Most Underated Guitar Players

[Rupe]

WTF Bill, that's all you could come up with??? :ROTF:

Speaking of Frank Marino.. Somewhere on his site he was talking about jamming with Uli Jon Roth sometime and how much he liked it, and would love to do it again if Uli felt like it.. Can you IMAGINE what it would be like to see Marino AND Roth sharing a stage together? DAYUM!

I can't even begin to imagine how great that would be!!!

[Ralph E.]

and that German dude in Fair Warning (has a Uli guitar)

He is incredible.

Hey Bill, you missed Johnny Ohlin, the dude is downright scary good...

[toejam]

IMO, Larry Lalonde from Primus and (and formerly of death metal band Possessed) is an amazing guitar player, and definitely one of the most underrated. He has a very unique style and tone and I think that's great in a guitar player.

Yes, Larry is great! He was also a student of Joe Satriani at one time.

[toejam]

WTF Bill, that's all you could come up with??? :ROTF:

LOL He forgot Jim Matheos from Fates Warning. Frank Aresti was no slouch either, when he was in the band (and he did play Jacksons).

[Endrik]

all the old-school blues legends seem to be underrated these days... it's allways stevie ray this and stevie ray that... but not a word about the originals

Robert Johnson
Jimmy Reed
T-Bone Walker
Howlin' Wolf
Eddie Taylor
Big Joe
Muddy Waters
Elmore James
Hubert Sumlin
Skip James

and many many more

[Frigo89]

Snake Sabo
Scotti Hill
Ronnie LeTekro of TNT
Sammy Hagar - Yes, Sammy Hagar

[Ralph E.]

Snake Sabo
Scotti Hill
Ronnie LeTekro of TNT
Sammy Hagar - Yes, Sammy Hagar

That's like a game of "Which doesn't belong and why?"

Ronnie LeTekro with those 3 hackers?

:ROTF:

[Nuclear Vampire]

Denis D'Amour
Rob Cavestany
Jon Schaffer

[Frigo89]

That's like a game of "Which doesn't belong and why?"

Ronnie LeTekro with those 3 hackers?

:ROTF:

lol,

I liked a lot of the Skid Row guys stuff.

and not many people know that Sammy plays guitar, he's actually pretty F'n good

how 'bout Rowan Robertson or Vivian Campbell?

[Ralph E.]

I'm just bustin' on ya, thought it was an eclectic group you have there.

Loved Skid Row, great rhythm players, so is Sammy for that matter.

Rowan and Viv are (were) awesome. Viv was always underappreciated IMO.

Always thought was alot like Jake in the sense that you really felt a tremendous amount of energy in their playing.

[rjohnstone]

Viv has always been under rated.
The guy kills.
He can play damn near anything.
Phil Collen has some killer chops too.
He's been on some B side shit that is flat out kick ass.

[Tashtego]

Brian May, genius with gobs of feel and tone. Beautiful vibrato.
Brian Setzer - Has anyone else seen him live? Unbelievably good.

[Axewielder]

Craig Goldie (often passed over in favor of Vivian, but formed a better songwriting team with Dio, IMHO)

[Racerx2k]

Brian May, genius with gobs of feel and tone. Beautiful vibrato.
Brian Setzer - Has anyone else seen him live? Unbelievably good.

I saw a concert, on MTV or VH1, once, of Brian Setzer (I think it was actually the Stray Cats, too) at Brixton. Friggin amazing. Also a great player in that vein, is the guitarist from The Living End (forget his name at the moment).

[stevoc]

Vito Bratta
Steve Stevens

+1

These guys come to mind:
KK Downing
Glenn Tipton

+1

Adrian Smith and Dave Murray

+1