Hey,did you know we accept guest posts at Your New Favorite Band? It’s true. It’s so that we can go on saying stuff using the royal “we.”

Today we have a guest post from Robert at ProMusicTutor. He knows a thing or two about guitars, and that’s why he volunteered to write this post.

Guitarists are held in high esteem all around the world.  While the frontmen of a band—if they aren’t a guitarist themselves—will tend to pick up a lot of the media headlines, music lovers tend to focus on the ‘axe man’ and how they tell inspirational stories with their command of the instrument.

Debate has always, and always will, raged throughout the music community about whom the best guitarists are. Names like Jimi Hendrix, Slash, and Eric Clapton are regularly feted as being titans of innovation and inspiration when it comes to playing guitar. What of the guitarists who perhaps don’t get the acclaim they deserve? We felt it was time to turn a focus on some of the world’s most underrated guitar players.

1. Richie Sambora

If Sambora was in any other band apart from Bon Jovi, you get the feeling that he’d be regularly seeing his name in the conversation for top guitar players. Bon Jovi might have a reputation for outstaying their welcome and being middle of the road today, but there is no doubt Sambora has been responsible for some epic riffs over the years.

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2. Nick McCabe

During the 1990s Britpop explosion, The Verve were perhaps stylistically the best band around, but perhaps never got the acclaim they should have done owing to the success of various other musicians around that time. McCabe made a number of tracks from The Verve what they are, from haunting masterpieces to simple, to the point classics that are still jukebox favourites today.

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3. James Dean Bradfield

You probably wouldn’t call the Manic Street Preachers a Britpop band, but the level of success they enjoyed throughout the 90s was undoubtedly influenced because of the music trends at the time. Part of the problem for the Manics is that everyone thought they’d break America when they weren’t big at home, and that probably contributed to Bradfield’s position on this list, too.

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4. Jonny Greenwood

It might sound odd to call Radiohead’s guitarist underrated, but it seems that their success is regularly put down to Thom Yorke, Thom Yorke, and some chap called Thom Yorke, rather than the band as a whole. Few people know that Greenwood tried to ruin the recording of Creep—apparently, he hated the song—by playing what would become the iconic jarring note before the chorus. Ironically, that moment makes the song what it is.

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5. George Harrison

To most people, The Beatles were all about John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Without Harrison and Ringo Starr, however, they are just two blokes from Liverpool who can’t decide whose name to put first on a song writing credit. Harrison’s guitar skills remain grossly underrated to this day.

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