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Prince Definitely the most underrated as well, he gets no respect for his guitar playing mastery. That was Prince's “problem”, maybe. He was too damn good at everything. In an interview, Eri

So many virtuosos and guys who changed the landscape on their arrival... Hendrix has to be my pick on pure, insane ability. However, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd is my absolute favourite. Not the

Big fan of most who have been mentioned.....but one great guitarist that always seems to be left off of these lists is Brian Setzer.   

Three guitarist that are often overlooked are:

Robin Trower

Ronnie Montrose

Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)

They have a unique sound and technique that set them apart in my opinion. I have see the first two live several times. Amazing.

I would also say that Alvin Lee from Ten Years After and Kim Simmonds from Savoy Brown are top guitarists.

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Another blast from the past under-rated name, especially if you like Blues:  Peter Green.  If not for his mental health troubles, he would probably have eclipsed Clapton ... easily.

 

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12 hours ago, mbflash80 said:

Im listening to Grin right now because of this post...its literally been 10+ years since Ive spun this album...what a great underrated band...thanks bro for the reminder here.

 

Absolutely :-) Did you know they reformed in 2011 after a 15 year hiatus? I saw them play in Sydney three or four years ago. They absolutely killed it, best night ever!

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3 hours ago, Dave O))) said:

 

Absolutely :-) Did you know they reformed in 2011 after a 15 year hiatus? I saw them play in Sydney three or four years ago. They absolutely killed it, best night ever!

Im going down memory lane on amazon Prime music listening to them...I really forgot how unique their sound was...

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16 hours ago, hoyopr said:

Slide Guitar Sonny Landreth,

 

 

 

Yes I know most are saying who, this guy is damn good at what he does.

Interesting. Just had an awesome concert here in Collingwood by a fantastic musician, Joey Landreth. Chances?

CB

 

 

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On 3/26/2018 at 8:15 AM, MooseAMuffin said:

Agree on the older guys like SRV, Jimi, BB King. I also love Joe Satriani.

Some of my favorites in the genres I listen to: Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell(RIP), John 5.

RIP indeed

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Who's best is a question that can't be answered. Who do I love, lot's and lots. I have a soft spot for Mick Taylor and Gerry Garcia.

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So hard to name just one.

 

Underrated has to go to Alex Lifeson of Rush

Most influential has to go to Clapton, Hendrix, Van Halen

Guitarist/Craftsman sort of place has to go to Eric Johnson, Mark Knopfler, 

Best rhythm guitarist - James Hetfield, Malcolm Young

so many titles you can make up, so many great guitarists

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4 hours ago, joeman said:

So hard to name just one.

 

Underrated has to go to Alex Lifeson of Rush

Certainly in the Top Ten for that category...

 

4 hours ago, joeman said:

Most influential has to go to Clapton, Hendrix, Van Halen

Most influential is easy, IMHO: whichever guitarist has been banned in most musical instrument shops.  And that's clearly Jimmy Page for "Stairway to Heaven" and Ritchie Blackmore for "Smoke on the Water"!  How many garage band axemen have started their careers fingering out those riffs?  

 

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Let the debate begin......

In 2004 Guitar World put together a reader’s poll to compile a list of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time. There has been a lot of great music since that time and I'm pretty sure there will be much debate but the topic is a sight better than debating politics. These rankings were representative of the thoughts and opinions of Guitar World’s readership at that time and not a list compiled by a writer, editor, etc.

1.
song: Stairway to Heaven
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin IV
2.
song: Eruption
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Van Halen
album: Van Halen
3
song: Freebird
guitarist: Collins/Rossington
band: Lynyrd Skynyrd
album: Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
4.
song: Comfortably Numb
guitarist: David Gilmour
band: Pink Floyd
album: The Wall
5.
song: All Along the Watchtower
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix Experience
album: Electric Ladyland

6.
song: November Rain
guitarist: Slash
band: Guns n’ Roses
album: Use Your Illusion I

7.
song: One
guitarist: Kirk Hammet
band: Metallica
album: And Justice for All

8.
song: Hotel California
guitarist: Don Felder/Joe Walsh
band: The Eagles
album: Hotel California

9.
song: Crazy Train
guitarist: Randy Rhoads
band: Ozzy Ozbourne
album: Blizzard of Ozz

10.
song: Crossroads
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: Cream
album: Wheels of Fire

11.
song: Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix
album: Electric Ladyland

12.
song: Johnny B. Goode
guitarist: Chuck Berry
band: Chuck Berry
album: Chuck Berry Is On Top

13.
song: Texas Flood
guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
band: Stevie Ray Vaughan
album: Texas Flood

14.
song: Layla
guitarist: Clapton/Allman
band: Derek and the Dominoes
album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

15.
song: Floods
guitarist: Dimebag Darrel
band: Pantera
album: The Great Southern Trendkill

16.
song: Heartbreaker
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin II

17.
song: Cliffs of Dover
guitarist: Eric Johnson
band: Eric Johnson
album: Ah Via Musicom

18.
song: Little Wing
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix Experience
album: Axis: Bold as Love

19.
song: Highway Star
guitarist: Ritchie Blackmore
band: Deep Purple
album: Machine Head

20.
song: Bohemian Rhapsody
guitarist: Brian May
band: Queen
album: A Night at the Opera

21.
song: Time
guitarist: David Gilmour
band: Pink Floyd
album: Dark Side of the Moon

22.
song: Sultans of Swing
guitarist: Mark Knopfler
band: Dire Straits
album: Dire Straits

23.
song: Bulls on Parade
guitarist: Tom Morello
band: Rage Against the Machine
album: Evil Empire

24.
song: Fade to Black
guitarist: Kirk Hammet
band: Metallica
album: Ride the Lightning

25.
song: Aqualung
guitarist: Martin Barre
band: Jethro Tull
album: Aqualung

26.
song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
guitarist: Kurt Cobain
band: Nirvana
album: Nevermind

27.
song: Pride and Joy
guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
band: Stevie Ray Vaughan
album: Texas Flood

28.
song: Mr. Crowley
guitarist: Randy Rhoads
band: Ozzy Ozbourne
album: Blizzard of Oz

29.
song: For the Love of God
guitarist: Steve Vai
band: Steve Vai
album: Passion and Warfare

30.
song: Surfing With the Alien
guitarist: Joe Satriani
band: Joe Satriani
album: Surfing With the Alien

31.
song: Stranglehold
guitarist: Ted Nugent
band: Ted Nugent
album: Ted Nugent

32.
song: Machine Gun
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix
album: Band of Gypsies

33.
song: The Thrill is Gone
guitarist: B.B. King
band: B.B. King
album: Completely Well

34.
song: Paranoid Android
guitarist: Jonny Greenwood
band: Radiohead
album: OK Computer

35.
song: Cemetery Gates
guitarist: Dimebag Darrel
band: Pantera
album: Cowboys From Hell

36.
song: Black Star
guitarist: Yngwie Malmsteen
band: Yngwie Malmsteen
album: Rising Force
more: Black Star tab

37.
song: Sweet Child O’ Mine
guitarist: Slash
band: Guns n’ Roses
album: Appetite for Destruction

38.
song: Whole Lotta Love
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin II

39.
song: Cortez the Killer
guitarist: Neil Young
band: Neil Young
album: Zuma

40.
song: Reelin’ In the Years
guitarist: Elliot Randall
band: Steely Dan
album: Can’t Buy a Thrill

41.
song: Brighton Rock
guitarist: Brian May
band:Queen
album: Sheer Heart Attack

42.
song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: The Beatles
album: The White Album

43.
song: Sharp Dressed Man
guitarist: Billy Gibbons
band: ZZ Top
album: Eliminator

44.
song: Alive
guitarist: Mike McCready
band: Pearl Jam
album: Ten

45.
song: Light My Fire
guitarist: Robby Krieger
band: The Doors
album: Doors

46.
song: Hot For Teacher
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Van Halen
album: 1984

47.
song: Jessica
guitarist: Dickey Betts
band: The Allman Brothers
album: Brothers and Sisters
tab: Jessica tab
48.
song: Sympathy for the Devil
guitarist: Keith Richards
band: The Rolling Stones
album: Beggar’s Banquet

49.
song: Europa
guitarist: Carlos Santana
band: Santana
album: Amigos

50.
song: Shock Me
guitarist: Ace Frehley
band: Kiss
album: Love Gun

51.
song: Master of Puppets
guitarist: Kirk Hammet
band: Metallica
album: Master of Puppets
52
song: Star Spangled Banner
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix
album: Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock
53
song: Since I’ve Been Loving You
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin III
54
song: Geek USA
guitarist: Billy Corgan
band: Smashing Pumpkins
album: Siamese Dream
55.
song: Satch Boogie
guitarist: Joe Satriani
band: Joe Satriani
album: Surfing With the Alien

56.
song: War Pigs
guitarist: Tony Iommi
band: Black Sabbath
album: Paranoid

57.
song: Walk
guitarist: Dimebag Darrel
band: Pantera
album: Vulgar Display of Power

58.
song: Cocaine
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: Eric Clapton
album: Slowhand

59.
song: You Really Got Me
guitarist: Dave Davies
band: The Kinks
album: Kinks

60.
song: Zoot Allures
guitarist: Frank Zappa
band: Frank Zappa
album: Zoot Allures

61.
song: No More Tears
guitarist: Zakk Wylde
band: Ozzy Osbourne
album: No More Tears

62.
song: Money
guitarist: David Gilmour
band: Pink Floyd
album: Dark Side of the Moon

63.
song: Black Hole Sun
guitarist: Kim Thayil
band: Soundgarden
album: Superunknown

64.
song: Little Red Corvette
guitarist: Prince
band: Prince
album: 1999

65.
song: In Bloom
guitarist: Kurt Cobain
band: Nirvana
album: Nevermind

66.
song: Blue Sky
guitarist: Allman/Betts
band: The Allman Brothers
album: Eat a Peach
tab: Blue Sky tab (from Allmanbrothersband.com)

67.
song: Beat It
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Michael Jackson
album: Thriller

68.
song: Starship Trooper
guitarist: Steve Howe
band: Yes
album: The Yes Album

69.
song: And Your Bird Can Sing
guitarist: George Harrison
band: The Beatles
album: Revolver

70.
song: Purple Haze
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
album: Are You Experienced?

71.
song: Maggot Brain
guitarist: Eddie Hazel
band: Funkadelic
album: Maggot Brain

72.
song: Walk This Way
guitarist: Joe Perry
band: Aeorosmith
album: Toys in the Attic

73.
song: Stash
guitarist: Trey Anastasio
band: Phish
album: A Picture of Nectar

74.
song: Lazy
guitarist: Ritchie Blackmore
band: Deep Purple
album: Machine Head

75.
song: Won’t Get Fooled Again
guitarist: Pete Townsend
band: The Who
album: Who’s Next

76.
song: Cinnamon Girl
guitarist: Neil Young
band: Neil Young and Crazy Horse
album: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

77.
song: Man in the Box
guitarist: Jerry Cantrell
band: Alice in Chains
album: Face Lift

78.
song: Truckin’
guitarist: Jerry Garcia
band: The Grateful Dead
album: American Beauty

79.
song: Mean Street
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Van Halen
album: Fair Warning

80.
song: You Shook Me All Night Long
guitarist: Angus Young
band: AC/DC
album: Back in Black

81.
song: Sweet Jane
guitarist: Hunter/Wagner
band: The Velvet Underground
album: Loaded

82.
song: 21st Century Schizoid Man
guitarist: Robert Fripp
band: King Crimson
album: In the Court of the Crimson King

83.
song: Scuttle Buttin’
guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
band: Stevie Ray Vaughan
album: Couldn’t Stand the Weather

84.
song: Santeria
guitarist: Brad Nowell
band: Sublime
album: Sublime

85.
song: Moonage Daydream
guitarist: Mick Ronson
band: David Bowie
album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

86.
song: Whipping Post
guitarist: Allman/Betts
band: The Allman Brothers
album: The Allman Brothers Band

87.
song: Cult of Personality
guitarist: Vernon Reid
band: Living Color
album: Vivid

88.
song: Kid Charlemagne
guitarist: Larry Carlton
band: Steely Dan
album: The Royal Scam

89.
song: Killing in the Name
guitarist: Tom Morello
band: Rage Against the Machine
album: Rage Against the Machine

90.
song: Let it Rain
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: Eric Clapton
album: Eric Clapton

91.
song: Heard It Thu Grapevine
guitarist: John Fogerty
band: CCR
album: Cosmo’s Factory

92.
song: Stray Cat Strut
guitarist: Brian Setzer
band: Stray Cats
album: Built for Speed

93.
song: The End
guitarist: Robbie Krieger
band: The Doors
album: The Doors

94.
song: Working Man
guitarist: Alex Lifeson
band: Rush
album: Rush

95.
song: Yellow Ledbetter
guitarist: Mike McCready
band: Pearl Jam
album: Jeremy

96.
song: Honky Tonk Women
guitarist: Keith Richards
band: The Rolling Stones
album: Let it Bleed

97.
song: Cherub Rock
guitarist: Billy Corgan
band: Smashing Pumpkins
album: Siamese Dream

98.
song: Under a Glass Moon
guitarist: John Petrucci
band: Dream Theater
album: Images & Words

99.
song: Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
guitarist: Jeff Beck
band: Jeff Beck
album: Blow by Blow

100.
song: Three Days
guitarist: Dave Navarro
band: Jane’s Addiction
album: Ritual de lo Habitual

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9 hours ago, canadianbeaver said:

Interesting. Just had an awesome concert here in Collingwood by a fantastic musician, Joey Landreth. Chances?

CB

 

 

No relation, but The Brothers Landreth played our local theatre here in the Ridge last year and it was a great show.

Sonny Landreth played as part of the Vancouver Jazz Festival last year, funny as he is not jazz but that was an amazing concert. 

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Not sure if the intent of the thread has been maintained....  but at the risk of getting further off the intended direction and just simply naming amazing guitarists I'll pipe up again (for the last time). I was introduced to Greg Koch's music at the Fender booth during the 2009 NAMM Anaheim convention. He is Fender's #1 clinician. The guys is quite amazing, and absolutely hysterical.   Here's some older footage of some fun stuff he does.   Definitely quirky and phenomenally talented.  His ridiculous hand size is a totally unfair advantage IMO....

 

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On 3/26/2018 at 7:35 PM, SigmundChurchill said:

Agree 100%.  In the late 80s and early 90s, I lived in Mill Valley, CA. And between the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band, I have seen him play over 100 times, and it still wasn’t enough.  I once saw him play at a little bar in town, in what was the oddest trio I could imagine, of Garcia, Sammy Hagar, and Elvis Costello, but it worked.  He was so versatile, he could play with anyone.  All those JGB shows at the Warfield were some of the greatest times of my life. He played Dylan, The Band, gospel, folk music, bluegrass, R and B, etc, etc, etc.  He would take the most eclectic list of songs and make them his own.  And I think some of his best work was when he was playing bluegrass with David Grisman.

You mean like this?

 

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All that has been talked about in this thread is electric guitar players.

What about those who slap 'da bass.

I'll start with my favourite living bassist - the best bassist I've ever seen live.

Victor Lemonte Wooten

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There are too many to name put..... Mark  Knopfler's  got such a unique style. I've seen him with Dire Straits and when he was touring solo. That guy IMHO is simply amazing. Also ,for pure rock, nobody could do it like Jimmy Page." Physical Graffiti " which was released over 40 years ago is Page at his absolute best .

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1 hour ago, Hammer Smokin' said:

All that has been talked about in this thread is electric guitar players.

What about those who slap 'da bass.

I'll start with my favourite living bassist - the best bassist I've ever seen live.

Victor Lemonte Wooten

In no particular order:

Jack Bruce (Cream).

Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath).

John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)

Geddy Lee (Rush)

And damn right, they are under-rated and over-looked far too often.

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