Who is the most underrated guitarist?

Who is the most underrated guitarist?

personally I'd say pic related.

>underrated
You baitin

He isn't?

I've seen lots of people either call him nothing special or even a downright bad player.

He is nothing special as a guitar player. Great songwriter though

>I've seen lots of people either call him nothing special or even a downright bad player.
He even calls himself a bad player. He said that his D chord has gotten better over the years. He can't sing, he's not a good guitar player, but he and TVU had a vision. That's what they're appreciated for. Underrated guitar players would be Bill Frisell, Gary Moore, Steve Hackett, Andrew Latimer.

He wasn't a technically amazing player but he was a good rhythm player (What Goes On, for example) and he pushed the boundaries with his usage of feedback and generally experimenting with his guitar sound.

doug yule is a superior guitar player but a far worse songwriter

Neither of them were especially talented, but Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison were probably one of the best guitar duos of all time just for how interesting they sounded. They both had very different style with Sterling having a bluesier style and Reed having a more off-the-wall sort of style which worked well together. The alternation of rhythm and lead by them also made them quite ahead of the curve in a lot of ways.

Pic related's acoustic playing is really good

also Robert Quine deserves more recognition

Pretty sure that was mainly down to john cakes input. He'd be still playing the ostrich if it wasn't for John cale

desu

im not a big fan of lou reed but didn't he invent or at least popularize the ostrich tuning? as a guitarist, it's become one of my favorite tunings to use

Steve Jones

Quicksilver Messenger Service
John Cippolina and Gary Duncan

Hahahahahahaha what the hell makes you think that

True desu, though his rival is also a pretty underrated guitarist

probably didn't invent, I'm sure other people before had done similar stuff if only as a goof, but he quite possibly was the first to use it on a pop recording and also use it in a more serious way.

agreed.

it's one of the main reasons lou appealed to the avant garde cool kid john cale. considering that it couldn't have been too popular

I agree.

Malkmus is a great guitarist. Corgans inability to produce anything once his bandmates left him speaks volumes about who did most of the actual music work during Pumpkins heyday.

Keith Scott - Bryan Adams
John Sykes - Whitesnake
Me

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That's because he WAS a bad player you fucking retard. He compensated with specific style and aesthetic, as most talentless hacks do in the style of diiv or tame impala. He's overrated as fuck if anything.

It actually was him though. Near on everything except the drums, backing vocals from D'Arcy and the occasional Iha guitar bit he did everything on most albums.

his live albums when it's just him and guitar is proof that he's was an amazing musician

he was nowhere near a BAD player, you fool. just because he wasn't shredding up and down the fretboard doesn't make him terrible.

Is thurston moore underrated?

Please refer to:
Surely he was trying commenting on his exquisite guitar playing abilities by claiming that his D chord has gotten better over the years (which is some of the first things you learn when playing the instrument). I'll try to find it.

way to take things literally dude, good job

Way to tell someone's never touched an instrument.

Top kek

lol no

Joey Santiago

jerry cantrell fuckers

Didn't the Velvet Underground have another guitarist? Are you sure you are listening to Lou?

>Steve Hackett
Honestly, he's great, but I don't think he's underrated if I had to be desu

he's overrated

he was clearly making a joke in order to make a point, you autist. it makes no sense if you take it literally, unless you're talking about someone who's been playing for a week.

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>he was clearly making a joke in order to make a point, you autist. it makes no sense if you take it literally, unless you're talking about someone who's been playing for a week.
How did I take it literally? That would be why I said:
>Surely he was trying commenting on his exquisite guitar playing abilities by claiming that his D chord has gotten better over the years (which is some of the first things you learn when playing the instrument).
Are you pretending to be thick?

Me

Derek Bailey is too abrasive and that would be why. What would be a good starting point? Something that's tame, if such an album exists in his discography. Mirakle, Arc of the Testimony, The Last Wave?

Stacy Sutherland (13th Floor Elevators)
Richie Wise (Dust)
John Baxter (Buffalo)
Phil Cope (Witchfinder General)
Wino (The Obsessed/Saint Vitus/a bunch of other shit)
The guy from Toto

At this point, I'd honestly say Kirk Hammett because of all the hate he gets

Gary Holt would be my top choice though.

this desu. nutshell is my favorite guitar solo of all time. those tones