Most underatted guitarist of the 70's or 80's

cant forget jorma from the airplane and later hot tuna as well as peter frampton

 

now it won'tlet melook at page 5

 

Rick Derringer.
Kim Mitchell.

 

Mick Taylor, the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist from '69 to '74. He made so many great solos, and even co-wrote a lot of songs with Mick Jagger (without Keith Richards participating at all), such as Sway, Moonlight Mile, Ventilator Blues, Time Waits for No One, most of which he didn't get credit for because Mick didn't want to tarnish the "Jagger/Richards" co-writing status quo. He also added beautiful solos to songs like "Heartbreaker", "Winter", "Can't you Hear me Knockin'" and helped totally transform earlier songs such as "Street Fighting Man" from pop-rock songs into '70s hard rock/punk songs, with long melodic solos.

The Stones playing "Street Fighting Man" in 1972 and 1973: All lead parts/solos are Mick Taylor; Keith Richards is only playing the rhythm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_O_wRuxu14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0xKwxyeqKY

 

Glen Schwartz from Pacific Gas & Electric
Started off as the guitarist for the James Gang, but when he left for cali was replaced by Joe Walsh, got a bit spun on the L and went sober and got snared into a cult. spent most of the 70s living in a cage on the cult grounds and his talent was used to lure people into the cult. name of the band there was the all saved freak band. his family did an intervention and rescued him and he has been playing at the same bar on the west side of cleveland every thursday night since. he's not really mentally stable enough to do anything else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Schwartz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAAQI8Y5HA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtLhnL1cXY (glenns the one shredding)

enjoy

 

Tommy Crain of the Charlie Daniels Band. Hey, Charlie aint country, he is southern rock, and a great man, and a great band, and Tommy was the shit. He deserves to be mentioned with the best in southern rock. Tommy Crain was up their with Dickey Betts, Gary Rossington, Toy Caldwell, and many others.

 

Rory Gallagher is very underrated - so much so, I bet more than half the people on this forum haven't heard his music. The man was a great guitarist.

It's good to see Tommy Crain's name mentioned. He was pretty damn good. 70's Charlie Daniels Band cooked!!!

 

I loved Rory's playin, but I think it was the songwriting that killed him. Kinda like another player later on, Eric Johnson. I think the two are comparable, as they had great talent, but it was just their songwriting that really prevented them from becoming very well known.

 

i AGREE:cheers2:

 

ROKY ERICKSON in the 70s....and the 60s too for that matter


By blackglove at 2009-09-09

 

Michael Woods, lead guitarist of the band America. He didnt get much chances to shine, but when he played his solos, he played them without missing a note and he did rock from time to time. I have been watching some live concerts from the 70's-2000 of America, and I am just totally impressed with his playing.

 

Mark Knopfler
Alex Lifeson
Robbie Krieger

 

Here is another. Ernie Isley. He learned how to play from Jimi Hendrix, as the Isleys was Jimi's first band. Here is just a couple of tunes fer you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZEyI8EY9I&feature=related"]YouTube- Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6g4K-ZALWE&feature=related"]YouTube- Ernie isley whos that lady

 

Nevermind this space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHW32XJHHA"]

 

Richie Sambora

Lindsey Buckingham

John Mayer(no it's true his songs suck but he's actually a really good guitarist)

all fuckin amazing guitarist who by nature normally don't get to shine for the songs their band makes, especially Richie. Bon Jovi often gets so much shit, but Richie Sambora can belt out a solo better then most anyone.

 

Gotta agree with you there, Richie Sambora is definitely under rated. An excellent guitarist.