Most Underated Guitar Players

[Mike]

Mattias "IA" Eklundh
Steve Smyth
Shawn Lane
Guthrie Govan
Mikael Akerfeldt
Michael Amott
Dallas Toller-Wade
Karl Sanders
Peter Tagtgren

[thetroy]

Brian May - I hold that Queen is the best band ever
Frank Zappa - the guy was bizarre as hell
Django Reinhardt - better than most people today with 2 fucking fingers

as far as newer guys I would say:
Jani from Sonata Arctica
Luca Turilli
The dude that played lead and sang for The Darkness

[necrotechno]

Daryl Stuermer (Jean-Luc Ponty, Genesis, Phil Collins)

Martin Barre (Jethro Tull)

Denis D'Amour AKA Piggy (Voivod)

Mike Derks AKA Balsac (GWAR)

Massimo Morante (Goblin)

Todd Rundgren (Utopia, solo stuff, Liv Tyler's stepdad)

[5074charvel]

Michael Landau
Jan Akkerman
Nils Lofgren
Pat Thrall
Jaime West Oram
Andy Summers

[Special-K]

Marty Friedman and Jack White(White Stripes)

[AfterForever]

Someone needs to define "under-rated", because almost all the players mentioned here so far are heavily lauded among most guitarists and guitar-based media (i.e. magazines).

May as well add EVH, Rhoads, Iommi, and Clapton!

+1

[Robert Burns]

CC DeVille - Poison
Frank Hannon - Tesla
Vito Bratta - White Lion
Adrian Vandenberg - Vandenberg/Whitesnake
Derek Frigo - Enuff Z'Nuff
John Sykes - Whitesnake/Blue Murder
Criss Oliva - Savatage
Steve Lynch - Autograph
Carlos whatever-his-name-is - Quiet Riot
Jake E. Lee - Ozzy/Badlands/(very early) Ratt

"Cavaso"

[dd3keegs]

www.joestump.com

[Frigo89]

"Cavaso"

Thanks

I could edit it, But I think I like it the way it is :ROTF:

[daisp]

Rick Emmett

+1 big time....

[chrisolson]

How about Bill Leverty (firehouse)

+1 on that!!

How abut Ronni LeTekro from TNT - tasty!!
Dave Miniketti - Y&T
The guy from Sword (Canuck...)
Jerry Cantrell - not just guitarist, but writer, etc... Amazing talent!!
Jorge DeSaint (TUFF) - cool stuff...for what it is.
Chris Holmes (WASP) - perfect for WASP
The guy from XYZ
The guys from Wildside - Brent Woods and Benny R....
Reb Beach

[chrisolson]

"Cavaso"

CavaZo... Good try though.

[chrisolson]

oh, I'll plug for Harry Cody

Old Shotgun Messiah! Yes!

[nsubulysses]

Micheal Amott
Bill Steer

Hell yeah for Bill Steer. I love his solos that are just divebombs and harmonics.

[FusionFarmer]

Robbie Robertson "The Band"
Mike Campbell "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers"

just watch the Last Waltz and you will gain a respect for Robbie, Campbell is one of the most natural players I've seen