10 Most Underrated Guitarists In Hard Rock

Not many rock fans really need to get acclimatized to Pearl Jam. Ever since breaking on the scene with Ten in the early '90s, the band have been one of the biggest names in music, whose classic songs are still all over the rock landscape. It's hard to think of any band member that is underrated, but people forget about the guitar hero in the band that isn't named Mike McCready.

While the blues stylings of McCready are a welcome change of pace from the rest of the alternative rock sphere, Stone Gossard has probably written the most classic songs of the entire '90s. Long before he was even in Pearl Jam, Gossard's work with Temple of the Dog and Mother Love Bone already put him in the big leagues on the Seattle scene. As opposed to taking center stage, Stone's talents always were in songwriting, where he would throw together some of the weirdest chord progressions in the world and somehow make them work.

Even though songs like "Alive" and "Black" have Eddie Vedder's name all over them, both of the band's classic hits started with Stone's ideas that became fleshed out by Vedder later down the line. The dynamic of the band has fluctuated over the years, but if there was no Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam would never have existed.