Underrated guitarists

without even playing it I have to say this... nice guitar face! hahahaha

since when is Ribot underrated? he's much esteemed!

I guess he's not well known like Clapton, but elts be hoenst, that guitar god thing is dead otuside of the EVH/Yngwie world of mind numbing shred. Amongst musos be they guitarists or just fans, Ribot is very well known and very much beloved.

Nuno Bettencourt doesn't get the credit he should. He's a beasttt

not these days, but when I picked up the guitar as a kid he was esteemed with EVH amongst shred lovers.. his washburn signature guitar of the era was a really nice axe for the money

Robert Quine of the Voidoids... maybe not underrated by fans of that music, but relatively unknown to the world. And great.

Cheetah Chrome too... dead boys, rocket from the tombs

Richard Lloyd. He is not that underrated if you consider fans of more underground music, but still, he´s so behind in most of best guitarrits lists, and in my opinion, deserved more recognition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA He´s lead guitar here

I hesitated to say Lloyd because he's pretty well regarded even by non-musicians.

here's Lloyd and Quine in the 90s: https://youtu.be/ELwRW_2cdBE

tone for days on this one.

and quine on lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-U2X2yHpOo

you could just ignore matthew sweet

Yeah I tought this as well. But I´ve considered the fact that he´s not on the mainstream scene like overrated guitarrists such as Slash or Eric Clapton (Not saying by any means that they are bad)

I think that everybody sorta forgets about Adam Jones from Tool, he has a completely unique sound that I haven't heard anybody else try to copy, because they can't.

I don't get a sense that Elliott Smith is widely regarded here in the UK. His songwriting and guitar style keep drawing me back.

I also like me some guitar that's delivered raw and raucous. Bob Log III, formerly of Doo Rag and Fredrick "Joe" Evans IV of Left Lane Cruiser - spirited, if not sophisticated guitarists.

he's a big deal in the USA... and he's not the ebst player but he knows his music theory and really has songcraft

or had

That's the thing, Most of the people I considered offering here are great singer songwriters with solid guitar skills rather than exceptionally gifted or creative guitarists. How does one define under-rated? A lot of 'great' guitarists do their own thing very well without being technically in-yer-face-awesome. BB King comes to mind, and plenty enough folks can fingerpick like Mississippi John Hurt these days. Like Clapton said, there's one in every crowd.

I'd like to hear people's reasons for their underated guitarists getting a mention here. Elliot Smith, like you say, may not be technically dazzling but his signature style and creativity is unique enough that I'd rate him alongside Nick Drake. Obviously though I'm turned on more by gentle acoustic creativity/virtuosity than face melting Yngwe Malmstein arpeggios.

its a dumb thread, that's why I'm mainly piss taking