Most Underated Guitar Players

[jacksoncsplayer]

Oz Fox
Michael Sweet

[Mr Metal]

Al Pitrelli

Chris Brooks

Chris Haskett

Toshi Iseda

Warren Cuccurullo

[JerEvil]

Eddie Van Koide & Wataru Yamada
Luca Turilli

[Cygnus X1]

KK Downing...

Check out that Hamer he usually played...

It's a Phantom A5. I acquired one, loved the tone (triple humbucker bridge, single coil neck),
but never saw another until I watched VH1 Classic and saw him playing one on several vids and concerts.

Kewl....

Note to self...it was Tipton that had that Phantom...

[slayer]

I forgot:

Jeff Hannamen(slayer)
Eric Peterson(testament)


Jack

[Dan]

I Vote for Brian Setzer

[Cygnus X1]

I Vote for Brian Setzer

Never underrated in my book...he was (and is) huge.

Did I say Bryan Adams? He Rocked live...not expected.

[Bengal65]

+1 big time....

Most definitely. He has the best instructional video I have ever seen.

Peter Frampton-A player, singer, song writer, producer. He can do it all.

And what about Jeff Carlisi, formally of .38 Special? Awesome riffs and what's that "Explorer" he played with the interesting inlays? I couldn't hardly find anything on him anymore. If it weren't for Camp Jam for kids he would be in obscurity.

Here's a video from 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMxqPRdR36I

[clomon]

Ace Frehley-Kiss
Peter frampton
pat travers
Bruce Kulic-Kiss
Nick Catinise(i think thats how u spell his last name)-BLS
Joe Walsh
Kenny Wane Sheppard
Ted Nugent
billy f gibbons
Gary rosinton
rickey medlock
ect....

[Dan]

Gordon Lightfoot
Bill Steer(Carcass/Napalm Death)
Chris Poland

[uberthrall]

Criss Oliva
Frank Marino
Pat Thrall/Pat Travers
Akira Takasaki
and of course......Uli Roth

[thebeggar]

I disagree, his solo's fit the music, the crue was not a shred band, not and over the top million notes a minute, Trust me, I would rather listen to mick anyday then some of these so called great shreaders that after awhile just bored the shit out of you.

I dont agree, i feel his guitar style fit right in with the crue. One of my all time fav solo's is from home sweet home, just played with heart.

Yes he was not the most technical or speedy player, but I can actualy sit down and listen and enjoy 90% of most every crue album ever put out. I cant say that about alot of other bands.

My Votes go for.
Frank from Tesla
Mick Mars from the crue.

As to Jake VS Randy, both great players, I think if Randy did not pass away we might have heard his tone get better, but he worked with what he had at the time. But I still Like Jake better.

Dude I couldn't agree more. It's funny you should highlight Home sweet Home because i went on a massive rant on another forum about that song as well as the album it came from Theater of Pain.

Mick's got some very tasty work on that album and had really developed his own style. There was less of the "typical metal guitar solo" thing going on and more stuff that really fitted into each song. And I still listen to the Dr Feelgood solo and think how did he do that.

I will admit however that some of the footage I've seen live like from the 83 US festival it almost sounded like things were gonna completely fall apart when he was trying to solo (probably all the booze and drugs).

But I think Mick's strength was that, unlike some other bands of the day, he never really outshines any other band member. I don't think of Mick before Motley Crue as I would say with George Lynch and Dokken. I mean Lynch leaves Mick for dead as far as guitarists go but in some ways Motley benefitted from not having a dedicated guitar hero. Maybe attracting a slightly more pop audience as opposed to dedicated guitar freaks (not that there's anything wrong with guitar freaks).

Anyway as you can see I'm slightly biased in favour of the Crue.

Also big heads up to
Alex Skolnick
I'd completely forgot about Snake Bolan and Scotti Hill - Slave to the grind GREAT album

[DC_rhoads82]

Oz Fox
Michael Sweet

I see we have some stryper fans! They're killer players. I'd have to say Jeff Loomis off the top of my head and Chris Broderick.

[Axewielder]

Dude I couldn't agree more. It's funny you should highlight Home sweet Home because i went on a massive rant on another forum about that song as well as the album it came from Theater of Pain.

Mick's got some very tasty work on that album and had really developed his own style. There was less of the "typical metal guitar solo" thing going on and more stuff that really fitted into each song. And I still listen to the Dr Feelgood solo and think how did he do that.

I will admit however that some of the footage I've seen live like from the 83 US festival it almost sounded like things were gonna completely fall apart when he was trying to solo (probably all the booze and drugs).

But I think Mick's strength was that, unlike some other bands of the day, he never really outshines any other band member. I don't think of Mick before Motley Crue as I would say with George Lynch and Dokken. I mean Lynch leaves Mick for dead as far as guitarists go but in some ways Motley benefitted from not having a dedicated guitar hero. Maybe attracting a slightly more pop audience as opposed to dedicated guitar freaks (not that there's anything wrong with guitar freaks).

Anyway as you can see I'm slightly biased in favour of the Crue.

Also big heads up to
Alex Skolnick
I'd completely forgot about Snake Bolan and Scotti Hill - Slave to the grind GREAT album

Didn't Mick play in D standard a lot? That's kind of unique in metal. Not Eb, not drop D, but D standard. That "looks that kill" tone is surprisingly hard to copy too as far as feel goes. Or...maybe I just suck even more than he does. Huge Crue fan here, BTW.

[thebeggar]

Didn't Mick play in D standard a lot? That's kind of unique in metal. Not Eb, not drop D, but D standard. That "looks that kill" tone is surprisingly hard to copy too as far as feel goes. Or...maybe I just suck even more than he does. Huge Crue fan here, BTW.

I just checked out a Motley guitar book from the first 2 albums and every song is tuned down a full step. I knew he had a few lower tuned songs but this was the first time I actually took notice of what each song was.

I heard Nikki say in an interview about Looks that Kill that when they play it live every so often one of them will get lost slightly in the rhythm. Something to do with, I guess, the repetitive nature of the main riff. Thats my bit of useless trivia for the day