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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2009 at 14:26
Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

Originally posted by rpe9p rpe9p wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Zappa

Certainly not on this website
 
Dweezil, he meant.
 
Frank was great, but not really under-rated.


As a guitarist I think that Frank Zappa is underrated. Maybe not as a composer and as a comedianWink
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

keeping it fusion, how about Scot McGill (Freakzoid and other projects),


Good call IMHO - Scott is currently working in the UK as an academic at a music college since being a fulltime  musician doesn't keep him and young family. BTW add Handfarm, Finneus Gauge, McGill Mainring & Stevens, significant contribution to couple of A Triggering Myth's albums, plus the MP3 only download album with former Brand x bassist Percy Jones
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 Brian May, Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, Scott Gorham, Gary Moore, Brian Robertson, and Nuno Bettencourt.

I know this is not part of the topic but i feel it needs to be said, Kerry King is one of the most over rated guitarist ever. 
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I think that the most underrated guitarists are those who you want to mention in this thread but you can only say something like "err... that guy in band X... who does that nice shredding... you know?"

For example: the guy in Blotted Science or the guy in Parallaxe; the guy who plays with Jonas Hellborg on "Art Metal"; that awesome dude in Natsumen; the guys in Don Caballero or Russian Circles. Or, keeping it fusion, how about Scot McGill (Freakzoid and other projects), the guy in Skywhale, or James McGaw (Magma, One Shot)?

Most of them are wonderful musicians who play in bands not very known, even among geeks like us.


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Originally posted by rpe9p rpe9p wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Zappa

Certainly not on this website
 
Dweezil, he meant.
 
Frank was great, but not really under-rated.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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It depends what circles you run in.
 
Shawn Lane is far from under-rated in shredder circles, he's revered as the One. And he deserves it.
I never heard of Steve Hillage or Andy Latimer before I came to this site, and now they're among my favorite guitarists.
 
Chris Poland always gets a mention from me, tastiest shredder alive with Lane gone.
 
I also agree that Devin Townsend's skills get submerged in his total musicianship and the fact that he likes to minimize his ability. But he's quite good.
 
Tommy Emmanuel may be the best all-around guitarist alive.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Shawn Lane
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Inside Prog:

Andrew Dalby of Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come springs to mind

Franco Mussida of PFM is certainly known on PA, but is never name dropped with the insouciance of a Howe, Page, Hackett or Gilmour etc

Jan Van Nimwegen of Finch is a stellar player and composer to boot.

Jean Michel Brezovar of Ange is certainly not a technical shredder by any stretch of the imagination but his contributions to their output are unfailingly appropriate.

Outside Prog:

Zal Cleminson of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band is a long neglected plank spanker

The late John McGeogh of Siouxsie & the Banshees, Magazine and PIL is one of the most original post -punk guitarists bar none








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Originally posted by Petrovsk Mizinski Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

Guthrie Govan
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Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

I always thought that Peter Green ......he is not mentioned in the same breath along with Beck or Hendrix.
 
Mojo magazine had him no.2 or 3 in a poll of a 100 guitarists about a decade ago, just behind Hendrix at no.1 . But things change, and evaluation schemes vary in criteria.
 
 
So I have to ask what "under-rated' means here? For instance Gary Lucas: the New York Times  and few specialist guitarist magazines rate him in their  top tens year after year - but how many folk have heard of him here? You can say similar things for Allan Holdsworth. The suggestions above of Anthony Phillips and Pete Banks seem to sensible, whilst wrt Jeff Beck what sort of underrating is going on here?
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Stewart Goldring in prog, and sadly, Jeff Baxter out of prog.
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Points: 3083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2009 at 23:39
Originally posted by Petrovsk Mizinski Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

Guthrie Govan
Shawn Lane
Andy Timmons
Mattias IA Eklundh
Shaun Baxter
Shane Gibson
Michael Keene
Frederik Åkesson
Bill Nelson
 
I feel like some of these, especially Guthrie Govan, are more unknown than they are underrated. I think everyone I know who's heard him rates him highly and appropriately so.
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I always thought that Peter Green was an underrated guitarist. Even though he has that bit of historical value in the old blues based Fleetwood Mac, he is not mentioned in the same breath along with Beck or Hendrix. But his soloing on "Black Magic Woman" from the live Boston Tea Party cd leaves me speachless. The trade of leads( which is quite like question and answer), between Green and Kirwan is progressive in sound and performance.
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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2009 at 22:14
Guthrie Govan
Shawn Lane
Andy Timmons
Mattias IA Eklundh
Shaun Baxter
Shane Gibson
Michael Keene
Frederik Åkesson
Bill Nelson
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Syd Barrett had a unique and personal style to his playing, especially on his solo albums.  Very hard for me to put into words though. 

How about Ant Phillips?  Peter Banks?  Overshadowed by their successors but I like the way both play. 


Clap Definitely great players! Specially Anthony Phillips on Trespass, he plays lovely on there!

Peter Banks has some very nice, though subtle, solos on Time and a Word.
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Syd Barrett had a unique and personal style to his playing, especially on his solo albums.  Very hard for me to put into words though. 

How about Ant Phillips?  Peter Banks?  Overshadowed by their successors but I like the way both play. 
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