Underated Guitarists

Sibelius

Keith Scott.

I Love his playing but never hear him mentioned.

richardhomer

Glen Tilbrook

xSkarloey

I always say Bernard Sumner on this topic.

richardhomer

Skarloey;769977" said:

I always say Bernard Sumner on this topic.

Some years ago, I was walking down Princess Street in Manchester and Bernard Sumner passed me, walking in the opposite direction.

A year or so later, I was in a butchers in Alderley Edge and Barney was ahead of me in the queue.

About two years later, I was working in Wilmslow and bumped into him there - at which point I asked if he was stalking me?

He completely blanked me. A matter of some 'Regret', I have to say....

GavRichList

Jez Williams and Russell Lissack both massively influenced the noises I wanted to make, and I don't think either are particularly shouted about. Lissack a little maybe, but rarely Williams.

frank1985

Well after listening to the first Dire Straits album, I'd have to say Mark Knopfler

richardhomer

frank1985;770061" said:

Well after listening to the first Dire Straits album, I'd have to say Mark Knopfler

I recently watched a full concert on YouTube from 1979, where he played a lot of the less well known stuff off the first album (Water of Love, Lions, in The Gallery, etc).

His playing was awesome on it.

Edit: Here's the link:

Sibelius

frank1985 said:

Well after listening to the first Dire Straits album, I'd have to say Mark Knopfler

Yeah, defo now but wasn't he a household name back in the 80's? 

TheMarlin

Captain Sensible (The Damned) - still my favourite guitar player ever - ahead of EVH and Brian Setzer...

He's solid as a rock, awesome live with The Damned, and he's all about melody...

Marlin

Phil_aka_Pip

Andy Latimer. Rated highly by the few that know of him, unknown by a lot of others who ought to know better.

dogload

TheMarlin said:

Captain Sensible (The Damned) - still my favourite guitar player ever - ahead of EVH and Brian Setzer...

He's solid as a rock, awesome live with The Damned, and he's all about melody...

Marlin

Good call!

I saw The Damned in 1982 or so, and he was awesome - even dripping with tons of gob (he was playing a cherry SG that looked mostly green and white!). 

In fact, that was the night that I learned that a guitar solo doesn't have to be dead fiddly and fast to be big and clever, when he did a single howl of feedback during Smash It Up. 

My own suggestion would be Robyn Hitchcock

Skipped

Eilidh Mckellar
Bonnie Raitt

Skipped

Also underrated but off topic:
Dogs that can walk on their hind legs.

thomasross20

Lindsey Buckingham!

CHRISB50

Bill Ryder Jones

Bucket

Olga from the Toy Dolls

Ollie Halsall

Bill Nelson

Akira Takasaki

Francis Dunnery

Pete Ham from Badfinger

Oh, and...

FRANK FUCKING MARINO.

scrumhalf

Micky Jones from Man

Mick Abrahams from Tull/Blodwyn Pig.

Grunfeld

Bucket said:

FRANK FUCKING MARINO.

One hell of a player.  Very seldom name-checked -- Zakk Wylde is about the only one I know who does. 

I've seen him play a couple of times. 

And once I went along to see "Frank Marino" in a small pub in Crawley but it wasn't him (I should have guessed).  Just another bloke called Frank Marino.  That was an odd night.

Gassage

Craig Ross.

Utterly amazing.

thomasross20

Gassage said:

Craig Ross.

Utterly amazing.

Eh, that's my brother!?

Bucket

How could I forget - Dave Flett from Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Absolutely fucking wonderful.

2:52:

The bit from 3:45 will also be going into the "best wah in a solo" thread...