10 Great Guitarists In Terrible Bands

10. Joe Trohman - Fall Out Boy

Depending on what year it was in the '00s, it was anyone's guess as to how a new Fall Out Boy record would turn out. While the band has put out some stellar material on albums like From Under the Cork Tree and Infinity on High, their most recent output on Mania have painted them as a band desperately trying to stay on the charts. For as much glitz and glamour Pete Wentz wants to add to the production, it's a shame he doesn't utilize the killer solo talents of Joe Trohman.

In the band's glory years, Trohman was responsible for making some of the band's best melodic material, like the soaring octaves on "Sugar We're Going Down" or the weird jazz stylings on "Thnks fr th Mmrs." Even when just picking through chords, the subtle articulation he would put into these songs had the perfect amount of soul to match Patrick Stump's powerful belt.

Outside the context of solid pop punk, Trohman has also lended his talents to the supergroup the Damned Things, where he can hold his own beside the likes of Volbeat's Rob Caggiano and Anthrax's Scott Ian. Fall Out Boy may be trying to artificially create soulful rock music, but with Trohman's natural talent in their ranks, do they really need to?