crackedmachine wrote:Dylan Carlson has done some great shit with his guitar, from the slow-motion, heavily distorted stuff like Extra-Capsular Extraction through the current slow-motion, reverb-heavy, Cormac McCarthy-inspired work.

Yes!

Ace Frehley (with makeup)

SecondEdition wrote:

burun wrote:
Pat Place.

Hell Fucking Yes.

I second that Hell Fucking Yes. Had the good fortune of seeing her play with the Bush Tetras once, and she rained genius for an hour. She's nothing short of heroic on a good night.

And big up to Brett Ralph for namechecking the equally righteous Thalia Zedek.

And while we're citing cool women, Poison Ivy fron the Cramps always rocks the house live -- one of my fave players in the rockabilly pantheon. And the late Larissa Strickland from the Laughing Hyenas cranked out some of the most fearsome guitar I have ever heard in my life. Her work on Life Of Crime will rattle your windows at a decent volume.

MF Nightmen wrote:Ace Frehley (with makeup)

Right on the fucking money. I was just talking about this with my brother. Ace Frehley brought a musical swagger and groove to a pretty rigid band.

I would like to add Wilko Johnson and Liam Hayes to the pile.

Pasta wrote:to go along with the overrated thread.....

My first pick is Neil Young, of course, subtle as fuck rhythm player, and the king of the one note solo....

I would go see a band called Subtle As Fuck.
I knew I'd be way behind on mentioning Lindsey Buckingham.
I was going to say James Honeyman-Scott but then I decided he wasn't really underrated, just a guitarist I liked.
If the Stone Roses' plane had gone down after their first LP I would definitely say John Squire. As it is, I still might.
I haven't heard enough '80s cock-rock heroes in this thread, so: is Steve Stevens underrated? Just putting it out there.
The "can girls play guitar?" sub-thread got me thinking: maybe Nancy Wilson? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AcAn3z7D1Pc)
... and definitely Dolly Parton. "And people say she's just a pair of tits."

Ed Crawford.

STF wrote:At the risk of being controversial and sexist, PJ Harvey is the only woman I think can play guitar very well at all.

Mary Timony thinks you're a jackass.


that woman is an absolute wizard on guitar. the whole chord/two note finger pick/ ending in a bent harmonic and moved up and down the neck thing is so consistently mindblowing. I'd give up one of your legs to play like her.

Martin Barre hardly ever gets mentioned, he's pretty cool.

zom-zom wrote:Martin Barre hardly ever gets mentioned, he's pretty cool.

what do you mean? they named a whole kind of chord after him.

bah-doomp TSSSSSH!

Nyuk.