Underrated guitarists

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. . . and just for the record, Slash is completely over-rated.

Not fit to carry Brian Setzer's guitar case into the gig.
 
Wow, I can fit lots of names here: Rory Gallagher, Richard Thompson, Lindsay Buckingham, Sonny Landreth, Ronnie Wood (with the Faces, not the Stones), Marc Ford (with Burning Tree, Black Crowes, Ben Harper), Stefan George (of the Conrads), Ollie Halsall (of Patto), Vinnie Vincent (of KISS, Vinnie Vincent Invasion) although he can overdo it at times, Johnny Marr (of the Smiths), James Honeyman-Scott (of the Pretenders), etc.

I would say Ry Cooder but there is no way anyone could underrate him.
 
i saw someone mentioned Henry Garza from los lonely boys, and i wanted to add that he is incredible....also, you may laugh at this but while John Mayer is usually followed by teenage girls, he is one incredible guitarist......too many people write him off because they don't like his style of music
 
xfinsterx said:
Johnny Greenwood Of Radiohead.
Truly inovative stuff.
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Strongly Agreed.

I hate John Mayer, but he's got a good handle on his guitar.

Also, the Edge anybody?
 
He is not as well known becuase he does mostly Christian music, but Phil Keaggy is great. Especially when you begin to consider he is missing a finger - I think right hand, so it only affected his fingerstyle technique (certainly not enough to slow him doen any).
 
Without a doubt it's gotta be Steve Hackett, Genesis guitarist till about 1976 (quit the band about a yr or 2 after Peter Gabriel quit), a founding member of GTR and has done solo projects with the likes of Brian May. He has a HUGE following in Europe but is little known here in the US. Where do you think EVH got his tapping technique from?

http://www.stevehackett.com/
 
Gabriel_0 said:
Without a doubt it's gotta be Steve Hackett, Genesis guitarist till about 1976 (quit the band about a yr or 2 after Peter Gabriel quit), a founding member of GTR and has done solo projects with the likes of Brian May. He has a HUGE following in Europe but is little known here in the US. Where do you think EVH got his tapping technique from?

http://www.stevehackett.com/
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Steve Hackett is very good. I saw him play twice with Genesis when Gabriel was with them. ;)
 
Leo Kottke is a pretty awesome guitarist, for his banjo influenced finger picking on 6 & 12-strings guitars, along with judicious use of a slide. When I was turned on to him, about 10 years ago, I was encouraged to buy his first album, called '6 & 12-string Guitar" (the one with the armadillo on the cover), and it totally blew me away.

Matt
 
dragonworks said:
Steve Hackett is very good. I saw him play twice with Genesis when Gabriel was with them. ;)
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You lucky dog! Only time I've seen him live was in London Ontario, it was Phil Collins 1st night as the lead singer of Genesis, Gabriel just quit. I remember being VERY bummed out about this but Phil did an admirable job!

I rememebr being completely blown away by Steve's playing. It was really very interesting, alot of the parts that I thought was Tony Banks keyboards on the albums was actually Steve Hackett on the guitar. Been a huge fan of his since. He has literally influenced every guitarist for the past 30 years and most of us don't even know it hehe. I've always said that when Steve departed from Genesis he took their dark side with him :cool:
 
To expand from just guitar for a moment, if you love bluegrass, Nickel Creek is amazing. The guitarist is actually a mandolin player, but he has a solo album out now on guitar and my understanding is it is really good.
 
Unsprung said:
Leo Kottke is a pretty awesome guitarist,
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Leo is hardly "underrated", however. :D Very highly rated.

And, yes; to anyone who's never heard the Armadillo album: get it. It's hard to believe it was done without overdubs. :eek:
 
toddyjoe said:
Wow, I can fit lots of names here: Rory Gallagher, Richard Thompson, Lindsay Buckingham, Sonny Landreth, Ronnie Wood (with the Faces, not the Stones), Marc Ford (with Burning Tree, Black Crowes, Ben Harper), Stefan George (of the Conrads), Ollie Halsall (of Patto), Vinnie Vincent (of KISS, Vinnie Vincent Invasion) although he can overdo it at times, Johnny Marr (of the Smiths), James Honeyman-Scott (of the Pretenders), etc
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One of my favorite songs was the song written about James Honeyman-Scott's death and the band going back to work without him. Funny thing is most folks think its a happy song.
 
Mike Keneally. Wonderfully eccentric pop/rock/fusion/jazz/prog kind of stuff.

With a sense of humour.


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toddyjoe said:
Wow, I can fit lots of names here: Rory Gallagher, Richard Thompson, Lindsay Buckingham, Sonny Landreth, Ronnie Wood (with the Faces, not the Stones), Marc Ford (with Burning Tree, Black Crowes, Ben Harper), Stefan George (of the Conrads), Ollie Halsall (of Patto), Vinnie Vincent (of KISS, Vinnie Vincent Invasion) although he can overdo it at times, Johnny Marr (of the Smiths), James Honeyman-Scott (of the Pretenders), etc.

I would say Ry Cooder but there is no way anyone could underrate him.
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those first three players are not underrated at all; they've got fans all over the place---especially big name musicians.
 
No one's mentioned George Harrison? Was anyone else playing chord inversions in 1964 rock? I don't think anyone even knew what they were. And he's got some of the tastiest leads ever.
 
How about Rik Emmett? He is a kick ass guitarist as well as an amazing vocalist.
 
Dave_M said:
No one's mentioned George Harrison? Was anyone else playing chord inversions in 1964 rock? I don't think anyone even knew what they were. And he's got some of the tastiest leads ever.
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George Harrison is amazing and definately on my top 5 list but I don't think he's under rated except by todays younger musicians :cool:
 
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