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Poll Question: Who of these axe geniuses deserves a profile boost?
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    Posted: July 10 2007 at 17:10
Other - Ian Crichton from Saga (never understood the prog-related label for Saga, but that's another story)
 
One of the most original guitarist I've heard, and a VERY competent one at that.
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I recently saw Richard Thompson live.  It confirmed my vote for him 999,999 times over.
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Bill Nelson from the list but what about Matt Bellamy ?(Muse).
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Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

who?
 
Randy California from Spirit.  He was originally asked to apart of  the Jimi Hendrix Experience but was too young to travel to England for try outs. 
 
He played on Hammill's The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage. 
 
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Groundhogs Prog-Related?
 
Not really, they're more a hard-rockin' blues band - and a damned good one, so I vote for Tony McPhee, since he's in this poll and he's great.
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Ritchie Blackmore. I mean, yeah, we all say he's awesome, but I don't think we feel it.
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I vote for "Buck Dharma"

But I love the Twin guitar of Wishbone Ash (one of my preferred bands on PA):

- Andy Powell / guitar, vocals
- Ted Turner / guitar, vocals
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I think Roeser just needs to find those old platform shoes for a boostWink
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Richard Thompson is a fantastic guitar player. I love his electric and acoustic playing and often try to play his songs myself. I never come close...Wink
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Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

These chaps have all gained some measure of renown, but not as much as the famousness of the Pages, Claptons and Hendrixes of the world. All of them have made an album that is either on this site or could be considered prog-related. Who's yer fave?

When I saw Kim Mitchell here I knew it had to be a canadian that started the thread ...Clap
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I'd put Randy California on that list, he's do some influential things with a guitar in late 60s/early 70s with Spirit
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I went with DL of Strawbs - good guitarist, perhaps not an outstanding technician, but whatever he plays it's always lovely.
Percussion, sir!
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Points: 974 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2007 at 11:41
Got to go with Robin Trower. Far more than just a Hendrix clone. Smile
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"Buck Dharma" is seriously underrated, a very talented guitarist indeed. Muse's Matthew Bellamy is very good aswell, though perhaps not underrated.
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I love Blue Oyster Cult, so this was easy enough



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WATCHING THE DARK changed my life, and enhanced it a great deal. It must be the most magnificent career retrospective ever! Get your copy, folks, you won't regret it! (These days you can get them dirt cheap as well!)
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Robin Trower was tarred with being a Hendrix imitator soon after leaving Procol Harum - but so may Stevie Ray Vaughan and  Walter Trout with their Hendrix covers. However, Trower has now well developed his own blue guitar sound and his album 21th Century Blues was my favourite electric blues album of the 90's.
 
Tony McPhee I never believed has abandoned his strong blues roots. Even Split was more blues rock than anything else.
 
However, as you will read in Rolling Stone magazine every 5 vyears, when they yet again produce an all time Top 100 LP chart, Richard Thompson will be there with 2 or 3 albums - in other words the US has greater respect and awareness for this class British guitarist than  his own countrymen.  (So under-rated????????????????)Steeped in Anglo Scots folk tradition, the three CD set and retrospective Watching The Dark (Hannibal) , and the most excellent CD/DVD set A 100 years Of Popular Music , clearly demonstrate a guitarist with great breadth, for instance the latter for instance with covers of Gilbert & Sullivan and Britney Spears (Whoops I did it again as a madrigal!!!!!), had moments of pure genius. And whether you listen to A Sailor's tale as released with Fairport or the alternative take on Watching  The Dark, you hear a rare bit of class psychedelic folk, which helps explain why Fairport was sometimes compared with early Jefferson Airplane.
 
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