Alt rock guitarist
 

Can anyone tell me of any alternative rock bands with really exeptional guitarists? Or songs with good guitar work/ guitar solos.

Dinosaur Jr.

Built to Spill

Television.

Jane's Addiction, "Three Days" is the best.

Sonic Youth. The Mars Volta. Everything else listed.

Elliott Smith.

Incubus
-Sick, Sad, Little World
-Priceless

Smashing Pumpkins
Dinosaur Jr.
Queens of the Stone Age

Rage Against the Machine

The Smashing Pumpkins

Minutemen
Meat Puppets
Sonic Youth

Word.

+ Dinosaur Jr

Edit: Speaking of Meat Puppets, I've just started to realize how much they kick ass. I got the 'Alive in the 90s' DVD for like 5 bux it's pretty cool. Got some nice Watt action on it.

Motorpsycho

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]Built to Spill[/QUOTE]
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John Frusciante

I dunno if you count the whole "grunge" thing as alternative but it is often mentioned in this forum. If you do I guess Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Mudhoney have some good guitaring.

Dinosaur Jr seems the most obvious one people have said, Smashing Pumpkins also have some awesome lead play.

[QUOTE=Zmev]Television.[/QUOTE]
Ha

Hahahahahahahaha

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Depends On what you class as alternative but Muse and Arctic Monkeys are good for guitar I'd say

[QUOTE=Sam] Speaking of Meat Puppets, I've just started to realize how much they kick ***. I got the 'Alive in the 90s' DVD for like 5 bux it's pretty cool. Got some nice Watt action on it.[/QUOTE]
I think I'll have to get that.

the mars volta-Omar plays guitar like you wish you could

Built To Spill!

kevin shields

[QUOTE=Scott Herren]kevin shields[/QUOTE]

Anyone can make their guitar playing sound good with 600,000 dollars.

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]Anyone can make their guitar playing sound good with 600,000 dollars.[/QUOTE]
Its called a keyboard, lolz.

[QUOTE=Scott Herren]kevin shields[/QUOTE]
:thumb:

I never saw anything super special in Kevin Shields' guitar or anything. Just pounding chords and stuff (albeit awesome chords).

Radiohead Radiohead Radiohead

Gem Archer- what a legend alough you don't really get to see how good he is with Oasis but still a legend.

also Graham Coxen is awsome to really nervous or so it seems.

[U]The Verve[/U]
Nick McCabe is f*ck'n amazing


I'd also pick:
Radiohead
Pearl Jam
Blur

[QUOTE=NachoChez]A grunge fanboy doesn't have any right to be mocking Verlaine and Lloyd.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say I'm a fanboy, and I can say that if I want. Television eat scrote in my opinion, and you can go and do the same.

QOTSA
Desert Sessions

Yes I am fanboy

[QUOTE=NachoChez]A grunge fanboy doesn't have any right to be mocking Verlaine and Lloyd.[/QUOTE]
What are you saying, that grunge is worse than punk? What is this, genre fights now? I won't go into the genres, but don't go telling people that their music is worse than yours for no reason.

There is a reason that Television and other bands aren't widely known. I'll leave you to fill in the gaps.

Anyway, this is an alt guitar thread...

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Chilis

Pearl Jam is really boring, I can't front on that.

[QUOTE=Sam]Pearl Jam is really boring, I can't front on that.[/QUOTE]


that's crazy.

Out of all the really well known grunge groups I would say pearl jam is one of the lest boring.

Opinions are crazy, and you're a lunatic for having one.

Nirvana > Pearl Jam

[QUOTE=ElOhEl]What are you saying, that grunge is worse than punk? What is this, genre fights now? I won't go into the genres, but don't go telling people that their music is worse than yours for no reason.

There is a reason that Television and other bands aren't widely known. I'll leave you to fill in the gaps.

Anyway, this is an alt guitar thread...[/Quote]Anyone who is even moderately familiar with music outside of MTV knows who Television are. [i]Marquee Moon[/i] is also ranked #128 on the Rolling Stone top albums of all time while no Pearl Jam album cracks the top 200. I'm sorry, either you haven't heard of them or you are just misinformed, but Television aren't underground.