underrated guitarists

Dohol · Post by **Dohol** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:35 am

Davey Graham. Totally unrated on this side of the Atlantic, but you can't speak of Fahey and Basho without tossing him in with the same breath.

And his soul brother on this side of the water, Sandy Bull...Kind of a forgotten figure.

George Brigman for slobbering, drooling, fuzzed out pschedelia..

Post by **grisha** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:57 am

Bola Sete
Ivinho
Lanny Gordin

Stephen Flam
Andy Gill

JrF · Post by **JrF** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:11 pm

nic jones

negative potential · Post by **negative potential** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:19 pm

grisha wrote:Andy Gill

Brian Olewnick · Post by **Brian Olewnick** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:25 pm

A. Spencer Barefield

Fourier Transform · Post by **Fourier Transform** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:15 pm

Some much more famous than others, but still underrated, I reckon:

Rudolph Grey
Stefan Grossman
Gary Smith
Rod Poole
Mick Barr
Dean Roberts
James Sedwards:

Ray Russell did some great stuff, yeah (I love Rites & Rituals and Dragon Hill), but for the past 20 years or so he's been churning out the most execrable background-muzak imaginable. Real unforgivable library music wank, tossed off shamelessly in exchange for hard cash. Can't blame the guy for wanting to make a living, but still...

user_5275 · Post by **user_5275** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:32 pm

Yes, you are right about Ray.

The only early one I've not heard is "Running Man." Good to see "Secret Asylum" has been reissued properly - that thing is W-A-S-T-E-D.

user_5095 · Post by **user_5095** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:00 pm

Ry Cooder, Al di Meola and Vlatko Stefanovski, if you ask me and damn right you are asking me here.
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user_2578 · Post by **user_2578** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:34 pm

nash bridges wrote: beware Spainyards, Basque country is soon on its way, Catalonia too, no one is safe anymore !!

I hope not! A Catalonian soccer league would be the dullest thing on earth.

user_4956 · Post by **user_4956** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:26 pm

Dohol wrote:Pete Cosey.

I second that.

Is there any other record of his playing besides the Miles Davis 73-75 period?

fearandpanic · Post by **fearandpanic** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:35 pm

Yeah, he played on some of the late Chess Records sessions with old blues musicians (playing some their famous riffs, coming up with new ones and adding psych-y bits). Electric Mud by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's "New Album" (late 60s). Obviously nowhere near the Miles stuff, but worth a listen.

surfer · Post by **surfer** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:12 pm

Nic Jones is great, I am enjoying that new disk of rarities and unrelased stuff, Game Set Match.

Dick Gaughan is also a fine guitarist, though not as flashy as some of the others mentioned here.

Dohol · Post by **Dohol** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:31 pm

fearandpanic wrote:Yeah, he played on some of the late Chess Records sessions with old blues musicians (playing some their famous riffs, coming up with new ones and adding psych-y bits). Electric Mud by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's "New Album" (late 60s). Obviously nowhere near the Miles stuff, but worth a listen.

Ahaha...Cosey told a funny story about the Howlin' Wolf session.
The Chess Bros' were trying to get "hip" and have their contract artist dip their feet in a little pshycedelia...Water's did it in good grace, but Wolf hated it, really hated it.. and he despised the band that was fostered on him. Cosey's highly effected guitar playing in particular...At that time, Cosey had really long hair done up in a huge natural and a beard he used to braid all of which was something of a red flag to Wolf..After one particularly fuzzy solo Howlin' Wolf turned on Cosey and yelled " Why don't you just take them wah pedals and all that other shit and throw them in the lake on your way to a barber shop!!"

At least Miles Davis appreciated Cosey.

But I have to agree with Wolf, those aren't very good records...

Dohol · Post by **Dohol** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:40 pm

Brian Olewnick wrote:A. Spencer Barefield

My memory of Barefield is putting him up for the night after this solo gig he did in Grand Rapids...He sat down and scrolled out one of the fattest joint's I'd ever seen ( and I've seen a lot ) smoked it all by himself, then turned to me and my wife and said "So...When are you two going to start making some mixed race babies?"...

He's an OK guitarist as well..

fearandpanic · Post by **fearandpanic** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:03 am

Maybelle Carter (of the Carter Family).

I've always had a thing for her approach to weaving the melody around chordal accompaniment.

Shivering Manatee · Post by **Shivering Manatee** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:34 am

The man with a welcome mat for hair, James Plotkin. Especially The Joy Of Disease and Flux, not been very keen on his drone efforts , but I love his very textural loops and processing.

Dohol · Post by **Dohol** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:51 am

Un Manatee Andalou wrote:The man with a welcome mat for hair, James Plotkin. Especially The Joy Of Disease and Flux, not been very keen on his drone efforts , but I love his very textural loops and processing.

I had a duo between Plotkin and KK Null..Aurora if I remember correctly..

Which titles do you recommend?

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:22 pm

mm wrote:
Dohol wrote:Pete Cosey.
I second that.

Is there any other record of his playing besides the Miles Davis 73-75 period?

I think that's him standing up & pretty much dancing with Buddy Guy on Festival Express. Before I saw that I'd only seen him seated on the 73 Miles footage.
He played on some stuff with Rotary Connection too.
Also apparently replaced Bill Frisell in Power Tools though I'm not sure if they were recorded.

meadowphantasm · Post by **meadowphantasm** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:07 pm

cosey also plays what is my favorite guitar solo of all time on the cd verison of that first philip cohran record. its the live version of "unity" from 1968. gives me bloody goosebumps everytime i hear it. the whole track is amazing but his guitar..man oh man.

user_294 · Post by **user_294** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:10 pm

mick turner, though i suppose he's rated accordingly

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