Jimmy Page is my favorite guitar player, but underrated he wasn't. He was adored.

I'm glad someone in the thread mentioned Lindsay Buckingham, because he's a great guitar player who was really underrated.

I never really "got" Adrian Belew, and to tell you the truth, The Raisins (in Cincinnati in the '80's) with Rob Fetters as the lead guitar player, sounded a lot better than when Adrian got on board and it became "The Bears". Rob Fetters was probably one of the first to play the punk/grunge/rock guitar style, years before it was commonplace on the radio. But he was also melodic and tasteful, unlike his successors. He's probably the most unique guitar player I've ever heard, inventing his own style well before other bands were cookie cutting it.

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