I'm sure most of us when we see those Top 100 Guitarist of Rock/ All Time can name at least 5-8 of the top ten listed, and can also wonder how so and so made the list and not...fill in the blank. So who are some of your personal most underated players?
Mine would include;
1. Jessie Ed Davis, his work with Taj Mahal alone deserves more credit let alone all the work he did with Lennon and Harrison.

2. Dave Davies, You Really Got Me, All Day and All of The Night, Lola ....nuff said

3. Richard Thompson, quirky and tasteful and had to my ears one of the best strat sounds ever

4. Bruce Cockburn, if you grew up in Canada, Niel Young were the easy learn Bruce was the one we wanted to figure out as far as tunings timing and technique were concerned.

5. Hilton Valentine, original guitar player in The Animals of "House of The Rising Sun" fame. Their first three LP.s had some smokin' guitar work for the time.

8. Jim McCarty, original lead guitarist in The Detroit Wheels, who went on to form Cactus. I don't know anybody who can sit still through Devil with a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly and yup its Mr. McCarty providing that guitar work.

9. Big Jim Sullivan, early British studio guitarist extrordinaire...this guy taught Jimmy (you know who) the ropes and appeared on thousands of great early sixties Pop and Rock records.

10. Randy Bachman, The Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive, some very tasty and recognizable guitar riffs, also a decent human being with an incredible collection of Gretsch guitars.

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ripitup555 posted a vid of Eddie on the youtube thread but all of these guitarists have or had real groovy chops: Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, Glen Goins and Ron Bykowski all of Parliament Funkadelic
Mick Box- Uriah Heep
Zal Cleminson- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Tear Gas and Nazareth (amazing guitarist)
Tommy Bolin- Zephyr, James Gang, Deep Purple and a solo artist
Ernie Isley- The Isley Brothers
Mick Ralphs- Mott the Hoople and Bad Company
Henry (Sunflower) Vestine- Canned Heat
Alan (Blind Owl) Wilson- Canned Heat
Michael Monarch- Steppenwolf
Ronnie Montrose- Montose and many other groups
Neil Giraldo- Pat Benatar

There are too many great guitarists from rock and roll history that go unheralded so I have listed only a few.

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Robert Smith of the Cure
Frank Marino

WINWOOD

1) Robert Fripp - - - -King Crimson

2) Adrian Belew - - - -King Crimson

3) John McLaughlin - - - Mahavishnu Orchestra

4) D. Boone - - - - Minutemen

Prince

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Rated "M" for meaty.

1) Alvin Lee-Ten Years After
2) Paul Kossoff- Free
3) Michael Monarch- Steppenwolf
4) Kim Simmonds- Savoy Brown
5) Steve Hunter- Detroit, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper
6) Peter Green- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac

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He's hardly an underrated musician but he's not nearly well known enough for his prowess with an axe!

Ron Asheston - The Stooges
Perhaps not the most technical player but his playing has real attitude.

Neil Young - idiosyncratic and gutsy with some completely seismic guitar sounds.

Mike Campbell - Tom Petty
He's got chops but he knows when to use them - Mike's lead playing absolutely nails it every time; understated, classy, effortlessly cool, heart-heartbreaking.... and his tone is to die for. My No1 for most underrated guitar player.

It's funny but I don't think of him as being underrated... but you're right!
Clapton, Page, Beck.... none of them have the soul of old Greeny... not even close and yeah, when I think about it his name doesn't come up often enough in polls or what have you. A real player's player, I guess. For shame!

I met him once at a Wimpy (UK burger restaurant franchise), he was buying an ice-cream when I approached him and asked him if he was Peter Green, to which he replied "I don't know, am I?" That was enough for me to be certain!

Thats AWESOME!!

Can't believe nobody mentioned two fine Canadian axemen...Colin James and Jeff Healey...niether gets the attention they should.

T2

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Dharma47 mentioned Randy Bachman and the guitarist I had in mind was Randy Bachman's teacher/mentor : Lenny Breau-he could sound literally like 3 guitarists playing at the same time,hard to believe until you see a video of him doing it.There are several videos of Lenny on Youtube and they should be on everybody's Must Play list.

So basically if there had been no Lenny Breau there possibly wouldn't be a B.T.O. or even Guess Who and there certainly wouldn't be the beautiful jazz/Lenny inspired riffs on Blue Collar.

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Rory Gallagher eventhough he was on r.s. top 100. still underrated here in the states.few are as dedicated as he was. Peter Green, think of what he would have done before he went on a bad drug trip and never quite returned. he was a genious.Danny Gatton, with that tele and the h.p. tweed twin he could take out at least the first 10 rows. i am still in awe of his playing. those are MY most underrated.