Who is the most underrated prog rock guitarist? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

As the man in platonic love with the band Gentle Giant, I can only say Gary Green.

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Ian Anderson for his acoustic guitar work - brilliant!

someone_else wrote:

The first name I think of is Gary Green.

He's the first "How the hell do people not know of this dude?" player that always comes to mind.

Stellar guitar player is an understatement. From what I understand the guy wasn't even interested in being professional, he was just drafted in and his chops became legendary.

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Intruder wrote:

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Siegi Schwarb (Embyro guitarist on their best LP, Rocksession with Mal Waldron on the electric piano)

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his name is actually "Siegfried Schwab", usually called "Sigi (sometimes also "Siggi"), which is short for "Siegfried", like "Tom" for "Thomas". he is one of the most prolific musicians ever, having played on over 15000 (yes, 15000) albums. he can play all styles - rock, jazz, folk, classical or baroque.

so if you want a guitar player for an album just call Siggi; he will probably go (I am inventing names of artists here): "you want me to play on an album of Maria Schulze? what kind of music is that? oh, folk. how about next Thursday? I have recordings with the jazz band Serendipity Calls at 9 am and the baroque ensemble Powdered Wigs at 6 pm on that day; I could squeeze you in at 2 pm"

Edited by BaldJean - January 16 2021 at 05:42

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Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Sacro_Porgo wrote:

Thing is it could really be Mike Rutherford. Hackett gets all the attention from prog fans but even when Hackett was in the band Mike played a lot of acoustic parts both live and on the albums that fleshed out the sound phenomenally. Plus after Hackett left he did a great job of creating a lead sound and style that reflected Hackett's influence but was better suited to the more commercial direction they'd go in, and wasn't a Hackett ripoff.

Obviously he's not underrated as a bass player and he's not exactly unknown, but he doesn't get talked about for his guitar contributions much.

Dude Rutherford rules, he's the unsung hero of Genesis lol. He gets overlooked. I agree completely on his lead guitar take over after Hackett's departure. Second Home by The Sea FTW!

Don't forget his bass work on the classic Genesis Gabriel era entries; he and Ray Shulman were trailing Squire's cape-tail that entire time!

The bass line to Get Em Out By Friday rivals most things Squire ever played and tops anything most other players played.

Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)

chopper wrote:

Deadwing wrote:

Alex Lifeson, Ed Wynn and Piotr Grudziński.

Steven Wilson is also one of my favorites, even though he's actually really average (at best) technically speaking.

Again, I wouldn't say Lifeson is underrated, certainly not in the prog world.

Rolling Stone ranked Alex Lifeson as #98 when he’s really #1, so I can see the point. Another recent ranking didn’t have him listed at all. The click bait title said “Top 100 guitarists. It’s not who you think it is.” Guess what? They were right. The man has multiple chords named after him. Multiple! As in more than one. How many guitarists do you know of that have chords named after them? There’s the wobbly chord in Message in a Bottle ... called the Andy Summers chord. That’s one I suppose, but I can’t think of too many others. I digress.

Intruder wrote:

Peter Banks.....my heart goes out for this guy, man; maybe not the most technically proficient but those Wes Montgomery licks he brought to those early Yesyears are priceless.

Peter never gave up working on his craft up until his death. Check out his lead guitar work on this tune, he positively channels Steve Vai by using one of Vai's signature Ibanez Jem guitar models! Pete turns on the burners about 1:30 and doesn't look back to Planet Earth. This CD was released in 1994.

Edited by cstack3 - January 12 2021 at 23:33

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