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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 (French pronunciation: [dʒɑ̃ŋɡo ʀeˈnɑʀt]; 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...
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| x Eric Clapton |
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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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George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced...
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| x George Benson |
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George Benson (born March 22, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Grammy Award winning 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. This one time...
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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, use of a chord-melody style of play and outstanding knowledge of...
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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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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, CBE, (born 19 July 1947 in London, England) is an English 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...
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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 and as one of rock's true weirdos.
Lloyd first became interested in...
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| x Lester Flatt |
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Lester Raymond Flatt (born June 19, 1914 – died May 11, 1979) was a bluegrass musician and guitarist.
Flatt was born in Duncan's Chapel, Overton County, Tennessee to Nannie Mae Haney and Isaac Columbus Flatt. A singer and guitarist, he first came to...
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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 lead/rhythm guitarist, main songwriter, and vocalist for the American heavy metal band Megadeth. Mustaine grew up in various Southern California suburbs. He currently...
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| x Tom Petty |
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For the New York based band, see The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a Heartland rock band, most of whose members are from the United States of America. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all...
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| x Joe Satriani |
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Joseph "Satch" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York) is an American multi-instrumentalist, known as an instrumental rock guitarist, who has been nominated for Grammy Awards. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor,...
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| x Jerry Garcia |
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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 musician 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 recreational...
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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) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Setzer was born in Massapequa, New York. Beginning in January 1980, he fronted the popular rockabilly band, Stray Cats. After performing from New York to...
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| x Jeff Beck |
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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 14th in Rolling Stone Magazine's...
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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 "The 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 and lead guitarist of the American rock band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock...
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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 an 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 career began in the...
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| x Dave Williams |
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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) is an American hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes. He is also noted for his vocal libertarian political...
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| x Pete Townshend |
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Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (pronounced /ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May, 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His...
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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 "Bunf" Bunford (born Huw Cennydd Bunford, 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...
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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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John Christ, born John Knoll on February 9, 1965(1965-02-09) is a musician best known as the original guitarist for the metal band Danzig. Christ first started playing guitar in his early teens, having previously taken piano lessons. Christ attended...
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| x Stevie Ray Vaughan |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan (born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Eighteen albums of Vaughan's work have been released. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in...
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| x Stick McGhee |
Drinkin’ that mess is our delight,
And when we get drunk, start fightin’ all night.
Knockin’ out windows and learnin’ down doors,
Drinkin’ half-gallons and callin’ for more.
Drinkin’ wine motherfucker, drinkin’wine!
Goddam!
Drinkin’ wine...
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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 and as a #1 solo recording artist. He was born in Berkeley,...
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| x Peter Frampton |
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Peter Kenneth Frampton (born April 22, 1950) is a British/American 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...
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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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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 rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has...
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| x Dexter Holland |
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Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland (born December 29, 1965 in Garden Grove, California) is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the Californian punk rock band The Offspring, who are known for singles such as "Come Out and Play", "Self Esteem", "Pretty Fly ...
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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.
Wasserman was born in Los Angeles, California. He was allegedly in the band because he was the only person...
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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 (with the...
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| x Mark Knopfler |
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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, known for his hit song "Bad to the Bone" as well as for covers of blues standards such as Hank Williams' "Move It On Over" and John Lee Hooker's "One...
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| x Rivers Cuomo |
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Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970) is an American musician and lead singer, lead 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...
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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 rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo work. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar...
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| x Joe Brown |
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Joe Brown, MBE (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, Swarby, Lincolnshire) is an English entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.
Brown has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television...
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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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Kerry Ray King (born June 3, 1964) is an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of American thrash metal band Slayer.
King was born in Los Angeles, California to a father who was an aircraft parts inspector and a mother who...
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| x Tom Morello |
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The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of Rage Against the Machine, ex-Audioslave and Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist Tom Morello, which he created in 2003 as an outlet for his political views while playing non-political music with...
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