitarist and I really respect this guy. His playing sounds so simple yet I struggle on his stuff. "Every Breath You Take" is just one example.

[Larry Heinemann]

David Hildago, Los Lobos.
Great sound, soulful playing!

Larry Heinemann

[ScottTunes]

Harvey Mandel was offered the lead guitar position in the Stones, and he turned it down! Oops! Another Decca-like blunder?

[odeon]

did someone mention brian may (queen) already?
also: terje rypdal
and: allan holdsworth

[meadowz06]

George Lynch. Unbelievable.

[octatonic]

Brian Setzer.

[sdd17]

We all have worked with the most underrated players who's names will only be known on a local level never having made it to what by comparison to the local level would be the mainstream.

Is that a sentence?

I have the great pleasure of recording some of the best guitar players that I have ever heard.
One of them has a fishing boat now and another guy sells real estate.

and Uli Roth is a monster

[malaclypse]

Larry LaLonde
Dean DeLeo
Tom Dumont
Stone Gossard
Derek Trucks

just a few that come to mind. as for "most underrated," i don't know

[Geetar]

Originally Posted by Jim Williams

Hey, how about that guy that died in that bar back east? Was it Great White? I heard he was on fire!

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

Casual crass stupidity seems to be your stock-in-trade, doesn't it......? I've yet to see a post by you that demonstrates any understanding of guitar playing.




Anyway, on to happier matters- guitarists who give me the ravin' horn:
Holdsworth
Murphy
Rabin
Metheny
Towner
Schofield
Gilmore
Page
Koss
Rypdal
Torn
Bream
Anyone called Mitchell (eg: Joni, John etc...)
No-one called Williams.......

[Scott 1/2 Normal]

Me. I'm a f****ng legend!

[daveseviltwin]

Pretty vague question(no offense). Are you talking about strictly rock guitarists or are we throwing a wide variety of genre's in there. Anyway, regardless of the get up and the silliness I think BucketHead is a very under rated guitarist in the metal genre. Sure, I just dug my own grave here but who gives a sh$t.

[yeloocproducer]

Graham Coxon

[abell1234]

I just read most of this post, so sorry if they have been named already
DAVE MURRAY and ADRIAN SMITH
I know that iron maiden is a huge band but they really have always been mind blowing and original guitar players, a really nice mix of chops and taste.
Trey Spruance (scummy) from Mr. bungle is an outstanding guitar player, can flip styles on a dime. Try playing some his stuff sometime, he is for real.

[1984]

definitely Mike Campbell.

Tom Petty is actually a really great soloist too.

[jsteiger]

Vince Gill is very good. I was quite suprised to hear how good he was on a couple of live specials I caught on CMT or something.

Joe Walsh is also very under-rated. Very tasty. He sure is not technically perfect. I guess you can still be great without that. One of his licks from the Hotel California solo has probably been coped and used as much as any. I know Zakk Wylde uses it as does whoever is playing lead on the studio tracks for Kenny Chesney. Variatons are any 3 or 4 songs from Kenny. Every time I hear it I think Joe must be proud.

[Wes Kuhnley]

Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Eddie VanHalen
Django Reinhardt
Robert Johnson
Tom Morrello
Brian May


ALL way underrated...

[gollumsluvslave]

Probably not a popular choice, but for me it's got to be The Edge from U2 - a perfect of example of a guitarist that plays for the song. Also probably one of the best rhythym guitarists going.

Others:-

Larry Lalonde: primus

Doff's the cap - fantastically original guitarist

Ian Mackaye and Brendan Canty from Fugazi
Ed O'Brien : Radiohead
Tommy Victor : Prong
Andy Summers : The Police
Kim Thayil : Soundgarden
Greg Dulli & Rick McCollum : Afghan Whigs
Jerry Cantrell : Alice In Chains
Dave Mustaine : Mega (always in the shadow of Hetfield)
Even Johansen : Magnet


I'm sure there is a ton more!

[laser]

Originally Posted by vin-gear

Vince Gill is very good. I was quite suprised to hear how good he was on a couple of live specials I caught on CMT or something.

Vince Gill is a great guitar player. Sings lead, too. If he has a problem, it's that he makes it look too easy. He really should work on his scowls and ances.

Others that make my list:
Dave Menaketti (Y&T)
Vito Bratta (White Lion)
Steve Lukather (his studio work with the Tubes, Boz Skaggs, others)
Albert Lee
Alvin Lee
Chet Atkins
Roy Clark
Danny Cedrone
Danny Gatton

Laser

[mikymike]

Originally Posted by Wes Kuhnley

Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Eddie VanHalen
Django Reinhardt
Robert Johnson
Tom Morrello
Brian May


ALL way underrated...

WTF!!! Some of them are considered as the greatest EVER!!!

[Bluzzi]

Derek Trucks
Ronnie Earl
Peter Green
Robben Ford

None of which are underrated by musicians but are almost unknown by the general public.

The good thing is you get to see them live in small intimate venues. I've seen all 4 live and it spoils my experience in Stadiums forever.

Guys I kill myself for not seeing while they were with us:

Elmore James
Albert Collins
Albert King

Not rock but they created some of the musical language we all use today without knowing where it came from.

jim

[headwerkn]

definitely props to the Def Leppard guitarists, but especially Steve Clark, he brought real heart and unique riffage to the decade of widdle, and doesn't get a lot of attention these days. such a tragedy.

i used to subscribe to the notion too that Kurt Cobain single-handedly destroyed guitar in the early-mid nineties, back when I was learning guitar and still wishing it was the late 80s when guitarists let their fingers fly. about 10 years later though I realised it wasn't him, it was the million and one imitators who thought they could jump on the bandwagon by wearing a cardigan, groaning into a mic and strumming a couple of chords. what they didn't have was his songwriting talent.... he wasn't much of a guitarist but the little he did do augmented the songs he wrote amazingly well which is why we remember Nirvana 13 years later and not the wannabees who came after.

PJ Harvey, definitely. and Mick Harvey, though to call him a guitar player is probably somewhere between a stretch and an insult (the guy plays everything).

[tuflek]

Eric Schenkman from Spin Doctors

[Mark Cattano]

Well, I'm just going to name my two guitar teachers that I had the great honor to study with: my dear friend, the late Robert Quine, and Pat Thrall. Both monster players with two totally different approaches to the instrument.

Mark Cattano
Magneto Studios
www.myspace.com/markcattano
www.heedmusic.com

[kieran kelly]

Not previously mentioned .

Terry Kath ( Chicago )
Kevin Shields ( My Bloody Valentine ) ...
Tony Iommi
Johnny Greenwood ( shocked no one has mentioned him ... The Genius behind Radiohead. )
Nick Drake
Guy Picciotto ( Fugazi )



Some previously mentioned I agree with
Johnny Marr
Robert Quine
Jeff Buckley
Elliott Smith
David Gregory
Joey Santiago
John Lennon
George Harrison

Probably not underrated but deserving mention
John Scofield
Wes Montgomery

[Sean Sullivan]

Ted Leo if he hasn't been mentioned.

[AMIEL]

Dann Huff!

[sears]

Willie Nelson
Wayne Newton