Underrated guitar players

[MONTbigBuck]

I was listening to Dire Straits first album today and wondered if there had been a Mark Knopfler sighting in this thread previously. Didn't check the previous pages.



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1TlJGLzqs"]Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline + lyrics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Taosman]

Mark Knopfler is NOT an underrated guitar player. He's at the top of the rock guitar players still.

Top 100 Guitar Players of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/pete-townshend-19691231

 

[Bleed S & G]

Probably not underrated, but I love me some David Gilmour

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2H65mHd9Vk"]David Gilmour - On An Island - YouTube[/ame]

 

[DubCoffman62]

Brian May doesn't get much love

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYabmM-uxdE&feature=related"]brian may best solo ever - YouTube[/ame]

 

[MaxBuck]

Since these guys haven't been mentioned here yet, they qualify as highly underrated:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zw8Y_NHVGs"]Johnny Hiland[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXfTwy6N-k&feature=related"]John McLaughlin[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIJ4W7kXiQ"]Django Reinhardt[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eql_S0w6k0o&feature=relmfu"]Andres Segovia[/ame]

Saved the best for last. Young people who have never heard Segovia are tremendously deprived. I saw him play at age 90, and even then he made the instrument come alive as no one else I ever heard play.

I love EVH, Clapton, Stevie Ray, Knopfler et al, but they none of them have the artistry that Segovia had. Magnificent.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Since these guys haven't been mentioned here yet, they qualify as highly underrated:

Johnny Hiland

John McLaughlin

Django Reinhardt

Andres Segovia

Saved the best for last. Young people who have never heard Segovia are tremendously deprived. I saw him play at age 90, and even then he made the instrument come alive as no one else I ever heard play.

I love EVH, Clapton, Stevie Ray, Knopfler et al, but they none of them have the artistry that Segovia had. Magnificent.

Django Reinhardt was the man

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooYmovGaFQU"]Django Reinhardt - Sweet Georgia Brown - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ScriptOhio]