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GuitaristA Guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. He or she may also be a Musical Artist or a Musical Group Member.Property Guitars Played:...
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| x Alex Lifeson |
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Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three...
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| x Django Reinhardt |
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Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist.
One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing....
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| x Eric Clapton |
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Fender Stratocaster |
Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream, and as a solo performer, being...
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| x George Harrison |
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Fender Stratocaster |
George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list...
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| x George Benson |
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George Benson (born March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a Pop, R&B;, and scat singer.
Benson was born and raised in the...
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| x Geddy Lee |
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Geddy Lee OC (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined Rush in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend, Alex...
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| x Joe Pass |
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Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua) January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, and use of a chord-melody style of play opened up new possibilities...
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| x Kirk Hammett |
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Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist and a songwriter in the band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003 Hammett was ranked 11th in...
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| x Robert Fripp |
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Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson. His work, spanning five...
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| x Robert Johnson |
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Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician, among the most famous of Delta blues musicians. His landmark recordings from 1936–1937 display a remarkable combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting...
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| x Son House |
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Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often...
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| x Yngwie J. Malmsteen |
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Fender Stratocaster |
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (pronounced /ˈɪŋveɪ ˈmɑːlmstiːn/ in English) (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his...
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| x Lindsey Buckingham |
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Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released five...
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| x Brian May |
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Brian Harold May, Ph.D, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is a musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your...
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| x Stanley Jordan |
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Stanley Jordan (July 31, 1959) is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist, best known for his development of the touch technique for playing guitar. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton...
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| x Richard Lloyd |
Richard Lloyd (born 25 October 1951, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, probably best-known as a former member of the rock band, Television.
Lloyd first became interested in music as a small child and would...
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| x Lester Flatt |
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Lester Raymond Flatt (born June 19, 1914 – died May 11, 1979) was one of the pioneers of bluegrass music.
Flatt was born in Duncan's Chapel, Overton County, Tennessee to Nannie Mae Haney and Isaac Columbus Flatt. A singer and guitarist, he first...
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| x Dave Mustaine |
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David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961 in La Mesa, California USA) is the rhythm/lead guitarist, main songwriter, and vocalist for the heavy metal band Megadeth. Mustaine grew up in various Southern California suburbs. He currently resides in...
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| x Tom Petty |
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Fender Stratocaster |
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is a Heartland rock band, most of whose members are from United States of America. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of which had been members of Mudcrutch. Petty and the...
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| x Joe Satriani |
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Joseph "Satch" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York, United States) is an American multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist, who has been nominated for the Grammy Award multiple times. Early in his career,...
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| x Jerry Garcia |
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Gibson Les Paul |
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the...
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| x Brian Jones |
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Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English multi-instrumentalist and one of the founding members of the rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, his flamboyant attire and his...
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| x Phil Keaggy |
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Philip Tyler Keaggy (born March 23, 1951 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and...
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| x Brian Setzer |
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Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959, Massapequa, New York) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Beginning in January 1980, Setzer fronted the popular rockabilly band, Stray Cats. After performing from New York to Philadelphia, Setzer, Lee...
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| x Jeff Beck |
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Fender Stratocaster |
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds. He was ranked the 14th on Rolling Stone...
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| x Greg Flesch |
Greg Flesch (born 1960) is a guitarist and musician, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Gene Pool).
Flesch joined D.A. in 1984, just in time for the Vox Humana tour.
Besides his work with D.A...
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| x Fuzzy Haskins |
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Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins (born June 8, 1941) is a former singer with 1950s and 1960s doo-wop group, The Parliaments. He is a founding member of the groundbreaking and influential 1970s funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, also known as...
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| x Richie Sambora |
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Richard "Richie" Stephen Sambora (born on July 11, 1959), is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, singer/ songwriter who is the longtime lead guitarist of the popular rock band Bon Jovi. Along with frontman Jon Bon Jovi, he forms the...
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| x Ace Frehley |
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Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (pronounced /ˈfreɪli/; born April 27, 1951) is an American guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of 'Spaceman' when the band adopted costumes and...
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| x Stephen Carpenter |
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Stephen Carpenter, (born August 3, 1970 in Sacramento, California) is the co-founder, lead guitarist of the American rock band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings and stock power chords....
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| x Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin |
Melvin Ragin (born c. 1951), better known by the nickname "Wah-Wah Watson", is an American guitarist and session musician famed for his skills with a wah-wah pedal. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Ragin became a member of the Motown Records studio...
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| x James Taylor |
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James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. He currently owns a home in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Taylor's...
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| x Dave Williams |
David "Dave" "Stage" Williams (February 29, 1972 – August 14, 2002) was the lead singer for the band Drowning Pool. He was born in Princeton, Texas to Charles Edward and Jo-Ann Williams, and was a fixture in the Dallas music scene throughout the...
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| x Mark Farner |
Mark Fredrick Farner (born September 29, 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad, and later as a Contemporary Christian Musician.
Farner began...
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| x Ted Nugent |
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Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent (born December 13, 1948) (a.k.a. The Nuge,The Motor City Madman,Uncle Ted) is an American hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes. He...
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| x Pete Townshend |
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Fender Stratocaster |
Pete Townshend, born Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (pronounced /ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The...
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| x John Williams |
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John Christopher Williams (born 24 April 1941) is a Grammy Award winning Australian-born British classical guitarist. He is widely regarded as one of finest guitarists of his generation.
Born in Melbourne, Australia to an English father (Len...
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| x Huw Bunford |
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Huw Bunford (also known as "Bunf") (born 15 September 1967, Cardiff, Wales) is the guitarist in the rock band, Super Furry Animals.
Bunford used to be a teacher. His last teaching position was Head of Art at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen near Pontypridd. He...
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| x Keith Richards |
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Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he was ranked 10th...
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| x John Christ |
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John Christ is a musician, born John Knoll on February 19, 1965. Christ attended Towson University studying Jazz before dropping out to join Samhain in 1987, which became the heavy metal band Danzig later that same year. Christ remained with the...
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| x Stevie Ray Vaughan |
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Hamiltone Custom |
Stevie Ray Vaughan (born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work...
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| x Stick McGhee |
Granville "Stick" Henely McGhee (March 23, 1917 – August 15, 1961) was an American guitarist best known for his blues song "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee", one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs, and which was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis...
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| x John Fogerty |
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John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was born in Berkeley, California and is the younger brother...
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| x Peter Frampton |
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Peter Kenneth Frampton (born April 22, 1950) is an English musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd, among others. In 1982 Frampton tried unsuccessfully to split his...
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| x Cliff Burton |
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Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American bassist best known as the bass player of American heavy metal band Metallica. As a bassist he made heavy use of distortion and effects (several of which are usually...
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| x John Frusciante |
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Fender Stratocaster |
John Anthony Frusciante (pronounced [fruːˈʃɑːnteɪ] (help·info)) (born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom...
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| x Dexter Holland |
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Bryan Keith Holland (born December 29, 1965 in Garden Grove, California), better known under his stage name Dexter Holland, is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the Californian punk pop band The Offspring, who are known for singles such as "Gone...
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| x Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman |
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Kevin Wasserman (born February 4, 1963), best known by his stage name Noodles, is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for The Offspring.
He was born in Los Angeles, California. During the band's early days he worked as an elementary school...
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| x Chris Squire |
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Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (born 4 March 1948), is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album. He is well...
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| x Mark Knopfler |
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Mark Knopfler Stratocaster |
Mark Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.
Mark Knopfler is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock band Dire...
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| x George Thorogood |
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George Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is a blues-rock performer from Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He was raised on Clearview Avenue in Naamans Gardens, a suburb of Wilmington.
Thorogood's demo Better Than the Rest was recorded in 1974 and released...
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| x Rivers Cuomo |
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Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970) is an American musician and lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the rock band Weezer. He has also worked as a solo artist; he released his debut album, Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, in...
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| x Randy Rhoads |
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Jackson Guitars |
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists....
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| x Michael Schenker |
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Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German hard rock/heavy metal guitarist, known as a founding member of Scorpions and the Michael Schenker Group, achieved fame as member of UFO in the middle of the 1970s. He is the younger brother of...
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| x Joe Brown |
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Joseph Roger Brown, MBE (born 13 May 1941 in Swarby, Lincolnshire) is an English entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.
Brown has now sustained a career as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for over five decades. He was an in demand live and...
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| x Steve Miller |
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Steve Miller (born October 5, 1943, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter.
Beginning his career in blues and blues rock, Miller's music later changed to a more popular-oriented sound which earned him success with a...
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| x John Collura |
John Christopher Collura, born April 13, 1972 (1972-04-13) (age 36) in New York, U.S. and was the lead guitarist of the pop-punk group The Ataris. He joined the band in 2001.
John grew up in Orange County, New York. His previous Orange County, Ny...
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| x Kerry King |
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BC Rich |
Kerry King (born Kerry Ray King June 3, 1964, in Los Angeles, California) is a guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of American thrash metal band Slayer.
Kerry King was born June 3, 1964 in Los Angeles, California to a father who was...
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| x Tom Morello |
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The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of ex-Rage Against the Machine, ex-Audioslave and current Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist Tom Morello, which he created in 2003 as an outlet for his political views while playing non-political...
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