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Gary Green
Denis Jalbert
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Also R. M. Tocak (Smak).

A legend in his homeland but less known internationally.

Ulazak u harem (Entrance to Harem, live 1992):


The same solo played 30 years later. The old man still rocks!


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..or underappreciated:

Terje Rypdal
Chris Spedding
Janne Schaffer
Volker Kriegel
Steve Hillage

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Frank Usher
Robin Bolt
.... Absolutely underrated 
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Gary Green
Denis Jalbert

Gary Green .. indeed !
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Originally posted by O666 O666 wrote:

Frank Usher
Robin Bolt
.... Absolutely underrated 


yep
For more than 15 years, Frank Usher kept Fish at bay ( )
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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

Originally posted by O666 O666 wrote:

Frank Usher
Robin Bolt
.... Absolutely underrated 


yep
For more than 15 years, Frank Usher kept Fish at bay ( )
Yes and honestly he did it pretty good....
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Dave Kerzner is another one who gets a bit overlooked. I've been listening to his 'rock opera' New World a lot recently. Very heavily influenced by Gilmour on both guitar and vocal but does it well.
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Bryan Josh springs to mind. 
I'll also give a mention to Mike Oldfield as I don't think he gets the recognition he deserves as a guitar player.
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Dave BAINBRIDGE

Jean Pierre LOUVETON

Eddie MULDER

Lee ABRAHAM

Dave BRONS

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Franco Mussida above all, also for his composing abilities of creating a unique genre within a genre.
Ian Akkerman, could have been easily playing in a top band...
I also feel Latimer is underrated. Very.

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Dave Kerzner is another one who gets a bit overlooked. I've been listening to his 'rock opera' New World a lot recently. Very heavily influenced by Gilmour on both guitar and vocal but does it well.


Do you think DK played the lead guitar ?

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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Dave Kerzner is another one who gets a bit overlooked. I've been listening to his 'rock opera' New World a lot recently. Very heavily influenced by Gilmour on both guitar and vocal but does it well.


Do you think DK played the lead guitar ?

Funny thing ''yes'', but looking at the credits it was shared mainly between Steve Hackett, Francis Dunnery and a couple of other less well known guys.
I can scrub Kerzner then although still love that album.Smile
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A couple of (imo) underrated guitar players, don't think they were already mentioned :

Niklas Barker : Anekdoten, My brother the wind

Mike Rogers from Manfred Mann's Earthband (listen to his guitar works on the Solar Fire, Good Earth and Ningtingales LPs)



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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Charles Whitney (Family)(Streetwalkers)


Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Tony McPhee (Groundhogs)

Hi,

Thanks for adding these ... I love listening to these two and how they used their instrument to illuminate the piece of music they did, and helped make the music special. 

I was really sad to read that TM passed away recently ... I went straight to "Crosscut Saw" and "Black Diamond" ... twice each ... and the guitar work in it is so far out ... but around here we like thrashing and not taste!

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Andy Latimer 
Jim Matheos
Frank Marino
Chris DeGarmo
John Mitchell
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Hassan Hajdi - Ange
Gilbert Gandil - Pulsar, Siiilk
Jean-Pierre Louveton - Nemo, JPL

Progressively yours,

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hugh Manatee Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2024 at 19:21
Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

A couple of (imo) underrated guitar players, don't think they were already mentioned :

Niklas Barker : Anekdoten, My brother the wind

Mike Rogers from Manfred Mann's Earthband (listen to his guitar works on the Solar Fire, Good Earth and Ningtingales LPs)


Totally agree with Mick Rogers.

Since he hasn't been mentioned yet I would say Justin Hayward.


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John Goodsall (Brand X) 
Andy Latimer (Camel)
Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues)
Franco Mussida (PFM)
Josip Boček (Korni Grupa)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Archisorcerus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2024 at 08:55
I'll not make a Top 5, however I think that Stéphan Forté is a hugely underrated guitar virtuoso, even within the prog metal domains.

This solo of him is among my absolute favourite guitar solos.




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