Am I out of line in suggesting Spencer Seim?
Perhaps he's more unknown than underrated. Or he is underrated in that the MINDBLPWN credit usually goes to Zach Hill. Or maybe you guys don't like Hella. I sure do.

man, as much as I'd hate to admit it billy corgan can smoke it up. I was watching some of the live footage of the new pumkins and damn, boy can play. he should have stuck to being a guitarist instead of a wanker.

yaledelay wrote:also John Shermzel - Brainiac/Enon I just love his cracked sense of rythem and lead lines...

Yes!

And I'll second Kaki King.

Focusing on people who are not as famous as Neil Young, Prince, or David Byrne, and drawing from a pretty narrow pool of "indie rock":

I've always loved John McLean's guitar in Six Finger Satellite, but I've rarely heard him mentioned for his guitar playing.

Stephen Wray Lobdell is incredible...the Davis Redford Triad's Mystical Path of the Number 86 is among my favorite albums of electric guitar freakouts.

I know little of John Myers' other work as a guitarist, but his short album Blastula is among my favorite recordings composed primarily of electric guitars.

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.

Yanni Papadopoulos of Stinking Lizaveta is awe-inspiring live.

Michio Kurihara impressed me in the band White Heaven.

Mark Shippy comes to mind, as well.

Tsuyama Atsushi, the bass player from Acid Mothers Temple, melted my face when I saw him a few months ago. I mention him on this thread because he plays the bass like a guitar. Faster than I can play guitar, for damn sure.
He also insisted between songs that we "put the dragon back in Oregon"

snakefinger

If no one has mentioned him, Tom Waits.
Also Daniel Lanois.

Hmmm...I gotta be the first person to say d. boon, then huh?

Also- Rudolph Gray (Blue Humans) and Sonny Sharrock.

STF wrote:At the risk of exposing myself as completely retarded, PJ Harvey is the only woman I think can play guitar very well at all.

Fixed.

burun wrote:
Pat Place.

Hell Fucking Yes.

I also submit Wata from Boris, who can bring it.

The MayorofRockNRoll wrote:Hmmm...I gotta be the first person to say d. boon, then huh?

Also- Rudolph Gray (Blue Humans) and Sonny Sharrock.

FUCK!

I can't believe I didn't think of him...yeah, a fucking genius guitarman, for certain.