Great musicians who should have been famous except....


I'm throwing this out there as an example. My 16 yr old aspiring drummer son asked me if I had anything in the vinyl collection tonight... apparently the U Tube video tutorials finally got boring. He is really good and practices non stop but it was refreshing when he asked about ideas for sound. In a moment of 30 years past clarity I put on the B side of Van Halen 1984… Is Alex Van Halen the most under rated rock drummer of all time? And is there a better lead in to ANY rock vinyl side than that???
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I saw Little Feat live in Baltimore before Lowell George passed - man what a show - they were my favs back then still have all the albums w/Lowell.  Also saw the great Roy Buchanan live a couple times in the DC area.  
I've never been a huge Moody Blues fan, but I saw them two or three years ago (maybe longer) in Portland (OR) and they put on a great show. They rocked a lot harder than they do on their records. 
The late Terry Kath! Who played on the first five Chicago records and impressed Jimi Hendrix! Sadly now long gone!

Clifford Brown - great mid-fifties Jazz trumpet player who died way too young in a car crash!
Dennis Brain - virtuoso British horn player who likewise passed away untimely!