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NecronCommander 
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Prog Metal Team Joined: September 17 2009 Location: Madison, WI Status: Offline Points: 16122 |
 Topic: Your Opinion: The most underrated guitarists?Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:26 |
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This can be in or outside of prog.
If we are talking prog, I'd go with Devin Townsend. Otherwise, I would say one of the most talented yet overlooked guitarists of any genre would be Larry LaLonde of Primus. Your thoughts? |
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Joined: September 12 2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1416 |
Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:31 |
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I've always felt this way about Elliot Easton from The Cars. He was never really given a chance to play much with them. I also think that Glen Tipton of Judas Priest is a highly talented and innovative guitarist in the world of metal. What would modern metal be like if not for him, I ask you?
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
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The Quiet One
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Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:32 |
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Zappa, Bolin, Etheridge, Beck(Jeff), Goodsall, Stolt, Rabin, some others...
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rpe9p
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:37 |
Certainly not on this website |
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:40 |
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Martin Barre, Tom Scholz, Steve Jones, Mike Rutherford, and to a lesser extent the Edge and Brian May
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The Quiet One
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:42 |
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Gary Green...
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:44 |
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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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The Quiet One
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 21:47 |
 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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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 22:14 |
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Guthrie Govan
Shawn Lane Andy Timmons Mattias IA Eklundh Shaun Baxter Shane Gibson Michael Keene Frederik Åkesson Bill Nelson |
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TODDLER
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 23:28 |
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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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Moatilliatta
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 23:39 |
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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The Runaway
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 08:43 |
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Stewart Goldring in prog, and sadly, Jeff Baxter out of prog.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 09:54 |
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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moe_blunts
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 09:55 |
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b_olariu
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 09:58 |
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too many
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 10:29 |
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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 Edited by ExittheLemming - October 16 2009 at 10:33 |
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dwill123
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 12:02 |
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Shawn Lane
Jan Akkerman
Frank Gambale
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 12:28 |
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Pino Marrone
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Negoba
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 12:54 |
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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.
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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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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 12:55 |
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Carlos Alomar
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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