Your Favorite "Unpopular" Guitar Player.

[rupe]

Harry Cody
Andy McCoy
Rory Gallagher

Add Bernie Torme and Ray Gomez to that list and you got mine...

I dig Bernie but I'm not familiar with Ray outside of seeing him in Peavey ads (the Butcher IIRC) in the 80's. Where should I start to check him out?

 

[DiezelMonster]

+1 million for James Murphy!! Totally underrated ant no popular enough!

Cheers!

 

[Ventura]

Adrian Belew
Sin Quirin
Jennifer Batten (weird, but very worthy!!)
Django, albeit, not sure if that classifies as "unpopular"
Local guy named Dave Martone, seriously making the rounds this cat

That's it off the top of my head
V.

 

[motomoto]

and

 

[Sheik_Yerbouti]

Some great nominations so far, many of whom I'll repeat on my own list, which just has to start with Ty Tabor for me...

Ty Tabor
Criss Oliva
Mark McGee (also some of the best hot-rodded Marshall 800 tone I've ever heard when I saw him with Vicious Rumors back in the 90s!)
Vivian Campbell (seriously... Holy EFFING Diver, dude does NOT get enough credit!)
Andy Wood (both Down From Up and A Disconcerting Amalgam are BRILLIANT)
Greg Howe
Shawn Lane
Ronnie LeTekro
Tommy Emmanuel (saw this guy again a couple of weeks ago... dude's a WITCH)
Jimmy Herring
Sonny Landreth
Danny Gatton
Gus G. (much more for Firewind than Ozzy)
Chris Caffery
Chris Poland
Andy Latimer (Camel)
Eric Peterson (where would Testament be without Eric's EPIC riffs?!)
JOE Holmes (WTF ever happened to this guy?! I thought he was AMAZING when I saw him with Ozzy!)

And a big, HUGE +1 to Steffen Schackinger. I bought ElectriGuitartistry a year or so ago, and it's one of the most impressive and inspiring debuts I've heard in a VERY long time, along with Andy Wood's. Both of these guys have a serious future ahead of them and both are phenomenal and very promising young talents.

 

[Chris O]

Chris Holmes (WTF ever happened to this guy?! I thought he was AMAZING when I saw him with Ozzy!)

That's JOE Holmes. Chris was with WASP.

 

[Sheik_Yerbouti]

Chris Holmes (WTF ever happened to this guy?! I thought he was AMAZING when I saw him with Ozzy!)

That's JOE Holmes. Chris was with WASP.

DERRRR...

Yeah, obviously, that's what I meant to say.

This is REALLY good weed, btw.

 

[Shatter_The_Silence]

paul waggoner
between the buried and me
dave matthews..... dudes chording is downright painful
brendon small.... i know he is popular, but not in a standard way
and damn can dude write a riff

 

[ashesofphoenix]

The combo of Misha "Bulb" Mansoor, Alex Bois, and Jake Bowman is pretty awesome (Periphery)
Marc Okubo (Veil of Maya)
Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders)
Luke Hoskin, Tim Millar (Protest the Hero)

 

[Tawlks]

The combo of Misha "Bulb" Mansoor, Alex Bois, and Jake Bowman is pretty awesome (Periphery)
Marc Okubo (Veil of Maya)
Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders)
Luke Hoskin, Tim Millar (Protest the Hero)

I respect you more than ever. My thoughts exactly. I went to see Periphery, my profile picture for a while was me and Spencer, I got to carry Bulb as well. LOVE THAT SHIT.

 

[ashesofphoenix]

The combo of Misha "Bulb" Mansoor, Alex Bois, and Jake Bowman is pretty awesome (Periphery)
Marc Okubo (Veil of Maya)
Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders)
Luke Hoskin, Tim Millar (Protest the Hero)

I respect you more than ever. My thoughts exactly. I went to see Periphery, my profile picture for a while was me and Spencer, I got to carry Bulb as well. LOVE THAT SHIT.

"PERIPHERY, LOVE THAT SHIT!" I love that you quoted ragtime dandies haha. Yeah dude just went to see them in Philadelphia, PA 2 weeks ago. The place was big enough to fit 4.5 people and we crammed in 100 haha. I was about 4 ft from the stage. They played with Scale the Summit and Fair to Midland. Scale the Summit, besides Periphery, stole that show. Wearing a Spencer signed t-shirt now actually haha. It's nice to find another Djent-Head brother

 

[Anonymous]

andy wood. how did i not know about this fuckin dude earlier..holy !!!!!

johnny hiland.

my buddy keeps talking up joe bonamassa, but i have yet to check it.

 

[nevusofota]

The dude that plays for Rhianna

 

[mikehickey]

Keith Scott

I just had Keith do some guest solos on a tune I am working on last week, I gave him free reign to overplay... and he did.

 

[raz311]

Tom Morello (Seriously)

Tommy Emmanuel
Brett Garsed

Aussie Represent!!!!!

Also....
Rocky George (ex S.T. / Fishbone)
Tim Mahoney (311)

 

[Coopster]

I'm fully digging Chris Bullen.

 

[billboogie]

Peter Reveen- Salty dog
Pete Willis- Def Lepperd
A little off the path but Steve Cropper is also a favorite. I just love his work with Booker T and the MG's. IMO Real "In the pocket" playing.

 

[just42dave]

James Murphy since 89 and The Cranberries guitar pl;ayer

 

[Superunknown]

Marco Sfogli
Blues Saraceno
Doug Rappoport
Shawn Lane
Ben Lacy (from my hood)

 

[EOT]

+1 million for James Murphy!! Totally underrated ant no popular enough!

Cheers!

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