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Who is your most un-recognized,under rated favorite guitarist? Wait, let me rephrase that:Who is your favorite guitarist whom you believe to be under-appreciated by most of the population?

For me I would have to say, the late great Tommy Bolin.He was doing Eddie VanHalen before Eddie was.Check out Bolins work on Billy Cobhams "SPECTRUM". Tommys' chops will tear you head off!

― James H., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jamie West-Oram of the much-maligned Fixx.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stephen kilroy.
but i'm too tired/lazor to elucidate.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When you say "most of the population" that leaves much room for many great guitarists, from Ira Kaplan to John McLaughlin.

But what I think you're getting at is ...

Max Eider - of the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy
Paul Brown - Science Gravy Orchestra
Chris Smither - The Chris Smither Experience

― Dave225, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Danny Pasqurilla from "Sadie Love" 2. Alton Clarke from "Depressed Poets" 3. Jamie West-Oram from "FIXX"

― JuJu, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once expressed my immense love of Steve Cropper of Booker T and the MGs to a big rock fan. He couldn't believe that I thought that even a great soul guitarist could possibly be as good as ANY rock guitarist. Slightly more obscurely, Robert Ward was another astonishing soul guitarist, as was Teenie Hodges at Hi Records. Marc Bolan isn't taken seriously enough as a great guitarist, although obviously everyone loves him. Joseph Spence, an old folky-gospelly type from the Bahamas.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

check out patto's guitarist. can't remember his name but he was really good.

― fields of salmon, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Richard Thompson.
He spent so many years in so many folk bands being the token "rocker" he figured out numerous odd/intriguing/fun ways of making his guitar mimic the sound and feel of folksy instruments (mandolin, accordian/ fiddle); He has a potent voice and his lyrics have has that pissed off cynicism I can identify with. He's like an "emo-guy" crossed with Clint Eastwood. Or an cross between the best bits of Eric Clapton and (a young) Elvis Costello.

― Lord Custos II, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NICK DRAKE,NICK DRAKE,and NICK DRAKE!

― Hippy, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll second the Richard Thompson. For me, I think Mike Campbell from Tom Petty's band is tremendously tasteful and melodic... plus he wrote "The Boys Of Summer." Can I say Richard Lloyd as well?

― andy, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'll second Martin on Steve Cropper

also Gabor Szabo and Jose Feliciano

― michael, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know who (or should that be whom?) suggested Richard Thompson but yes you are 100% right (not that you needed my assurance) Richard Thompson is one of the least appreciated guitarists iun the world. He represents an entire different world...a world where rock music takes it's cue not from the blues but from Celtic music.
Shoot out the lights
for Christ sake The Killing Jar!!!

(Does it get any darker????)

― john-paul, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

VARG VIKERNES.

― your null fame, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eddie damn Hazel.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Roback and Vini Reilly

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The dude from Diamond Head.

― Kris, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Duane Aslaksen from Roky Erikson & the Aliens

― Arthur, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark Lightcap (Acetone) Excels at playing gently with amp cranked, teasing feedback, etc. Very beautiful melodies. I almost cried at one Acetone show I saw...

― Ron, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mary Timony, DNA-era Arto Lindsay. I'd say Phelps Collins, but he's got several gold records to his name--it's just that nobody recognizes how great the guitar is on them.

Conflict of interest dept.: Wm. Berger (of Uncle Wiggly/World of Dreams).

― Douglas, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jake Anderson, of course. Oh yes.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NELS CLINE NELS CLINE NELS CLINE!

any of his various projects as a bandleader are exemplary, but I think some of his most beautiful work is on Mike Watt's "Contemplating The Engine Room". just an amazing musician. his reputation is largely staked on loads of effects pedals and using gimmicky toys like egg beaters on his strings, but he can work his magic on an acoustic just as well. just saw him for the 3rd time the other night...i wish i lived in LA just so i could see him all the time. i wish i could come up with a good justification for why i love him but i just do. lemme put it this way...i worship Sonic Youth but as an individual player I rate him above Thurston and Lee in the same general catagory...and btw his collabos with Thurston are heavenly as well.

― al, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Helios Creed is the obvious answer for me. I WOULD NOT SHARE ANY OF HIS LYRICS OR HIS SINGING OR HIS RECENT SOLO SONGS. But man can that guy makes some crazy sounding noise. Easily the most mind-blowing guitar playing I've ever heard. Alien Soundtracks/Half Machine Lip Moves was insane sounding even hearing them for the first time 14 or so years after their initial release!!!!

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Bostonian Rich Gilbert (Human Sexual Response, The Zulus, Frank Black and the Catholics, Tanya Donelly's tour band) is quite the maniac on guitar and probably one of the top 5 from Boston, all- time.

― Brian Gallagher, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maurice Deebank

― MarkH, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alex is OTM. Chrome-era Helios Creed is astonishingly good.

― J, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Porl Thompson. Heh.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't Helios Creed play in SF on Sunday nite?

― Andy, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What did happen to Porl anyway?

Helios roolz. Though the one time I saw him was sorta low-rent Hawkwind.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

With Nik Turner? I caught that tour. I actually thought it was pretty great except for Nik's flute-playing. Still, they were blown away by the opening band: SLEEP.

― J, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He was touring with Page/Plant for a while. Don't know what happened after that.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, a little 'Net scouring shows he's become a full-time painter. How cool! His website.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Franco and Diblo Dibala.

― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aw, nice. Sorta did the Don Van Vliet thing.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seiichi Yamamoto - most often, with Boredoms. He's the Fred Frith of Japan. Which is to say, he's usually a more interesting Fred Frith.

Runner-up: Fred Frith. :)

― dleone, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really like the experimental guitar improv stylings of Davey Williams, who's released recs on Estatic Peace and Revenant, amongst other labels. He doesn't even seem to get the same miniscule amount of props as geezers like Hans Reichel, Keith Rowe, Eugene Chadbourne etc etc

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ina stewart, maxine dooley, that ricko guy based on one time i saw him play, and of course my personal bias for the lurvely carrie brownstein.

― di, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thomas Mapfumo

― dave q, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bobby Burg from The Love of Everything. If his lyrics weren't so awful, he'd already be a star.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Too bad he's dead, but D.Boon was an incredible guitarist & overlooked for it.

― Dave225, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know who (or should that be whom?) suggested Richard Thompson but yes you are 100% right (not that you needed my assurance) Richard Thompson is one of the least appreciated guitarists in the world.
OH, THANK GOD! I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!
On those rare moments when the public access radio station plays a Richard Thompson song, they usually refer to him as the "Criminally Neglected Richard Thompson."
― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So there.

― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dudley from The Corpo. He gave me my email address you know. And he is good at making loud wanky noises YEAH.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tristan Garel-Funk ex Sad Lovers & Giants and Snake Corps

― Gibbo, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bruce Gilbert (Wire), John McGeoch (Magazine, Banshees, etc), Geordie (Killing Joke) and Robin Guthrie (of course, cos he sounded like me... :)

― Paul, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bill Carter - Screaming Blue Messiahs

Too Bad He's Dead, revisited: James Honeyman-Scott

― Dave225, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anyone know who that L.A. session dude that plays the evil slow dread cocaine blues licks on all those '90s TV show & movie soundtracks is? someone's gotta know - he's all over the place. orthodoxy or not, that guy's got a mean signature sound.

on related note, who's the '90s radio ad announcer guy that de-revvs his voice down to a "smokin', flamin', montsa truck rally afterburners" growl "yeaaauuuuhhhh..."?

― Paul, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...

Duane Denison - Jesus Lizard/Tomahawk

He is a great guitarist and very under appreciated. Denison really knows his chords inside and out. The way he phrases things is very unique, especially for someone playing rock and roll.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Martin Rotsey.

― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Stevens! He's the candy pop Eddie Van Halen! His guitar goes weeeerrrooooduddudududweedleweedlewangowangow.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Travis Good. Dallas usually gets all the props for being so creepy looking, but Travis is damn good. Good singer too, but really, a hell of a rapper.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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john martyn electric plus echoplex circa solid air/one world/inside out

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

1) i've been wanting to pick up that "solid air" album for a while now

2) i want to second t\'\'t's recomendation of Raoul Björkenheim. his work with Krakatau and The Scorch Trio (i love this album) are amazing.

3) i want to give a mention of Ray Russel. i have one of his records on Black Saint and it rawks to the max. he plays a freaky, distorto free jazz. kinda sounds like all of the dive bombs and war sounds in Jimi's Star Spangled Banner

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 14 February 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, richard thompson!

also, Mike Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies. I saw them live, and he goes crazy with the feedback. Incredible sense of dynamics and timing, but none of the arrogance and showmanship that come with the territory.

Warn Defever too, from HNIA. People talk about how off the wall he is, and never acknowledge that he's got some incredible talent.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 14 February 2003 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

I could of course yammer on for hours about this subject, but instead, please listen to them, not to me :

Nick McCabe ("Northern Soul" and "Storm In Heaven")
Vini Reilly ("Return of the Durutti Column", "Vini Reilly")
Graham Sutton ("Hex", "Game Over")
Robert Hampson ("Motion Pool")

― stripey, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady S is OTM, as per usual. As most of these suggestions took mine, my list would just be repeating itself....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ynf is otm with Varg Vikernes. Also: Anders Nyström of Katatonia. Both masters of the simple, melanchonic guitar riff.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Marc Ribot
Steuart Smith
Nene Tchakou
ani difranco

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

come to seattle and hear andy coe play. he is in a band called iguales (also features jeff rose on bass and aaron walker-loud on drums) and i got to see him a few weeks ago with john wicks (drums) and joe doria (hammond). it sounds weird to say but it really is pretty amazing. that is, if you are feeling kind of groovy, sometimes reggae-ish jazz with shit hot guitar soloing

― ron (ron), Sunday, 12 October 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sheeit! nobody onthis thingy mentioned Robert Quine OR Mike Keneally?
pleased as peaches i am to first mention their godlike skills to this list...check out Keneally on Hat, his first solo, or any of Screamin Jay Hawkins lateperiod stuff, and Quine is masterful any time, but for me, especially with Jody or Fred or Lou or Lloyd or tom etc...

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite like taku sugimoto.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

annette krebs too!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

I'm going to have to go with Gentry Densley of Iceburn, Smashy Smashy, and Longarm, and I'm aware it may be uncouth or just plain tasteless to mention someone you play in a group with, but Goddamn, this guy blows my mind on a daily basis. In his two-piece group, Smashy Smashy, he installed a third custom pick-up on his baritone guitar to pickup lower frequencies, and he plugs this guitar into a guitar amp and a bass amp, and simultaneously plays a steady bassline underneath his Rubix Cube style guitar playing. He's a deconstructionist/reconstructionist constantly showing different sides and angles of a riff like I've never heard anyone else do. He rocks some tastefully twisted shit.

― Bad Gas, Sunday, 10 October 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I second Steve Cropper and Jim Hall. You kind of have to have a deep appreciation for tone and sound, not to mention tastefulness, to get into them.

I'd also add Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Isotope 217, Chicago Underground) and David Pajo (Tortoise, Papa M, Zwan). Parker is incredibly inventive, and Pajo has such a wonderful sound.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 October 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

And for fingerpicking: The Reverend Gary Davis is a monster.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 October 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred "Sonic" Smith. heart & soul of MC5. also lead the unkown underated and damn near unrecorded Sonic's Rendezvous Band. If you ever heard him play live you know where he got the nickname. SRB were without question the loudest R&R band I've ever heard, and also one of the very best. Thurston Moore named his band after Fred's for a reason...
Some of you hard rock-inclined ILMers(like Myonga Von Bootee) would mightly enjoy the two posthumous SRB albums, probably still available at sonicsrendezvous.com.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad Gas, is any of Gentry's stuff avail. on disc? Steve Cropper yeah, and also Eddie Hinton combined Tony Joe White-type grroves with, as he said himself,"Curtis Mayfield licks." Al Green can be a really oog player, but he does it (has done it, dunno about now) live than on record. Dylan's really gotten into some really good extended solos, in various styles, but that's an Endless Tour exclusive(and dognose homany live boots). Robbie Robertson did some of his best (most of his best, probably) on Dylan's live legit recordings. Mike Bloomfield's manic *concentration*, and the Big Brother guitarists' blooze too! A guy named NS Rockwell sold me his label's L7 RECORDS SAMPLER but vanished before I played it and heard how well he did the Magic Band-type guitar, with an actual MBer, Robert Williams, on drums. Also some really good collegiate Rev. Gary/M.John Hurt/Shieks/Faheyesque-type picking (and I suspect the one ded icated to Albert Ayler is him too, though credited to "Egg Mariner") II finally googled him, and found that he plays on TWITCHIN' IN THE KITCHEN, a Tom Staley album. Tom was a founding member of NRBQ, and, judging by reviews, this has an NRBQan variety, with NS taking us into space on a track called "Red." Haven't heard it yet, but I will. Also let's not forget Nile Rodgers, Link Wray, Ike Turner, guitarists of Television, Gun Club, Sonny Sharrock, Mickey Baker, Django Rheinhart, Charlie Christian, Lonnie Johnson, Doc Watson...

― don, Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Davey Williams has gotten *some* props. Like in the Voice, Francis davis cited him and his-then wife, LaDonna Smith, as "the Timbuk 3 of improv," back when indie everything was still pretty indie.(And Davey and LaDonna were DIY before punk, in Alabama, no less!) I like himbest on Curlew albums. Heard he's kinda bad off now, but LaDonna's still going strong (new album mentioned twice in same recent issue of Voice). Check Cadence Magazine's back issues: they may still have copies if the one with an extended Davey/LaDonna interview.

― Don, Sunday, 10 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 10 October 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Right this second, Scott Hull.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 October 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

BRUCE ANDERSON
http://www.fvrec.com/images/brucelongshot.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 10 October 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Cosey's guitar playing in TG is so damn under-rated: check out her scrabbling on "Six Six Sixties". She is my guitar heroine . . .

― Drew Daniel, Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Vudi of american music club. he also played on the final Swans release Swans are Dead (or maybe it was Soundtracks for the Blind, can't remember) and on their final tour. He is a guitar monster, overlooked partly because you can't really hear all the crazy ass shit he does on the AMC albums. I don't know why he barely worked while they were defunct for 10 years. He's a bus driver in LA now when not touring.

http://64.177.204.17/images/1small.jpg

(Vudi on the right)

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 10 October 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

D. Boon was indeed amazing. You can trace some of his style back to various Magic Band guitarists and Andy Gill, but he has his own punk-funk-skronk thing.
Richard Thompson and Bert Jansch are far more interesting players than Clapton. Jansch's old Pentangle buddy John Renbourn is pretty awesome too.
Neil Michael Hagerty is one of the most inventive axemen around. He can do great rawk riffola, but can do some ace Santana on Mars shit too - check Yo Se on Veterans of Disorder. Not quite sure what FX he's using. Any ideas folks?
Howe Gelb's not often mentioned as a guitar hero, but he's pretty unmistakable when he's on frazzled Neil Young lead.
ANd then there's the late great Bob Stintson - controlled chaos. A rock 'n roll demon.

― Stew S (stew s), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

All hail Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes of The Church, a double-act of electric magicians whose tonal palettes cover the entire spectrum from dreamy ethereality to ferocious distortion, and who in almost twenty-five years of recording have never yet resorted to a blues cliché or a gratuitous display of virtuosity.

http://www.thechurchband.com/mediagallery/images/past/festival2.jpg

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll second you on those two. And they've still got it live.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

D. Boon and James Honeyman-Scott have been mentioned, but haven't gotten nearly enough enthusiastic seconds. Hence, this post.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Marc Ribot!

― darin, Monday, 11 October 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton! DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

There definitely should be more Martin Tielli on this thread, so:

Martin Tielli
Martin Tielli
MARTIN TIELLI
martin tielli
MarTin TiElli.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll say yes to dboon, and the guy from jesus lizard, and add:

Cliff Gallup
-played for gene vincent. really high-energy, rhythmic playing, clean sound, but with a nasty edge, and swings like a sonofabitch.

the guy from Boneless Ones
-said it on another thread, this guy has the best whammybar divebomb ever, and busts out the "blistering fretwork" without ever sounding wanky.

Bob Mould
-first off the monster sound of his guitar, and second, he just destroys that shredder fetish with speed-and-precision by playing so damn fast beyond where he loses control of his playing, and it still sounds fucking wicked.

Billy Bragg
-read two threads on the guy, neither of which really mention his guitar playing. those first two albums are amazing. nobody else plays guitar like he does. really rhythmically inventive, and a truly unique style.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

stacey sutherland

― rumple, Monday, 11 October 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

John Squire, very understated but brilliant (in the early days)

― king korn karn, Monday, 11 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

You really need to listen to Tristan Garel-Funk from sad Lovers and Giants, and the Snake Corps. He brings the music to life, he is simply brilliant, plus rather good looking.

― julie evans, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Lita Ford

― dave q, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Snooks Eaglin is the greatest living blues guitarist, and one of the most criminally underrated guitarists, period. Unfortunately, Black Top records chose to record him for the goddam NPR market or something.

James Burton.

Alex Chilton.

The late Lee Baker.

Charlie Freeman.

Bobby Womack.

Marshall Crenshaw is an amazingly accomplished guitar player.

Dickie Thompson--if he didn't bore me to death and weren't such a drag (excepting a few records here and there), I'd say him. He's obviously a great guitarist and always good live. But I kind of hate him actually.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite underrated guitarist is probably Peter Bernstein. He's a jazz guitarist who records thanklessly with Bill Stewart, Larry Goldings, Mel Rhyne, Joshua Redman, etc. His tone is beautiful, and his playing is so natural and soulful that it seems like it couldn't be any other way. I'd love to hear him on an r&b record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I forgot to mention Travis Wammack earlier.

So Travis Wammack.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy Cohen from Silkworm...he's like this perfect meld of Robert Quine sqealy sqirellishness mixed with Neil Young....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

john lennon circa yoko's plastic ono band & fly

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Sir Richard Bishop

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben 0yler

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG milton OTM! Plastic Ono Band is so fucking great. john and ringo's playing on "why" is so rock-solid and metronomic and hypnotic, etc.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"My favorite underrated guitarist is probably Peter Bernstein."

I second that. He's got a great sound, perfect taste, always underplays just a little bit. I saw him a few times back when Small's was still around -- with that Sam Yahel trio thing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ryan Adams.

I would like to cut him into approximately 6 billion pieces.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Angelo of Nitro

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Cosey's guitar playing in TG is so damn under-rated: check out her scrabbling on "Six Six Sixties". She is my guitar heroine . . .

Isn't that actually Gen on fuzz bass?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex Mackenzie, a mate of mine outstanding flamenco guitarist.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Holger Czukay

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEP9-xq_qs

― fear itself (Ówen P.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:06 (fourteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Dag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpIUdFFr3w

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 23:10 (five years ago)

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