I just heard Roy Buchanan on the radio, and it made me think that he and other guitar heroes from my befogged past are sadly overlooked these days. Aside from him I would propose the following are much under-appreciated today:

Johnny Winter
Jeff Beck
Alvin Lee
Freddy King
John McLaughlin
Leslie West
Joe Walsh

And I'm sure that if I strained my tired old brain a bit I'd come up with several more, but I'm too stinkin' lazy. So why don't you guys help me out a bit?

:-)
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Oh!

Stephen Stills
Robbie Robertson

And you guys ain't no freakin' help at all.
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Robin Trower


Dang my head hurts.
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Peter Green
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Ronnie Montrose
Rod Price
Marc Bolan
Robby Krieger
Randy Bachman
Mick Taylor
Michael Schenker
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Bit of a different animal, but:

Leo Kottke

God, there's gotta be more - everybody had an axe back then.
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I'd like to hear:

Mark Knopfler
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How about:

Al Di Meola
Chet Atkins
Peter Frampton
Ace Frehley
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Eric Clapton.
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Eric Johnson
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Mark Knopfler (saw in another post)
Yngwie Malmstein
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Vai & Satriani are HARDLY overlooked in the guitar community!!!
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Leslie West???
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I've been listening to alot of Down/Crowbar/Kindom of Sorrow and I have to say that Kirk Windstein is very underrated.
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