Who is the best guitarist no one has heard of? One possibility is Kyoji Yamamoto of the Japanese band Bow Wow.1 The vocals are exceedingly average, but that doesn’t matter when Yamamoto shuts his mouth and plays. “Silver Lightning” is from their 1977 second album, released a year before Van Halen’s first. If you’re impatient for pyrotechnics, skip to 2:35.