Here's my top 10 list of the most underrated guitar players of the last 50 years and feel free to mock/post your own

10. Albert lee
9. Jeff Beck
8. Tom Morello
7. Albert Collins
6. Johnny Winter
5. Kurt Cobain
4. Jose Feliciano
3. Roy Clark
2. Duane Allman
1. Joe Pass

Now there are guitarists who are considered better but most of them get the recognition they deserve, this is a list of guys who dont quite get the respect they should for their incredible ability.

Thoughts?

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10-Matthew Followill.
1-9-Carl Verheyen.

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Hi Radiohead: most underrated? How about Alessandro Alessandroni?



Has anyone here even heard of him? However, almost everyone will have heard his playing, and that Strat in the pic. He played the guitar parts on the Ennio Morricone soundtracks to the "dollar" spaghetti westerns - A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the rest. Apparently, he also did the whistling on some of those tracks, and lead the singing group that supplied the incomprehensible vocal parts, too.

How many of us have not at sometime or other tried playing one or two of those guitar parts and attempted to get that fab tremolo-y, reverb-y Strat sound? Iconic indeed.

OR. Howsabout Vic Flick?

http://www.vicflick.com/

Another that we may not know but have definitely heard and probably tried to emulate at some point. He did the equally iconic guitar part on the original James Bond theme.

Two players who's sounds are far better known than their names. That must count amongst "most underrated" I guess?

Cheers - C

Yngwie Malmsteen is underrated.

Just ask him.

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Jack Pearson!
He's a true master and most guitarists don't even know who he is.
Look him up some time.

tony mcphee from the groundhogs
robby kreiger the doors , most people don't give his guitar work a good listen to , try and play some of it

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There are some YouTube interviews with Kreiger, Densmore and Ray Manzarak. Interestingly, Kreiger and Densmore speak well of each other's talent, but Manzarak seems to think that he alone was The Doors. Oh yeah..and that Morrison guy helped a little.

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"To Do Is To Be" --Thoreau
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Jeff Beck is under rated?? Even my mom knows who Jeff Beck is ...

Also, I love Nirvana, but I never really thought of Kurt as a great guitar player. It is interesting that you listed him ...

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I would have to say:

Buck Dharma (Donald Roeser) from Blue Oyster Cult.
My first and formost inspiration.
Vastly underrated!

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... and the cradle will rock !

Sergio Vallin
Fernando Tobon
My guitar instructor Galen Hunsucker

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

Adrian Vandenberg
Snowy White

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-Dean DeLeo
-Steve Miller
-Peter Buck

Randy Bachman-BTO
Kim Simmonds-Savoy Brown
Johnny Marr-The Smiths
Lenny Breau
Danny Gatton

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Raffi

That dude is completely banking off of banging out nursery rhymes on an acoustic guitar in front of adoring children.

Wish I would have thought of that

Mike Campbell from the heartbreakers