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list of guitarists includes
guitaristA guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, classical guitars and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :...
s for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please. Anything else will be removed.
(Please note that those that are known mainly as bass guitarists are listed separately at
List of bass guitarists.)
See also:
list of lead guitarists,
list of rhythm guitarists.
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- Johnny A.
Johnny A. is a guitarist, born in Malden, Massachusetts. Growing up in Boston as a young child, he became interested in music, starting with drums at age 6...
- "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as "Diamond Darrell", "Dimebag Darrell", or simply "Dime" was an American guitarist...
(PanteraPantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and "Dimebag" Darrell , then known as Diamond Darrell, in 1981. Bassist Rex Brown then known as Rex Rocker would join in 1982, with vocalist Terry Glaze...
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- Drew Abbott
Drew Abbott was a guitarist for Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, and appears on Bob Seger's Seven , Beautiful Loser , Live Bullet , Night Moves , Stranger in Town , Against the Wind , Nine Tonight , and The Distance .In 1983 he left the Silver Bullet Band during the "The Distance" era because he...
- John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie is an American jazz guitarist. Aside from his solo work he is known for his work with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker. Abercrombie has recorded principally with the ECM label of Manfred Eicher...
- Aaron "El Hefe" Abeyta
Aaron Abeyta, known as El Hefe or simply Hefe, from el Jefe and "Hefe" , is the lead guitarist and trumpet player of the California punk band NOFX....
(NOFXNOFX is an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1983 in Los Angeles.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin. Drummer Erik Sandin joined them shortly afterward. In 1991 El Hefe joined to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out...
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- Mick Abrahams
Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He recorded the album This Was with the band in 1968, but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the musical direction of the band led Abrahams to leave once the album was finished...
(Jethro TullJethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969....
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- Vincent Accardi (Brand New
Brand New is an American alternative rock band from Long Island, New York. Formed in 2000, the band currently consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Jesse Lacey, guitarist Vincent Accardi, bassist Garrett Tierney, drummer Brian Lane, and guitarist/keyboardist Derrick Sherman.In the late 1990s,...
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- William Ackerman
William Ackerman is a Grammy winning guitarist and composer of acoustic-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records.- Career :...
- Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, OC, OBC is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter and photographer. Adams was first nominated at the 28th Grammy Awards for Reckless and "It's Only Love" and won the Grammy and in 1992 won the award for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media"...
- Stuart Adamson
Stuart Adamson , born William Stuart Adamson, was an English-born Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter...
(The SkidsThe Skids were an art-punk/punk rock and new wave band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, founded in 1977 by Stuart Adamson , William Simpson , Thomas Kellichan and Richard Jobson...
, Big CountryBig Country were a rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following...
, The RaphaelsThe Raphaels were an alternative country music band, fronted by Scottish guitarist Stuart Adamson, formerly of The Skids and Big Country. The duo also featured Nashville songwriter Marcus Hummon. The duo never toured, however, their debut album, Supernatural, was released on August 14, 2001 via...
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- Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative rock band from Mesa, Arizona, formed in 1993. The band is comprised of lead vocalist and guitarist Jim Adkins, guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind....
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- Willie Adler
William M. Adler is the rhythm guitarist in the heavy metal band Lamb of God. He is the younger brother of bandmate Chris Adler.Willie joined Lamb of God after the first guitarist, Abe Spear, left the band...
(Lamb of GodLamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 1994. The band was originally known as Burn the Priest, but changed their name shortly after the release of their self-titled debut album in 1998...
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- Marcus Adoro
Marcus Antonius Corpuz Adoro is the former lead guitarist of the Eraserheads, one of the most popular bands in the Philippines during the 90's alternative rock explosion....
(Eraserheads)
- Mikael Akerfeldt
Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt is a Swedish musician who achieved fame as the lead vocalist/lead guitarist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Opeth as well as the lead vocalist of death metal band Bloodbath...
(OpethOpeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining promptly after its inception....
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- Fredrik Akesson
Fredrik Åkesson is a Swedish heavy metal guitarist. He is a current member of Opeth. He is also active in Krux, Monsters of Metal and Talisman....
(OpethOpeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining promptly after its inception....
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- Jan Akkerman
Jan Akkerman is a Dutch guitarist. Akkerman is a distinctive guitarist, constantly experimenting with new equipment and guitars. Akkerman's distinctive guitar sound is characterised by his pioneering use of volume swells which produce a smooth, fluty, sustained note, although he is also capable...
(FocusFocus is a Dutch rock band. It was founded by classically trained organist/flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969, and is most famous for the songs "Hocus Pocus" and "Sylvia".- The 1970s :...
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- Khalid Al-Thawadi
Khalid Al-Thawadi is the lead guitarist in Al Ekhwa or "The Brothers” band, Bahrain's most popular musical band. He is the second man in the band after the lead singer Ali Bahar. Khalid Al-Thawady was the Middle East's best guitarist in 1996 and Asia's best guitarist in 2001 beating many foreign...
(BrothersBrothers are male siblings.Brothers may also refer to:* Brothers, Oregon, United States* Brothers Cider, a brand of cider made in England* Past Brothers, commonly called Brothers, an Australian rugby league team...
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- Nate Albert
Nathan Albert is an American musician best known as a guitarist for ska-core band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. He left them to go to Brown University in 2000. Soon he started a new band, The Kickovers, that released one album, Osaka, and disbanded in 2003.On July 15, 2008 he was named the Vice...
(The Mighty Mighty BosstonesThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American third wave ska band from Boston, Massachusetts.Formed in 1983, the Bosstones are credited with the creation of the ska-core genre, a form of music that mixes elements of third wave ska and hardcore punk...
, The KickoversThe Kickovers were a pop punk band formed by Nate Albert, former guitarist of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.After Nate left the Bosstones to go to Brown University, he started writing songs, which were not like his previous band. In 2001, he got a band together with Bosstones drummer Joe Sirois,...
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- Steve Albini
Steven Frank Albini is an American audio engineer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, avid snorkeler and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman, and Flour, and is currently a member of Shellac...
(Big BlackBig Black was an American noise punk band founded in Evanston, Illinois, United States, that was active between 1982 and 1987. They were headed by singer, lyricist, guitarist, and co-songwriter Steve Albini....
, RapemanRapeman was an American noise rock group founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989. It consisted of Steve Albini on guitar and vocals, David Wm. Sims on bass, and Rey Washam on drums.In an interview, Albini reported that 'Rapeman' is .....
, ShellacShellac is an American noise rock group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
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- Nicolas de Angelis
-Early years:Born in Saint-Cloud, a west Parisian suburb along the shores of the Seine River, de Angelis studied guitar at the Paris Academy from the age of ten....
- Art Alexakis
Arthur Paul "Art" Alexakis is the American singer, lead guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Everclear.-Early life:...
(EverclearEverclear is a rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1992. For most of its existence, Everclear consisted of Art Alexakis , Craig Montoya , and Greg Eklund . Eklund replaced original drummer Scott Cuthbert in 1994...
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- Kris Allen
Kristopher Neil Allen is an American singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol...
- Paul Allender
Paul Allender is the guitarist of the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.- Early life :Paul Allender was born on 17 November 1970 in Colchester, Essex, UK....
(Cradle of FilthCradle of Filth are an English Extreme metal band from Suffolk, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a great deal of discussion....
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- Duane Allman
Howard Duane Allman was an American lead guitarist, co-founder of the Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band, and respected session musician...
(The Allman Brothers BandThe Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band once based in Macon, Georgia, United States. The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman...
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- Niklas Almqvist
Nicholaus Arson is a guitarist and backup vocalist of the Swedish Garage Rock band The Hives.-Career:...
(The HivesThe Hives are a Swedish rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival, playing garage punk. Their mainstream success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to...
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- Carlos Alomar
Carlos Alomar is an American guitarist, composer and arranger best known for his work with David Bowie, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician.-History:...
(David BowieDavid Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
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- Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo Girol 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 and the rociero band Salmarina, and he has acted as a...
- Michael Amott
Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott...
(Arch Enemy)
- Christopher Amott
Christopher Amott is a Swedish guitar player and vocalist, younger brother of Michael Amott and founding member of the Swedish metal bands Arch Enemy and Armageddon.-Biography:...
(Arch Enemy)
- Trey Anastasio
Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 140 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole...
(PhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, exploration of music across genres, and devoted fan base. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until an official breakup in...
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- Ian Anderson
Ian Scott Anderson, MBE is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the head of British rock band Jethro Tull.-Early life:...
(Jethro TullJethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969....
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- Magnus Andersson
- Nicke Andersson
Nicke Andersson , born August 1, 1972 is a singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammies award winning rock band The Hellacopters as well as a the former drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed...
(Hellacopters, Supershit 666Supershit 666 or Super$hit666 were a rock supergroup consisting of Ginger from The Wildhearts on vocals, Nicke Andersson from the Hellacopters on drums, Dregen from the Backyard Babies on guitar, and Swedish producer Thomas Skogsberg on bass....
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- Faraz Anwar
Faraz Anwar is a Pakistani Progressive metal guitarist known for his solo instrumental work and his band Mizraab.- Biography :...
(MizraabMizraab was a Progressive metal band from Pakistan. Mizraab means "A plectrum made by hand from a continuous strand of iron used to strike the strings of the sitar".- History :...
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- Aoi
Aoi may refer to:*Ao , a Japanese color word **Aoi, the Japanese adjectival form of ao*AND-OR-Invert, a Boolean logic gate*Aoi , the three letters "aoi"*Aoi Matsuri, a festival that takes place annually on 15 May in Kyoto, Japan...
(The GazetteThe Gazette is a title of several newspapers and magazines, including:-English newspapers:*The Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada*The Gazette, Chicago, Illinois, United States*The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States...
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- Gem Archer
Gem Archer , is an English musician best known for his work with Heavy Stereo and Oasis. He joined Oasis as rhythm guitarist in November 1999, and handled lead guitar as well. He also contributed towards the writing of some of the band's songs...
(OasisOasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
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- Jamie Arentzen
Jamie Arentzen is a member of the alternative rock band American Hi-Fi and lead guitarist for Miley Cyrus. In the spring of 2009, he also played with Butch Walker's band, Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonites. He is currently touring with Miley Cyrus.-Biography:Arentzen attended Guilford High...
(American Hi-FiAmerican Hi-Fi is an American Alternative rock band based in Los Angeles, California, originally hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of vocalist Stacy Jones, guitarist Jamie Arentzen, bassist Drew Parsons and drummer Brian Nolan....
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- Armik
Armik is an Iranian-Armenian flamenco guitarist and composer.Launching his solo career in 1994, Armik drew upon his jazz roots and flamenco passions to create a twist on the emerging Nuevo Flamenco sound...
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs...
(Green DayGreen Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tré Cool for the majority of its existence....
, Pinhead GunpowderPinhead Gunpowder is an East Bay, California punk rock band consisting of Aaron Cometbus , Bill Schneider , Billie Joe Armstrong and Jason White...
, Foxboro Hot TubsThe Foxboro Hot Tubs is an American rock n' roll band. The group made its debut in December 2007 with three songs on their website. Soon after, the Foxboro Hot Tubs were discovered and subsequently made headlines, being heralded as the next secret side project of Green Day, which was later...
, The NetworkThe Network is a six-piece New Wave band, which is a secret side project of the members of Green Day. They released their debut album Money Money 2020 on Billie Joe Armstrong's independent record label Adeline Records on September 30, 2003. A re-release of the album, with two bonus tracks, followed...
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- Tim Armstrong
Timothy Lockwood Armstrong is an American musician and songwriter best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers, and the Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records....
(Operation IvyOperation Ivy was an influential ska punk band formed in Albany, California. The band is well known as the pioneers of ska-core, a genre that fuses elements of hardcore with ska punk...
, RancidRancid is an American punk rock band from Albany, California, formed in 1991. Founded by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy, the band is credited with helping to revive mainstream popular interest in punk rock in the United States during...
, Transplants)
- Paul Arthurs
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs is one of the founding members of English rock band Oasis and rhythm guitar player from 1991-1999....
(OasisOasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
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- Daniel Ash
Daniel Ash is a textural guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, he made a decision to be on a stage in some way...
(BauhausBauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy , Daniel Ash , Kevin Haskins and David J . The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation...
, Tones on TailTones on Tail was a musical side project created by Daniel Ash of Bauhaus along with art-schoolfriend/flatmate and "Bauhaus roadie" Glenn Campling in 1982. After the breakup of Bauhaus in 1983, they were joined by drummer Kevin Haskins. The band disbanded in 1984 shortly before Ash and Haskins went...
, Love and RocketsLove and Rockets are an alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist, Peter Murphy, had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983...
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- DJ Ashba
Daren Jay Ashba is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is currently a guitarist in Sixx:A.M...
(BulletBoysBulletBoys is an American hard rock band that were formed by vocalist Marq Torien , guitarist Mick Sweda, and bassist Lonnie Vencent in the late 1980s after they left King Kobra. They also featured new, young rock drummer Jimmy D'Anda.-Biography:BulletBoys was formed in 1986 in Los Angeles,...
, Beautiful CreaturesBeautiful Creatures are a hard rock band formed in 2000, and are led by veteran of the Sunset Strip Joe Leste, who had spent most of the 1980s with Glam Metal band Bang Tango. For Beautiful Creatures, he abandoned his Sunset Strip roots for the trendy and more commercially viable post-grunge rock...
, Sixx:A.M.Sixx:A.M. is a hard rock band formed in 2007 by Nikki Sixx, DJ Ashba, and James Michael. It is the side-project of Mötley Crüe bass guitarist Nikki Sixx. The group is best known for their song "Life Is Beautiful".Sixx:A.M...
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- Peter Asher
Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer.-Early life:...
(Peter and Gordon)
- Ron Asheton
Ronald Frank Asheton was an American guitarist and co-songwriter with Iggy Pop for the rock band The Stooges.-Biography:...
(The StoogesThe Stooges are an American rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences...
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- Gwyn Ashton
Gwyn Ashton is a blues and rock guitarist. He spent most of his life in Australia but now lives in England. He has performed as opening act for Rory Gallagher, B. B...
- John Ashton
John Ashton , is a British musician, songwriter and record producer...
(The Psychedelic Furs)
- Sergio Assad
Sérgio Assad is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with brother, Odair Assad, under the names The Assad Brothers and Duo Assad.-Biography:...
- Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.His picking style, inspired by...
- Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson , born Paul Ashley Warren Atkinson, was a pop guitarist in the legendary pop/rock band The Zombies. Born in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, and educated at St Albans School, he later became an artists and repertoire executive, discovering and signing such bands as ABBA, Bruce Hornsby, Mr...
(The ZombiesThe Zombies are an English rock band. Formed in 1959 in St Albans and led by Rod Argent on piano and Colin Blunstone on vocals, the band scored US hits in the mid- and late-1960s with "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "Time of the Season"...
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- Dan Auerbach
Daniel Quine Auerbach is a multi-instrumentalist best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio.- Childhood and early life :...
(The Black KeysThe Black Keys are an American blues-rock music duo consisting of vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer/producer Patrick Carney. They were formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001...
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- Bryce Avary (The Rocket Summer
The Rocket Summer is the rock solo-project of Bryce Avary who is based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Avary plays every instrument on his records as well as produces them.-Overview:...
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- Trey Azagthoth
Trey Azagthoth is an American composer and guitarist best known as founder and guitarist of the Florida death metal band Morbid Angel. Azagthoth began playing at the age of 16...
(Morbid AngelMorbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death, Possessed, Obituary, Massacre, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre...
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- Jim Babjak
Jim Babjak Jim Babjak Jim Babjak (born November 17, 1957, is the lead guitar player and founding member of The Smithereens. He has written and sung several songs for the band...
(The SmithereensThe Smithereens are a rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States. The group formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio , Jim Babjak , Mike Mesaros , and Dennis Diken...
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- Ayub Bachchu
Ayub Bachchu is a famous Bangladeshi rock musician and the leading guitarists in the country. Born in 16 August at Chittagong, Bangladesh he was initially a member of the band Feelings and later he joined the band Souls as lead guitarist...
(Love Runs Blind LRB is a Bangladeshi band, which was started in 1991 by guitarist Ayub Bachchu. LRB originally stood for Little River Band, but this name was taken by an Australian band and the band name was changed to Love Runs Blind."- History :...
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- Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born in April 29, 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre...
(Shadows FallShadows Fall is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. They are one of the few bands who take their lyrical influence from Eastern philosophy...
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- Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles Bachman, OC, OM was lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s-70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive...
(Bachman-Turner OverdriveBachman–Turner Overdrive was a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums in that decade alone. The band has sold an estimated 20 million albums worldwide, and has fans affectionately known as "gearheads"...
, The Guess WhoThe Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Produced by Jack Richardson, C.M., they were the first Canadian rock group to have a No.1 hit in the United States ....
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- Ian Bairnson
Ian Bairnson is a Scottish musician, famous for being one of the core members of The Alan Parsons Project...
(PilotPilot was a pop rock musical group, formed during 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by the former Bay City Rollers members, David Paton and Billy Lyall.-Career:Joined by Stuart Tosh and Ian Bairnson, the band recorded several demos during 1973 and 1974....
, The Alan Parsons ProjectThe Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons.-History:Englishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974...
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- Brian Baker
Brian Baker is an American punk rock musician. He is best known as one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and as a guitarist in Bad Religion since 1994 alongside Greg Hetson and later Brett Gurewitz as well...
(Minor ThreatMinor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
, Dag NastyDag Nasty was a Washington D.C. punk band formed in 1985 by Brian Baker of Minor Threat, Colin Sears and Roger Marbury , both of Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, and Shawn Brown later of Swiz and Jesuseater ....
, Bad ReligionBad Religion is an American punk rock band founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout...
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- Dave Baksh
David Nizaam "Brownsound" Baksh is a Canadian guitarist, singer and producer of Indo-Guyanese descent, best known as the ex-lead guitarist of an pop punk band Sum 41, but has since became a singer/guitarist in his own heavy metal/reggae project Brown Brigade...
(Sum 41Sum 41 is a rock band from Ajax, Ontario active since 1996. The current members are Deryck Whibley , Jason McCaslin , Steve Jocz , and Tom Thacker .In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records...
, Brown BrigadeBrown Brigade is a reggae-influenced heavy metal band created by former Sum 41 guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh, after leaving Sum 41 in May 2006...
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- David Ball (Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers. The duo is well known for their huge worldwide hit in 1981 with a cover version of "Tainted Love"...
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- Balsac the Jaws of Death
Balsac the Jaws of Death is the guitarist in the rock band GWAR. He appears as a humanoid creature with a face resembling a bear-trap. BalSac is usually portrayed wielding a giant battleaxe. In contrast to the other bandmates, Balzac speaks with a pretentious British accent...
(GWARGwar is a Grammy Award-nominated thrash metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1985. The band is best known for their elaborate sci-fi/horror film inspired costumes; raunchy, obscene lyrics; and graphic stage performances, which consist of humorous re-enactments of political and moral taboo...
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- Terry Balsamo
Terence Patrick David Balsamo , is an American guitarist. He is a member and guitarist of alternative metal band Cold and is the guitarist of the Grammy Award winning alternative metal band Evanescence....
(EvanescenceEvanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording two private EPs and a demo CD named Origin, with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on...
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- Perry Bamonte
Perry Archangelo Bamonte is an Anglo-Italian musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:...
(The CureThe Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 by Robert Smith, Lawrence Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
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- Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he returned to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in...
- Benji Madden
Benji Madden is an American record producer, DJ and the guitarist and backup vocalist for the band Good Charlotte, he co-founded with his identical twin brother, Joel Madden.-Early life:...
(Good CharlotteGood Charlotte is an American Pop Punk band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. They took their name from the children's book called "Good Charlotte: The Girls of Good Day Orphanage," written by Carol Beach York....
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- Paul Banks
Paul Julian Banks is an English-American musician best known as the lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of the band Interpol. He is also a solo artist under the name Julian Plenti. As a singer, Banks' voice lies in the baritone range.-Early life:Banks was born in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England...
(InterpolInterpol is an American indie rock band formed in 1998 in New York City. The band's line-up is Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino ....
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- Carl Barat
Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is an English musician and most recently, actor. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things and the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the indie rock band The Libertines.-Early life:...
(The LibertinesThe Libertines were an English rock band. Formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty , the band also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
, Dirty Pretty ThingsDirty Pretty Things were an English band fronted by Carl Barât, a former member of The Libertines. The formation of the band was announced in September 2005, after a dispute between Barât and Pete Doherty led to the breakup of The Libertines in 2004. Barât had worked with Vertigo Records and had...
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- Barbecue Bob
Robert Hicks, better known as Barbecue Bob was an early American country blues musician. His nickname came from the fact that he was a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two extant photographs of Bob show him playing his guitar while wearing a full length white apron and cook's hat.-Early...
- Warren Barfield
Warren Barfield is a Christian musician.Born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Barfield's music is often classified as a mix of pop, rock, folk, and soul. His compositions are largely inspired by the Christian writers, Brennan Manning and Philip Yancey. He was part of the "In the Name of Love Tour" in...
- Don Barnes
Don Barnes is an American rock vocalist and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of the Southern rock band 38 Special...
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- Mick Barr
Mick Barr is an American avant-garde metal guitarist. Notable for his relentless speed and agility on his instrument, he is most well known for being one half of the band Orthrelm, currently signed to Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings label....
(OrthrelmOrthrelm is an American avant-garde metal band from Washington, D.C..- Biography :Orthrelm is a duo with Mick Barr on guitar and Josh Blair on drums, experimenting in many forms of unconventional songwriting styles and musical concepts in general....
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- Martin Barre
Martin Lancelot Barre is an English rock musician.Barre has been the guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull since 1969. He has appeared on every Jethro Tull album except This Was...
(Jethro TullJethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969....
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- Aaron Barrett
Aaron Asher Barrett is an American musician. He is the lead singer, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter for the ska-punk band Reel Big Fish. Prior to forming with Reel Big Fish, Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act, The Scholars, along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott...
(Reel Big FishReel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out." The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off...
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- Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst...
(Pink FloydPink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...
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- Agustín Barrios
Agustín Pío Barrios , an eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer, was born May 5, 1885, in the department of Misiones, Paraguay and died August 7, 1944 in San Salvador, El Salvador...
- Nicholas Barron
Nicholas Barron is an American folk music and blues guitarist based in Chicago, Illinois. Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barron soon moved to New Jersey and spent his childhood growing up in Morristown, NJ. His mother was a chidren's librarian, while his father is a painter. His earliest...
- Steve Bartek
Steve Bartek, born in Garfield Heights, Ohio on January 30, 1952, is an American guitarist, film composer, conductor and orchestrator.-Early career:Bartek started off with the short lived band Strawberry Alarm Clock....
(Oingo BoingoOingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts...
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- Michael Angelo Batio
Michael Angelo Batio is an American heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Batio was voted the "No. 1 Shredder of All Time" by Guitar One Magazine in 2003...
(NitroNitro was an American glam metal band that formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1987. Formed by vocalist Jim Gillette and guitarist Michael Angelo Batio, the band released two studio albums – O.F.R. and Nitro II: H.W.D.W.S. .-History:Nitro was officially formed in 1987 after the...
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- Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten is an American guitarist who first received word-of-mouth attention that eventually led guitar magazines to take notice of her approach to the electric guitar...
- Roland Bautista
Roland Bautista is a guitar player who has played in the band Earth, Wind & Fire, and also with Tom Waits.-Career:Bautista played on the EWF album Last Days and Time and left the band soon after the album's release....
(Earth, Wind & FireEarth, Wind & Fire is an African American R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and led by founder Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the Elements or the Elements of the Universe, the band has won ten Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock...
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- Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American jazz-rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
, The Doobie BrothersThe Doobie Brothers are an American rock band. They have sold over 30 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.-Original incarnation:...
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- Brendan Bayliss
Brendan Bayliss is an American musician, the founder, a lead guitarist alongside fellow guitarist and band member Jake Cinninger, and primary vocalist for progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee. He formed the band in 1997 and took its moniker from the name of a distant relative he met at a wedding...
(Umphrey's McGeeUmphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band originally from South Bend, Indiana, now based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation."...
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- Eric Bazilian
Eric Bazilian is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters.-Early life:...
(The HootersThe Hooters are an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including "Day By Day," "And We...
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- Reb Beach
Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake.-Career:...
(Winger, WhitesnakeWhitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple but by the mid eighties Whitesnake had moved away from the early blues-rock influenced heavy metal to a more commercial hard rock style.They were recently...
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- Sam Beam (Iron & Wine
Samuel Beam, better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine , is an American singer-songwriter. He has released four studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live album...
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- Michael Bearpark
-Work as scientist:Bearpark is a Principal Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, London. He works in computational chemistry, including method and software development with applications to modeling the excited electronic states of large molecules and their photochemical...
(DarkroomDarkroom is a British electronic music project created by Andrew "Os" Ostler and Michael Bearpark .Other contributors to the project have been Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers ....
, No-ManNo-Man is a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson . The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections...
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- Corey Beaulieu (Trivium
Trivium is a heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999. The band has released four studio albums, eleven singles, and twelve music videos...
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- Beck
Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck...
- Billy Martin
William Dean "Billy" Martin is an American musician best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Life and career:...
(Good CharlotteGood Charlotte is an American Pop Punk band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. They took their name from the children's book called "Good Charlotte: The Girls of Good Day Orphanage," written by Carol Beach York....
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- Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck 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...
(The YardbirdsThe Yardbirds are an English rock band, notable for starting the careers of three of rock's more famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top fifteen of Rolling Stones' 100 Top Guitarists list...
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- Joe Beck
Joe Beck was an American guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
- Joe Becker
- Jason Becker
Jason Becker, is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988...
(CacophonyCacophony was an American metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Cacophony is often recognized for its technically challenging, neo-classical metal and speed metal elements, as well as featuring two shred guitarists...
, David Lee RothDavid Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the original and current lead singer of Van Halen. In addition to his work with Van Halen, Roth is a successful solo artist, having released several platinum and gold solo albums...
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- Walter Becker
Walter Carl Becker is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and a co-writing half of the duo which make up the rock band Steely Dan.-Career:...
(Steely DanSteely Dan is an American jazz-rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
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- Peter Beckett
Peter Beckett is a English musician and songwriter who has recorded written songs for many prominent recording artists and for several films, as well as produced solo work. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist for 1970s soft rock group Player, which scored a U.S. #1 hit in 1977 with...
(PlayerPlayer is an American rock band during the late 1970s. Their #1 hit, "Baby Come Back" was written by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley.-Career:...
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- Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...
(King CrimsonKing Crimson is a progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation drawing from jazz, classical and...
, The BearsThe Bears is an American band formed in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio that continues to create new music today. Its sound could be categorized as power pop, but draws from a diverse palette of influences, and features the distinctive avant-garde guitar playing of Adrian Belew, the band's most prominent...
; Talking HeadsTalking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
, David BowieDavid Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
, Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album...
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- Brian Bell
Brian Bell, is a American guitarist and songwriter. Active since 1989, is best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the American alternative rock band Weezer. Bell joined Weezer in 1993 following the departure of founding member Jason Cropper...
(WeezerWeezer is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper . Cropper was later replaced by Brian Bell...
, Space TwinsSpace Twins were an American rock band fronted by Weezer guitarist Brian Bell.-Early years:Space Twins was founded in 1993 by Weezer guitarist Brian Bell and, his then girlfriend, Susan Fox. Intitially, the band was a small project in which the two would dress up in Star Trek style outfits with...
, The RelationshipThe Relationship is a rock band started in 2006 by Weezer guitarist Brian Bell and Nate Shaw. has described themselves as " Longtime Friends Start Rock And Roll Band And Make Record...Hilarity Ensues." The band consists of Brian Bell, keyboardist Eric J, bassist Jason Hiller, drummer Blair Sinta,...
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- Eric Bell
Eric Robin Bell is a rock musician and guitarist.He was the lead guitarist for Thin Lizzy, and played on the band's first three albums Thin Lizzy, Shades of a Blue Orphanage and Vagabonds of the Western World...
(Thin LizzyThin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major...
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- Matthew Bellamy
Matthew James Bellamy is an English musician and composer, who is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist of the rock band Muse.-Biography:...
(MuseMuse are a multi award-winning British alternative rock band that formed in Teignmouth, Devon in 1994. Since its inception, the band has comprised vocalist, guitarist and pianist Matthew Bellamy; bassist and backing vocalist Christopher Wolstenholme; and drummer Dominic Howard...
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- Roni Benise
- Bob Bennett
Bob Bennett was born on March 21, 1955 in Downey, California. He picked up his first guitar at age nine and formed a rock 'n' roll band in high school. In the late seventies he converted to Christianity and his songwriting began to reflect his newfound faith....
- Chester Bennington
Chester Charles Bennington is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead vocalist in the rock band Linkin Park and Dead By Sunrise, he was previously associated with the band Grey Daze, among others...
(Linkin ParkLinkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California, formed in 1996. Since their formation, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards. It achieved mainstream success with its debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005...
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- Brendan Benson
Brendan Benson is an American musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and drums...
(The RaconteursThe Raconteurs , are a rock band formed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring four members known for other musical projects: Jack White , Brendan Benson , Jack Lawrence , and Patrick Keeler .-Formation:The band is...
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- George Benson
George Benson 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 child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin...
- Miki Berenyi
Miki Berenyi is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. She was the lead singer of now disbanded group, Lush.- Music :...
(LushLush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1996. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label, later moving towards Britpop.-History:...
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- Chuck Berry
Charles Edward "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.Chuck Berry is one of the pioneers of rock and roll music...
- Nuno Bettencourt
Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for his role as the lead guitarist of the Boston hard rock band Extreme whose hits include the acoustic ballads "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted"...
(ExtremeExtreme is an American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt, that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Among some of Extreme's musical influences are Queen and Van Halen...
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- Dickey Betts
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, most known for his work as a founding member, with Duane Allman, of the southern blues/rock group The Allman Brothers Band...
(The Allman Brothers BandThe Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band once based in Macon, Georgia, United States. The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman...
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- Randall Bewley
Randall "Randy" Bewley was the guitarist for the Athens, Georgia band Pylon. Born in Bradenton, Florida, United States. He lived in Sarasota, Florida, Washington, DC and near Atlanta, Georgia while growing up. Bewley attended the University of Georgia art school where he met Michael Lachowski, a...
(PylonPylon is a rock band from Athens, Georgia, USA. They are considered one of the seminal groups of the Athens music scene where their influence has been pervasive. The band R.E.M...
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- Bo Bice
Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice, Jr. is an American singer and musician who placed second to Carrie Underwood in the fourth season of American Idol.-Early years:...
- Marco Biazzi (Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian rock band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid...
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- Big Tom
Tom McBride better known as Big Tom is an Irish country music singer, guitarist, and saxophone player. Established since 1966 he is currently front man of the Irish showband Big Tom and The Mainliners...
- Kat Bjelland
Katherine "Kat" Bjelland is an American punk rock musician. She is the former lead singer and guitarist of the band Babes in Toyland, and is currently the lead singer/guitarist of the band Katastrophy Wife.-Childhood:...
(Babes in ToylandBabes in Toyland were an American grunge and punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. Between 1989 and 1995 the band recorded three studio albums, and were associated with grunge music. Though never a part of the riot grrrl scene, media quickly mislabeled their music as such...
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- Anders Björler
Anders Björler is a musician from Sweden. He is the current lead guitarist for heavy metal band The Haunted. He is also a film director and editor, running his own company At The Gates Production....
(At the GatesAt the Gates was a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death metal sound. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a reunion tour. The last show was on 21 September, 2008....
, The HauntedThe Haunted is a Swedish thrash metal band, formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The original members were Patrik Jensen , Jonas Björler , Adrian Erlandsson , Anders Björler , and Peter Dolving...
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- Clint Black
Clint Patrick Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks...
- Jack Black
Jack Black , is an American actor and musician, notably of Tenacious D.Jack Black may also refer to:* Jack Black , late 19th - early 20th Century author and hobo* Jack Black , drummer for 70s UK punk band The Boys...
(Tenacious DTenacious D, also known as "The D", is an American rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Comprising lead vocalist and guitarist Jack Black and lead guitarist and vocalist Kyle Gass, the band has released two albums – Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny...
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- Ryland Blackinton
Ryland Blackinton is the lead guitarist for the band Cobra Starship. He is from Wilmington MA, but was born in South Kingstown Rhode Island on March 31st. Before joining Cobra Starship, Ryland, along with high school best friend Alex Suarez formed the folky/pop duo This Is Ivy League...
(Cobra StarshipCobra Starship is an American pop punk band created by former Midtown bassist and lead vocalist Gabe Saporta, who continues his role as a vocalist for the band....
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- Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist, who was a founding member of hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. He left Deep Purple in 1993 due to a growing rift between Blackmore and other members in spite of renewed commercial success...
(Deep PurpleDeep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorise themselves as any one genre. The band...
, RainbowRainbow were an English rock band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members; lead singer Ronnie James Dio , keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll...
, Blackmore's NightBlackmore's Night is a Renaissance-inspired folk rock band led by Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night .-Early:...
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- Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
- Zach Blair
Zach Blair is the lead guitarist and co-composer for Chicago-based hardcore punk band Rise Against. Zach is originally from Sherman, Texas.Before joining Rise Against in early 2007, Blair was a member of hardcore punk group Only Crime along with his brother, Doni Blair who currently plays with the...
(HagfishHagfish are marine craniates of the class Myxini, also known as Hyperotreti. Myxini is the only class in the clade Craniata that does not also belong to the subphylum Vertebrata...
, GWARGwar is a Grammy Award-nominated thrash metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1985. The band is best known for their elaborate sci-fi/horror film inspired costumes; raunchy, obscene lyrics; and graphic stage performances, which consist of humorous re-enactments of political and moral taboo...
, Only CrimeOnly Crime is a melodic hardcore supergroup formed by Good Riddance singer Russ Rankin and Bane guitarist Aaron Dalbecin 2003. The band plays melodic but hard-hitting punk rock that borrows heavily from early-1980s hardcore bands such as Black Flag....
, Rise AgainstRise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. Their current lineup consists of Tim McIlrath , Joe Principe , Brandon Barnes , and Zach Blair , all of whom are straight edge PETA supporters and strict vegetarians/vegans...
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- Norman Blake
Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...
- Norman Blake
Norman Blake is a singer-songwriter in the Glasgow based band, Teenage Fanclub.Blake and Sean Dickson were in The Faith Healers together, which also contained various members at different times Stevie Gray, Hugh McLaughlin, Brian Carson and Colin Murray to name but a few.Blake and Carson were...
(Teenage FanclubTeenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love...
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- Ron Block
Ronald Franklin "Ron" Block is an American bluegrass musician mainly playing the banjo and the guitar, singing, and writing gospel music.-Biography:...
(Alison KraussAlison Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987...
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- Conny Bloom
Conny Bloom is a Swedish guitarist and songwriter of the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks...
(Hanoi RocksHanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 largely due to the death of their drummer, Nicholas 'Razzle' Dingley...
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- Mike Bloomfield
Michael Bernard Bloomfield was an American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation entirely on his instrumental prowess...
- Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan , was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T...
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- Marcie Bolen
Marcie Bolen is an American guitarist from Detroit, Michigan. She grew up in Southgate, Michigan and went to school for art and cosmetology.-Musical career:...
(The Von BondiesThe Von Bondies are an American alternative rock band. The current members are Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar, Leann Banks on bass guitar and Don Blum on drums....
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- Tommy Bolin
Thomas Richard 'Tommy' Bolin was an American-born guitarist best known for his work with Zephyr , The James Gang , Deep Purple , and his solo work.- Musical career :Tommy Bolin began playing in bands around Sioux City as a youth before moving to Boulder, Colorado, in...
- Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa is an American blues-rock guitarist/singer.-Early life:Bonamassa was born in Utica, New York, USA. He received his first guitar from his father at the age of 5, by 7 he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughn tunes note for note...
- Bono
Paul David Hewson, KBE , most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife,...
(U2U2 are a rock band that formed in Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr...
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- Nicke Borg
Nicklas Roger Borg is the lead singer and guitarist for Swedish punk rock band Backyard Babies and has been since 1989....
(Backyard BabiesBackyard Babies are a Swedish Punk rock band, from Nässjö, Sweden. The band was formed in 1987, over the years they have released five studio albums and have won a Swedish Grammy...
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- Adrian Borland
Adrian Borland was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, bestknown as the lead singer of post-punk band The Sound...
(The SoundThe Sound were an English post-punk band, formed in 1979 disbanding in 1988. The band was fronted by Adrian Borland and evolved from his previous band, The Outsiders...
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- Wes Borland
Wesley Louden Borland , better known as Wes Borland, is an American musician, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit....
(Limp BizkitLimp Bizkit is an American nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band achieved success with over 30 million albums sold worldwide. The members of the band include vocalist Fred Durst, guitarist Wes Borland, bassist Sam Rivers, drummer John Otto and DJ Lethal...
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- James Bourne
James Elliot Bourne is a singer-songwriter and co-founder of the two former pop bands Son of Dork and Busted. He is currently pursuing a solo career under the name Future Boy, while working with Call Me When I'm 18...
(Son of DorkSon of Dork were a British pop band formed by James Bourne after his previous band, Busted, split in January 2005. The name of the band came from a scene in the movie Problem Child where the chant "Son of Dork" is used. Their debut single, "Ticket Outta Loserville", was released in November 2005,...
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- Pierre Bouvier
Pierre Charles Bouvier is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the lead singer for pop punk band Simple Plan.-Biography:...
(Simple PlanSimple Plan is a French Canadian pop punk band based in Montréal, Québec. They have released three studio albums: No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls , Still Not Getting Any... , and Simple Plan ; as well as two widely marketed live albums: Live in Japan 2002 and MTV Hard Rock Live .-Formation...
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- Robert Bowlin
Robert Bowlin is an award-winning American bluegrass and country musician.-Biography:Bowlin started playing ukelele when he was one, and by the time he was five years old he had picked up the guitar....
- Will Boyd
William James Boyd , better known as Will Boyd, is the former bass guitarist of alternative metal band Evanescence....
(American PrincesAmerican Princes is an indie rock band from Little Rock, AR. The band started in 2003 when David Slade, then-bassist John Beachboard and drummer Matthew Quin, after considering a music career in New York City, decided to move to Little Rock where the cost of living was cheaper...
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- Mick Box
Michael Frederick Box is the lead guitarist of British rock group Uriah Heep. He is the only member from the band's founding in 1969 who is still active with the group. A large part of the initial success of the band, he is often overshadowed by members David Byron and Ken Hensley...
(Uriah HeepUriah Heep are an English rock band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice, a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
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- James Dean Bradfield
James Dean Bradfield is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.- Career :Born on 21 February 1969 in Pontypool, Monmouthshire he attended the local Oakdale Comprehensive school near Blackwood where he suffered years of cruelty and bullying for his name, lazy...
(Manic Street PreachersManic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield , Nicky Wire and Sean Moore...
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- Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper, as well as singles such as "Everywhere," "All You Wanted," "Goodbye To You," "Are You Happy Now?," "Breathe" and the Grammy-winning...
- Laurent Brancowitz
Laurent Brancowitz is a musician best knownfor being one of the guitarists from the French pop band Phoenix.- Darlin' :...
(PhoenixPhoenix is a French alternative rock band started during their childhood by Thomas Mars, Deck D'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz in the suburb of Versailles, in the same culture that produced late-'90s bands such as Air and Daft Punk....
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- Vito Bratta
Vito Bratta was the lead guitarist and lead songwriter for the 1980s rock band White Lion from 1983 to 1992....
(White LionWhite Lion is an American/Danish glam metal band that was formed in New York City in 1983 by Danish vocalist Mike Tramp and American guitarist Vito Bratta. Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, the band achieved double platinum status with their #8 hit "Wait" and #3 hit "When the Children Cry"...
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- Creed Bratton
Creed Bratton is an actor and former member of The Grass Roots. He is best known as a cast member on the NBC comedy series The Office.-Background and education:...
(The Grass RootsThe Grass Roots are a U.S. rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri....
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- Jacques Brautbar
Jacques Brautbar is an American photographer and guitarist, formerly of rock band Phantom Planet. He left the band in 2004, after their self-titled third album, to pursue a career in photography...
(Phantom PlanetPhantom Planet is an alternative rock band from Southern California. The band is best known for its track "California", which became the theme song for the Fox TV series, The O.C..-History:...
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- Julian Bream
Julian Bream C.B.E. is a British guitarist and lutenist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century. He has also been successful in renewing popular interest in the Renaissance lute.-Biography:...
- Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau was a Canadian guitarist. He was known for blending many styles of music including: jazz, country, classical and flamenco guitar. Breau, inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, used fingerstyle techniques not often used in jazz guitar.-Biography:Breau was born August 5, 1941,...
- Thomas Bredahl
Thomas Bredahl is a Danish guitarist. He is currently the guitarist of the bands Volbeat and Gob Squad. Bredahl joined Volbeat in early 2007. He is the successor of Franz Gottschalk, who was fired by Volbeat after the recording of their second album Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil were completed...
(Volbeat)
- Thom Bresh
Thom Bresh , the son of Country Music Hall of Fame great Merle Travis, is a successful musical performer in his own right.Bresh did not begin his music career until his adult years...
- Paul Brett
Paul Brett is a classic rock guitarist. He played lead guitar with Strawbs, The Overlanders, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, The Velvet Opera, Tintern Abbey, Fire, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, Lonnie Donegan, and switched to twelve string guitar in the 1970s.His first...
- Mike Brewer
Michael Brewer with Tom Shipley were the popular music duo Brewer & Shipley.Mike Brewer formed a duo in Los Angeles in early 1966 called Mastin & Brewer with singer/songwriter Tom Mastin. The group recruited drummer Billy Mundi and bass player Jim Fielder for live dates, opening for The Byrds and...
- John Brewster (The Angels
The Angels may refer to:*The Angels , an American girl group who had hits in the 1960s*The Angels , an Australian hard rock band*The Angels is the English translation of Los Angeles, California in the USA...
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- Vic Briggs
Victor Harvey Briggs III is a former blues and rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist with Eric Burdon and The Animals during the 1966-1968 period...
(Eric Burdon & The AnimalsThe Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", the...
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- Terry Britten
Terry Britten is a prolific English singer-songwriter, who has written songs for Tina Turner and Sir Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Status Quo, Michael Jackson and many others.-Career:...
- Isaac Brock
Isaac Brock is the lead singer, guitarist, banjoist, and songwriter for the American indie rock band Modest Mouse, as well as his side project band, Ugly Casanova. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. As a singer he is easily distinguished by his slightly lisp-tinged voice, vocal pitching,...
(Modest MouseModest Mouse is an American alternative rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their...
, Ugly CasanovaUgly Casanova is an American indie rock band carried on Sub Pop Records. The band has only released one album: Sharpen Your Teeth.According to the Ugly Casanova website, in 1998 a man named Edgar Graham, a.k.a. "Ugly Casanova", impressed himself upon the band Modest Mouse while backstage at a...
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- David Bromberg
David Bromberg is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Bromberg has an eclectic style, playing bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock & roll equally well. He is known for his quirky, humorous lyrics, and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the same time...
- Devin Bronson
Devin Bronson used to be Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist and previously held positions with Kelly Osbourne's backing band and the Canadian rock band Treble Charger. He is also playing and touring with Ashley Parker Angel. Currently Devin is playing a series of Acoustic shows with Ashley...
(Avril LavigneAvril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress. Lavigne has sold more than 30 million copies of her albums worldwide. She is currently one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in the United States, with over 10.25 million copies certified by the...
, Kelly ClarksonKelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002....
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- Kix Brooks
Kix Brooks , is an American country music singer-songwriter. He is currently one half of the multi-award winning, American, country music duo Brooks & Dunn...
- Meredith Brooks
Meredith Ann Brooks is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.- Early life :...
- Eric Brosius
Eric Brosius is a musician and video game developer, and a former employee of Looking Glass Studios. He is a former member of the band Tribe, and is married to Terri Brosius, also a former Looking Glass employee and Tribe member....
(TribeTribe was an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts which was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They released three albums, two on Slash Records/Warner Bros...
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- Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His political interest and personal angst have been central to his career, resulting in popular songs such as "Somebody's Baby", "These Days", "The Pretender" and "Running On Empty"...
(Nitty Gritty Dirt BandThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded...
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- Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea...
- Norman Brown
Norman Brown is a smooth jazz guitarist & singer, often compared to his predecessor George Benson....
- Michael Bruce
Michael Bruce was a Scottish poet.He was born at Kinnesswood in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross-shire. His father, Alexander Bruce, was a weaver. Michael was taught to read before he was four years old, and one of his favourite books was a copy of Sir David Lyndsay's works...
(Alice CooperAlice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
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- Mark Bryan
Mark Bryan is the lead guitarist for the band Hootie & the Blowfish. He also plays the mandolin, among numerous other instruments, and helps with background vocals....
(Hootie & the BlowfishHootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that enjoyed widespread popularity in the second half of the 1990s. They were originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. The band has recorded seven studio albums to...
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- Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums charting on the Billboard chart...
- Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band R.E.M....
(R.E.M.R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry . R.E.M. was one of the first popular alternative rock bands, and gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's unclear vocals. R.E.M...
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- Buckethead
Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 28 solo albums and performed on over 50 more...
(Guns N' RosesGuns N' Roses is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation...
, PraxisPraxis is the name of an ever-changing musical project, led by prolific producer Bill Laswell. Praxis combine elements of different musical genres such as funk, jazz, hip-hop and heavy metal into highly improvised music...
, Deli CreepsThe Deli Creeps are an experimental rock band consisting of singer Maximum Bob , Buckethead on guitar, drummer Pinchface and changing bass players, currently Daniel Monti...
, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie BrainsColonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains was an experimental supergroup featuring bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Buckethead, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia.-History:...
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- Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham 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 solo albums and a live album. He is married to photographer Kristen...
(Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac are a British/American rock band formed in 1967 in London, England.The only member present in the band from the very beginning is its namesake drummer Mick Fleetwood...
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- Jonny Buckland
Jonathan Mark Buckland , known as Jonny Buckland, is an English guitarist and musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the band Coldplay.-Early life:...
(ColdplayColdplay are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1998. The group comprises Chris Martin , Jonny Buckland , Guy Berryman , and Will Champion .Coldplay's early material was compared to acts such as Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, U2, and Travis...
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- Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
- Conner Buerosse
- Jimmy Buffett
James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday". He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads"...
- Bumblefoot (Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation...
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- Charlie Burchill
Charles "Charlie" Burchill is a Scottish musician and composer. He was one of the founders of Scottish rock group Simple Minds...
(Simple MindsSimple Minds are a rock band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and...
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- Chris Burney (Bowling for Soup
Bowling for Soup is an American pop-punk band which originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994. Now based in Denton, Texas, the band is best known for its singles "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" "Almost", "High School Never Ends", and "1985".-History:Bowling for Soup was formed in Wichita...
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- Ben Burnley (Breaking Benjamin
Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, currently consisting of Benjamin Burnley, Aaron Fink, Mark Klepaski and Chad Szeliga. They have released four albums to date.-Formation:...
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- Christian Burns
Christian Burns is the son of Tony Burns of "The Signs", a Liverpool based rock band, who were signed to Decca Records, in the 1960s....
(BBMakBBMak were an English pop group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold nearly three million albums and spawned six Top 10 and Top 40 singles worldwide between 1999 when the group was formed and 2003 when they eventually disbanded...
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- Jake Burns
Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as a member of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
(Stiff Little FingersStiff Little Fingers are a punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they reformed five years later, in 1987...
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- Vinny Burns
Vinny Burns is an English hard rock guitarist best known for his work in the bands Dare and Ten . He has also recorded and/or toured with Asia, Ultravox, Bob Catley, Hugo, FM, The Ladder, Phoenix Down, and his latest band Burns Blue.-Ten:*Ten *The Name of the Rose *The Robe *Never Say Goodbye...
(TenTen is a British melodic rock/hard rock band.-Biography:In 1996, after the release of his first two albums, Gary Hughes was joined by former Dare members Vinny Burns on guitar and Greg Morgan on drums for what were to be his 3rd and 4th solo albums...
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- R. L. Burnside
R. L. Burnside , born Robert Lee Burnside, was a North Mississippi hill country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist who lived much of his life in and around Holly Springs, Mississippi. He played music for much of his life, but did not receive much attention until the early 1990s...
- Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.-Biography:...
- James Burton
James Burton is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 , Burton has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...
(Rick Nelson, Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King....
, John DenverJohn Denver was an American country music/folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about 200 were composed by him. He was named Poet Laureate of Colorado...
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- Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler is an English musician and record producer.-Career:...
(SuedeSuede were an English alternative rock band of the 1990s and the early 2000s that helped start the Britpop musical movement. Through their several incarnations, they were able to consistently put out albums that charted well, while still holding the respect of critics...
, The TearsThe Tears were an English rock band formed in 2004 by ex-Suede bandmates Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler.-History:Many have wondered how two performers as volatile as Bernard Butler and Brett Anderson who had at one time nurtured such hatred for one another, were reunited after all this time...
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- John Butler
John Butler is an American-Australian musician. He is the frontman of the John Butler Trio, a band that has achieved two platinum records in Australia with Three and Living 2001-2002...
(The John Butler Trio)
- Jonathan Butler
Jonathan Butler is a singer-songwriter and guitarist.His music is often classified as R&B, jazz fusion or smooth jazz.-Biography:...
- Glen Buxton
Glen Edward Buxton was an American musician, and guitarist for the original Alice Cooper band. He was born in Akron, Ohio....
(Alice CooperAlice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
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- Roddy "Radiation" Byers
Roddy Radiation is an English musician who played lead guitar for The Specials, as well as many rockabilly bands such as the Bonediggers and the Tearjerkers...
(The SpecialsThe Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combined a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
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- David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician and artist best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo projects on record, and worked in a variety of media, including...
(Talking HeadsTalking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
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- Jon Bon Jovi
John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of rock band Bon Jovi. He was also the owner of the Philadelphia Soul of the now suspended Arena Football League...
(Bon JoviBon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , Bon Jovi formed in 1983 with guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Tico Torres. Other than the departure of Alec John Such in 1994 and...
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- Fito Cabrales
Adolfo "Fito" Cabrales Mato, , is a songwriter, singer and guitarist.- Biography :Adolfo Cabrales, known as "Fito", was born in the Zabala neighborhood in Bilbao, and spent part of his childhood and adolescence in Laredo, Cantabria, and Málaga. In his youth he worked as a barman in a brothel his...
(Platero y TúPlatero y Tú was a Spanish rock band founded in Bilbao in the 1980s, and disbanded in 2001. Their lyrics speak mainly of drugs, bar issues and love, and their style, being mainly influenced by bands like Status Quo or Leño, and guitarists like John Fogerty from Creedence Clearwater Revival, broke...
, Fito & FitipaldisFito & Fitipaldis is a Spanish band, formed in 1998. It was created by Fito Cabrales with the intention of publishing songs which were not in the style of his other band, Platero y Tú. Its style is a mix of rock, Soul, swing, etc....
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- Kevin Cadogan
Kevin Rene Cadogan is an alternative rock guitarist and songwriter. He is most known for playing lead guitar in the band Third Eye Blind from 1994 to 2000, officially.-Personal history:...
(Third Eye BlindThird Eye Blind is an American alternative rock band formed in the early 1990s in San Francisco. The band's current line-up is Stephan Jenkins , Brad Hargreaves , and Tony Fredianelli . Original bassist Arion Salazar has not been playing with the band, and his future as part of the band is unclear...
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- Chris Caffery
Chris Caffery is a heavy metal guitarist who is best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra...
(Trans Siberian Orchestra)
- Charlotte Caffey
Charlotte Irene Caffey is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter, best known for her work in the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing "We Got the Beat"....
(The Go-Go'sThe Go-Go’s are an all-female American rock band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-woman band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
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- Paul Caiafa (The Misfits, Kryst the Conqueror
Kryst the Conqueror was an American Metal project formed in August of 1987 by two former members of the horror punk band, The Misfits. The project was led by bassist Jerry Only, who adopted a new stage name, "Mo The Great" , and his younger brother, guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein...
, Gorgeous FrankensteinGorgeous Frankenstein is an American horror punk band formed by Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein in 2005 after his departure from the Misfits. The name is a combination of Doyle's stage name and that of his wife, Stephanie Bellars . The first songs were written by Doyle originally for his wife to...
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- J. J. Cale
- Randy California
Randy California was a guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit, formed in 1967....
(SpiritSpirit was an American jazz/hard rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.- The original lineup :The original lineup of the group evolved from an earlier Los Angeles band, The Red Roosters, which included Randy California , Mark Andes and Jay Ferguson...
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- Jo Callis
Jo Callis is an English musician who played guitar with the Edinburgh based punk rock band, The Rezillos , and post-punk band Boots For Dancing. Previously educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, by 1981 he joined The Human League, where he would play both keyboards as well as lead guitar...
(The RezillosThe Rezillos are a punk/new wave band, who formed in Edinburgh in 1976 and still play gigs around the world in a reformed line-up. Although frequently aligned with the punk movement, the Rezillos' irreverent glam rock image and affection for campy girl-group iconography, set them distinctly apart...
, The Human LeagueThe Human League are a British synthpop band. Formed in Sheffield in 1977, they achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s...
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- Mateo Camargo
Mateo Camargo is a Colombian-born songwriter, record producer, and guitarist of rock band Madina Lake.- Early life :Mateo was born on March 11, and grew up in the suburbs of Bogotá, Colombia....
(Madina LakeMadina Lake is an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 2005.Madina Lake released their debut album From Them, Through Us, to You through Roadrunner Records on March 27, 2007...
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- Greg Camp
Greg Camp is an American musician. He is best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the band, Smash Mouth.-Biography:...
(Smash MouthSmash Mouth is an American rock band from San José, California.Formed in 1994, the band comprised Steve Harwell , Greg Camp , Paul De Lisle , and Kevin Coleman...
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- Jeremy Camp
Jeremy Thomas Camp is a contemporary Christian musician from Lafayette, Indiana. Camp has released six albums, three of them RIAA-certified as Gold, and 17 number-one hit songs. His original music is a mixture of ballads and rock....
- Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy and Dove Award-winning and two time Golden Globe-nominated American country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor...
- Mike Campbell
Michael Wayne Campbell is an American guitarist and record producer, best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers....
(Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersFor the New York based band, see The HeartbreakersTom 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 of whom had been members of Mudcrutch...
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- Phil Campbell
Philip Anthony Campbell, born on May 7, 1961 in Pontypridd, Wales, has been the lead guitarist of the British heavy metal band Motörhead since 1984...
(MotörheadMotörhead are a British rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. The band was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which re-energized heavy metal in the late '70s and early '80s. Usually a power trio, Motörhead had...
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- Vivian Campbell
Vivian Patrick Campbell is a Northern Irish rock guitarist and a member of Def Leppard...
(DioDio is an American heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who formed it in 1982 after leaving Black Sabbath. In an interview, available on the special edition re-release of Holy Diver, Dio states that he never intended to begin a solo career. His intention was to form a new band with...
, WhitesnakeWhitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple but by the mid eighties Whitesnake had moved away from the early blues-rock influenced heavy metal to a more commercial hard rock style.They were recently...
, Def LeppardDef Leppard are an English rock band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top-selling rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums...
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- Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge band Alice in Chains, as lead guitarist, backing and co-lead vocalist, and co-lyricist. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects, and is part of Alice in Chains' harmonizing...
(Alice in ChainsAlice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist Jerry Cantrell and vocalist Layne Staley. Although widely associated with grunge music, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal and acoustic elements. Since its formation, Alice in Chains has released...
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- Joey Cape
Joey Cape is an American singer, songwriter and producer. Active since 1989, Cape is best known as the frontman of the seminal California punk rock band Lagwagon, who have released seven studio albums to date ....
(Me First and the Gimme GimmesMe First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in 1995. The Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band. The band is named after a children's book of the same name by Gerald G. Jampolsky and Diane V. Cirincione...
, Bad AstronautBad Astronaut was an American indie/punk rock band founded in 2000 by Joey Cape, singer from Lagwagon. In Bad Astronaut, Joey Cape explores a new style of pop, with lyrics often about deep and intricate personal matters....
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- Mike Carden (The Academy Is...
The Academy Is... is an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2003. They are currently signed by the Decaydance imprint of the Fueled by Ramen label. They were originally known as "The Academy", but added the "Is..." in 2004 to avoid legal complications with other...
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- Larry Carlton
Lawrence Eugene Carlton is an American jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and a singer, from Torrance, California. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands...
- Jesse Carmichael
Jesse Carmichael is an American musician who is the keyboardist for the rock group, Maroon 5....
(Kara's Flowers)
- Stephen Carpenter
Stephen Carpenter, 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 power chords....
(DeftonesDeftones is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1988. Consisting of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham .-Early years: 1989-1993:When Carpenter was 15 years old he was hit by a car while skateboarding...
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- Chris Carrabba
Christopher Andrew "Ender" Carrabba is the lead singer and guitarist of the acoustic-emo band Dashboard Confessional, and previously was the original vocalist for the American emo/indie rock band Further Seems Forever. He was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, and then moved with his family to...
(Dashboard ConfessionalDashboard Confessional is an American band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The band started out as Carrabba playing intimately personal acoustic songs by himself, but eventually the outfit became a full band ensemble....
, Further Seems ForeverFurther Seems Forever was an American rock band formed in 1998 in Pompano Beach, Florida and disbanded in 2006. Over the course of their career the band experienced several lineup changes, resulting in a different lead vocalist performing on each of their three studio albums...
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- Maybelle Carter
"Mother Maybelle" Carter was an American country musician.She was born Maybelle Addington on May 10, 1909 near Nickelsville, Virginia, the daughter of Hugh Jackson Addington and Margaret S. Kilgore...
(Carter FamilyThe Carter Family was a country music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, southern gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars...
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- Vigilante Carlstroem
Mikael Karlsson, or Vigilante Carlstroem as he is better known, is the guitarist of the Swedish rock band The Hives, which formed in 1993 and was one of the most important bands in the garage rock revival.-Biography:...
(The HivesThe Hives are a Swedish rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival, playing garage punk. Their mainstream success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to...
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- Bob Casale
Bob Casale , or "Bob 2" is a keyboardist and rhythm/lead guitar player for the band Devo. Casale was trained as a medical radiation technologist, and is currently a part of Mutato Muzika. In a live show Bob 2 plays Lead/Rhythm guitar and keyboards while working with MIDI sampling. He also sings...
(DevoDevo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American New Wave band formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...
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- Neko Case
Neko Case is an American alternative country singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
(The New PornographersThe New Pornographers is a Canadian/American indie rock supergroup formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their music is often described as power pop, with some critics likening their sound to that of Cheap Trick.-Overview:...
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- Al Casey
- Al Casey
Alvin W. Casey was an American guitarist. He was mainly noted for his work as a session musician, but also released records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States...
- Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash , born J. R. Cash, was an American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
- Nick Catanese
Hailing from the Pittsburgh Chapter of The Black Label Society, Nick Catanese is Black Label Society's second guitarist at live shows, supporting lead player Zakk Wylde, who has commented that "If I'm Keith Richards, he's Mick Taylor"...
(Black Label SocietyBlack Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with seven studio albums released to date.-Formation:In the early 1990s, Wylde had formed his own solo band Pride & Glory, playing a mixture of bluesy southern rock with heavy metal. However, after one album, they disbanded in December...
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- Jeff Catania (Hall & Oates
Hall & Oates is a pop music duo made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates. The act achieved its greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul." Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine & J...
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- Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine is a Belgian jazz guitarist.-Biography:He was born in London from an English mother and Belgian father....
- Max Cavalera
Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Italian origins. He was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s...
(SepulturaSepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and their later experiments melding hardcore punk and industrial music with extreme metal...
, SoulflySoulfly is a heavy metal band formed in 1997. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the influential Brazilian group in 1996. The band has released six studio albums, one tour EP, several singles, and one DVD video.Soulfly...
, Cavalera ConspiracyCavalera Conspiracy is a heavy metal supergroup featuring musicians from Brazil, France, and the United States. The band was formed in 2007 as Inflikted, but changed the name to Cavalera Conspiracy for legal reasons....
, NailbombNailbomb were an industrial / thrash metal band. The band formed as side project by influental Brazilian musician Max Cavalera of Sepultura and Soulfly and English musician Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel. Together they recorded one studio album through Roadrunner Records, Point Blank, and played one...
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- Gustavo Cerati
Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark is an Argentine artist and songwriter. During the 1980s and 90s he was a member of the Argentine Rock group Soda Stereo, along with Charly Alberti and Zeta Bosio. In the early 90s, with Amor Amarillo, he pursued a solo career.- Career :Cerati recorded two solo albums...
(Soda StereoSoda Stereo was an Argentine rock trio formed in 1982 consisting of guitarist and vocalist Gustavo Cerati, bassist Zeta Bosio and drummer Charly Alberti. The band established what would become the template for many other popular Spanish-speaking pop and rock music groups: clever, often mysterious...
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- Nic Cester
Nicholas John Cester is an Australian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist in the rock band Jet....
(JetJET is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia composed of Cameron Muncey, Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic and Chris Cester. The group has sold 4 million records worldwide; with their debut album Get Born, released in 2003, accounting for about 3.5 million of that figure.-Formation and Dirty...
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- Yavuz Çetin
Yavuz Hilmi Çetin was a Turkish musician as well as songwriter and singer in the blues and psychedelic music genres, who gained renown in his native country for the skill and sensitivity of his guitar performances and, in the wake of his suicide at the age of 30, before the release of his...
- Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...
- António Chainho
António Chainho is a Portuguese fado guitarist. He has worked with many of the great names in fado music, like Hermínia Silva, Carlos do Carmo and José Afonso, and world music, like Paco de Lucía.-Partial Discography:...
- Bill Champlin
William Bradford "Bill" Champlin is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger and producer known for his work with Chicago and the Sons of Champlin.-Early career:...
(Sons of ChamplinThe Sons of Champlin is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s and hailing from the San Francisco-Bay area. They are fronted by vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Bill Champlin, who was also a member of the rock band Chicago.-Early Years:...
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- Eason Chan
Eason Chan Yik-Shun is a prominent male singer in Hong Kong's music industry. Undoubtedly one of the most dominant male singers in the post-1997 era of Hong Kong music industry, Eason Chan has been praised by Time magazine as a front runner in the next generation of Cantopop.-Biography:Chan is the...
- Jaycee Chan
Jaycee Chan Jo-Ming is a Chinese Hong Kong actor and singer...
- Manny Charlton
Manny Charlton is notable for being the guitarist and founding member of the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth from 1968 to 1990.-Charlton with Nazareth :...
(NazarethNazareth is a Scottish rock band that had several hard rock hits in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant penned ballad, "Love Hurts".-Career:...
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- Charo
María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Moquiere de les Esperades Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Najosa Rasten , better known as Charo, is a Spanish-American actress best known for her flamboyant stage presence, her provocative outfits, and her trademark phrase .-Date of birth:Official documents in...
- Chris Cheney
Christopher John Cheney is the guitarist, main songwriter and lead vocalist in the Australian rock band, The Living End. His trademark guitar is a Gretsch White Falcon and he uses mainly distortion and modulation effects...
(The Living EndThe Living End is an Australian rock band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed in 1994. The current lineup consists of Chris Cheney , Scott Owen and Andy Strachan...
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- Andrew Cheshire
Andrew Cheshire is an American jazz guitarist.As a child, Andrew played the piano, but switched to the guitar at age 10. While majoring in fine art in high school, he played jazz in local bands around Long Island. By 1980, Andrew moved to Brooklyn where he began attending jam sessions at the clubs...
- Phil Chevron
Philip Ryan , professionally known as Philip Chevron, is an Irish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is most widely known as the guitarist of The Pogues.-Career:...
(The PoguesThe Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. They reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, until MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to...
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- Michael Guy Chislett
Michael Guy Chislett is an Australian born musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist for Chicago band The Academy Is...- Biography :...
(The Academy Is...The Academy Is... is an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2003. They are currently signed by the Decaydance imprint of the Fueled by Ramen label. They were originally known as "The Academy", but added the "Is..." in 2004 to avoid legal complications with other...
, Hillsong UnitedThe Hillsong United band is an Australian rock and worship band, a part of Hillsong Church's youth ministry Hillsong United. Their music is a contemporary style of praise and worship tempered with mainstream rock.-History:...
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- Jay Chou
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer, producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. He is well-known for composing all his own songs and songs for other singers. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills...
- John Christ
John Christ, born John Knoll on 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...
(DanzigDanzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
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- Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian was an American swing and jazz guitarist.Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar, and is cited as a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August...
(Benny GoodmanBenjamin David Goodman was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
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- Stephen Christian
Stephen Christian, born July 28, 1980, is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Anberlin. He and his bandmates started the group in 2002, after the demise of their previous group, known as SaGoh 24/7...
(AnberlinAnberlin is an American alternative rock band from Winter Haven, Florida, formed in 2002. Since the beginning of 2007, the band has consisted of lead vocalist Stephen Christian, bassist Deon Rexroat, lead guitarist Joseph Milligan, drummer Nathan Young and rhythm guitarist Christian...
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- Martin Cilia
Martin Cilia was born in Rochford, Essex, England in 1958. Cilla moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family in January 1968. Cilla is best known for his songwriting skills, and his membership in The Atlantics, where he performs on the guitar. Martin played his first gig in a school hall in...
(The AtlanticsThis article refers to the Australian Surf rock band. See paragraph at the end of this page for information on other bands called The Atlantics....
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- Jake Cinninger
Jacob Alan Cinninger is an American musician, one of two lead guitarists for Chicago-based jamband Umphrey's McGee.-History:...
(Umphrey's McGeeUmphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band originally from South Bend, Indiana, now based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation."...
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- John Cipollina
John Cipollina was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service....
(Quicksilver Messenger ServiceQuicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco and is considered one of the leading acts on the city's psychedelic scene in the mid-to-late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and...
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- Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE 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 the only person ever to be inducted three times...
(John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The YardbirdsThe Yardbirds are an English rock band, notable for starting the careers of three of rock's more famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top fifteen of Rolling Stones' 100 Top Guitarists list...
, CreamCream were a 1960s British blues-rock band and supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. Their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, hard rock and psychedelic rock...
, Blind FaithBlind Faith was an English blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969...
, Derek and the DominosDerek and the Dominos were a blues-rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton with keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, who had all played with Clapton in Delaney, Bonnie & Friends....
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- Angus Clark
Angus Clark is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He has toured with the internationally-renowned and Grammy-winning New Age artist Kitaro, as well as with the hard rock acts Drill and Naked Sun, and is currently touring with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.His stage performance on the...
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- Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke grew up in Birkenhead, Merseyside. Originally a guitarist, he wrote and directed his first play The Jackpot at the Finborough Theatre in 1987; as a result he was invited to join the first BBC Television Writers training course and commissioned to write for a new series called Casualty...
- Mike Clark
Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies. He has been playing with the band since 1987, and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when they reunited. He originally played in the...
(Suicidal TendenciesSuicidal Tendencies is an American crossover thrash and hardcore punk band. They were formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir. The band is credited as one of the "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
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- Roy Clark
Roy Linwood Clark is a versatile and well-known country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, one of the first nationally televised country variety shows in the United States, from 1969–1992.Clark has been an iconic figure in country music, both as a musician and as...
- Steve Clark
Stephen Maynard Clark was one of the co-lead guitarists for British hard rock band Def Leppard up until his death in 1991.-Childhood and adolescence:...
(Def LeppardDef Leppard are an English rock band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top-selling rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums...
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- "Fast" Eddie Clarke
Edward Clarke better known as "Fast" Eddie Clarke, is a guitarist who was a member of British heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead.-Early days:...
(MotörheadMotörhead are a British rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. The band was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which re-energized heavy metal in the late '70s and early '80s. Usually a power trio, Motörhead had...
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- Gilby Clarke
Gilby Clarke is a guitarist and record producer, born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 17, 1962. He spent his childhood playing with musical instruments and neglecting school. He is also married to one of the deans of Rock of Love: Charm School Daniella Clarke....
(Guns N' RosesGuns N' Roses is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation...
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- Zal Cleminson
Zal Cleminson is a Scottish guitarist, best known for his prominent role in the Sensational Alex Harvey Band during the 1970s.-Career:...
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- Dave Clo
Dave Clo is a guitarist who used to be in the band Superchick.Clo plays with Tait, a Christian rock group formed by Michael Tait and Chad Chapin. He joined the group in 2004. Dave received his bachelor's degree of music from the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music in 1987. His...
- Henry Cluney
Henry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
(Stiff Little FingersStiff Little Fingers are a punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they reformed five years later, in 1987...
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- Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Nirvana....
(NirvanaNirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
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- Eddie Cochran
Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran was an American rock and roll musician and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s, early 1960s.- Early life and career :...
- Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn, OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...
- Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and complex interpersonal relationships...
- Jesse Colburn
Jesse Colburn is an accomplished guitarist. He played guitar for Closet Monster until their final show on 8 December, 2005 and he also previously played in Avril Lavigne's band from 2002 to 2003.- Personal life :...
(Avril LavigneAvril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress. Lavigne has sold more than 30 million copies of her albums worldwide. She is currently one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in the United States, with over 10.25 million copies certified by the...
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- Phil Collen
Philip Kenneth Collen is the lead guitarist for English rock band Def Leppard. He joined the band in 1982 following the firing of Pete Willis.-Biography:...
(Def LeppardDef Leppard are an English rock band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top-selling rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums...
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- Ned Collette
Ned Collette is a Melbourne singer-songwriter signed with the Australian record label Dot Dash.Collette’s musical history to date draws on a broad sound palette: an honours degree in modern composition, works for string quartets, various electro-concrete pieces and playing in a variety of loose fit...
- Chris Collingwood
Chris Collingwood, born in 1968 in Pennsylvania, is a founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne. His roles in the group include lead vocal, guitar, and keyboard. Chris also writes songs for the band...
(Fountains of WayneFountains of Wayne are an American power pop band formed in 1996 and known for such singles as "Radiation Vibe", "Too Cool For School" and their international hit "Stacy's Mom".-Early years:...
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- Albert Collins
Albert Collins was an electric blues guitarist and singer whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across the U.S.A., Europe, Japan and Australia. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor...
- Allen Collins
Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and co-wrote many of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant...
(Lynyrd SkynyrdLynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three members and one road crew member died in an airplane crash in 1977, including lead vocalist and primary...
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- John Collins
John Edward Collins is a member of The New Pornographers, Destroyer, and The Evaporators. He plays the bass, guitar, synthesizer, ebow and sings....
(The New PornographersThe New Pornographers is a Canadian/American indie rock supergroup formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their music is often described as power pop, with some critics likening their sound to that of Cheap Trick.-Overview:...
, The EvaporatorsThe Evaporators is a Canadian indie rock band.As of 2007, the band consists of vocalist/keyboardist Nardwuar the Human Serviette, guitarist David Carswell, bassist John Collins, and drummer Scott Livingstone. The band members also perform as Thee Goblins and other incarnations...
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- John Collura
John Christopher Collura, born 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-based punk band Beefcake, toured with the Ataris before they dissolved in 2001...
(The AtarisThe Ataris is a pop punk band originally hailing from Anderson, Indiana. They have released five studio albums, and their most recent, Welcome the Night, was released on February 20, 2007.-Kung Fu Records :...
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- Paul Colman
Paul Colman, is a British–Australian pop-rock guitarist, vocalist, pianist, and composer.Colman was born and brought up in London; his father is Australian and his mother is British. When he was seven years old, his father left his successful life of theater and music for a life of ministry...
(NewsboysNewsboys is a Grammy Award-nominated Christian pop rock band. The band was formed in Australia in 1985 and has been one of the most popular and best-selling Christian music artists of the past two decades.-1980s:...
, Paul Colman TrioPaul Colman Trio is an Australian Contemporary Christian music group composed of Paul Colman, Phil Gaudion, and Grant Norsworthy. The band released four studio albums, two live albums, and several Christian radio hit singles such as Turn, The Selfish Song, and Fill My Cup...
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- Gary Lee Conner
Gary Lee Conner was the lead guitarist for grunge act Screaming Trees, along with his brother Van, who was the band's bassist. In addition to his work with the Screaming Trees, Conner was featured on Ball-Hog or Tugboat, a 1995 album from Mike Watt...
(Screaming TreesScreaming Trees was an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner and drummer Mark Pickerel. Although widely associated with grunge, the band's sound incorporates hard rock and psychedelic elements...
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- Tyler Connolly
Tyler Connolly is the vocalist and guitarist for the rock band, Theory of a Deadman.-Theory of a Deadman:Hailing from North Delta, British Columbia, Canada, Tyler and some fellow guitar class friends, Dave Brenner and Dean Back, formed a local group, named Theory of a Deadman...
(Theory of a DeadmanTheory of a Deadman is a Canadian rock band from Delta, British Columbia, formed in 2001. The band is currently signed to Roadrunner Records. The band also includes traits of other music styles, such as country and acoustic, as well as their post-grunge and alternative rock base...
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- Bill Connors
Bill Connors is a jazz musician notable for being a legato technique master, adept at both the acoustic and electric guitar, and successfully played jazz-rock, free and fusion material in the '70s and '80s. His best early solos were in the jazz-rock genre, where his use of distortion and...
- Steve Conte
Steve Conte is an American singer and rock musician and lead singer of the band The Contes along with his brother John Conte, both formerly being members of the band Crown Jewels...
(New York DollsThe New York Dolls are an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1971. In 2004 the band reformed with three of their original members, two of whom, David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, continue on today and have released two records of new material...
), (Eric BurdonEric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and vocalist of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle, England, his multi-racial funk rock band War and his aggressive stage performance....
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- Ry Cooder
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer.He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in blues-rock, roots music from his native North America, and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries...
(Captain BeefheartDon Van Vliet is an American musician and painter, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s...
, The SeedsThe Seeds were a rock band best known for the hit single "Pushin' Too Hard", released in 1966. Based in Los Angeles, California, its raw and abrasive energy and simple, repetitive lyrics came to exemplify the garage rock style of the 1960s...
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- Jamie Cook
Jamie Cook is the guitarist for the British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys.-History:Nicknamed "Cookie," he has been the band's most outspoken member, going on record as saying he "fucking hates the [print] news" and defending the band's numerous successive records by saying, "I couldn’t see us...
(Arctic MonkeysArctic Monkeys are an English alternative rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders .Arctic Monkeys achieved chart success with their second single, "I Bet You Look Good on the...
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- Kyle Cook
David Kyle Cook born August 29, 1975 in Frankfort, Indiana, is a member of the band Matchbox Twenty. He plays lead guitar, banjo and sings backing vocals for the band. He attended the Atlanta Music Institute. He also lived in Oviedo, Florida for a time...
(Matchbox TwentyMatchbox Twenty is a rock band formed in Orlando, Florida. Matchbox Twenty has sold over 45 million albums worldwide from the releases of Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season, and More Than You Think You Are. They released their latest album, Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007...
, The New LeftAfter releasing their third album, "More Than You Think You Are" in 2002 and spending the next year touring the globe, the members of mainstream favorite Matchbox Twenty decided to do their own things for a while....
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- Rusty Cooley
-Early life:Rusty received his first equipment on his fifteenth birthday. From that day on Cooley immersed himself in music, practicing upwards of 3 hours a day. Rusty took guitar lessons for a while but became dissatisfied with local guitar instructors and decided to become self-taught...
(DominionA dominion, often Dominion, refers to one of a group of semi-autonomous polities that were nominally under British sovereignty, constituting the British Empire and British Commonwealth, from the late 19th century. They included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the...
, Outworld (band)Outworld was a progressive metal band that was formed in 1997 by guitarist Rusty Cooley. Their name is allegedly taken from the fictional Outworld realm of the Mortal Kombat video games.-History:...
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- Gaz Coombes
Gaz Coombes is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band, Supergrass. He first entered the music scene aged sixteen as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers which featured current Supergrass band mate...
(SupergrassSupergrass are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consists of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Danny Goffey , and Mick Quinn ....
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- Korey Cooper
Korey Cooper is the keyboardist, guitarist, and backing vocalist for the Christian rock band Skillet. Her husband, John Cooper, is the lead singer and bassist of the band, as well as one of the founding members....
(SkilletSkillet is an American Christian rock band, formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996. The band consists of John Cooper , his wife Korey Cooper , Ben Kasica , and the newest member Jen Ledger . Skillet has released eight albums, two receiving Grammy nominations: Collide and Comatose...
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- John Corabi
John Corabi is a heavy metal singer and guitarist who has worked with such bands as Angora, The Scream, Mötley Crüe, Union and ESP , Ratt , Twenty 4 Seven , Zen Lunatic, Brides of Destruction, and Angel City Outlaws John Corabi (born on April 26, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a heavy...
(AngoraAngora were a band featuring lead vocalist and harmonica player John Corabi, guitarist Jimmy Marchiano, bassist Frank Schmeca, and drummer Robert Iezza.The band recorded a demo tape before the members went on to other bands....
, The ScreamThe Scream was a Los Angeles-based hard rock band formed in 1989 as Saints Or Sinners. The band originally featured former Angora singer John Corabi and former Racer X members guitarist Bruce Bouillet, bassist Juan Alderete, and drummer Scott Travis. However, Scott Travis quickly left to join Judas...
, Mötley CrüeMötley Crüe is a American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...
, UnionUNION is a rock group formed in 1997 featuring lead vocalist and guitarist John Corabi , guitarist Bruce Kulick , bassist James Hunting, and drummer Brent Fitz.-Formation:...
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- Francesco Corbetta
Francesco Corbetta was an Italian guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer. He worked at the royal court of Louis XIV in Paris and then left for London. He is considered to have been one of the greatest virtuosos of the Baroque guitar.Corbetta published five surviving books of music for the...
- Billy Corgan
William Patrick Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet. Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. When the band broke up in 2000, Corgan went on to form the short-lived Zwan with former Pumpkins drummer Jimmy...
(The Smashing PumpkinsThe Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan and James Iha , the band has included D'arcy Wretzky , Jimmy Chamberlin , and Melissa Auf der Maur among its membership.Disavowing the punk rock roots shared by...
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- Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave , and for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions . He is known for his wide four octave vocal range, and powerful vocal belting technique...
(SoundgardenSoundgarden was a Grammy Award winning American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
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- Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...
(The StranglersThe Stranglers are an English rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most continuously successful band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
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- Jim Corr
James Steven Ignatius "Jim" Corr, MBE is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. He is a member of the Irish folk/rock band The Corrs; the other members are his three sisters...
(The CorrsThe Corrs are a Celtic folk rock group from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim ....
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- Terry Corso (Alien Ant Farm
Alien Ant Farm is an American alternative rock band that formed in the southern California city of Riverside in 1995. Their name comes from an idea original guitarist Terry Corso had about aliens and the earth--"I was daydreaming at my dull desk job with my feet up, and I thought to myself,...
, Powerman 5000Powerman 5000 is a Boston-based rock band formed in 1991. Through the span of over a decade, the group has released several albums and gained their highest commercial success with 1999's science fiction themed Tonight the Stars Revolt!...
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- Pete Cortese
Pete Cortese is the guitarist for the pioneering metalcore band Overcast. He also played bass guitar for the rock and jazz group Seemless. He appeared in Killswitch Engage for a short period of time, for the studio recordings with the album's Killswitch Engage and Alive or just breathing.Pete...
(Killswitch EngageKillswitch Engage is an American melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. Formed following the disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999, Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and...
, OvercastOvercast or overcast weather is the meteorological condition of clouds obscuring 95% or more of the sky.Overcast happens when the entire sky becomes covered with clouds; hence the word to describe it. Sometimes clouds can be different colors such as black or white, but the word usually refers to...
, SeemlessSeemless was an American rock supergroup formed by ex-Shadows Fall drummer Derek Kerswill, ex-Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach, and ex-Overcast and ex -Killswitch Engage guitarist Pete Cortese....
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- Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas on April 2, 1943. After graduating from Richland High School in eastern Washington, he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. In 1965, Coryell moved to New York City where he...
- Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American film and television actress and pop rock recording artist. Cosgrove is best known for her roles as Megan Parker in Drake & Josh and as the title character in iCarly. Her career sprang forward at the age of three, mainly participating in television commercials...
- Sean Costello
Sean Costello was an American blues musician renowned for his fiery guitar playing and soulful singing. He released five critically-acclaimed albums before his career was cut short by his sudden death at the age of 28. Tinsley Ellis called him ‘the most gifted young blues guitarist on the scene.....
- Andy Cox
Andy Cox is a British guitarist, who along with Dave Wakeling, founded The Beat in 1978.The Beat achieved eight Top 40 singles and three hit albums in the UK before announcing their break up in 1983...
(The BeatThe Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae, and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity, and sociopolitical topics....
, Fine Young CannibalsFine Young Cannibals is a British band formed in Birmingham, England in 1984, by guitarist David Steele and bassist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift...
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- Graham Coxon
Graham Leslie Coxon is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur. His artistic and musical contribution is featured on all seven of the band's albums, from 1991's Leisure to...
(BlurBlur are an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...
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- Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Coulton is an American singer-songwriter, famous for his songs containing themes of geek culture as well as his rise to popularity through the use of the Internet.-Career:...
- Steve Craddock
- Philo Cramer
Philo Cramer was the lead guitarist for the Los Angeles punk band FEAR , following a short stint in his 1977-1978 band, The Cigarettes...
(FearFear is an American punk band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1977 and is still a band today. Credited for helping to shape the sound and style of American hardcore punk, the band started out as part of the early California punk rock scene, and gained national prominence after an...
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- Dan Crary
Dan Crary is an American bluegrass guitarist.He helped re-establish flatpicked guitar as a prominent soloing bluegrass instrument. Crary is an innovator of the flatpicking style of guitar playing. He is also a Speech communications Professor at California State University, Fullerton...
- Robert Cray
Robert Cray is an American blues musician, guitarist, and singer. According to the book Guinness Rockopedia, "the 1980s 'blues revival' revolved around Cray...
- Andras Csaki
- Curriculum vitae :Andras Csaki is one of the most talented Hungaryian guitarist, who was born in 1981 in Budapest. He started to play the guitar at the age of 11 as a pupil of László Kozma...
- Jim Croce
James Joseph "Jim" Croce was an American singer-songwriter. Between 1960 and 1973, Croce released six studio albums and eleven singles. His singles "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" were both number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts...
- Kevin Cronin
Kevin Cronin is the lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist/ occasional pianist for the American rock band, REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 written by Cronin, "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling"...
(REO SpeedwagonREO Speedwagon is an American rock band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois United States. Formed in 1967, the band grew in popularity during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. REO Speedwagon has charted two number one songs, "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling", both power ballads...
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- Jason Cropper
Jason Cropper is a musician best known as an original member of the band Weezer.-Early years:Cropper claimed to have picked up the guitar at age 16. His mother reports that he first "rocked" to a small 45 rpm record in his bedroom where he played "Let's Go To The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. He...
(WeezerWeezer is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper . Cropper was later replaced by Brian Bell...
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- Steve "The Colonel" Cropper
Steve "The Colonel" Cropper is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. As part of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & The MG's, he played on hundreds of recordings by Stax artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla and Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor, also acting as producer on...
(Mar-KeysThe Mar-Keys, formed in 1958, were a studio session band for the Stax label from Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1960s. As the first house band for the label, their backing music formed the foundation for the early 1960s Stax sound.-Career:...
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- David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash, which is sometimes augmented with Neil Young; and CPR. Crosby is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in the Byrds and...
(Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The ByrdsThe Byrds were an American rock and roll band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several personnel changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973....
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- Robbin Crosby
Robbin Crosby , born Robbinson Lantz Crosby and nicknamed "King", was co-lead guitarist in the Glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 1980s....
(RattRatt is an American heavy metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Way Cool Jr." and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in...
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- Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards...
- Allison Crowe
Allison Louise Crowe is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who now also lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, communities spanning the breadth of Canada. Crowe records on her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd...
- Josh Cunningham
Josh Cunningham is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who is famous as one-third of the Australian folk rock band The Waifs. Josh has released five albums with The Waifs and wrote the highly popular song Lighthouse, which was nominated an ARIA Award for Single Of The Year, as well as...
(The WaifsThe Waifs are a folk rock band from Western Australia. The original members of The Waifs are Josh Cunningham , and sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson...
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- Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo 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, in December 2007, which featured home demos that Cuomo has recorded...
(WeezerWeezer is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper . Cropper was later replaced by Brian Bell...
, Avant GardeAvant Garde was a progressive metal band, most notably as an early musical project of Rivers Cuomo who would later gain world-wide fame as the frontman of the alternative rock band Weezer. At the time, Cuomo performed under the name Peter Kitts.-Biography:The band formed when Cuomo was only...
, HomieHomie is a side project of Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of the band Weezer. Homie, as it stands now, was a one-time effort. Homie has released just one song, "American Girls", for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Meet the Deedles...
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- Shannon Curfman
Shannon Marie Curfman is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer. She came to prominence in 1999, at the age of 14, with the release of her first album, Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions, which she recorded a year earlier...
- John Curulewski
John Curulewski , nicknamed "JC", was one of the original members of Styx. He joined Dennis DeYoung, the Panozzo brothers, and James Young to form TW4 in 1968, which was renamed to Styx in 1970...
(StyxStyx is an American rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Lady", "Mr. Roboto", "Renegade", "Babe", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times"...
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- Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus is a Grammy Award-nominated American country music singer, songwriter and actor, best known for his #1 single "Achy Breaky Heart." Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart...
- Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American pop-rock singer and television and film actress. Cyrus is best known for starring as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Following the success of Hannah Montana, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs...
- Trace Cyrus
Trace Dempsey Cyrus is an American musician. He is a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist in the band Metro Station. He is the owner of a clothing company called From Backseats to Bedrooms. Cyrus is the adopted son of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus...
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- Dante DeCaro
Dante DeCaro of Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, is the former guitarist/songwriter of the Canadian band Hot Hot Heat. His inventive guitar parts were considered a crucial part of Hot Hot Heat's success with their first major label album Make Up The Breakdown...
(Hot Hot HeatHot Hot Heat is an indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The band currently is composed of Steve Bays , Paul Hawley , Parker Bossley and Luke Paquin .-Biography:...
, Johnny and the MoonJohnny and the Moon is a Canadian indie rock band, fronted by Dante DeCaro of Hot Hot Heat and Wolf Parade. Based in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, the band also includes Lindy Gerrard, Mark Devoe, and Jeff "Big Juicy Papa" Phillips...
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- Denis D'Amour
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour was the guitarist for the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod from its inception in 1982 until his death from colon cancer in 2005, aged 45. His approach to music was anarchic and experimental rather than strict theoretical. He was trained in classical violin as a child...
(VoivodVoivod are a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s...
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- Donnie Dacus
Donnie Dacus is a musician best known for his work in in the band Chicago and his role as Woof Daschund in the 1979 movie Hair.-Early Life:Don Dacus was born in Galena Park, Texas on October 12th, 1951....
- Aaron Dalbec
Aaron Dalbec, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, is the guitarist for Bane and Only Crime.Dalbec, a vegan, is a also a former member of Converge and Velocity Engine....
(BaneBane, a hardcore punk band, began as a side project between Aaron Dalbec and Damon Bellardo. Aaron approached Matt Firestone to sing and they played under the moniker of Gateway for a few shows, before Firestone departed ways to focus on other projects...
, Only CrimeOnly Crime is a melodic hardcore supergroup formed by Good Riddance singer Russ Rankin and Bane guitarist Aaron Dalbecin 2003. The band plays melodic but hard-hitting punk rock that borrows heavily from early-1980s hardcore bands such as Black Flag....
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- Dick Dale
Dick Dale is a surf-rock guitarist, known as "The King Of The Surf Guitar"...
- Brody Dalle
Brody Dalle-Homme , is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. She rose to fame as lead singer/guitarist for the punk rock band The Distillers and currently fronts Spinnerette....
(The DistillersThe Distillers were an American punk band formed in Los Angeles in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group. The Distillers were originally formed by Australian-born Brody Armstrong , a woman with a...
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- Jean Pierre Danel
- Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and entrepreneur, and a progenitor of the horror punk subgenre of music. He is the founder of bands the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig...
(DanzigDanzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
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- Jol Dantzig
Jolyon C. Dantzig is known as a guitar designer, guitarist, luthier, and one of the founders of Hamer Guitars.- Biography :...
(Wilson PickettWilson Pickett was an American R&B/rock and roll and soul singer and songwriter known for his raw, raspy, passionate vocal delivery....
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- Dave Davies
Dave Davies is an English rock musician , best known for his membership with the English rock band The Kinks....
(The KinksThe Kinks are an English rock group categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of the British Invasion era....
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- Chris de Burgh
Chris de Burgh is an Argentinian-born Irish singer-songwriter, perhaps most famous for his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red"...
- Ray Davies
Ray Davies CBE is an English rock musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave...
(The KinksThe Kinks are an English rock group categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of the British Invasion era....
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- Brad Davis (musician)
Brad Davis is an American country/folksinger-songwriter and guitarist. Initially a member of country singer Marty Stuart's road band, Davis has also performed with Earl Scruggs, Sam Bush, Billy Bob Thornton and several other country and musical acts, in addition to writing songs for artists like...
- Jesse Ed Davis
Jesse Edwin Davis was an American guitarist.-History:Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Davis began his musical career in Oklahoma City, where his dad Jesse Ed Davis II had painted all of the Native American murals on the State Capitol building hallways...
- Keeley Davis
Keeley Davis is an American rock musician and graphic designer from Richmond, Virginia.He was the primary lead singer of the band Engine Down, in which he also played guitar. He was also in the band Denali with his sister, Maura Davis...
(DenaliDenali is an American indie band that formed in April 2000 in Richmond, Virginia. The original members of the band were Cam DiNunzio, Jonathan Fuller, Keeley Davis and Maura Davis. After recording a five song demo in January 2001, they signed with Jade Tree Records before the end of the year.Denali...
, Engine DownEngine Down was a four-piece rock band from Richmond, Virginia, active from 1996-2005. They were a part of the Washington, D.C. area post-hardcore movement, along with bands like The Dismemberment Plan, Q and Not U, and Faraquet...
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- Maura Davis
Maura Davis is the lead singer of the American indie rock band Denali from Richmond, Virginia, United States. She also fronted the alternative group Ambulette, formerly known as Bella Lea, who released an EP on Astralwerks in 2005, and broke up in 2007 before releasing a first full-length...
(DenaliDenali is an American indie band that formed in April 2000 in Richmond, Virginia. The original members of the band were Cam DiNunzio, Jonathan Fuller, Keeley Davis and Maura Davis. After recording a five song demo in January 2001, they signed with Jade Tree Records before the end of the year.Denali...
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- Mike Davis
Mike Davis is an American metal guitarist. He is best known for his work in the progressive death metal band Nocturnus. He joined the band around 1988 , apparently only as a rhythm guitarist at first, but took intense lessons from multiple teachers including famed Floridan guitarist Ralph Santolla...
(NocturnusNocturnus was an American progressive death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 by drummer/vocalist Mike Browning . They were known for their science-fiction themed lyrics and use of keyboards, both of which were virtually unknown in extreme metal...
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- Christopher Dean
Christopher Colin Dean, OBE is a British famous figure skater who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill...
- PJ DeCicco (Armor for Sleep
Armor for Sleep is an American alternative rock band, formed during 2001 in New Jersey.After initial demos had been distributed, New York based independent label, Equal Vision Records signed the band and went onto release the concept based albums, Dream to Make Believe in 2003 and What to Do When...
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- Chris DeGarmo
Chris DeGarmo is an American heavy metal and hard rock guitarist. He joined Queensrÿche in 1981 and played with the group during their most commercially successful period. Since departing from the band, DeGarmo has continued his involvement in the music business in a much smaller capacity...
(QueensrÿcheQueensrÿche is an American heavy metal / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released ten studio albums and several EPs and DVDs and continues to tour and record....
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- Vance DeGeneres
Vance DeGeneres is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter, known for his work in television...
(Cowboy MouthCowboy Mouth is a rock band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their name was taken from the title of a play co-written by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, although the phrase was used five years prior to the play by Bob Dylan in the song "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands"...
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- Dean DeLeo
Dean DeLeo 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 DeLeo, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and session drummer Ray Luzier...
(Talk ShowTalk Show was an American alternative/hard rock band consisting of Dave Coutts , Dean DeLeo , Robert DeLeo , and Eric Kretz...
, Stone Temple PilotsStone Temple Pilots, often abbreviated to STP, is an American rock band consisting of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz . The band found immediate success with the release of their debut album Core in 1992, which was certified 8× platinum by the RIAA...
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- Tom DeLonge
Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr. is an American rock musician. He is the guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists for the pop punk band blink-182 as well as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves...
(Blink-182Blink-182 is an American punk rock band from Poway, California that predominantly plays pop punk music. The band was formed in 1992 as "Blink" with members Tom DeLonge , Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor . In 1998, midway through a U.S. tour, drummer Travis Barker replaced Raynor...
, Boxcar Racer, Angels & AirwavesAngels & Airwaves is an alternative rock band fronted by Blink-182 and Box Car Racer guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge...
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- Warren DeMartini
Warren Justin DeMartini , nicknamed Torch, is the lead guitarist for Ratt, a popular American band during the mid-to-late 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene.- Early life :DeMartini was born on April 10, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois...
(RattRatt is an American heavy metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Way Cool Jr." and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in...
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- Dave Dederer
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 Presidents with fellow Bush School alumnus...
(The Presidents of the United States of AmericaThe Presidents of the United States of America, commonly referred to as The Presidents, is a twice Grammy-nominated American alternative rock band. The band formed in Seattle, USA, in 1993. The three-piece group currently comprises vocalist and "basitarist" Chris Ballew, drummer and vocalist Jason...
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- Brad Delson
Bradford Phillip Delson is an American musician, lead guitarist, and one of the founding members of the alternative rock band Linkin Park. He is also the A&R Representative for Machine Shop Recordings.-Early life:...
(Linkin ParkLinkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California, formed in 1996. Since their formation, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards. It achieved mainstream success with its debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005...
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- Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey is the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Australian rock group Something for Kate. Paul was a founding member of the band, and in August 2009 is to release his first solo album whilst continuing his work with Something for Kate...
(Something for KateSomething for Kate is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Members include songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, drummer Clint Hyndman and bassist Stephanie Ashworth...
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- Duane Denison
Duane Denison is an American guitarist. Denison currently plays for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, The Jesus Lizard, which he recently re-united with after a 9-year break-up, and Tomahawk. He has also played for Cargo Cult and Firewater. He began his musical career by studying classical guitar....
(The Jesus LizardThe Jesus Lizard is an alternative rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas, and based in Chicago, Illinois from 1989 to 1999.-Formation and the Touch and Go years :...
, TomahawkTomahawk is an experimental alternative metal/alternative rock supergroup from the United States. They formed in 2000 when Fantômas, ex-Mr. Bungle and Faith No More singer/keyboardist Mike Patton and ex-The Jesus Lizard guitar player Duane Denison started swapping tapes with the intention of...
, Firewater)
- John Denner
John Denner German guitarist noted for achieving technical proficiency on a level with top lead guitar players despite being born without a right hand...
- Ryan "Judas" DePaolo (Matchbook Romance
Matchbook Romance is an American emo band from Poughkeepsie, New York and were formed in 1997.They were signed to Epitaph Records. They released two full length albums and one EP...
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- Johnny Depp
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor and musician known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Sam in Benny & Joon.Depp rose to prominence in a lead...
- Amir Derakh
Amir Davidson , is an American musician of Persian ancestry. As of 1997 he is the guitar/synthesizer player for the band Orgy...
(OrgyOrgy is a synth rock band from Bakersfield, California. Orgy describes their music as "death pop".-History:Orgy was formed in 1996 by vocalist Jay Gordon and guitarist Ryan Shuck, once of Jonathan Davis' original band Sexart, assisting in their eventual signing to Korn's label Elementree...
, Julien-KJulien-K began as a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy, with the later addition of Brandon Belsky and Elias Andra....
, Rough Cutt-History:Rough Cutt was an American heavy metal band based in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s. Despite having a roster of musicians who later found greater success in other groups, Rough Cutt never achieved the popular success enjoyed by many other Los Angeles bands of that time.The first...
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- Rick Derringer
Rick Derringer™ is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for the songs "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" and "Real American"...
(The McCoysThe McCoys™ were a pop group that started in Union City, Indiana, United States, in 1962.-Career:The original members, all from Union City were guitarist Richard Zehringer , his brother Randy on drums, and bassist Dennis Kelly. This first line-up was known as The Rick Z Combo, and later known as...
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- Marko DeSantis (Sugarcult
Sugarcult is an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California formed in 1998. The band comprises Tim Pagnotta on guitar and vocals, Airin Older on bass and vocals, Marko DeSantis on guitar, and Kenny Livingston on drums.-History:Tim Pagnotta met ex-drummer Ben Davis during a cigarette break...
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- C. C. DeVille
C. C. DeVille is the lead guitarist of the American glam metal band Poison. He has also acted in both reality television and television drama shows.-Early years:...
(PoisonPoison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success and popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They have become icons of the '80s MTV era and have had widespread commercial success. To date, the band has sold more than 60 million records worldwide, including 14.5 million in the...
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- Mat Devine (Kill Hannah
Kill Hannah is an alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois and is currently signed to Original Signal Recordings and Universal Motown Records in the US and Roadrunner Records outside of the US. They have released six studio albums, seven EPs, and two compilation albums as well as three...
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- Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley , born Ellas Otha Bates, was an American rock & roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton...
- Dido
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong professionally known as Dido is an English singer-songwriter who has sold over 28 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...
- Die
Die is a Japanese musician and one of the guitarists of Dir en grey. He has been with the band since its inception in 1997 and was previously a member of La:Sadie's...
(Dir en greyis a Japanese band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2008, they have recorded seven full-length records and while the group's lineup has remained consistent since its inception, numerous stylistic changes have made its music's genre difficult...
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- Ani Difranco
Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter...
- Steve Diggle
Steve Diggle is a guitarist and secondary lead vocalist in the British punk band Buzzcocks.-Early years:Born to a poor working class family, he grew up in Rusholme, Manchester, where he was a mod...
(BuzzcocksBuzzcocks are an English rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...
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- Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola is an Italian American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist.Di Meola grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and attended Bergenfield High School. He is now a resident of Bergen County, New Jersey.-Career:In 1971, he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts...
- Pete Doherty
Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, artist and poet. He is currently a singer and songwriter in the band Babyshambles, but first came to fame with indie band The Libertines, alongside Carl Barât...
(The LibertinesThe Libertines were an English rock band. Formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty , the band also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
, BabyshamblesBabyshambles are an English indie rock band established in London. The band was formed by Pete Doherty during a hiatus from his former band The Libertines, but Babyshambles has since become his main project . Babyshambles have released two albums, three EP's and a number of singles...
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- Peter Dolving
Peter Dolving is a guitarist, songwriter, and spoken-word performer who is best known as the singer of the Swedish metal band The Haunted.-Career:...
(Mary Beats JaneMary Beats Jane is a Swedish hardcore / thrash metal band from Gothenburg. Their self-titled 1994 album won a Swedish Grammy in 1994.-Members:*Peter Dolving - vocals*Urban Olsson - guitar*Magnus Nyberg - guitar*Bjarne Olsson - bass*Peter Asp - drums...
, The HauntedThe Haunted is a Swedish thrash metal band, formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The original members were Patrik Jensen , Jonas Björler , Adrian Erlandsson , Anders Björler , and Peter Dolving...
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- Dan Donegan
Dan Donegan is an American musician and guitarist for heavy metal band Disturbed. Donegan began playing guitar as a teenager and eventually formed a band called Vandal, which was an '80s-style hair band...
(DisturbedDisturbed is a Grammy Award-nominated American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1996 when musicians Dan Donegan, Steve "Fuzz" Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired singer David Draiman. Since the band's formation, they have sold over 11 million albums worldwide, making them one of the most...
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- Donovan
Donovan , is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
- Paul Doucette
Paul John Doucette is the rhythm guitarist and former drummer for the band Matchbox Twenty. A native of North Huntington, Pennsylvania – a suburb located roughly 15 miles SE of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County – Doucette graduated from Norwin High School in June 1990. He now lives in...
(Matchbox TwentyMatchbox Twenty is a rock band formed in Orlando, Florida. Matchbox Twenty has sold over 45 million albums worldwide from the releases of Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season, and More Than You Think You Are. They released their latest album, Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007...
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- Captain Kirk Douglas
"Captain" Kirk Douglas is an American guitarist who plays with the hip hop band The Roots. He joined the band in 2003. Douglas also has a rock & roll band in the works. He has performed with Dave Matthews Band on at least three occasions and was a founding member of the NY-based indiepop band My...
(The RootsThe Roots is an American alternative hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals. Their debut album was released in 1993 and they have collaborated with a wide range of artists from...
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- Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin Douglas is an American musician and resonator guitar player. In addition to his eleven solo releases and countless special projects, Douglas has played on more than 1600 albums...
- K. K. Downing
Kenneth "K. K." Downing, Jr. is a guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the British heavy metal band Judas Priest. He received his stage name when a girl in Denmark could not pronounce his name and called him "K...
(Judas PriestJudas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1969. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing. The band has gone through several drummers, though Scott Travis has held the position since...
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- Dr Jones
- Dr. Know
Dr. Know is the stage name of Gary Miller, guitarist for Bad Brains, regarded as one of punk rock's most innovative and important bands. Miller has recorded or performed very little outside the group, though he recently performed with Mos Def's group Black Jack Johnson...
(Bad BrainsBad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of the genre, though the band's members objected to the term "hardcore" to describe their music....
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- Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his haunting, acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, although he was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
- Pete Drake
Pete Drake , born Roddis Franklin Drake, was a major Nashville, Tennessee-based record producer and pedal steel guitar player....
- Dregen
Dregen is the nickname of Andreas Tyrone Svensson , most known to be the former guitarist The Hellacopters and current guitarist of Backyard Babies.-Career:...
(Backyard BabiesBackyard Babies are a Swedish Punk rock band, from Nässjö, Sweden. The band was formed in 1987, over the years they have released five studio albums and have won a Swedish Grammy...
, Hellacopters)
- Bruce Driscoll
Bruce Driscoll is a Brazilian/American record producer, songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. He first gained notoriety as one half of the indie pop band Astaire . Co-writing/Producing/Self-releasing songs with his sister, Erica, the duo quickly became iTunes darlings...
(BlondfireBlondfire is an indie pop band from New York City composed of the brother-and-sister duo Bruce and Erica Driscoll. The band was formed in October 2002 as Astaire, changing the name to Blondfire in July of 2005 after legal threats from the estate of Fred Astaire.- Childhood :The Driscolls were born...
, BrookvilleBrookville is a solo project of Andy Chase from Ivy. Brookville toured the United States in November 2006 with pop band Tahiti 80.-Bio:Ivy co-founder Andy Chase is released Brookville's second album, Life in the Shade, on June 13, 2006, on his own label, Unfiltered Records...
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- Glen Drover
Glen Drover is a heavy metal guitarist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Drover is best known as the former lead guitarist in Megadeth and King Diamond, as well as his own band Eidolon, along with his brother Shawn Drover.-History:Glen Drover began playing...
(MegadethMegadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983. Founded by Dave Mustaine following his departure from Metallica, the band has since released twelve studio albums, six live albums, two EPs, twenty six singles, thirty-two music videos, and three compilations.As...
, King DiamondKing Diamond is a Grammy Award nominated heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive use of vocals in the falsetto register...
, EidolonEidolon is a Canadian power metal band formed in 1993 by brothers Shawn and Glen Drover . The band has released seven studio albums to date. In 2005 Eidolon announced the addition of new vocalist Nils K. Rue .- Current line-up :*Nils K...
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- Ian D'Sa
Ian Michael D'Sa is the guitarist for the Canadian band Billy Talent.-History:Ian's family moved from the UK to Canada when he was 3 years old. He is of Goan descent and grew up in Mississauga, Ontario learning guitar at the age of 13...
(Billy TalentBilly Talent are a Juno award-winning Canadian band formed in 1993 in Streetsville, Ontario. The band consists of Ben Kowalewicz , Ian D'Sa , Jon Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk .The band existed for almost a decade before mainstream success...
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- Les Dudek
Les Dudek is an American guitarist.- Early years :Les Dudek's father, Harold, was born in Campbell, Nebraska, and was a World War II veteran in the United States Navy. His mother, Alma, born in Brooklyn, New York was a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette...
- Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known for his membership of The Cult.-Early days:He grew up in Manchester, where he began playing guitar at the age of fourteen...
(The CultThe Cult are an English rock band, formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk and gothic rock band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as...
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- Jan Dumée
Jan Dumée is a Dutch rock/jazz guitar player, composer and record producer.-Biography:Jan Dumée grew up in an environment having had the chance to listen all kinds of music...
(FocusFocus is a Dutch rock band. It was founded by classically trained organist/flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969, and is most famous for the songs "Hocus Pocus" and "Sylvia".- The 1970s :...
, On the RocksOn The Rocks is an international rock band formed by British, Dutch and Brazilian musicians with different musical backgrounds, leading to a unique style.-History:...
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- Tom Dumont
Tom Dumont is an American guitarist and producer. Dumont is a member of third wave ska band No Doubt, and during the band's hiatus, he began Invincible Overlord as a side project and produced Matt Costa's Songs We Sing.-Life and career:The Dumont family lived in Irvine, California...
(No DoubtNo Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, founded in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album, No Doubt , failed to make waves...
, Invincible OverlordInvincible Overlord is a side-project band by Tom Dumont and Ted Matson. Their only album, The Living Album, is available as a free download on the band's website. The first five tracks were released May 2005, and two new songs more recently in January 2006 and August 2007...
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- Gary Duncan
Gary Duncan is an American musician, once guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band.-Early life and musical...
(Quicksilver Messenger ServiceQuicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco and is considered one of the leading acts on the city's psychedelic scene in the mid-to-late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and...
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- Andy Dunlop
Andy Dunlop is a Scottish musician, who is currently the lead guitarist of Scottish indie band, Travis.-Biography:...
(TravisTravis are a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow, comprising Fran Healy , Dougie Payne , Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose...
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- Ronnie Dunn
Ronnie Dunn is an American country music singer-songwriter. He is currently one half of the multi-award winning, American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. He sings lead vocals on the majority of the duo's songs...
- Francis Dunnery
Francis Dunnery is an English musician. He was a founding member of the 1980s band It Bites...
(It BitesIt Bites are a progressive rock and pop fusion band formed in Egremont, Cumbria, England in 1982. The band's initial rise to fame was on the back of the unusual and catchy 1986 single "Calling All The Heroes", which gained them a Top 6 UK chart hit and an unwelcome reputation as a novelty act -...
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- Chauntelle DuPree
Chauntelle Annette DuPree is the lead guitarist for the band Eisley. She is the eldest of six children. Three of her siblings, Sherri, Stacy, and Weston are also members of Eisley, along with their cousin Garron DuPree. She started playing guitar when she was 16 and formed the band with her...
(EisleyEisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas.-Formation:...
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- Sherri DuPree
Sherri Kay DuPree-Bemis is a vocalist, guitarist and lyricist for the band Eisley. Three of her siblings, Chauntelle, Stacy and Weston are also members of Eisley, along with her cousin, Garron. Her youngest sister Christie has performed with them live as well...
(EisleyEisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas.-Formation:...
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- Adam Dutkiewicz
Adam Jonathan Dutkiewicz is best known as one of the guitarists and a backup vocalist from Massachusetts metalcore bands Killswitch Engage and Aftershock.-Biography:...
(Killswitch EngageKillswitch Engage is an American melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. Formed following the disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999, Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and...
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- Roland Dyens
Roland Dyens is a Tunisian-French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger.Dyens studied guitar with the Spanish master guitarist Alberto Ponce and analysis with Désiré Dondeyne. He has won several prizes in competitions for classical guitar performance as well as for composition...
- Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
- Jakob Dylan
Jakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is the son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.-Personal life:...
(The WallflowersThe Wallflowers are a Grammy Award-winning rock band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Jakob Dylan. Formed in 1989 and originally known as The Apples, the ensemble has gone through numerous personnel changes with Dylan the only constant....
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- Ronnie Earl
Ronnie Earl Ronnie Earl Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, March 10, 1953, Queens, New York, is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.-Career:Earl collected blues, jazz, rock and soul records while growing up. He studied American History at C.W...
- Elliot Easton
__FORCETOC__Elliot Easton played lead guitar and sang background vocals for The Cars. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music. He plays guitar left-handed.-Solo Career:...
(The CarsThe Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...
, The New CarsThe New Cars are a supergroup formed in 2005 around members of the popular 1970s/1980s new wave band The Cars. The band is composed of Todd Rundgren, drummer Prairie Prince, Kasim Sulton, and original Cars members Greg Hawkes & Elliot Easton. The band performs The Cars' classic songs, Rundgren's...
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- Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Rock and Roll's all-time, #1 instrumentalist.- Biography :...
- The Edge
David Howell Evans , more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge , is an Irish musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Irish rock band U2...
(U2U2 are a rock band that formed in Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr...
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- Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early years:As a teenager Edmunds first played...
- Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Her 2003 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".-History:...
- Nokie Edwards
Nokie Edwards Nokie Edwards Nokie Edwards (born Nole Floyd Edwards, May 9, 1935, Lahoma, Oklahoma is an American musician. He is primarily a guitarist, best known for his work with The Ventures.-Biography:...
(The VenturesThe Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. The band, formed by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two masonry workers, has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide, having sold over 100 million records, and are to date the best-selling...
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- Stephen Egerton (Descendents
The Descendents are an American punk rock band from Manhattan Beach, California. They are often cited as early pioneers of American pop punk.-Early years:...
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- Eduardo Egüez
Eduardo Egüez is an lutenist, theorbist, and guitarist acclaimed for his interpretations of music by J.S.Bach....
- Mike Einziger
Michael Aaron Einziger is the multi-instrumentalist, co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus, as well as his own side project band, Time Lapse Consortium...
(IncubusIncubus is an American Grammy Award-nominated rock band, from Calabasas, California. Formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school. The band expanded to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell...
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- Tripp Eisen
Tripp Eisen , is an American musician, best known as the former guitarist of the industrial metal band Static-X...
(Static-XStatic-X is an American metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released six albums, their most recent being Cult of Static, which was released on March 17, 2009....
, DopeDope is an American heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1997 in New York City, New York.The band received some level of success in the late 1990s and early 2000s...
, MurderdollsThe Murderdolls is an American horror punk band founded during 2002 in Hollywood, CA, California. The band line-up consists of Wednesday 13, Joey Jordison, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Ben Graves, though the group are currently on a hiatus....
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- Mattias Eklundh
Mattias "IA" Eklundh is a guitarist and vocalist, known for his work with the bands Freak Kitchen, Frozen Eyes, Fate, The Jonas Hellborg Trio, and Art Metal; he has also released several noted solo albums...
(Freak KitchenFreak Kitchen is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1992. Because of the high technical level of their compositions people sometimes refer to their style as progressive metal or progressive rock....
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- Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies, and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton, and has scored all but...
(Oingo BoingoOingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts...
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- Dolan Ellis
Francis Dolan Ellis has been Arizona's Official State Balladeer since 1966, as appointed by ten consecutive governors. Governor Sam Goddard made the first appointment, and he was the first governor in the U.S. to make such an appointment...
- John Ellis
John Ellis is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was a co-founder of the pub rock band Bazooka Joe in 1970 and a founding member of the punk rock band, The Vibrators. Ellis formed The Vibrators in 1974 while still at art school studying illustration...
(The StranglersThe Stranglers are an English rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most continuously successful band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
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- Justin Emerle
Justin Emerle is the lead singer, guitarist and founding member of Echo Orbiter. Together with brother Colin Emerle, Justin found varied underground success in and around Philadelphia.-Biography:...
(Echo OrbiterEcho Orbiter is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based indie rock band created by brothers Justin Emerle and Colin Emerle, described by Philadelphia Weekly as being "Widely considered two of the most inventive songwriters on the [Philadelphia] scene."...
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- Tommy Emmanuel
Tommy Emmanuel is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar.-Biography:...
- Rik Emmett
Richard Gordon Emmett is a vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Emmett left Triumph in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album, Absolutely, was released in 1990 and became a massive hit across North America thanks to the smash hits "When a Heart...
(TriumphTriumph is a Canadian hard rock band that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Eight of the band's albums were certified gold or higher, and Triumph was nominated for multiple Juno Awards, including Group of the Year Award in 1979, 1985, 1986 and 1987.Like their fellow Canadians Rush...
), (SoloRichard Gordon Emmett is a vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Emmett left Triumph in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album, Absolutely, was released in 1990 and became a massive hit across North America thanks to the smash hits "When a Heart...
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- John Engelbert
John Engelbert, John Henrik Lars Engelbert, born May 19, 1982, is a Swedish songwriter, singer and guitarist in the rock duo Johnossi. He was formerly a tour guitarist in Håkan Hellströms band....
(JohnossiJohnossi is a rock duo from Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of songwriter, singer, guitarist John Engelbert and drummer, percussionist, singer Oskar "Ossi" Bonde...
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- Thomas Erak
Thomas Erak is the lead guitarist and lead vocalist from Mukilteo, Washington based mathcore/post-hardcore band The Fall of Troy. Thomas is currently endorsed by Gibson USA, Orange Amplification, Ernie Ball and Nike footwear. He used to provide vocals for the now defunct Seattle hardcore band, The...
(The Hills Have Eyes, The Fall of TroyThe Fall of Troy is a three-piece mathcore band from Mukilteo, Washington. The band consists of Thomas Erak , Andrew Forsman , Frank "Black" Ene...
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- Eric Erlandson
Eric Erlandson is the co-founder, former songwriter and lead guitarist of '90s alternative rock band Hole. Erlandson grew up in San Pedro, where he was picked on for being lanky and pale. During his college years he worked for the now defunct Licorice Pizza record store chain, alongside many...
(HoleHole was a Grammy-nominated American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. The band was fronted by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. Hole achieved considerable commercial success...
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- Esteban
Esteban is the stage name of guitarist Stephen Paul. Recognizable by his bolero hat and sunglasses, Esteban has gained commercial success by selling his CDs and guitars on QVC and HSN.-History:...
- Dan Estrin (Hoobastank
Hoobastank is an American rock band, best known for their 2004 hit "The Reason" and other hits "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away". They formed in 1994 in Agoura Hills, California, with singer Doug Robb, guitarist Dan Estrin, drummer Chris Hesse, and original bassist Markku Lappalainen...
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- Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks is a jazz guitarist who was the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2009...
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- Euronymous (Mayhem
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway. They are regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...
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- Jason Everman
Jason Mark Everman is an American guitarist who played with Nirvana and Soundgarden. Everman is currently studying philosophy at Columbia University.-Nirvana:...
(NirvanaNirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
, SoundgardenSoundgarden was a Grammy Award winning American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
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- Alex Fox
Alex Fox is a flamenco guitarist.Fox was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was inspired by a broad range of artists ranging from The Beatles to The Gipsy Kings. Fox later received a scholarship to train with the director of the Teatro Colón Symphony Orchestra, an opportunity...
- Jules Faife
Growing up in Leeds in the north of England and based in London since 1995, guitarist Jules Faife has developed a knowledge spanning styles as varied as Flamenco, African, Indian and Latin music as well as the more familiar Western styles of jazz and popular music.Jules is in two Zimbabwean bands...
- Brian Fair
Brian Fair is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the Thrash metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.-History:...
(Shadows FallShadows Fall is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. They are one of the few bands who take their lyrical influence from Eastern philosophy...
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- Craig Fairbaugh
Craig Fairbaugh is a guitarist, who is best known for playing with the rock band +44 . The band was made up of Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, who reunited with Tom Delonge to continue the pop punk band Blink-182 in 2009, and Shane Gallagher of The Nervous Return...
(Transplants, +44+44 is an alternative rock band formed by Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker...
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- Nick Falcon
Nick Falcon is an American musician best known as guitarist, composer, lyricist and singer of the band The Young Werewolves.-Early life:...
(The Young WerewolvesThe Young Werewolves are a Philadelphia rock band formed in 2002. The trio have been labeled rockabilly, psychobilly, punk, garage, and surf by publications such as Allmusic, Fangoria, The Village Voice, Maximum RocknRoll, assorted Horror, Tattoo, Hot Rod magazines,several alternative weeklies and...
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- Todd Fancey
Todd Fancey is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist and solo artist. He is most widely known as the guitarist for Vancouver-based indie rock band The New Pornographers and the bassist for the band Limblifter...
(The New PornographersThe New Pornographers is a Canadian/American indie rock supergroup formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their music is often described as power pop, with some critics likening their sound to that of Cheap Trick.-Overview:...
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- Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger since 1989....
(PowderfingerPowderfinger is an Australian rock band. The band formed in Brisbane in 1989, and since 1992 their line-up has consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....
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- Mark Farner
Mark Fredrick Farner 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.-Early life and career:...
(Grand Funk RailroadGrand Funk Railroad is an American rock band. Highly popular during the 1970s, Grand Funk Railroad sold more than 25 million records, toured constantly, packed arenas worldwide, and received four RIAA gold albums during 1970—the most for any American group that year...
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- Andrew Farriss
Andrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician , best known as the keyboardist and key composer for the Australian band INXS.-Career:...
(INXS----INXS achieved international success with a series of hit recordings through the 1980s and 1990s, including the albums Listen Like Thieves, Kick, X and Welcome to Wherever You Are and the singles "Original Sin", "Need You Tonight", "Devil Inside" and "New Sensation".Hutchence died in 1997 and...
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- Tim Farriss
Timothy William Farriss is a member of the rock band INXS.-Early life and the formation of INXS:...
(INXS----INXS achieved international success with a series of hit recordings through the 1980s and 1990s, including the albums Listen Like Thieves, Kick, X and Welcome to Wherever You Are and the singles "Original Sin", "Need You Tonight", "Devil Inside" and "New Sensation".Hutchence died in 1997 and...
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- Josh Farro
Joshua Neil Farro is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He is the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Paramore.-Biography:...
(ParamoreParamore is a Grammy-nominated American rock band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee in 2004 consisting of Hayley Williams , Josh Farro , Jeremy Davis , Zac Farro , and Taylor York...
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- Eric Faulkner
Eric Faulkner is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band, the Bay City Rollers....
(Bay City RollersThe Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop/rock band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinctive styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time. For a relatively brief but fervent...
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- Don Felder
Donald William Felder is an American rock musician who was a member of the Eagles from 1974 until 2001.-Early life and influences:...
(EaglesEagles is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds...
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- Zach Filkins
Zachary Douglas Filkins is an American musician and model, but as of 2007 he is best known for playing the guitar in the band OneRepublic.-Early life:...
(OneRepublicOneRepublic is an American pop rock band formed in Colorado. After a few years of moderate success, they have drawn mainstream attention with the release of their singles "Apologize", and "Stop and Stare"...
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- Robin Finck
Robin Finck is an American guitarist, currently the lead guitarist for Nine Inch Nailsand former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses...
(Nine Inch NailsNine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
, Guns N' RosesGuns N' Roses is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation...
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- Aaron Fink
Aaron Fink is an American guitarist. He is currently the lead guitarist and occasional backing vocalist for the Alternative Metal band Breaking Benjamin.-Biography:...
- Jon Finn
Jonathan M. Finn is an American rock musician and guitarist. He is the founder and leader of the Jon Finn Group, and is a professor at the Berklee College of Music; he joined the guitar faculty there in 1988...
(Jon Finn GroupThe Jon Finn Group is a rock band formed and led by the Boston guitarist Jon Finn. The band plays instrumental progressive rock, sounding like a mix between Dream Theater and Dixie Dregs with a blues approach....
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- Michael Lee Firkins
Michael Lee Firkins is an electric guitar player whose sound fuses bluegrass, country, blues, and jazz elements into his distorted rock sound. He is noted amongst guitarists for his prolific use of hybrid picking at high speeds....
- Jörg Fischer
Jörg Fischer is a German guitar player, primarily known for his work with Accept. He has also released an album with Billionaire Boys' Club, called Something Wicked Comes....
(AcceptAccept are a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. They played an important role in the development of speed metal and Teutonic thrash metal, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to...
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- Bradley Fish
Bradley Fish is an American born musician based in Israel. He relocated to Israel in 2004, first living in Tel Aviv, and finally settling in Jerusalem.He holds a B.A...
- Eliot Fisk
Eliot Fisk is an American classical guitarist.-Biography:Fisk was the last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia and is the holder of all reproduction rights to Segovia's music, given to him by Segovia's wife, Emilia...
- Warren Fitzgerald
----Warren Fitzgerald is an American punk rock musician, guitarist, songwriter, and record label owner.-Overview and business:Warren Fitzgerald is most famous for being the current guitarist of The Vandals...
(Oingo BoingoOingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts...
, The VandalsThe Vandals are an American rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. They have released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the Vans Warped Tour...
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- John Flansburgh
John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician. He is half of the longstanding Brooklyn, New York-based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings and plays rhythm guitar...
(They Might Be GiantsThey Might Be Giants is a double Grammy Award-winning American alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller, and Danny Weinkauf. Formed in 1982, they are best known for an unconventional and experimental style...
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- Flattus Maximus
Flattus Maximus is a guitarist in the heavy metal band GWAR. He is known by his red face, white dreadlocks, dinosaur-head shoulder pads and reptile feet. The name "Flattus" implies a flatulent character...
(GWARGwar is a Grammy Award-nominated thrash metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1985. The band is best known for their elaborate sci-fi/horror film inspired costumes; raunchy, obscene lyrics; and graphic stage performances, which consist of humorous re-enactments of political and moral taboo...
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- Tom Fletcher
Thomas Michael "Tom" Fletcher is one of the lead vocalists, guitarists and songwriters in the British pop rock/pop punk band McFly, along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd...
(McFlyMcFly are a BRIT Award winning pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band members are: Tom Fletcher , Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd...
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- Brandon Flowers
Brandon Richard Flowers is the American frontman, keyboardist and primary lyricist of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers.-Early life:...
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- Robert Flynn
Robb Flynn is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the thrash metal band Machine Head...
(Machine HeadMachine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, formed in 1992. Founded by singer and guitarist Robb Flynn and bassist Adam Duce, and has only had 4 personnel changes since its inception 17 years ago. The current lineup of the band comprises Flynn , Duce , Phil Demmel , and...
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- John Fogerty
John Cameron Fogerty 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, California and is the younger brother of Tom Fogerty...
(Creedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
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- Tom Fogerty
Thomas Richard Fogerty was a musician best known as the guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and the elder brother of John Fogerty, the lead singer and guitar player in that band.-Career:Tom Fogerty began playing rock and roll in high school, just as his brother, John Fogerty did...
(Creedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
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- Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the band Ben Folds Five.-Early life and career:...
(Ben Folds FiveBen Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played bass and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played drums, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the...
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- Jerome Fontamillas
Jerome Earl Fontamillas is a Filipino American musician. Jerome has played in several bands notably with industrial rock band Mortal and Fold Zandura, with long time musical partner Jyro Xhan. He currently plays with alternative rock band Switchfoot as a guitar and keyboard player.In 1985...
(SwitchfootSwitchfoot is an alternative rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .They are known for their energetic live shows , the three guitarists in the line-up often operate...
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- Lita Ford
Lita Ford is a British-born, American rock musician and singer who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways and achieved popularity for her solo career during the 1980s and late 2000s.-Early life:...
(The RunawaysThe Runaways were an American all-girl teenage rock band that performed in the 1970s. The band is best known for the songs "Cherry Bomb", "Queens of Noise", "Rock n Roll", "Neon Angels ", and "Born to Be Bad"...
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- Marc Ford
Marc Ford , is a guitarist/singer/songwriter, and the former lead guitarist of the rock and roll jam band The Black Crowes.-Burning Tree:...
(The Black CrowesThe Black Crowes are an American, blues-oriented hard rock jam band that has sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World". In 1990, the readers of Rolling Stone named it the 'Best New American Band'...
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- Robben Ford
Robben Ford is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist.-Biography:Ford was born in Woodlake but raised in Ukiah, California, and began playing the saxophone at age 10, picking up the guitar at age 13...
- Chris Foreman
Chris Foreman , nicknamed Chrissy Boy, is an English guitarist, best known as a member of a second wave ska band, Madness.Foreman started Madness with Mike Barson and Lee Thompson in 1976...
(MadnessMadness are a British pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. In 2009, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years. They were one of the most prominent bands of the late-1970s 2...
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- Jon Foreman
Jonathan Mark Foreman is the lead singer, guitarist, and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and bassist Tim Foreman...
(SwitchfootSwitchfoot is an alternative rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .They are known for their energetic live shows , the three guitarists in the line-up often operate...
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- Richard Fortus
Richard Fortus is a professional guitarist who is most famous for being rhythm guitarist in Guns N' Roses.Originally from Saint Louis, Fortus, cut his teeth throughout the Midwest with his band, The Eyes. The four-piece alternative band independently released "Freedom in a Cage", which was...
(The Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit LoveLove Spit Love was a musical group founded in 1992 by singer Richard Butler following the initial disbanding of the Psychedelic Furs.-History:...
, Guns N' RosesGuns N' Roses is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation...
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- Oz Fox
Oz Fox is the lead guitarist of the Christian metal band Stryper...
(StryperStryper is a Christian metal band from Orange County, California, USA. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian metal music. Stryper enjoyed great success during the mid-late 1980s, with one Platinum and two Gold records, before breaking up in 1992 at a time...
, SinDizzySinDizzy is Christian metal band co-founded by former Stryper members Oz Fox and Tim Gaines. The band was founded in the mid 1990s after Stryper had disbanded. Its members included young drummer and lead guitarist...
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- Les Fradkin
Les Fradkin is a guitarist, composer and record producer. He is best known for being a member of the original cast of the hit Broadway show Beatlemania...
(Beatlemania (musical)Beatlemania was a Broadway musical revue focused on the life and music of The Beatles. Advertised as "Not the Beatles, but an incredible simulation", it ran from 1977 to 1979 for a total of 1006 performances.- History :...
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- Peter Frampton
Peter Kenneth Frampton 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 split his ties with A&M Records; however, he re-signed with the label in...
(Humble PieTo eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries, originally based on medieval meat tripe pies.- Etymology :...
, The HerdThe Herd were an English pop group, that came to prominence in the late 1960s. They are most famous for launching the career of Peter Frampton.-Band members:...
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- Black Francis (Pixies)
- Lars Frederiksen
Lars Erik Frederiksen is a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, and the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards. He is also notable as a producer, having worked with the Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, Union 13, The Gadjits, Pressure Point, and The Business...
(RancidRancid is an American punk rock band from Albany, California, formed in 1991. Founded by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy, the band is credited with helping to revive mainstream popular interest in punk rock in the United States during...
, Lars Frederiksen and the BastardsLars Frederiksen and the Bastards are an American street punk band formed to release the songs that Lars had written. Their songs include subject matter consisting of drinking, fighting, drugs, sex, prostitutes, gangs, and street life...
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- Tony Fredianelli
Anthony Joseph Fredianelli was born in Santa Monica, California. He spent most of his early childhood living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fredianelli has four siblings. He married in 1995 and has a son, Joseph....
(Third Eye BlindThird Eye Blind is an American alternative rock band formed in the early 1990s in San Francisco. The band's current line-up is Stephan Jenkins , Brad Hargreaves , and Tony Fredianelli . Original bassist Arion Salazar has not been playing with the band, and his future as part of the band is unclear...
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- Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley 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 theatrics...
(KISSKiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
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- Jay Jay French
John French Segall , better known by his stage name Jay Jay French or J.J. French, is a founding member and one of the two guitarists of the American heavy metal band, Twisted Sister....
(Twisted SisterTwisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup...
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- Glenn Frey
Glenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band Eagles.-Early life:...
(EaglesEagles is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds...
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- Matthew Friedberger
Matthew Friedberger is half of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces. In the band he contributes the majority of the instrumentation, writes most of the songs and lyrics and occasionally sings...
(The Fiery FurnacesThe Fiery Furnaces are a U.S. indie rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000. They played twice in Brooklyn as The Suckers before performing as The Fiery Furnaces . The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger...
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- Marty Friedman
Marty Friedman is an American guitarist. He is most widely recognized for his tenure as lead/rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Megadeth for close to ten years...
(MegadethMegadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983. Founded by Dave Mustaine following his departure from Metallica, the band has since released twelve studio albums, six live albums, two EPs, twenty six singles, thirty-two music videos, and three compilations.As...
, CacophonyCacophony was an American metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Cacophony is often recognized for its technically challenging, neo-classical metal and speed metal elements, as well as featuring two shred guitarists...
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- Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
- Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp 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 decades, encompasses a variety of musical styles...
(King CrimsonKing Crimson is a progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation drawing from jazz, classical and...
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- Fred Frith
Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best-known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...
(Henry CowHenry Cow were an English avant-rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. Henry Cow's personnel fluctuated over their decade together, but drummer Chris Cutler and bassoonist/oboist Lindsay Cooper were important long-term members...
, Art BearsArt Bears were an English avant-rock group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members, Chris Cutler , Fred Frith and Dagmar Krause...
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- Edgar Froese
Edgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".Froese...
(Tangerine DreamTangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...
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- Uri Frost
Uri Frost , is an Israeli rock guitarist, producer and director. Frost's dark and often intellectual art and music are informed by a sense of rootlessness and exile. As an introverted artist he has often refused to conduct media interviews...
(KatamineKatamine is a collaborative musical project that joins a changing cast of artists with the Israeli singer and songwriter Assaf Tager...
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- John Frusciante
John Anthony Frusciante 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 he has recorded five studio albums...
(Red Hot Chili PeppersRed Hot Chili Peppers is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members have been vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith...
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- Bobby Fuller
Bobby Fuller was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitar player best known for his single "I Fought the Law".-Career:...
(The Bobby Fuller Four)
- Jim Fuller
Jim Fuller is the lead guitarist and co-song writer of the famous 1960s rock band, The Surfaris. He is known as the "Godfather" of surf music, a Californian folk rock music that is also the early roots of heavy metal and punk. Fuller's lead guitar work has influenced, and is copied by many rock...
(Surfaris)
- Justin Furstenfeld
Justin Steward Furstenfeld is a record producer, artist and the lead singer, guitarist, lyricist and frontman of the American rock band Blue October.-Personal life:...
(Blue OctoberBlue October is a rock band originally from Houston, Texas. The band was formed in 1995 and currently consists of Justin Furstenfeld , Jeremy Furstenfeld , Ryan Delahoussaye , C.B...
, The Last WishThe Last Wish was a rock band from Houston, Texas, noted for being the first band of Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld. Ryan Delahoussaye of Blue October played with The Last Wish at a couple shows, but he was never a member of the band. Song writing collaboration was often shared by Greg...
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- Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto...
- Magne Furuholmen
Magne 'Mags' Furuholmen , is best known as the guitarist/keyboardist in a-ha. He was born to father Kåre and mother Annelise and grew up in Manglerud, Oslo, along with a-ha colleague and co-writer Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.-a-ha:...
(a-haa-ha is a synthpop/-rock band from Norway, formed in 1982. The group initially rose to fame during the 1980s and has had continued success in the 1990s and 2000s.a-ha achieved its biggest success with their debut album and single in 1985...
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- Tom Gabel
Tom Gabel is a vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for Gainesville, Florida punk rock band Against Me!, as well as a solo artist. He was born at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, where his father was stationed. At age 17, he dropped out of high school and formed...
(Against Me!Against Me! is a punk rock band formed in 1997 in Gainesville, Florida. Their first full-length album, released on No Idea Records in 2002, is Reinventing Axl Rose. They have released music on Misanthrope Records, Crasshole Records, Plan It X Records, Sabot Productions, No Idea Records, and Fat...
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- Steve Gaines
Steven Earl Gaines was an American musician. He is most well-known as a guitarist and songwriter for southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.-Life & Career:...
(Lynyrd SkynyrdLynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three members and one road crew member died in an airplane crash in 1977, including lead vocalist and primary...
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- Declan Galbraith
Declan John Galbraith is an English singer of Irish and Scottish origin. He and his family are now living in South East England...
- Eric Gale
Eric J. Gale was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.He began playing guitar at the age of 12. Although he majored in chemistry at Niagara University, Gale was determined to pursue a musical career, and began contributing to accompaniments for such stars as Maxine Brown, the Drifters,...
- Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician, best known as the former principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and occasional vocalist of British rock band Oasis...
(OasisOasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
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- Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher was an Irish blues/rock guitarist. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland on March 2, 1948, he grew up in Cork City. He is best known for his solo albums throughout the 1970's and 1980's, and for his tenure in the band Taste during the late 1960s...
- Shane Gallagher
Shane Gallagher is an Indonesian-American musician who played guitar for rock/alternative band +44, goth-punk band Mercy Killers, and formerly The Nervous Return.- Early Life :...
(+44+44 is an alternative rock band formed by Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker...
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- Dann Gallucci
Dann Gallucci is a musician based in Seattle, Washington. He is currently a member of Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. He is probably best known as a former member of indie rock band Modest Mouse. He was in the band on and off, from 1995 to August 2004...
(Modest MouseModest Mouse is an American alternative rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their...
, Murder City DevilsThe Murder City Devils was a garage punk band active between 1996 and 2001. Since 2006, the band has played occasional shows at festivals and in Seattle and currently has plans for a West Coast tour in February 2009.-History:...
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- Frank Gambale
Frank Gambale is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.-Recording career:...
- Tim Gane
Tim Gane is the leader of the rock band, Stereolab.Gane's musical influences are wide-ranging, and generally lie outside the rock mainstream: the krautrock of Neu! and Faust; the sunshine pop of Brian Wilson, Wendy & Bonnie and The Zombies; Brazilian bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim;...
(StereolabStereolab were an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes. Other long-time members include Andy Ramsay and Mary Hansen...
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- Charly García
Charly García is a musician from Argentina with a long career in rock.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in an upper-middle class family...
(Sui GenerisSui Generis is one of the most important rock bands in Argentine history, enjoying enormous success and popularity during the first half of the 1970s and a following that lasts to the present throughout South America...
, PorsuigiecoPorsuigieco was a Folk-rock "super-band" by Charly García, Nito Mestre , Leon Gieco, Raul Porchetto and Maria Rosa Yorio . The band was active only in 1975. The only album that they released was Porsuigieco. They performed live only two times...
, La Máquina de Hacer PájarosLa Máquina de Hacer Pájaros was a mid 1970s progressive and symphonic rock band from Argentina, with strong influences by Genesis, Yes, and Steely Dan...
, Serú Girán- Biography :Progressive rock band from Argentina formed in the late '70s by Charly García, guitarist David Lebón, bassist Pedro Aznar, and drummer Oscar Moro. After leading La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, García moved to Brazil to start his new project...
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- Enrik Garcia
Enrik Garcia is the guitarist of Spanish neoclassical metal/power metal band Dark Moor. He is the only constant member through all of Dark Moor's fifteen years, and writes most of their lyrics as well. For their latest record Tarot, he did all of the orchestral arrangements on the CD....
(Dark MoorDark Moor is a Spanish heavy metal band from Madrid. Formed in 1993, they produced three full-length albums before undergoing a line-up change in which three members left the band to form their own project, Dreamaker...
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- Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead...
(Grateful DeadThe Grateful Dead were an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelia, and space rock—and for live performances of long musical...
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- Chuck Garvey
Chuck Garvey is one of two guitarists for the American rock band, moe.. His playing has been influenced by Eddie Van Halen and Duane Allman. He currently lives in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.- moe. :...
(moe.moe. is an American jam band, formed at the University at Buffalo in 1990. The band members are: Rob Derhak , Al Schnier , Chuck Garvey , Vinnie Amico , and Jim Loughlin ....
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- Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys
Los Lonely Boys is a Grammy Award-winning rock band from San Angelo, Texas. They play a style of music which they dub as Texican Rock n' Roll, combining elements of rock and roll, blues, soul, country, and Tejano....
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- Kyle Gass
Kyle Richard Gass , also known as KG or Kage, is an American musician and actor. He is a member of the bands Tenacious D and Trainwreck. In Tenacious D , Gass plays lead guitar and sings backup vocals, and also plays the role of Black's comic foil in most of their comedy routines...
(Tenacious DTenacious D, also known as "The D", is an American rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Comprising lead vocalist and guitarist Jack Black and lead guitarist and vocalist Kyle Gass, the band has released two albums – Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny...
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- Synyster Gates
Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn or "Gates", is an American musician...
(Avenged SevenfoldAvenged Sevenfold is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day." The band's success...
,Pinkly SmoothPinkly Smooth is an american avant-garde metal band, and sideproject of "Rathead" also known as Avenged Sevenfold drummer , in which he is the primary vocalist....
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- Danny Gatton
Danny Gatton was an American guitarist who committed suicide at his Maryland home in 1994. A biography, Unfinished Business: The Life and Times of Danny Gatton by Ralph Heibutzki, was published in 2003. It has a voluminous discography...
- Lee Gaze (lostprophets
Lostprophets is a Welsh rock band from Pontypridd, formed in 1997. The band was founded by vocalist Ian Watkins, bassist Mike Lewis, drummer Mike Chiplin and guitarist Lee Gaze, originally as a side-project to hardcore punk band Public Disturbance...
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- Björn Gelotte
Björn Gelotte is a songwriter and guitarist for the Swedish band In Flames. He joined the band as the drummer in 1995 and continued his position as drummer during The Jester Race and Whoracle...
(In FlamesIn Flames is a Swedish band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre. Since the band's conception in 1990, they have received numerous awards and released nine studio albums and one live DVD. The band has...
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- Vicki Genfan
Vicki Genfan is a US-American fingerstyle-guitarist, composer and singer.- Biography :Vicki Genfan took up the guitar at the age of five. Her father played 12-string guitar, mandolin and fiddle and had a good voice, her older brother played guitar too. She studied classical music and jazz at...
- Antony Genn
Antony Genn is a British musician formerly in Pulp. He also toured with Elastica in 1995-1996, playing keyboards. He is perhaps best known for co-writing with Joe Strummer and forming The Mescaleros in 1999. Antony co-wrote and produced The Mescaleros first album Rock Art and the X-Ray Style...
(The MescalerosThe Mescaleros were the backing band for Joe Strummer, formed in 1999, which went on to make three albums prior to Strummer's death in 2002. Many of the band members were gifted multi-instrumentalists...
, The HoursThe Hours are a band formed in 2004 by Antony Genn and Martin Slattery. Antony Genn had previously played with the bands Elastica and Pulp, and also worked as a producer, including producing sessions for the electronic act UNKLE....
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- Dave Genn
David Robert Madison Genn is a musician and a member of Canadian rock group 54-40.Dave Genn was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 2 March, 1969...
(Matthew Good Band)
- Lowell George
Lowell Thomas George or Lowell George was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, who primarily achieved fame as lead vocalist and frontman in the rock band Little Feat where he was known for his slide guitar skills.-Early years:Lowell George was born in Hollywood, the...
(Little FeatLittle Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....
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- Rocky George
Rocky George is an American heavy metal guitarist who has been a member of several notable musical acts. George's guitar playing career began in 1982 when he joined a local punk rock band called Pap Smear. He became lead guitarist of Suicidal Tendencies in 1984 and stayed with the band until their...
(Suicidal TendenciesSuicidal Tendencies is an American crossover thrash and hardcore punk band. They were formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir. The band is credited as one of the "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
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- Janick Gers
Janick Robert Gers 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.-Career:...
(Iron MaidenIron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in East London, formed in 1975. The band are directed by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris...
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- Per Gessle
Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish pop Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson.- Early work :...
(Gyllene TiderGyllene Tider is a famous Swedish pop group. The name "Gyllene Tider" means 'Golden ages' or 'Golden times' in English. Few Scandinavians would not recognize the band's most famous song "Sommartider", often played on the radio during late spring and early summer. The band is well-known for its...
, RoxetteRoxette is a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. They enjoyed worldwide success, from the late 1980s until the mid 1990s, gaining nineteen UK Top 40 hits and four US #1 singles with, "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride"...
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- Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb was an Australian singer, teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees.-The early years:...
- Barry Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb CBE is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in the Isle of Man, to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed the Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major...
(Bee GeesThe Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The group was successful for most of its forty years of recording music, but the trio had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a harmonic "soft rock" act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as the foremost...
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- Ben Gibbard
Benjamin Gibbard is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie bands. He is the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, also known for his project ¡All-Time Quarterback! and his first band, Pinwheel...
(Death Cab for CutieDeath Cab for Cutie is a Grammy-nominated American indie rock band, formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr...
, The Postal ServiceThe Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band composed of vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine.-Background:...
, All-Time Quarterback¡All-Time Quarterback! is a one-off side project begun by Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard, in the spring of 1997. A series of recordings resulted in two lo-fi EPs on Elsinor Records, which was documenting the Bellingham, Washington music scene...
, Pinwheel)
- Billy Gibbons
Billy F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...
(ZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock trio, formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, by Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard...
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- Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert 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....
(Mr. BigMr Big is a hard rock group that formed in 1988. The band is a quartet composed of Eric Martin , Paul Gilbert , Billy Sheehan , and Pat Torpey ; Mr Big also included Richie Kotzen, a reputable blues-based guitarist who replaced Gilbert in 1999. The band is noted especially for their musicianship,...
, Racer X)
- Daniel Gildenlöw
Daniel Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best-known as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band. In the band, he is the main songwriter, lead guitar player, and the mastermind behind each album's concept...
(Pain of SalvationPain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterised by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense...
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- Nick Gilder
Nick Gilder is a Canadian musician who first came to prominence as frontman for the glam rock band Sweeney Todd, and later as a songwriter-Biography:...
(Sweeney ToddSweeney Todd is a Canadian glam rock band that formed in 1975.The band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, originally consisted of vocalist Nick Gilder, guitarist Jim McCulloch, bassist Budd Marr, keyboardist Dan Gaudin and drummer John Booth...
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- Brad Gillis
Brad Gillis is a guitarist most famous for playing with the band Night Ranger. He was in the band Rubicon during the 70's before Night Ranger...
(Night RangerNight Ranger is an American hard rock band from San Francisco, California that gained significant popularity during the 1980s with a series of successful albums and singles. The band's first five albums sold over 10 million copies worldwide, and gave the band international recognition...
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- David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour CBE is an English musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a record producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo...
(Pink FloydPink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...
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- Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
(Pure Prarie League)
- Gordon Giltrap
Gordon Giltrap is an English acoustic and electric guitarist and composer, whose musical styles cross multiple genres - folk, blues, folk rock, pop, classical and rock....
- Greg Ginn
Gregory Regis Ginn is a guitarist, songwriter and singer. He is best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976 to 1986....
(Black FlagBlack Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes...
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- Chad I. Ginsburg
Chad I Ginsburg is the rhythm guitarist and producer of the band CKY.Ginsburg was working in GroundHog Studios in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he met future band mates Deron Miller and Jess Margera. After hearing a demo of Disengage The Simulator from their band oiL, Chad immediately wanted...
(CKYCKY is an American alternative metal band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1998. Currently comprising vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller, guitarist and vocalist Chad I...
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- Nicolas Godin
Nicolas Godin Nicolas Godin Nicolas Godin (born 25 December 1969 in Le Chesnay near Paris, (Île-de-France / France) is a musician best known for his work with the band Air.He plays bass guitar, acoustic guitar and electric guitar, and also provides vocals, including Vocoder vocals....
(AirAir is a French music duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel...
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- Mircea Gogoncea
Mircea Stefan Gogoncea is a Romanian classical guitarist.-Biography:Mircea Gogoncea studied classical guitar from the age of four with Eugen Mang, having his first stage and competition performances at the age of five...
- Lynval Golding
Lynval Golding is a British musician. He is best known as a rhythm guitarist and vocalist with the British 2 Tone Records band, The Specials....
(The SpecialsThe Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combined a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
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- Sander Gommans
Sander Gommans is a Dutch musician. He founded the symphonic metal band Apocalypse with Mark Jansen in 1995, which later changed its name to After Forever. He played guitar and did the grunting parts in the band...
(After ForeverAfter Forever was a Dutch symphonic metal band with strong progressive metal influences, relied on the use of both soprano vocals and death grunts. In February 2009 it was announced that they had disbanded.-Biography:...
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- Adam Gontier
Adam Wade Gontier is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter of Three Days Grace.- Biography :...
(Three Days GraceThree Days Grace is a Canadian rock band, formed in Norwood, Ontario, Canada in 1992, under the name Groundswell. After a breakup in 1995, the band reformed in 1997 under its current name and with a line-up consisting of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer and backing vocalist Neil...
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- Dave Gonzalez (The Paladins
The Paladins are a roots rock/rockabilly band from San Diego, California. Founded in the early 1980s by guitarist Dave Gonzalez and his high school friend and double bass player Thomas Yearsley, they have recorded nine studio albums and built a reputation as one of America's hardest-working live...
, Hacienda BrothersThe Hacienda Brothers is the name of an alternative country band composed of Chris Gaffney, Dave Gonzalez, Dave Berzansky, Dale Daniel, and Hank Maninger. They have been described as "the finest country-rock band since the Flying Burrito Brothers in their prime." Their music blends soul, blues,...
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- José González
José González is a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.-Biography:González was born in a suburb near Gothenburg, Sweden. He commented; "It's a very small town. It has about a half-million people living there. It's a pretty good music city by the ocean...
- Myles Goodwyn
Myles Goodwyn is a record producer, guitarist, lead vocalist, main songwriter and founding member of the veteran Canadian hard rock band April Wine...
(April WineApril Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...
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- Nina Gordon
Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon is an American rock singer. Co-founder of the band Veruca Salt, Gordon pioneered and revived Bangles-inspired pop rock for the mid-'90s grunge generation. She quickly became known for her power-pop hooks and melodies, writing Veruca Salt hits "Seether" and "Volcano Girls"...
(Veruca SaltFor the Willy Wonka character, see Veruca Salt.Veruca Salt is an alternative rock band founded in 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included vocalist-guitarist Louise Post. The current guitarist is Stephen Fitzpatrick, who has been with the band since 1999...
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- Martin Gore
Martin Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs...
(Depeche ModeDepeche Mode are an English electronic band who formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
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- Scott Gorham
Scott Gorham is an American guitarist and songwriter.He is best known as a member of Thin Lizzy...
(Thin LizzyThin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major...
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- Chris Goss
Christopher Allen Goss, born September 21, 1959, is an American record producer and musician.-Recording career:As well as being the founding member of influential desert rock outfit Masters of Reality, Goss is also well known for his production work on albums by Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age...
(Masters of RealityMasters of Reality is a hard rock group formed in 1986 by guitarist and singer Chris Goss and Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York. The band is sometimes associated with the "Palm Desert Scene", which includes bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and many other stoner rock or "desert rock"...
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- Stone Gossard
Stone Carpenter Gossard is an American musician who serves as the rhythm guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Dave Krusen, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam...
(Green RiverGreen River is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984. The band was active from 1984 to 1988. Although the band had little commercial impact outside of its native Seattle, Green River proved to have significant influence on the genre later known as grunge, both with its...
, Mother Love BoneMother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene...
, Temple of the DogTemple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone...
, Pearl JamPearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
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- Manuel Göttsching
Manuel Göttsching is a German musician and composer.As the leader of the group Ash Ra Tempel or Ashra, one of the most notable German groups of the 1970s and 80s, as well as a solo artist, he is one of the most important guitarists of the Kosmische Musik genre. He also participated in the Cosmic...
(Ash Ra TempelAsh Ra Tempel is a German Krautrock group of the 1970s, and are an example of cosmic or space rock.-History:The group was originally founded by guitarist Manuel Göttsching, keyboardist/drummer Klaus Schulze, and bassist Hartmut Enke in 1971...
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- Johnny Goudie
John Charles "Johnny" Goudie is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer and actor based in Austin, Texas.-Early Life and Music Career:...
(GoudieGoudie was a Glam rock band from Austin, Texas fronted by Johnny Goudie.Goudie started in 1997 as a solo project of frontman Johnny Goudie. In 1998 Johnny’s friend Einar Pedersen joined on bass and Bill Lefler replaced the original drummer Kyle Schneider, and Jimmy M