Who is your fave unsung hero guitarist?

strat84

Danny kirwan

ennspek

Steve Clarke. Mick Harvey. Bruce Springsteen.

GavRichList

There was an utterly insignificant indie band who's guitarist was a big inspiration to me. They ended up making a really bad album, but their early recordings were great, and they had that "i love this band nobody has heard of" appeal to me in my youth. Ah, nostalgia....jamie Ellis was said guitarist by the way.

slate

Marc Ribot

Babones

slate said:

Marc Ribot

I was just about to say the same. With Tom Waits, Ceramic Dog and his trio.

Lew

Unsung in the big circles. Worshiped in others.

slate

Babones;610403" said:

slate said:

Marc Ribot





I was just about to say the same. With Tom Waits, Ceramic Dog and his trio.

I LOVE his playing - and tone - with Waits.
I've never heard anybody phrase like him - amazing stuff.

streethawk

Just watched Kurt Rosenwinkel (lol) playing at Eric Clapton's crossroads festival 2013.

My word! Great tone out of his D'Angelico, hell of a player. I'm sure he's well known on here but I'd never heard of him before.

breakstuff

Boz Boorer.Has written some cracking tunes over the years.

Loobs

Gassage

Loobs

Sorry, thought you said unhung

Gassage

Loobs said:

Sorry, thought you said unhung

We'll see when you join us in at Woof Berlin in Sept

sticker

Whenever these unsung threads pop up I always think of Harvey Hinsley from Hot Chocolate , I can't understand why he's not more recognised .

Plenty of gold records all with cracking guitar riffs and hooks , innovative use of effects and unique guitar sounds and funky as F***!

SimonC

Has to be Ace Frehley for me.

He never seems to get the recognition he deserves as a guitarist.

Once you see through the make-up and the rest of the nonsense, he's actually a great player.

Not technically gifted, but he came up with some great riffs and really distinctive and unique sounding lead lines with early Kiss.

He's probably one of the main reasons I took up guitar when I were a nipper

Clarky

Glen Tipton from Judas Priest: especially with respect to his work in the Killing Machine era. He comes up with some of the coolest licks and ideas...

Franco Mussida from PFM: his acoustic playing on the Chocolate Kings album in particular is wonderful

Alex Hutchnigs: Roland Boss demo player.. a Guthrie style monster..

Jan Cyrka: Prickly Pear contains some stunning playing.. mental technique with great feel and melody

Marcel Coenen: the Dutch Vai... I love the way this guy plays....

timhulio

SimonC said:

Ace Frehley

New rule: if you've had a signature guitar made for you by a major guitar manufacturer, you're not unsung :-)

littlegreenman

timhulio said:

SimonC said:

Ace Frehley

New rule: if you've had 4 signature guitars made for you by a major guitar manufacturer in the last few weeks, you're not unsung :-)

FTFY

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/u_eg_sub_series15.php?series_id=28&year=2015&cat_id=1

not_the_dj

littlegreenman said:

timhulio said:

SimonC said:

Ace Frehley

New rule: if you've had 4 signature guitars made for you by a major guitar manufacturer in the last few weeks, you're not unsung :-)

FTFY

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/u_eg_sub_series15.php?series_id=28&year=2015&cat_id=1

Of course those are Paul Stanley sigs 

:P

RocknRollDave

Gibson have released some obscure signature models, to be fair, and then you have the PRS Zach Myers, which is hailed as a great guitar, but even the reviews are saying "Um...who? Aaaaanyway, great guitar..."

littlegreenman

not_the_dj said:

littlegreenman said:

timhulio said:

SimonC said:

Ace Frehley

New rule: if you've had 4 signature guitars made for you by a major guitar manufacturer in the last few weeks, you're not unsung :-)

FTFY

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/u_eg_sub_series15.php?series_id=28&year=2015&cat_id=1

Of course those are Paul Stanley sigs 

:P

D'oh!