The most under rated guitarist of all time?

[cherryowen]

didelydoo said:

Chuck Schuldiner (of Death fame)- one of the most inventive and technically gifted guitarists I've heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSSRvaWM1g

That's a great call; way ahead of his time IMO

Two other mentions, for me:

Tim Pierce : Like Jay Graydon, another L.A. session guy with credits on a huge number of Billboard albums, and is part of the "house" band for the Grammy awards. Plays pretty much any style of guitar playing asked for. Straight away.

Alex Skolnick : Used to shred with the band Testament, and could shred with the best. Out of nowhere, then switched overnight to jazz guitar and is depressingly as capable at that as well. Git.

[Pothole]

Glen Campbell

[Bradgate]

Prince.

A virtuoso musician whose guitar work does not get the credit it deserves because much of his music isn’t traditional rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

Edited by Bradgate on Friday 1st March 23:16

[gazza285]

Bradgate said:

Prince.

A virtuoso musician whose guitar work does not get the credit it deserves because much of his music isn’t traditional rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

Really? Even Wikipedia describes him as a virtuoso guitar player who could also play other instruments...

[thebraketester]

Pothole said:

Glen Campbell

I nearly commented saying glen Campbell this afternoon.

He’s got hundreds of albums on his credit list.

[Pothole]

thebraketester said:

I nearly commented saying glen Campbell this afternoon.

He’s got hundreds of albums on his credit list.

He was really good, too.

[WindyCommon]

Charlie Burchill.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDf-WhTnvj4

[Kakopetria]

Gareth Moulton.Cutting Crew,fantastic player and a great guy.

[cherryowen]

WindyCommon said:

Charlie Burchill.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDf-WhTnvj4

On the subject of guitarists from bands "big" in the 1980's : Steve Rothery

Largely, on every guitar solo, it was a masterclass of starting and landing on the right note for the chord being played at the time. His work on Grendel demonstrates that in spades.

His chord work was clever as well. Grendel is in the key of B minor, but the opening verse is Bm / A / G / Gb. Diatonically, the Gb should be a Gb minor chord (or a Gbm7) but it's not, yet works a treat leading back into the starting Bm chord. There's also a great two chord progression in the verse of The Web using F9 to G6 then embellishing the G6 > G > Gsus2.

(I'm still quite new to this music theory malarky, so the above may be totally inaccurate..........)

[Simes205]

I haven’t analysed it but your Gb is likely to be F#, enharmonically the same though, sub dominant and all that.

[thebraketester]

Pretty common to use Vmaj chord resolving to Im in a minor key.

Harmonic major scale?

Edited by thebraketester on Sunday 3rd March 00:26

Edited by thebraketester on Sunday 3rd March 00:31

[Simes205]

thebraketester said:

Pretty common to use Vmaj chord resolving to Im in a minor key.

Harmonic major scale?

Edited by thebraketester on Sunday 3rd March 00:26

Edited by thebraketester on Sunday 3rd March 00:31

Yes, raised 7th, making V major.

[cherryowen]

Simes205 said:

I haven’t analysed it but your Gb is likely to be F#, enharmonically the same though, sub dominant and all that.

Didn't think of that!

F# / Gb isn't diatonically correct, but works as a sub-dominant of B.

(Only learned that theory in the last couple of weeks)

[Simes205]

Sorry I made a mistake f# to b is V-I, a standard perfect cadence, not sub- dominant as I typed but the dominant.

Because a harmonic minor scale uses a raised 7th it means chord V in a minor scale is actually major.

[cherryowen]

I know, I just realised myself that F# is the perfect 5th of B.

Without derailing the thread any further, I can only assume that the F# / Gb chord is "borrowed" from B major just because it sounds good.

[Simes205]

Tonic major, it’s a related key, happens a lot in classical music.

[Marlin45]

Jamie Moses. An all round quality guitar player and a real nice guy to boot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Moses

Edited by Marlin45 on Sunday 3rd March 23:13

[thebraketester]

It’s a better resolution. Just play Bm A G F#m Bm. And then play Bm A G F# Bm and you’ll see why it’s used.

[Patch1875]

Tracii Guns

Steve Cradock

Tom Morello

[Lotobear]

Can I lob another suggestion into the mix?

Andy Latimer (Camel). Such an emotive player, often brings tears to my eyes listening to him.

Check out Stationary Traveller for a typical Andy Latimer work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfF2UZjXx_g

(I was fortunate enough to see Camel on their 2018 'Moonmadness' revival tour - very special)

He's in the Gilmour mould but, to me at least, better at what he does - he never got the recognition he deserved, and neither did Camel IMO

Edited by Lotobear on Monday 4th March 16:11