Unsung Rhythm Guitarists

Who do you think is an excellent rhythm guitarist in a band with two or more guitarists that does get enough credit because they are overshadowed by the lead guitarist?

Thom Yorke.

He's not overshadowed since Jonny Greenwood doesn't get enough credit as a guitarist really.

-AC

Actually I think James Hetfield id overshadowed by Kirk Hammet. After all James Is an excellent riff maker and really masters his very own style. People tend to underestimate him.

Frank Black.

James Hetfield isn't unsung- he's widely regarded as the best rhythm player around.

izzy stradlin and gilby clarke when in GnR

I agree with Izzy Stradlin.

I'm not sure where I sit with Thom Yorke. Like Hetfield he is highly regarded as the band's frontman, but he may be underrated as a rhythm guitarist. I find it hard to decide because I don't that the guitar makes Radiohead good. They are great for other reasons.

Hetfield and Scott Ian are two of the rhythm guitarists I definitely don't see as a unsung. Hammet garnered a lot of attention, but Hetfield was the primary songwriter so he got what he deserved imo.

Personally, I think Gary Rossington was underrated. I guess he was slide guitar, but whatever.

Dicky Betts in the Allman Brothers was underrated as well, at least until Duane Allman died.

Just because he is the front man of the band doesn't mean he is regarded as a good rhythm guitarist. Not many that I know think of him as a guitarist, to them he's more a singer then a guitarist.

You know people who don't know much about music, then.

He isn't regarded as a good guitarist just because he is the frontman of the band, because anyone who thinks that is an idiot. It's because he is a great rhythm guitarist.