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Overshadowed by bandmates

I was listening to "Real Time" a live CD by Richard LLoyd, the "other" guitarist to Tom Verlaine in Television. It occurred to me that, while I like Verlaine's style, I ultimately prefer Lloyd's playing. I just didn't really appreciate it till he left the band and crawled out from Verlaine's shadow. This got me thinking. Until he left to start World Party, Karl Wallinger was obscured by Mike Scott while they were bandmates in The Waterboys. Now, I'll take Wallinger over Scott.

Some would say George Harrison suffered this fate, too. I think he was overshadowed by Lennon/Macca for many fans until "All Things Must Pass" and "Bangladesh". Any others come to mind?
martykl
tvad
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Nice call on George Harrison.

I'd add Richard Wright of Pink Floyd (overshadowed by Roger Waters and David Gilmour).
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gawdbless
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Kark Mnopfler- Dire Straits.
tvad
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Mark Knopfler was overshadowed by his Dire Straits band mates? Hmmm...

Perhaps I'm not understanding the question asked in the original post.
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gawdbless
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He overshadows the other members' whose names I do not know,
although I do vaguely remember from the old memory cell, Pick Withers.
loomisjohnson
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interesting, bizarre post. lloyd is often my favorite guitarist--listen to his shit with matthew sweet, among others. i chanced to see him live in chicago recently, and he was completely wacked out--palapably schizo--tho he's still a great guitarist. i dig his angry, ubschooled approach to the neck--he doesn't sound like every other wanker out there. he did a solo record in the early 80s--i'm thinking it was called fields of fire--which is something of a classic and worht chcking out, if only for the title song, which has an icredible solo indelibly etched in my mind.
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