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Favorite guitar players not named......

We all know there names Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck Stevie Ray. But who are your favorite guitar players that are not house hold names? Here are a few of mine not in any order.

Robert Fripp
Martin Barre
Richard Thompson
Roy Buchnan
Rory Gallagher
Mason Ruffner
Neil Young and Lindsey Buckingham know but not so much for the guitar work.
also Dave Alvin and Alvin Lee
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dayglow
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Alex Skolnick
Akira Takasaki

ncarv
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Electric - you know who

Acoustic - Paco de Lucia
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kclone
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The dual guitarist Marty Wilson-Piper and Peter Kopes of the Australian band The Church have a unique sound with great interplay.  The best live guitar band I have seen.  

 Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding of the 80s post punk band The Chameleons U.K.   

Johnny Marr
Will Sargent-Echo and the Funnymen
Robert Smith-The Cure

garebear
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........what about Michael Bloomfield just take listen to that guy's stuff on playing the blues. Hubert Sumlin is another one that comes to mind.  
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bdp24
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Great choices garebear! Hearing Bloomfield on the What's Shakin' album in '66 was a game-changer. That's when he was in The Butterfield Blues Band, who introduced a lot of us white suburban kids to Blues. I saw Mike live in The Electric Flag in '68, and he was just great, as was drummer Buddy Miles. About as "punchy" a drummer as I've ever seen, along with Keith Moon. But Buddy could lay down a killer shuffle, which British guys aren't so hot at. No offense, Keith lovers!

Hubert Sumlin is credited with creating the tone all Rock 'n' Roll guitarists wanted to get after hearing Hubert on the Howlin' Wolf albums. Jeff Beck used the Gibson Maestro distortion pedal to imitate that sound on "Heart Full of Soul", but that artificial distortion is nowhere as cool as Hubert's organic tone. It took awhile, but everybody finally found out it was using a low powered tube amp driven into clipping that was the secret. Great player, very influential. And Wolf himself, unmatched imo!

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