Dog 3000
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 13, 2008, 23:16
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PAUL RUDOLPH!!! To me, he is the ultimate in "unsung" guitar heroes - hardly anyone has heard of him, but he's incredible. (Third Deviants album, first two Pink Fairies records, plus Twink's solo LP . . . and later *bassist* for Brian Eno!!)
HELIOS CREED -- Chrome!
GREG GINN -- Black Flag!
EDDIE HAZEL was the best of many greats in Funkadelic. But he's well known for being unsung I think.
ZOOT HORN ROLLO & ANTENNAE JIMMY SEMENS -- whatever their real names were, those guys were crazy. (BERN NIX and CHARLES ELLERBEE produce a similar sound on some of Ornette Coleman's "fusion" records.)
HAROLD KELLING & GLENN PHILLIPS -- Hampton Grease Band, sort of southern fried prog-Beefheart dual lead guitar!
The WIGGIN SISTERS -- forget the names of the two who played guitar in The Shaggs; another wacky two-of-a-kind guitar duo.
STERLING MORRISON -- his rhythm guitar was just as distinctive as Moe's kettle drum or Cale's electric viola or Reed's monotone. Never gets as much attention as the others in the band.
RANDY CALIFORNIA -- from Spirit; solo album "Kapt Kopter" is guitar glory!
RANDY HOLDEN and LEIGH STEPHENS from Blue Cheer
CHRIS KARRER from Amon Duul II (sorta primitive metal-ish naive style that is pretty distinctive.)
JOHN FOGERTY -- not just a songwriter with a smoky voice, he was also the lead gitarist in CCR -- great workouts like "Ramble Tamble" and "Born On The Bayou" etc.
STEPHEN MALKMUS -- ditto with above; he plays all the hot guitar licks on those Pavement records, "Spiral Stairs" can't play for doodley-squat.
BOB STINSON - dead Replacements lead guitarist -- hot chops, no taste, and totally wasted. Pure rocknroll!
MOORE & RENALDO -- from the Sonic Tooth; Renaldo is the more "professional" player who tends to do the "melodic" bits, whereas Thurston is more "self taught" and tends to do the "overhwelming noise" bits. So I say, advantage Thurston.
Who's the guy who plays guitar on the first few GURU GURU albums? He's cool.
Whoever played guitar in THE MONKS, as well as the electric banjo player (Dave Day.)
Watched "Rust Never Sleeps: The Movie" recently and was struck by what a fantastic *ACOUSTIC* guitar player NEIL YOUNG is.
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Jim Tones
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 13, 2008, 23:28
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keith a wrote: D'ya know I just dug out Join Hands a few minutes ago! Can't remember the last time I heard it.
I went years without playing The Scream, too, and was amazed when I got that remastered cd just how great it sounds. It brought it all flooding back just how remarkable it sounded at the time.
Lav it!
I got the remastered 'Scream' recently too.
A big shout to Kenny Morris as well, he played differently from other drummers in the same 'scene' and influenced more than he realised!
Such a shame they both 'ran away' from it all....and holy sheepshit was Siouxsie mad at the time =8-o
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1001realapes
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 13, 2008, 23:53
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Spot On D3K !
All the Beefheart Guitarists ! ! !
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Jim Tones
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 13, 2008, 23:57
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Dog 3000 wrote: . . . and later *bassist* for Brian Eno!!)
He also played *that* solo on Eno's "Baby's On Fire" - yep, it was he and not Fripp - just ask Seth Man
;-)
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1001realapes
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 14, 2008, 00:32
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Ax Genrich is the early
Guru Guru guitarist.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ax+Genrich
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Dog 3000
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 14, 2008, 01:04
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A guitarist named Ax, how perfect!
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vince
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 14, 2008, 03:27
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Stevo wrote: Kim Salmon
Good call Stevo!
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vince
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 14, 2008, 03:36
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Earl Slick
Adrian Belew
Carlos Alomar
Reeves Gabrels
And not's let forget that Bowie himself played all the guitars on the 'Diamond Dogs' album......
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Maldoror
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 14, 2008, 05:38
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East Bay Ray
Steve Albini
Simon Price (The Heads)
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Beautiful Day
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Re: underrated guitarists
Feb 14, 2008, 09:01
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lot of what other people already said especially Jorma K.
Tony Bourge
Phil Manzanera (on the early albums at least)
Gary Ramon
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