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| x Paul Phillips |
Paul James Phillips (born June 26, 1975, in Brunswick, Georgia) is the lead guitarist for the band Puddle of Mudd since their 2001 hit album Come Clean. He also assisted with guitars and vocals in the group's second record, Life on Display. Phillips...
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| x Eddie Van Halen |
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Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen (born January 26, 1955 in The Netherlands) is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen, inducted into the Rock...
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| x Dimebag Darrell |
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Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as "Diamond Darrell", "Dimebag Darrell", or simply "Dime" (August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004) was an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan. He also...
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| x Dave Dederer |
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Dave Dederer, best known as guitarist and singer for The Presidents of the United States of America, was born on October 5, 1964. An alumnus of Seattle, Washington's The Bush School and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he founded The...
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| x Dennis Danell |
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Dennis Eric Danell (June 24, 1961-February 29, 2000) was the founding guitarist for the seminal Southern California punk rock band, Social Distortion.
Danell formed Social Distortion in 1979 with frontman Mike Ness while attending high school...
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| x Dweezil Zappa |
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Dweezil Zappa (born September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist.
Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business, and musician Frank Zappa. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister...
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| x Tommy Bolin |
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Thomas Richard "Tommy" Bolin (August 1, 1951, Sioux City, Iowa - December 4, 1976) was an American-born guitarist best known for his work with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), The James Gang (from 1973 through 1974), Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), and...
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Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966 in Illinois, USA) is an American musician. He is well known for his guitar work with Racer X and Mr. Big, as well as many solo albums. He also joined Joe Satriani and John Petrucci on the 2007 G3 tour.
He...
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| x Tom Guay |
Tom Guay (or Tom 5) is a guitar player who joined White Zombie while studying art at Parsons School of Design which he attended from 1985 to 1989. He played guitar for the metal band ANGEL ROT from 1989 to 2003 and performed as singer for the Black...
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| x Marty Friedman |
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Marty Friedman (born Martin Adam Friedman, December 8, 1962) is an American guitarist, most widely recognized and best known for his tenure as lead/rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Megadeth, which lasted close to ten years. He has resided in...
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| x Steve Vai |
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Steven Siro "Steve" Vai (born June 6, 1960 in Carle Place, New York) is an Italian American instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, producer, beekeeper, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for...
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| x Tony MacAlpine |
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Tony Jeff MacAlpine (born August 29, 1960) is an American guitarist and keyboardist. Having released ten studio albums over a career spanning more than two decades, he is best known as an instrumental solo guitarist; although he has worked with many...
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| x James Hetfield |
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James Alan Hetfield (born August, 3, 1963) is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the American heavy metal band Metallica.
James Hetfield was born on August 3rd, 1963 in Downey, Los Angeles County, California. He is of English,...
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| x Jonny Greenwood |
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Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer-in-residence for the BBC, best known as a member of English alternative rock group Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but...
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| x Gary Moore |
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Gary Moore (born Robert William Gary Moore, 4 April 1952, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish guitarist and singer.
In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, B.B. King, Colosseum II, Greg...
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| x Kevin Eubanks |
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Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz guitarist who was the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2009. He now leads The Primetime Band on The Jay Leno Show.
He...
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| x Chuck Schuldiner |
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Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner (May 13, 1967 – December 13, 2001) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and musical genre innovator.
Schuldiner was the singer, songwriter, rhythm and lead guitarist of the band Death, which he founded in...
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| x Duane Allman |
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Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American lead guitarist, co-founder of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band, and respected session musician. He is best remembered for his brief but influential tenure in...
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Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 — January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, United States.
Born in Centerville, Texas, Hopkins' childhood was immersed in the sounds of the blues and he developed a deeper...
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| x Joe Walsh |
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Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo...
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| x Peet Coombes |
Peet Coombes (1952-1997) was the guitarist and vocalist with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart in the two pre-Eurythmics bands, The Catch, who only released one single, "Borderline/Black Blood" (1977, Logo) and the Tourists, who had quite a few UK hits...
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| x Rory Gallagher |
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Rory Gallagher born William Rory Gallagher (2 March, 1948 - 14 June, 1995 pronounced /ˈrɔri ˈɡæləhər/) was an Irish blues-rock musician who rose to fame as a talented songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal,...
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| x Doug Martsch |
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Doug Martsch (born 1969) is an American musician. Martsch, a native of Boise, Idaho, is best known for his distinctive vocals and guitar style in the band Built to Spill. He has also worked with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening in The Halo Benders....
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| x Johnny Winter |
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John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born 23 February 1944) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer.
Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits. Johnny Winter is known for his southern...
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| x Chuck Brown |
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Chuck Brown (born 1936) is a jazz guitarist and singer who is affectionately called "The Godfather of Go-go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed in and around Washington, D.C. in the mid- and late 1970s. While its musical classification,...
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| x Allan Holdsworth |
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Allan Holdsworth (born 6 August 1946) is a British guitarist and composer. He has released ten studio albums and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but is best known for his work in jazz fusion.
Holdsworth first...
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| x Jon Siebels |
Jon Siebels (born Jonathan Lee Siebels August 27, 1979) was the guitarist in the band Eve 6, which disbanded in 2004. He also provided backup vocals. He became a part of the band after meeting lead vocalist Max Collins during Siebels' freshman year...
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| x Hillel Slovak |
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Hillel Slovak (April 13, 1962–June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak...
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| x John Stein |
John Stein, is a jazz guitarist, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His education includes a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is an associate professor.
Stein associates with such Boston jazz...
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| x Rusty Young |
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Rusty Young (born Norman Russell Young on February 23, 1946, in Long Beach, California) is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Rusty was raised in Colorado. He began playing lap steel guitar at age 6, and taught guitar and steel guitar...
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Wayne Static (born Wayne Richard Wells, November 4, 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan, USA) is an American musician, and the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and programmer for the industrial metal band Static-X.
Static grew up in Shelby, Michigan...
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| x Andy Summers |
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Andy Summers (born Andrew James Somers 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police and Eric Burdon & The Animals.
Andrew James Summers was born on 31 December 1942 in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire,...
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| x Dean DeLeo |
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Dean DeLeo (born August 23, 1961 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American guitarist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
He is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone, which featured his younger brother Robert...
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| x Jean Bosco Mwenda |
Jean Bosco Mwenda, also known as Mwenda wa Bayeke (1930-1990) was a pioneer of Congolese fingerstyle acoustic guitar music. He was also popular in other African countries, particularly East Africa, and in the late 1950s and early 1960s was briefly...
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| x Tony Iommi |
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Frank Anthony "Tony" Iommi (born 19 February 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, England) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and the sole constant band member through...
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| x Izzy Stradlin |
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Jeffery Dean Isbell (born April 8, 1962), more widely known by his stage name Izzy Stradlin, is an American musician, best known as one of the lead songwriters and rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1991.
Stradlin was...
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| x Warren Cuccurullo |
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Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (born December 8, 1956, in Brooklyn) is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn...
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| x Kevin Allen |
Kevin Allen is the lead guitar player for rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. He was born on July 17, 1979.
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| x Janick Gers |
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Janick Robert Gers (pronounced /ˈjænɪk ˈɡɛərz/) (born 27 January 1957 in Hartlepool, England) is one of three current guitarists in the English band Iron Maiden and a songwriter for the band. His father, Bolesław, was an officer of the Polish Navy....
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| x Jeff Baxter |
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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist best known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant and...
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| x Johnny Smith |
Johnny Smith, (born John Henry Smith, Jr. on June 25, 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist, although he does not consider himself to be a musician in the idiom.
During the Depression, Smith's family...
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| x Bob Klose |
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Rado 'Bob' Klose (born 1945; sometimes referred to as Bob Close or Brian Close in various publications) is an English musician and photographer. He was one of the earliest members of the rock band Pink Floyd, playing lead guitar; however, he left...
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| x John Myung |
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John Ro Myung (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.əŋ/) (born on January 24, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is a bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater.
Born in Chicago to Korean parents, Myung grew up in Kings Park, Long Island, New...
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| x Herb Ellis |
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Mitchell Herbert (Herb) Ellis (born August 4, 1921) is an American jazz guitarist.
Growing up on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, Ellis first heard the electric guitar performed by George Barnes on a radio program. This experience is said to have...
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| x Steve Lukather |
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Steve "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957, San Fernando Valley, California) is an American Grammy Award-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with...
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| x Luis Maravilla |
Luis Maravilla (Luis Lopez Tejera) (b. 1914 in Seville, Spain) is a Flamenco composer.
Maravilla studied guitar under Marcelo Molina and Pepe de Badajoz, and debuted professionally at the age of 12 in the Pavon Theatre of Seville. In the 1930's he...
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| x King Ben Nawahi |
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King Bennie Nawahi (Benjamin Keakahiawa Nawahi) was an American steel guitar master from Hawaii, well-known throughout the country in the 1920s and 30s. He performed well into the 1970s, when a stroke left him partially paralyzed.
Nawahi learned to...
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| x Moraito Chico |
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Moraíto Chico, a Flamenco guitarist from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, has produced solo albums as well as being the regular accompanist for José Mercé, Diego Carrasco and other popular flamenco singers. His real name is Manuel Moreno Junquera, and...
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| x Vicente Amigo |
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Vicente Amigo Girol (born 1967) is a Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist, born in Guadalcanal, near Seville. He has played as backing guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers El Pele, Camarón de la Isla, Vicente Soto, Luis de Córdoba...
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| x Tak Matsumoto |
Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto (松本 孝弘, Matsumoto Takahiro, born on March 27, 1961 in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese guitarist, producer, arranger, composer and songwriter. In addition to guitarist and lead composer for the hard rock band B'z, he has also...
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| x Dave Baksh |
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David Nizaam "Brownsound" Baksh (born 26 July 1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian guitarist, singer and producer of Indo-Guyanese descent, best known as the ex-lead guitarist of punk band Sum 41, but has since became a singer/guitarist...
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| x Joe Perry |
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Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry (born September 10, 1950) is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He was ranked 48th in the Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Guitarists...
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| x Brad Whitford |
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Bradley Ernest Whitford (23 February 1952, Reading, Massachusetts) is the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith.
After attending the Berklee College of Music, Whitford played in local bands Symbols of Resistance, Teapot Dome, Earth, Inc....
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| x Ray Tabano |
Raymond Tabano (aka Crazy Raymond) (born December 23, 1946 in The Bronx, New York, U.S.) is a musician and former Aerosmith guitarist. Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford in 1971.
In addition to his original work with the band, he helped maintain...
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| x Al Archer |
Kevin "Al" Archer is an English guitarist and songwriter. He played with Kevin Rowland in the punk rock group The Killjoys, and in 1978 Rowland and Archer formed Dexys Midnight Runners, and co-wrote some of the songs on the group's debut album...
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| x Paul Kossoff |
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Paul Francis Kossoff (14 September 1950 – 19 March 1976) was an English rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Free.
Kossoff was ranked 51st in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"
Kossoff—son of the...
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| x David Marks |
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David Lee Marks (born August 22, 1948) is a songwriter and musician. He is best known as being a member of The Beach Boys from February 1962 to October 1963, a period of time that established the band as a top-rate American rock group.
Sometimes...
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| x Conor Oberst |
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Conor Mullen Oberst (born February 15, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer (The Faint), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor...
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| x Sol Hoopii |
Sol Hoopii (1902–1953) was a Native Hawaiian guitarist, claimed by many as the all-time best lap steel guitar virtuoso, and he is one the most famous original Hawaiian steel guitarists, along with Joe Kekuku, Frank Ferera, Sam Ku West and King Ben...
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Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips.
Wayne Michael Coyne was born in a Mexican hospital January 13, 1961. He grew up in Oklahoma City and was the fifth of...
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