Favorite fairly obscure guitar player

Hi.
Hmmm...

I got it... the Niels...
Neil Shawn - Journey
Neil Gerrardo - Pat Benatar

Oh and Gary moore as a "blues" Player? Nah, he just plays blues
Uh, in the 70's he was in and out of Thin Lizzy.
I used to know his song The End of the World - but that was like Decades ago. Still have the Blues is really nice though

My Favorite Unknown Guitarist is That Guy in That Band... you know who
it is....... :P

Jeff Healey - he can tear it up AND he's blind. If you've not seen him, he plays on his lap like a Dobro.

Jeff Is a local boy..I've been to see him a number of times. He plays rock style every Thursday and jazz on Saturdays at a club he owns here in Toronto

Awesome guitarist

Hi.
Hmmm...

I got it... the Niels...
Neil Shawn - Journey
Neil Gerrardo - Pat Benatar

Oh and Gary moore as a "blues" Player? Nah, he just plays blues
Uh, in the 70's he was in and out of Thin Lizzy.
I used to know his song The End of the World - but that was like Decades ago. Still have the Blues is really nice though

My Favorite Unknown Guitarist is That Guy in That Band... you know who
it is....... :P

The 2 Neils; well, one is Neal, the other is Neil (I think), but yah, the Journey guy - Schon I think you spell it - always gets ragged because he was in Journey, a "Power Pop" band that people variously hate and envy. I don't envy or hate them, but Neal could freegin rip when he wanted to, and the stuff always 'somehow' came out melodic and memorable. Well thought out solos that just incidentally included some max shred stuff.

Geraldo on the other hand - really invisible due to his wife, but his solos were also extremely well thought out and timed. He only left himself short spaces in the arrangements, but what he did in those spaces fit perfectly. I got a chance to see them live in Honolulu in '83 I think it was; he had a real rock attitude and stage presence and played everything pretty much note for note.

On Squiers!

Anyhow, my vote (aside from agreeing wholeheartedly with Buchanan - who left us way too soon) is for Rick Derringer. For a good picture of him, take a look at the Johnny Winter And Live album cover - he's the one that looks like a blurred hourglass, lol. :)

While I can't stand Journey, I give Neal Schon a pass due to the fact that he played with Santana. That's a redeeming quality in my book.

While I can't stand Journey, I give Neal Schon a pass due to the fact that he played with Santana. That's a redeeming quality in my book.

Yah, plus he had that HAIR at one point, lol.

Gary Rossington (possibly not that obscure in the US), Mick Jones, Mark Knopfler :D

Kyle Gass- tenacious D
Tom Morrello - Rage against the Machine

Kele Okereke (Bloc Party)
Russell Lissack (Bloc Party)
Michael Vennart (Oceansize)
Kris Roberts (Funeral For A Friend)
Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro)
Omar Rodriguez (At The Drive-In, Mars Volta)
Dallas Green (Alexisonfire)
Wade McNeill (Alexisonfire)
Justin Beck (Glassjaw)
Todd Weinstock (Glassjaw)

I'm rather impressed with myself, remembering all them. I'm usually terrible with names.

All 4 members of LAGQ (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet) these guys are unbelievable
Ottmar Leibert
Hubert Sumlin deserves to be mentioned again
David Hidalgo of Los Lobos

I'm going for:

Joe Pass
Emily Remler
Jimmy Bruno
Pat Martino
Wes Montgomery

Dave Hole ( Slide player from Australia Breaks all the rules and sounds awesom)

John Shanks ( Plays with Melissa Etheridge puts on a great live show)

John Shanks ( Plays with Melissa Etheridge..........

I'm not sure that I really wanted to know that. :oops: :oops:

I'll name Sue Foley

Steve Hunter

I've always thought Nuno Bettencourt was fabulous.

Another obscure person I've always thought had so many great solos that fit with the songs was Elliot Easton of the Cars. He was definitely in the shadows of Rick Ocasik(sp?)

Man forgot all about Easton, speaking of being in the shadows Andy Fairweather Low has stood in E.C's shadow for quite awhile