Unsung, underrated six string heroes

[ginormous]

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Adrian Legg

I've got his book "Customising Your Electric Guitar". Not only does he play like an absolute fiend, but he's got mad-scientist level luthier skills.

[BrianS.]

Re: Unsung, underrated six string heroes

Leo Nocentelli. Nobody brings the funk like Leo

[CodeDante]

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I'll add Greg Bergdorf of Zebrahead. Well at least he was their guitar. He just left the band.

[ImmortalSix]

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Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind)

You think of Semi Charmed Life's G-D-C, but that band had some REALLY deep guitar arrangement.

Weird tunings galore, too. Half their songs are played in tunings that don't even have names.

I can't even post an example because you won't understand / love the guitar work like I do.

[jpistolas]

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In no particular order:
Josh Homme - QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Kyuss
Prince
James Mankey - Concrete Blonde
Jim McCarty - Cactus
Scott Ian - Anthrax, SOD
Stephen Stills - CSNY, Solo
Andreas Kisser - Sepultura
Me - Various

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: Unsung, underrated six string heroes

In no particular order:
Josh Homme - QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Kyuss
Prince
James Mankey - Concrete Blonde
Jim McCarty - Cactus
Scott Ian - Anthrax, SOD
Stephen Stills - CSNY, Solo
Andreas Kisser - Sepultura
Me - Various

I feel like you meant to go on top.

[jpistolas]

Re: Unsung, underrated six string heroes

Now that you mention it.....

One more:
Craig Ross - Lenny Kravitz

[Myaccount876]

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Karl Sanders - Nile

Jerry Cantrell - Alice in Chains

Andy LaRocque - King Diamond

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: Unsung, underrated six string heroes

Karl Sanders - Nile

Andy LaRocque - King Diamond

Fixed. Jerry Cantrell is just as good as everyone else says he is. I don't think he really did anything new for music, just took his influences and shook em up into Alice in Chains.

[Myaccount876]

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Fixed. Jerry Cantrell is just as good as everyone else says he is. I don't think he really did anything new for music, just took his influences and shook em up into Alice in Chains.

That is just plain wrong. Then again, I take it you're not an Alice in Chains fan to begin with.

[Jocelyn]

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Jerry Cantrell Underrated no way.

[ImmortalSix]

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Ollie Halsall


Listen to this fukking guy - he is playing the SHIIIIIET out of his guitar



Superlatively unique style, too.

[Myaccount876]

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Jerry Cantrell is in fact underrated. He is a great great great rhythm player who has tasteful leads, is insanely creative with what he writes, and puts down some great vocal harmonies to go with it. Very underrated; Alice in Chains as a whole is underrated.

[Matt42]

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I'll second the Leo Nocintelli (or how ever you spell it).

I can't believe no one has mentioned Richard Thompson.

Another one of my personal favorites, Tyler Grant. He was the national flatpicking champion in 2008. But aside from that, he's actually an amazing country and rock electric guitar player. He is one of my personal guitar heroes, as I strive to be able to pick bluegrass exceptionally well, but also able to play rock, country, blues and anything else electric that strikes my fancy. There are way too many bluegrass flatpickers who can't play anything but the same runs of 16th and 32nd notes in a G or C position (capo to key). I couldn't find any videos of him playing electric, but here he is doing some complex cross picking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujq_qnrpH5Y

[Johnny the Kid]

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That is just plain wrong. Then again, I take it you're not an Alice in Chains fan to begin with.

You know my uncle is big into them, and I just never got into it. I like maybe two songs by them, but I could never sit through an entire album. I tried to do The Devil put Dinosaurs Here, but I couldn't listen to it from beginning to end. I don't know why, but they just aren't my vibe.