I'm pretty sure there are hidden guitarists all around the world, some may not be popular outside their own country. So, why dont we show eachother guitarists from our own country, that arent world famous.

Here are some awesome norwegian guitarists:

Bjørn Berge(Blues) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxuEBESBPc&...ted&search=

Øystein Sunde(Country, sort of) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sAyTP5neFiU

Vidar Busk(Blues) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-dOfh0uJnHw

Hallgeir Pedersen(Jazz) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IvE-DWqPr5Q


If I can remember any more I'll add them later

Interesting idea!

I will introduce two of my favorite classical guitarists from Japan.

Shin-ichi Fukuda
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eKFmMyWuR5U

Soichi Muraji
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lC_x28ti2hk

I believe that this guy is generally unknown across the pond

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QLK7pygf6Ao&...ted&search=

A couple of guys from Sweden I enjoy listening to:

Claes Yngström (Sky High) - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endID=120454269

Thomas Larsson - http://www.thomaslarsson.net/sidor/default...how=discography

Christian Neppenström & Emil Fredholm (Plankton) - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=79940023

Thomas Andersson (Kamchatka) - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=32082839


Cheers,

johan

Excellent everyone!!! Keep 'em coming!

Mine is Scott Szeryk From London Ontario.. hes my guitar teacher here is him playng Voodoo Chile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CkCBqWxP0

From the UK:

Simeon Harris. Great, and much underrated player.

A great guitar player whom I played with many years ago (sorry don't think he has a web presence) was Alan Limbrick - he went on to open the UK's Guitar Institute. I think nowadays he lives in Oz.

Cheers,
Tony

Darn, i really wanted to showcase Brian May....but i guess a few people know of him

maybe before you were born.

edit: let me rephrase that. If I have your age right (or just about), long before you were born.

their first American album was great, really it was a greatest hits album, as they had been in Britain having some success for awhile before that. His guitar work was great for the time on that, and quite unique. After that they released a second, which I felt was pretty weak. After they they started putting out the big hits, and then became household names.

Awesome topic!

I am going to check these out!

Colin James
Jeff Healy
Neil Young
Bryan Adams

Everyone knows Neil Young (some even remember when he was with David Crosby and Graham Nash), Some might not know Jeff Healy, he is blind but a really good guitarist(the band in the movie Roadhouse). I'm sure everyone has also heard of Bryan Adams. As for Colin James, I'm betting he fits the bill here. I had never heard of him and had to look him up on the internet .

Jeff Lang
John Butler

Argentina

Pablo Soler (Neoclassical metal)

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDLo9GGB0M

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=P0cwYgI3CXY

my guitar teacher

Very nice topic!

Luis Salinas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f76JGCG_WU...ted&search=


gabriel.-

Yeah here I go !!!

Robert Rodrigo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7PCCry1WVmA
(he doesn't use a pick, only his fingers !!!)

Toni Lloret:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StE8PhgpZCQ

Paco Hernandez: (that's one of my friends, and he doesn't work in the music, so imagine how difficult is geting money with the guitar in Spain )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGB5Zd9H78U

Jorge Salan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgaotd2Lz0

And finally, Paco de Lucia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9vNSA0WNlw

Ouch, sorry I forgot David Valdés !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgYu3JxTG6U

good find. They are sweet.

marcseal.com great player and use to be my teacher!!!

Mattias IA Eklundh - http://youtube.com/watch?v=jD1MyRLOVW0&...ted&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLPB-LVQCWQ&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRGtY_gvvYE...ted&search=

Great player with awesome technique!

hey juan

i think paco de lucia is very known

i have a dvd of him

he is one of the best guitarist ever i think

here is "CACHO" tirao:

Ave Maria

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=5QyIBlgMdoo

Pink Panther

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=kbE1xZAk6lA

he is dead :'(

your friend paco is GREAT!!!

I remember seeing Paco Hernandez in one of Dave's Guitar Sucks videos, I allways wonderd something, is his guitar smaller then normal? or is he larger then normal?

He is very large !!! 12 frets' hammer it's really amazing

Shame on you robin! How can you leave out Ronni Le Tekro ? (Tekrø in Norway)

Oh jebus christ, how could I forget!!

Here is a new band from a small city in Canada. The lead guitarist/singer and rhythm guitarist came from an acoustic guitar only band called "An Acoustic Sin." Now they are playing rock. Their CD release party is on Oct 19th and I can't wait to see the show :

http://www.tracystarr.net/flash/flash.html

Here is a clip of the lead guitarist messing around :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xv9u_o_nUfA

Not my style but he knows he's stuff:
Göran Söllscher: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UGFD_-FNEvo

That Bjorn Berge dude is awesome, thanks for linking that Robin!

I live in israel so this is gonna be hard... lol (such a small country..)

actually here are some really really good ones..

1) Gene Simmons - Kiss (but thats bass guitar)

2) matan cohen - betzefer recommended!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEp2uIc2EaE ( at 2:20 theres an amazing guitar part.. )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyPffz3UwSY

3) doron zor - hes in canada now but hes israeli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJDk4JGGArA

um...the only ones I can think of at the moment are

Angus and Malcolm Young (AC/DC = Austrailia, Young brothers = SCOTLAND!)
and the brothers from The Darkness.

Yay, Scotland!

I like Chris Cheney from The Living End. Not necessarily the fastest guitar player alive but he comes out with some damn good sounds

Here are my favourite Norwegian guitarists:

John Norum of Europe
Euroboy of Turbonegro
Ronnie Le Tekro of TNT

I'm have a odd feeling to have forgotten one, so I'll update this post if I remember when

Bjorn Berge maybe?

I know if i dont say it, Robin will.

when i was talking with my neighbour about music one day, he said that there was this incredible Jazz guitarist from here, i cant recall the name, ill do some research tho.

From my country ... its Robin ... definately. Robin on guitar was enough to make you loose your hearing ability.

Robin video: http://www.ukm.no/magasin/2007/detaljer.ph...;vismedia=video

Robin is definately the Coolest Trash guitarist in the country! Enjoy ...

The guys from Bullet For My Valentine are from my hometown- not extraordinary guitar wise but they have some prety cool riffage.

Heres their new video scream, aim and fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoT1oRnSK88

ROFL thanks alot man hahahhaha!


Hmm another one from Norway is twibeard! I havent heard him, but I bet he kicks butt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZzncX-mIQ
Iced Earth - Stormrider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSEekcm6zRs...feature=related
Iced Earth - When The Night Falls

The band itself is from my area, and Jon Schaffer is one of the greatest riff writers of all time.

Anyone heard Matti Norlin? I had a cd with him before, but it was lost somehow. Amazing live record from some pub in stockholm I think. I was never able to get it again. Anyhow I found his homepage now and it has some mp3´s on it =) Not from that record though..

This song I think was recorded live in his kitchen.. haha..
He´s a good singer too!! As you can hear he can play banjo as well.
http://www.mattinorlin.com/Hangover%20Blues.mp3

Oooh. I liked Matti. Thanks for the link.

I posted this guy from a neighbor town in another thread:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=moonchild89, a guy from my part of the world
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zp8n4JTxnrc, a sample from him

And some local bands:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=17557658, Raised Fist
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endID=212367018, Black Velvet
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=182328578, Crystalis
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endID=316803970, 1st Liberation
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=82953112, Checkpoint Charlie
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...riendID=2895027, Machinae Supremacy

There are only two (older generation) guitar musicians from my country that I can say that are world class, and one of them is not even my country anymore its from former yugoslavia, but I will put him on my list because he was a great influence by me when the country was still one.

1. Radomir Mihailovic Tocak (Serbia)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...p;search=Search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClNfB0fRg0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx3UfkwQRTc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5b_jKRt7cY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqMeQ2FRJlM

2. Vlatko Stefanovski (Macedonia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK4JYkWZqS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mt_hSdWd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3_ckKsud8

Check it out

2. Vlatko Stefanovski (Macedonia)

I agree my friend...mind blowing guitar palyer...i dare to say Satriani,Vai calss

John McLaughlin. Legend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cadbYIzhqQ

Hey. Very good thread. I am checking it one by one. If we think a little about it, we don't know most of the good music of the world just because of the language. Here we can show each other.

I am a brazilian and I will start by one that I name amongst my favorite 5 guitarists: Augusto Licks (former Engenheiros do Hawaii). A guy that has licks even on the name can´t suck right? He worked on every and each part of the song seeking perfection. And he did a perfect fit for the lyrics . He could go from electric: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TMh-ccDv_Y to a perfect blend to an orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoF8GB7xXp0 . It is such a pity he is not playing anymore.

Kiko Loureiro (Angra) - though I guess he is world famous?- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLKEhP4QuIY

Edgard Scandurra (Ira) - quite hard to play his riffs because he is left handed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SqRTQNbu_A

Eduardo Ardanuy ( Dr. Sin ) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzUoZtcTYSI

Armandinho, playing a modification of guitar that we call guitarra baiana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDnECo8Fzjs

And finally, the guy I was taking classes: Bruno Albuquerque ( . This video won a 30 second contest by guitar factory Tagima: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDK_c7jpUJA . And he playing instrumental rock(he composed): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuA5k1bsi4g

I'm like mutch this CZECH Guy he can play almost everything and he also create music and musical



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0NMNXELTk

and here is something totaly diferent ->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoyxfoPfwDg


amd 1 more---totaly diferent when he was young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvBlc5t_HfA

Stefan Elmgren Hammerfall
Joakim Jonsson Axenstar
Karl Landin and Rickard Petterson Moonlight agony

And offcourse our own Kristoffer Dahl and Markus Lavendell