Don't be like that.
what? don't call a spade a spade? look, this is the sort of thread you psot when you're in your teens and twenties and you want to tell the world about something you're sure they don't know about thus spreading the word for your new favorite guitarist and simaultaneously increasing your cool points on your new favorite forum. Meanwhile you can figure out what bands you've missed out on to date using otehr people's repsonsea. No offense, I've been there myself back at the birth of the internet... everyone does a thread like this on a forum at some point, we've had a BAJILLION on here already, all equally pointles and random lists without a ton of actual discussion. If you want a lsit do a google search. Otherwise it would be great if someone would pipe up with soemthing intelligent like "this guy is great because of his unique vibrato and underrated because he's ina mediocre band." That might make me wanna listen to some stuff... although i'm aware of everybody in this thread but weird face blues-rock guy up top. And man you need to do some explaining to get me to use my limited free time to lsiten to more middling white blues at my age. That ship asiled in the early 90s with SRV for me. Actually, I've heard of Phillip Sayce, I've probably even heard him play, I just don't remember anything about his music... I guess it made a big impression. perhaps that's why he's underrated? Talented guy who makes a weak impression on people? Dunno. maybe I'll go hit that video up but man is that guitar face off-putting and somehow I know it'll be a bunch of white blues playing, I just know it.
Of course an opinion is very subjective to one's personal experience of a guitarist. For one person a great guitarist is one that is very technical and has a lot of speed, for another it's more about the "feel" a guitarist has and maybe for another it's more about super creative playing that makes a person tick. There's no real definition of a great guitarist, only our subjective experience.
okay, the defintiions of the words 'opinion' and 'subjective' make me wonder why you bothered to type this sentence... speaking of language, fact of the matter is that the word 'underrated' is so imrpecise as to make the question emaningless... just like you can't define what makes soemone a good player or why you might like them? well, you can't define underrated without some statistical mechanism to measure that. If we were on gearslutz this would alreayd be a flame war, thank god we're not. I'm not trying to flame you here, bt this is a certain type of thread that I don't have a lot of respect for and its also got some seriously bad wording and you cna tell that ebcause, apart from my piss taking earlier, a lot of people have been questioning how to apply the term 'underrated' objectively and I don't think anyone knows what you're getting at and therefore it not getting a lot of recommendations. you also worded the title to imply a contest, like 'who can dig deep into their cool-muso hat to suggest the most talented but least appreciated guitar player ever'. I don't think you meant to, but that's how it reads.
And for all these reasons Ic alled your thread a bt dumb, which it is. Get over it. Everyone's made a dumb thread. It doesn't eman you're a dumb guy. The secret of the interweb is admiting and being more clever next time. That's abotu as nice as I can be to someone who tells me not to 'be like that'. I'm going to be myself and say what I think... it wasn't even that offensive by my standards. I could have written a screed like this to explain myself but I thought a simple one liner would make my feelings known. We were all thinking it anyway.
