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Yep. This proves it.

Knopfler...

Todd Park Mohr

Prince was one of the biggest "sleepers" of all time on the guitar, but that performance has much more to do with the backing band, the energy in the room and Prince's abilities as a showman. He flat SOLD that schit!!! One of the greatest performances on youtube but FAR from the best guitar solos.

I'm a huge Prince fan, but there is absolutely nothing special about that solo. His performance was amazing though.

No one has mentioned the late Shawn Lane. Unbelievable guitarist.

You still hear his style in Buckethead's music.

He's been mentioned several times.

my fault - I thought I had read all the posts.

Still - not many have a clue who he is.

Only guitar players know who he is.

Which is how it should be really.

Take a guy like Joe Bonermassage.

Never had a hit, plays a mean guitar and knows who his audience is.

He can play it up to his audience, make a bunch of money and have a long career.

Even has a "Greatest Hits" album.

Never been played on the radio or had a "Hit".

Kinda funny really, when you realize what exactly he is selling.

Writing listenable songs AND playing skilled, energetic, emotional guitar really is a rare gift. There are quite a few that can play the notes, very few that can do that and write that music too

I've heard a lot of great guitarists and performed with some, but i's not possible to cite the "underrated" unless one sees the rating list for openers.

Excellent. Thank you for that.

Underrated guitarists? This guy on the silver geetar. Don't even know his name.

Yeah,...that's why Don Ross is so impressive. He composes everything he plays and it's *complex* stuff. I can't imagine being able to keep all of that music in my head. And then you consider the technical ability that he has to have to play it.

I don't believe that he's consciously thinking about what he's doing when he plays his guitar. He just picks it up and turns his fingers loose on it.

Outrageous muscle memory.

Joe Holmes, the most underrated guitarist Ozzy ever had. He was an actual student of Randy Rhoads and therefore the closest in style to Randy of any of the guitarists that came after Randy. Unfortunately, he never recorded with Oz but I saw them live in '96 and he was phenomenal. Ozzy has said that when Joe played with him, he felt like Randy was right there with him again.

I nominate Richie Sambora on the triple neck.

Mick Taylor