Underated Guitarists

boogieman

scrumhalf;787758" said:

Snail's Pace Slim of The Hamsters.

Yes, cracking player and stupidly retired from playing guitar these days. Such a waste of talent.

I'll add Tony McPhee.

Megii

Mike Oldfield - I think a great and very distinctive player. His guitar playing probably overshadowed by his overall multi-tracked composition thing.

Jalapeno

Mike Campbell from The Heartbreakers.

GuyBoden

Ralph McTell

maw4neu

Trevor Rabin . . . . when Yes broke up and reformed for the umpteenth time, Trevor jumped in from 1982 to 1994 ).

He learned most if not all of the Yes back catalog and brought a new edge to the Prog Monsters ( Yes )  . . . .  Joking apart though, that guy "can" play guitar . . . . Ok ! ! ! he did look as camp as a row of tents and caravans in a field but  . . What a player :-) 

Teetonetal

Newton Faulkner

EricTheWeary

Harvey Hinsley - especially for anyone watching BBC4 tonight. :-B

mgaw

Michael Landau     www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqwSc1RzUdg    

Travisthedog

Billy Duffy

Handsome_Chris

blobb said:

Ed Wynne, Phil Miller and Phil Lee. ................... Who? Oh and Richard Sinclair #1 if we allow Bass players, which also opens the door for Roly Wynne.

And Mark King, Bernard Edwards and Nicky Wire.

Grunfeld

Travisthedog said:

Billy Duffy

Really?  I'm glad he's got a fan but I always struggled with Billy Duffy's playing.  I thought he looked pretty cool though.

blueskunk

Eddie Hazel
Robbie Kreger
Eugene Hutz

cruxiform

Bucket said:

Olga from the Toy Dolls

Good man. Totally agree.

cruxiform

Handsome_Chris said:

This guy

A great example of an older player who spent some time improving his playing skills to an extent that he was almost a different guitarist completely. I remember buying Painkiller when it was released and thinking they'd hired a young shredder until I checked the sleeve notes. The contrast in his playing from the early JP stuff to that era was like night and day. Not forgetting KK of course who did the same!

Nikko

Marc Rizzo

Grunfeld

Vini Reilly, The Durutti Column

He's got his distinctive sound, which is not to everyone's tastes to be fair but I love it and have most of his work.  

So if you like big echoey splurges over hypnotic rhythms you might be a fan too.

markv

Robbie McIntosh

thomasross20

I think Brian May is underrated.

markv

thomasross20 said:

I think Brian May is underrated.

Why so? He's my favourite player of all time - but underrated?

GuyBoden

Grunfeld said:

Vini Reilly, The Durutti Column

He's got his distinctive sound, which is not to everyone's tastes to be fair but I love it and have most of his work.  

So if you like big echoey splurges over hypnotic rhythms you might be a fan too.

The "Return of the Durutti Column" LP was a big influence on my playing style, when I was a teenager (1980).

Thanks for the inspiration Vinni.