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The following is a list of significant rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
ists, arranged in ascending alphabetical order of last name. For a list of lead guitarists see List of lead guitarists

List of lead guitarists

The following is a list of significant lead guitarists, arranged in ascending alphabetical order of their last name. For rhythm guitarists see list of rhythm guitarists....
. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please. Anything else will be removed.

A

• Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  
  Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...
  
• Willie Adler
  Willie Adler
  
  William M. Adler is one of the two guitarists in the heavy metal music band Lamb of God . He is the younger brother of bandmate Chris Adler ....
   (Lamb of God
  Lamb of God (band)
  
  Lamb of God is an American heavy metal music band formed in 1990 in Richmond, Virginia. The band was originally known as Burn the Priest and decided to change their name shortly after the release of a Burn the Priest in 1998....
  )
• Art Alexakis
  Art Alexakis
  
  Arthur Paul Alexakis is the singer, lead guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Everclear ....
   (Everclear
  Everclear
  
  Everclear may refer to:*Everclear , a rock band from Portland, Oregon*Everclear , a brand of grain alcohol*Everclear , an album by indie rock group American Music Club...
  )
• Christopher Amott
  Christopher Amott
  
  Christopher Amott is a Sweden guitar player and vocalist, younger brother of Michael Amott and founding member of the Swedish metal bands Arch Enemy and Armageddon ....
   (Arch Enemy)
• Aoi
  Aoi
  
  Aoi may refer to:*Ao , a Japanese color word*Aoi, the Japanese word for blue*Aoi Matsuri, a festival that takes place annually on 15 May in Kyoto, Japan...
   (the GazettE
  The Gazette
  
  The Gazette is a title of several newspapers and magazines, including:...
  )
• Gem Archer
  Gem Archer
  
  Colin Murray Archer , better known as Gem Archer , is an England musician best known for his work with Heavy Stereo and Oasis . He joined Oasis as rhythm guitarist in November 1999, and now handles lead guitar as well....
   (Oasis
  Oasis (band)
  
  Oasis are an English rock music 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 ....
  )
• Mark Arm
  Mark Arm
  
  Mark Arm is the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. He is also credited with coining the term "grunge" to describe his style of rock music ....
   (Mudhoney
  Mudhoney
  
  Mudhoney is an American grunge band. Formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988 following the demise of Green River , Mudhoney has for the most of its recording career consisted of Mark Arm , Steve Turner , Matt Lukin and Dan Peters ....
  )
• Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs
  Paul Arthurs
  
  Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs is one of the founding members of England rock music group Oasis and rhythm guitar player from 1991-1999.He is almost exclusively known by his nickname Bonehead, a reference to the short back and sides haircut his father made him have when he was young....
   (Oasis
  Oasis (band)
  
  Oasis are an English rock music 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 ....
  )

B

• Bobby Bandiera
  Bobby Bandiera
  
  Bobby Bandiera is an United States rock music guitarist and singer known in the Jersey Shore sound world....
   (Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  
  Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  )
• Brian Bell
  Brian Bell (musician)
  
  Brian Bell, is best known as being a member of the United States Rock music band Weezer, playing rhythm guitar and backing vocals, however, since The Red Album he has taken over lead guitar....
   (Weezer
  Weezer
  
  Weezer is a Grammy-winning United States Rock music band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper ....
  , Space Twins
  Space Twins
  
  Space Twins were an American rock band fronted by Weezer guitarist Brian Bell ....
  , The Relationship
  The Relationship
  
  The 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, and Die Hunns guitarist Nate Shaw....
  )
• Brian Benoit
  Brian Benoit
  
  Brian Benoit is a guitarist for The Dillinger Escape Plan. Before playing in Dillinger, Brian played in Moo Cow recording artists Canephora, Jesuit with eventual Converge bassist Nate Newton ....
   (Dillinger Escape Plan)
• Frank Black
  Frank Black
  
  Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, where he performed under the stage name Black Francis....
   (The Pixies)
• Norman Blake
  Norman Blake (Scottish musician)
  
  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....
   (BMX Bandits
  BMX Bandits (band)
  
  BMX Bandits are a Scottish 1960s-influenced guitar pop band who have been making music from 1986 to the present day. They have shared members with other Bellshill bands Teenage Fanclub and The Soup Dragons....
  , Teenage Fanclub
  Teenage Fanclub
  
  Teenage Fanclub is an alternative rock band from Bellshill, 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....
  )
• Jon Bon Jovi
  Jon Bon Jovi
  
  John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an United States musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi....
   (Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  
  Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  )
• Bono
  Bono
  
  Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
   (U2
  U2
  
  U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  )
• James Bourne
  James Bourne
  
  James Elliot Bourne . Now living in LA, is a singer/songwriter and co-founder of the two former Pop punk bands Son of Dork and Busted . He is currently pursuing a solo career while working with a new band called Call Me When I'm 18....
   (Son of Dork
  Son of Dork
  
  Son of Dork were a United Kingdom Pop music 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....
  , Busted
  Busted
  
  Busted were an England Pop Music Band consisting of James Bourne , Charlie Simpson , and Matt Willis . They sold over 1 million singles and 2 million albums in the UK, winning BRIT Awards, Record Of The Year and performing on several sellout arena tours....
  )
• Niall Breslin
  Niall Breslin
  
  Niall Breslin is the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter with Irish ska-punk/pop band The Blizzards. He also played for Leinster Rugby at senior level, earning 15 caps for the province....
   (The Blizzards
  The Blizzards
  
  The Blizzards are an Republic of Ireland band from Mullingar in County Westmeath. They were formed by Niall Breslin in late 2004, and also feature Dec Murphy , Anthony Doran and Aidan Lynch ....
  )
• Ely Buendia
  Ely Buendía
  
  Eleandre Basi?o Buendia, popularly known as Ely Buendia, and also once adopting the stage name, Jesus "Dizzy" Ventura, is a Filipino people writer and musician who gained fame as guitarist, songwriter, and lead vocalist in the popular Pinoy rock band, The Eraserheads....
   (The Eraserheads
  The Eraserheads
  
  The Eraserheads, Eraserheads, or E-Heads was a prominent Pinoy rock band of the 1990s, formed by Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro....
  )
• Beau Burchell
  Beau Burchell
  
  Beau Burchell is an American musician and record producer. He plays guitar in the band Saosin, and has produced albums for many popular bands. he was previously in the bands Kosmos Express and Open Hand....
   (Saosin
  Saosin
  
  Saosin is an American Post-hardcore Los Angeles, California based band, originally hailing from Newport Beach, California, formed in 2003. The band consists of lead vocalist Cove Reber, guitarists Beau Burchell and Justin Shekoski, bassist Chris Sorenson and drummer Alex Rodriguez....
  )
• Ben Burnley (Breaking Benjamin
  Breaking Benjamin
  
  Breaking Benjamin is an alternative rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Their music is most often classed as alternative rock or post-grunge....
  )

C

• Joey Cape
  Joey Cape
  
  Joey Cape is an United States singer, songwriter and producer. Active since 1989, Cape is best known as the frontman of the seminal California punk scene rock band Lagwagon, who have released seven studio albums to date ....
   (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  
  Me 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. They have covered songs from such artists as Whitney Houston, Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and John Denver....
  )
• Bob Casale
  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....
   (Devo
  Devo
  
  Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group 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....
  )
• Max Cavalera
  Max Cavalera
  
  Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is an Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter originally from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal music band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s....
   (Sepultura
  Sepultura
  
  Sepultura is a Brazilian Heavy metal music 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 provided a blueprint for the groove metal gen...
  , Soulfly
  Soulfly
  
  Soulfly is a Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 in Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the influential Brazilian group in 1997....
  )
• Vincent Cavanagh
  Vincent Cavanagh
  
  Vincent Cavanagh in Liverpool is an England singer and guitarist best known as a co-founder of United Kingdom art rock band Anathema . Vincent took over as Anathema's vocalist following the departure of Darren "Daz" White from the group after the Pentecost III EP....
   (Anathema
  Anathema (band)
  
  Anathema are an England band from the city of Liverpool, which, together with Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, helped to develop the Death/Doom sound, a subgenre of doom metal....
  )
• Dino Cazares
  Dino Cazares
  
  Dino Cazares, born September 2, 1967 in Mexicali, Baja California, was the guitarist for Los Angeles, California-based Heavy metal music/industrial music group Fear Factory until 2002....
   (Fear Factory
  Fear Factory
  
  Fear Factory is an American heavy metal music band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes....
  , Brujeria, Divine Heresy
  Divine Heresy
  
  Divine Heresy is an United States Heavy metal music band formed by founder of Fear Factory, guitarist Dino Cazares. Although the band's origins trace back to 2002, Divine Heresy was officially formed in 2006....
  )
• Nic Cester
  Nic Cester
  
  Nicholas John Cester is an Australian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist in the rock music band Jet .Born in Melbourne, Australia, Cester is the oldest of four brothers, born to a Scottish mother and Italian father....
   (Jet
  Jet (band)
  
  Jet is a Rock music band from Melbourne, Australia, whose debut album Get Born, released in 2003, has so far sold over three and a half million copies throughout the world....
  )
• Gilby Clarke
  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....
   (Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  
  Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  ,Rock Star Supernova)
• Catfish Collins
  Catfish Collins
  
  Phelps "Catfish" Collins is a rhythm guitarist known mostly for his work in the P-Funk collective. Although frequently overshadowed by his younger brother, Bootsy Collins, Catfish played on many important and influential records by Parliament , Funkadelic, and Bootsy's Rubber Band....
   (Parliament
  Parliament
  
  A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom....
  , Funkadelic
  Funkadelic
  
  Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament , both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  , James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  )
• John Connolly (Sevendust
  Sevendust
  
  Sevendust is an American hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. They were originally signed to TVT Records, but then released their fifth album with Winedark Records in the US, and Roadrunner Records overseas....
  )
• Jamie Cook
  Jamie Cook
  
  Jamie Cook is the electric guitar of Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys....
   (Arctic Monkeys
  Arctic Monkeys
  
  Arctic Monkeys are an England indie 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 ....
  )
• John Corabi
  John Corabi
  
  John Corabi is a heavy metal singer and guitarist who has worked with such bands as Angora , The Scream , M?tley Cr?e, Union and Eric Singer Project , Ratt , Twenty 4 Seven , Zen Lunatic, Brides of Destruction, and Angel City Outlaws ....
   (Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe
  
  M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
  )
• Billy Corgan
  Billy Corgan
  
  William Patrick Corgan, Jr. is an United States of America singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet. Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins....
   (The Smashing Pumpkins
  The Smashing Pumpkins
  
  The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
  )
• Chris Cornell
  Chris Cornell
  
  Chris Cornell is an United States rock music musician best known as the lead singer and singer-songwriter for rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave , and for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions ....
   (Audioslave
  Audioslave
  
  Audioslave was an American hard rock Supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of ex-Soundgarden frontman and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk ....
  , Soundgarden
  Soundgarden
  
  Soundgarden was an American Rock music band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto....
  , Temple of the Dog
  Temple of the Dog
  
  Temple of the Dog was an American Rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone....
  )
• Dallas Coyle (God Forbid
  God Forbid
  
  God Forbid is an American heavy metal music band formed in 1996 in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey. They are one of the leaders of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal....
  )
• Jason Cropper
  Jason Cropper
  
  Jason Cropper is a musician best known as an original member of the band Weezer....
   (Weezer
  Weezer
  
  Weezer is a Grammy-winning United States Rock music band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper ....
  )
• David Crosby
  David Crosby
  
  David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an United States guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young which is sometimes augmented with Neil Young, and CPR ....
   (The Byrds
  The Byrds
  
  The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
  )

D

• D-Roc
  D-Roc
  
  Dennis Miles aka D-Roc the Executioner was an American musician who played rhythm guitar for the heavy metal music band Body Count. Miles also played guitar for his own band, Pitch Blaack....
   (Body Count
  Body Count
  
  Body Count is an American heavy metal music band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1990. The group was founded by Ice-T, best known for his contributions to the hip hop music genre....
  )
• Ray Davies
  Ray Davies
  
  Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music 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 Davies....
   (The Kinks
  The Kinks
  
  The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and 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 all time....
  )
• Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and 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....
  
• Mamadou Diop
  Mamadou Diop
  
  Also known as Modou Diop, Mamadou Diop is a Senegalese performing artist, now living in the United States. His trademark West African rhythm guitar has brought him much acclaim, having performed with the likes of Thione Seck, Baaba Maal, Jimi Mbaye, Orchestre Baobab, Nicolas Menheim, Papa Seck, the Grand Soda Mama, and many other notable mus...
   (MAMADOU
  MAMADOU
  
  MAMADOU is a Senegalese band. Originally called "Mamadou Diop and the Jolole Band", the group was founded in early 1998, later simplifying their name to "MAMADOU" in late 2000....
  )
• Peter Doherty
  Pete Doherty
  
  Peter Doherty is an England musician, artist and poet. He is currently a singer and songwriter in the band Babyshambles, but first came to fame with punk band The Libertines, alongside Carl Bar?t....
   (The Libertines
  The Libertines
  
  The Libertines were an English rock music band. Formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Bar?t and Pete Doherty , the band also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career....
  )
• Don Dokken
  Don Dokken
  
  Donald Maynard Dokken is a singer most famous for being the lead singer and founder of the band Dokken. He is known for his vibrato-laden, melodic vocal style which has made him an influential figure in American heavy metal....
   (Dokken
  Dokken
  
  Dokken is an United States Heavy metal music and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide....
  )
• Chris Dreja
  Chris Dreja
  
  Chris Dreja is former rhythm guitarist, and later bassist for the mid 1960s UK band , The Yardbirds.His father was of Polish people birth. Dreja was born in Surbiton, and raised in nearby Kingston upon Thames....
   (The Yardbirds
  The Yardbirds
  
  The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
  )
• Oscar Dronjak
  Oscar Dronjak
  
  Oscar Fredrick Dronjak is the rhythm guitarist and founder of the heavy metal music band Hammerfall. Prior to the success of Hammerfall, he also played and released albums with the death metal acts Ceremonial Oath and Crystal Age....
   (Hammerfall
  HammerFall
  
  HammerFall is a heavy metal music/power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath's guitarist Oscar Dronjak....
  )
• Rick Dufay
  Rick Dufay
  
  Rick Dufay played guitar in Aerosmith between the departure of Brad Whitford in 1981 and his subsequent rejoining in 1984. Before joining the band, Rick released an album called Tender Loving Abuse....
   (Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  )
• Gary Duncan
  Gary Duncan
  
  Gary Duncan is an United States 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, California based band ....
   (Quicksilver Messenger Service
  Quicksilver Messenger Service
  
  Quicksilver Messenger Service is an United States psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in music in San Francisco, California and considered to be a part of the city's San Francisco Sound....
  )
• Tom DeLonge
  Tom DeLonge
  
  Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr. is an United States musician and the guitarist/vocalist for the punk rock band Blink-182 as well as the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves....
   (blink-182
  Blink-182
  
  Blink-182 is an United States Rock music trio formed in 1992 in Poway, California that predominantly plays pop punk music. The band, then known simply as "Blink", was originally composed of Tom DeLonge , Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor ....
  )
• John Deacon
  John Deacon
  
  John Richard Deacon is a retired England musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Rock and roll band Queen . Of the four members of the band, Deacon was the youngest and last to join....
   (Queen
  Queen (band)
  
  Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  )

E

• Richey James Edwards
  Richey James Edwards
  
  Richard James Edwards was rhythm guitarist and lyricist with the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, from Blackwood, Wales. He was known for his politicized and intellectual song writing which, combined with an enigmatic and eloquent character, has assured him cult status ...
   (Manic Street Preachers
  Manic Street Preachers
  
  Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as the Manics, they are James Dean Bradfield , Nicky Wire and Sean Moore ....
  )
• Richie Edwards
  Richie Edwards
  
  Richie Edwards was born on 25 September, 1974, in Lichfield, England. Richie is the former bassist of the British hard rock band The Darkness and the guitarist/vocalist of their successor band Stone Gods....
   (Stone Gods
  Stone Gods
  
  Name= Stone Gods| Img = Stone Gods 2008 Dundee Doghouse.jpg| Img_capt = Stone Gods 2008, Dundee UK| Img_size =...
  )
• Klaus Eichstadt (Ugly Kid Joe
  Ugly Kid Joe
  
  Ugly Kid Joe was an United States hard rock band from Isla Vista, California, California. The band?s name is a pun on the band Pretty Boy Floyd ....
  )
• Danny Elfman
  Danny Elfman
  
  Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an United States musician, who is famous for composing scores and songs for Tim Burton's films, composing "The Simpsons Theme," and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995....
   (Oingo Boingo
  Oingo Boingo
  
  Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
  )
• Sam Endicott
  Sam Endicott
  
  Sam Endicott is the lead singer for the New York-based band The Bravery....
   (The Bravery
  The Bravery
  
  The Bravery is an United States Rock music band from City of New York that consists of Sam Endicott, John Conway, Anthony Burulcich, Michael Zakarin, and Mike Hindert....
  )
• Roky Erickson
  Roky Erickson
  
  Roky Erickson is an United States singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre....
   (13th Floor Elevators
  13th Floor Elevators
  
  The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas which existed 1965-1969. During their career, the band released four LPs and seven 45s for the International Artists record label....
  )

F

• Craig Fairbaugh
  Craig Fairbaugh
  
  Craig Fairbaugh is a guitarist, who is best known for playing with the rock music 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 (band)
  
  +44 is an alternative rock and pop punk band. The band was formed by current Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker , also consisting of former Transplants touring guitarist Craig Fairbaugh and the lead guitarist of The Nervous Return, Shane Gallagher....
  )
• Andy Fairweather Low (Amen Corner
  Amen Corner (band)
  
  Amen Corner was a successful Great Britain pop music band , formed in late 1966 in Cardiff, Wales....
  , Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." 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 to...
  , Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  
  George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
  , The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  , Joe Satriani
  Joe Satriani
  
  Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
  )
• Andrew Farriss
  Andrew Farriss
  
  Andrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician , best known as the keyboardist and key composer for the Australian band INXS....
   (INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
  )
• John Feldmann
  John Feldmann
  
  John Feldmann is an American musician and producer who is the lead singer/guitarist of the band Goldfinger . He is known as an animal rights advocate and supporter of the Animal Liberation Front....
   (Goldfinger
  Goldfinger (band)
  
  Goldfinger is a Los Angeles, California pop punk/ska punk band that formed in 1994. They support the imprisoned 'SHAC 7' animal rights activists, and John Feldmann, lead singer, is an advocate for and supporter of the Animal Liberation Front....
  )
• Brandon Fields
  Brandon Fields
  
  Brandon David Fields is an American football Punter for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Dolphins in the seventh round in the 2007 NFL Draft....
   (Teazer)
• Warren Fitzgerald
  Warren Fitzgerald
  
  ----Warren Fitzgerald is an United States punk rock musician, guitarist, songwriter, and Record industry....
   (Oingo Boingo
  Oingo Boingo
  
  Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
  )
• Tom Fletcher
  Tom Fletcher
  
  Thomas "Tom" Michael Fletcher , is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists in the United Kingdom pop rock/pop punk band McFly , along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd....
   (McFly)
• Tom Fogerty
  Tom Fogerty
  
  Tom Fogerty was a musician best known as the lead guitar in Creedence Clearwater Revival and the elder brother of John Fogerty, the lead singer and guitar player in that band....
   (Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  )
• Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon
  Kings of Leon
  
  Kings of Leon are a Grammy Award-winning, NME Award winning and Brit Award-winning United States alternative rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, USA....
  )
• Dave Fortman
  Dave Fortman
  
  Dave Fortman is an United States music producer. He has worked with bands such as Superjoint Ritual, Mudvayne, Otep and Simple Plan, as well as on both of Evanescence's multi-platinum selling albums, The Open Door and Fallen ....
   (Ugly Kid Joe
  Ugly Kid Joe
  
  Ugly Kid Joe was an United States hard rock band from Isla Vista, California, California. The band?s name is a pun on the band Pretty Boy Floyd ....
  )
• Richard Fortus
  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....
   (Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  
  Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  )
• Richie Furay
  Richie Furay
  
  Richie Furay is an United States singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the 1960s band , Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin ....
   (Buffalo Springfield
  Buffalo Springfield
  
  Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
  , Poco
  Poco
  
  Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
  )

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• Craig Gannon
  Craig Gannon
  
  Craig Gannon , is an England guitar player, best known for being the second guitarist in The Smiths in 1986....
   (Aztec Camera
  Aztec Camera
  
  Aztec Camera were a Scotland New Wave music musical ensemble from Glasgow. They were a sensitive, tuneful pop music band formed in 1980 and centered around the then adolescence singer-songwriter, Roddy Frame....
  , The Bluebells
  The Bluebells
  
  The Bluebells were a Scotland popular music band in the 1980s....
  , The Smiths
  The Smiths
  
  The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
  )
• Barry Gibb
  Barry Gibb
  
  Barry Alan Crompton Gibb Order of the British Empire is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to English parents....
   (The Bee Gees)
• Ben Gibbard
  Ben Gibbard
  
  Benjamin Gibbard is an United States musician who has formed several Indie bands. He is most notable as the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, although also known for his project ?All-Time Quarterback!....
   (Death Cab for Cutie
  Death Cab for Cutie
  
  Death Cab for Cutie is a Grammy nominated American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nicholas Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
  )
• Lynval Golding
  Lynval Golding
  
  Lynval Golding is an England musician. He is best known as a rhythm guitarist and vocalist with the United Kingdom 2 Tone Records band , The Specials....
   (The Specials
  The Specials
  
  The Specials are an England 2 Tone ska revival Musical ensemble formed in 1977 in Coventry. They have had Chart-topper in the United Kingdom, and their music is featured in film and television soundtracks....
  , Fun Boy Three
  Fun Boy Three
  
  Fun Boy Three were a short-lived but successful England band which ran from 1981 to 1983 and was formed by singers Terry Hall , Neville Staple and Lynval Golding after they left The Specials....
  )
• Adam Gontier
  Adam Gontier
  
  File:adamg..jpegAdam Wade Gontier is the lead vocals, rhythm guitarist and songwriter of Three Days Grace. ...
   (Three Days Grace
  Three Days Grace
  
  Three Days Grace is a Canadian post-grunge band, formed under the name of Groundswell in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1992; their line-up consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer and back up vocalist Neil Sanderson, bassist and back up vocalist Brad Walst, and lead guitarist Barry Stock....
  )
• Stone Gossard
  Stone Gossard
  
  Stone Carpenter Gossard is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is the rhythm guitarist and, along with Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, a founding member of the American Rock music band Pearl Jam....
   (Pearl Jam
  Pearl Jam
  
  Pearl Jam is an American rock music 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 ....
  )
• Freddie Green
  Freddie Green
  
  Freddie Green was an United States swing music jazz guitarist. He was especially noted for his sophisticated rhythm guitar in big band settings, particularly for the Count Basie orchestra, where he was part of the "All-American Rhythm Section" with Basie on piano, Jo Jones on drums, and Walter Page on bass....
   (Count Basie Orchestra
  Count Basie Orchestra
  
  The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie....
  )
• Dave Grohl
  Dave Grohl
  
  David Eric Grohl is an American Rock musician, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C., area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream ....
   (Foo Fighters
  Foo Fighters
  
  Foo Fighters is an American Rock music band formed by singer/guitarist/drummer Dave Grohl in 1995. Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band Nirvana in 1994....
  )

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• Mårten Hagström
  Mårten Hagström
  
  M?rten Hagstr?m, , is the rhythm guitarist for the Swedish Technical/Thrash metal band Meshuggah. He joined the band after the release of their first album, which allowed Jens Kidman to focus on his vocal performances....
   (Meshuggah
  Meshuggah
  
  Meshuggah is a Swedish five-piece Avant-garde metal band formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist M?rten Hagstr?m, who joined in 1994....
  )
• Bill Haley
  Bill Haley
  
  Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the mid-1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock"....
   (Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  )
• Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes
  The Strokes
  
  The Strokes are an United States rock music band formed in 1998 in New York City who rose to fame in the early 2000s as a leading group in the Garage rock#Revival....
  )
• Dan Hawkins
  Dan Hawkins (musician)
  
  Daniel Francis Hawkins is an English people rock guitarist, noted for his strong revival of 70s classic rock and 80s metal.He is best known for his time as guitarist and backing singer of the United Kingdom band , The Darkness, fronted by his brother Justin Hawkins, which achieved notable mainstream success between 2002 and 2006....
   (The Darkness
  The Darkness
  
  The Darkness were a multi-BRIT Awards-winning United Kingdom hard rock/glam rock band. Their highly retro style of music was influenced by rock music bands like Queen , Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, M?tley Cr?e, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Sparks , Van Halen, T....
  )
• Matt Heafy
  Matt Heafy
  
  Matthew Kiichi Heafy also known as Matt Heafy is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Trivium . Heafy is also the vocalist for the band Capharnaum , along with Trivium's old producer Jason Suecof....
   (Trivium
  Trivium (band)
  
  Trivium is an American Heavy metal music band formed in 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The band has released Trivium discography, eleven singles, and twelve music videos....
  )
• James Hetfield
  James Hetfield
  
  James Alan Hetfield is the main songwriter, co-founder, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the American heavy metal music Musical ensemble Metallica....
   (Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
  )
• Charles Hedger
  Charles Hedger
  
  Charles Hedger is the guitarist for the extreme metal band Cradle of Filth....
   (Cradle of Filth
  Cradle of Filth
  
  Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a Cradle of Filth#Genre....
  )
• Martin Henriksson
  Martin Henriksson
  
  Martin Henriksson, born October 30 1974 in Sweden, is one of two guitarists and one of the founding members of the Swedish death metal band Dark Tranquillity....
   (Dark Tranquillity
  Dark Tranquillity
  
  Dark Tranquillity is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Scandinavian death metal and one of the pioneers of the melodic death metal genre, along with In Flames and At the Gates....
  )
• Nick Hexum
  Nick Hexum
  
  Nicholas Lofton Hexum is an United States musician, currently the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the Omaha, Nebraska-based alternative rock band 311 ....
   (311
  311
  
  Events...
  )
• Susanna Hoffs
  Susanna Hoffs
  
  Susanna Lee Hoffs is an United States vocalist, guitarist and actress best known as a member of the all-female pop band The Bangles....
   (The Bangles
  The Bangles
  
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
  )
• Dexter Holland
  Dexter Holland
  
  MsBio. Bryan Keith Holland , in , better known under his stage name Dexter Holland, is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the Californian punk rock band The Offspring, who are best known for their hit singles, such as "Gone Away", "Come Out and Play ", "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid", "Hammerhead ", Self Esteem ", "Pretty Fly ", "Why Don'...
   (The Offspring
  The Offspring
  
  The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
  )
• Hyde (L'Arc-en-Ciel)

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• Scott Ian
  Scott Ian
  
  Scott Ian Rosenfeld , better known by the stage name Scott Ian, is an United States musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist for the speed metal band Anthrax ....
   (Anthrax
  Anthrax (band)
  
  Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
  )
• John Idan
  John Idan
  
  John Idan is the current lead vocalist and bassist for the reformed version of the Yardbirds.External links*...
   (The Yardbirds
  The Yardbirds
  
  The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
  )
• James Iha
  James Iha
  
  James Yoshinobu Iha born March 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American rock musician. He is most famous as having been a guitarist in the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and for his eclectic musical projects of recent years, including A Perfect Circle....
   (The Smashing Pumpkins
  The Smashing Pumpkins
  
  The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
  )
• Frank Iero
  Frank Iero
  
  Frank Anthony Iero is the Rhythm Guitar, backup singing of the alternative rock band My Chemical Romance. He was born in Belleville, New Jersey, New Jersey and attended Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington, New Jersey....
   (My Chemical Romance
  My Chemical Romance
  
  My Chemical Romance is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The band consists of five members that are Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar....
  )

J

• Rick Jackett (Finger Eleven
  Finger Eleven
  
  Finger Eleven is a Canada alternative rock band formed in 1989. They originated in Burlington, Ontario, as Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They have currently released five studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream....
  )
• Jim James
  Jim James
  
  Jim James is the United States Singer for the Louisville, Kentucky-based rock band, My Morning Jacket. James grew up in the Hikes Point, Louisville neighborhood of Louisville....
   (My Morning Jacket
  My Morning Jacket
  
  My Morning Jacket is a Grammy-nominated United States rock music band.The band comprises Jim James , "Two Tone Tommy" Blankenship , Patrick Hallahan , Carl Broemel , and Bo Koster ....
  )
• Al Jardine
  Al Jardine
  
  Alan Charles "Al" Jardine is a founding member of top-selling American music group The Beach Boys, their occasional lead vocalist, and one of their guitarists....
   (The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  )
• Joan Jett
  Joan Jett
  
  Joan Jett is an American rock music guitarist, singer, songwriter, Record producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock N' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard charts Hot 100 No....
   (Joan Jett and The Blackhearts)
• Martin Johnson
  Martin Johnson (vocalist)
  
  Martin Jonhson is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary lyricist of the rock band Boys Like Girls. He also played acoustic guitar on the group's self-titled debut album, Boys Like Girls ....
   (Boys Like Girls
  Boys Like Girls
  
  Boys Like Girls is a four-piece American rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The group completed nationwide tours with Cute Is What We Aim For, Hit the Lights and Butch Walker and topped the Top Unsigned Artist chart on PureVolume, within a few months from forming in late 2005....
  )

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• Paul Kantner
  Paul Kantner
  
  Paul Lorin Kantner is an United States rock musician, most noted for co-founding the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane....
   (Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  
  Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  , Hot Tuna
  Hot Tuna
  
  Hot Tuna is an United States blues-rock band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. They play acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs....
  )
• Kaoru
  Kaoru
  
  Kaoru is a Japanese given name for males or females. The name'smeaning varies depending on its written form:* ?/?/? — "fragrance", common for both male and female...
   (Dir en grey
  Dir en grey
  
  Dir en grey is 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 Album and while the group's lineup has remained consistent since its inception, numerous stylistic changes have made its music's genre difficult to determine ....
  )
• Alex Kapranos
  Alex Kapranos
  
  Alex Kapranos was born Alexander Paul Kapranos, March 20, 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire. He is the vocalist and a guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand ....
   (Franz Ferdinand
  Franz Ferdinand (band)
  
  Franz Ferdinand are a Scotland Rock music band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002. Named after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the band comprises Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson ....
  )
• Bob Katsionis
  Bob Katsionis
  
  Babis "Bob" Katsionis , born on February 17, 1977 in Athens, Greece, is the keyboard player for the Heavy metal music/power metal band Firewind....
   (Firewind
  Firewind
  
  Firewind is a Greece power metal band that was originally created as a way for guitarist Gus G. to market his demo album Nocturnal Symphony in 1998....
  )
• Pepper Keenan
  Pepper Keenan
  
  Pepper J. Keenan, , is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the Heavy metal music band Corrosion of Conformity. He also plays guitar for the band Down , alongside Crowbar vocalist/guitarist Kirk Windstein and former Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown....
   (Corrosion of Conformity
  Corrosion of Conformity
  
  Corrosion of Conformity is an United States heavy metal music band from Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina formed in 1982....
  )
• Bill Kelliher
  Bill Kelliher
  
  Bill Kelliher is a guitarist in the Atlanta, Georgia Heavy metal music band Mastodon . He shares guitar duties with Brent Hinds, playing mainly rhythm guitar parts....
   (Mastodon
  Mastodon (band)
  
  Mastodon is a Grammy-nominated heavy metal music band and are one of the most notable bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Formed in 1999 in music in Atlanta, Georgia by Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher, Troy Sanders, and Brent Hinds....
  )
• Mike Keneally
  Mike Keneally
  
  Michael Joseph Keneally is an American guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer. Allmusic says: "With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation, Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era."...
   (Dethklok
  Dethklok
  
  Dethklok is both a fictional death metal band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, as well as the virtual band created to perform the band's music in live shows....
  )
• Myles Kennedy
  Myles Kennedy
  
  Myles R. Kennedy is an United States singer, songwriter, and guitarist originally from Spokane, Washington. Kennedy is a former guitar instructor in the Spokane area who has appeared as a guest of both live performances and recording sessions of numerous bands over the years....
   (Alter Bridge
  Alter Bridge
  
  Alter Bridge is an United States post-grunge/alternative metal band based in Orlando, Florida, Florida . The band was formed in 2004 by Mark Tremonti , Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips , all former members of Creed , with Myles Kennedy , formerly of The Mayfield Four....
  )
• Mike Kennerty
  Mike Kennerty
  
  Mike Kennerty on July 20, 1980 in Houston, Texas is the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for The All-American Rejects.Kennerty is a founding member and guitarist of the Punk rock band These Enzymes, along with bandmate and drummer, Chris Gaylor....
   (The All-American Rejects
  The All-American Rejects
  
  The All-American Rejects are a pop rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma, formed in 2001. The band comprises lead vocalist and bass guitarist Tyson Ritter, guitarists and vocalists Nick Wheeler and Mike Kennerty, with drummer Chris Gaylor....
  )
• Ryan Key
  Ryan Key
  
  Ryan Key is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the band Yellowcard....
   (Yellowcard
  Yellowcard
  
  Yellowcard is a pop punk band originally hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, but now based in Los Angeles, California. Their music features a rare contribution to the genre, incorporating the use of a violin....
  )
• Joe King
  Joe King (guitarist)
  
  Joe King is the rhythm guitarist, assisting vocalist, and co-founder of Colorado-based piano rock band The Fray ....
   (The Fray
  The Fray
  
  NOTE: THIS PAGE IS FORMATED PER...
  )
• Scott Klopfenstein
  Scott Klopfenstein
  
  Scott "Scotty" A. Klopfenstein is an American musician most notably as a long-time member of Reel Big Fish. He plays trumpet, guitar, keyboard, and sings....
   (Reel Big Fish
  Reel Big Fish
  
  Reel Big Fish is an United States 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 ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off....
  )
• David Knopfler
  David Knopfler
  
  David Knopfler is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and co-founder of the Rock Dire Straits....
   (Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  )
• Tomi Koivusaari
  Tomi Koivusaari
  
  Tomi Koivusaari is the guitarist and former vocalist of the Finland metal band Amorphis.He started playing at the age of 14, his first band was Violent Solution formed in 1987, with him on guitars and vocals, Esa Holopainen on guitars and Jan Rechberger on drums....
   (Amorphis
  Amorphis
  
  Amorphis is a Finland heavy metal music band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a straightforward death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres....
  )
• Pekka Kokko
  Pekka Kokko
  
  Pekka Kokko is the founder, guitarist and vocalist of the band Ancestor, founded in 1991 and now known as Kalmah. He is capable of both high-pitched screaming and lower pitched death growl vocals, the latter of which was first used in Kalmah's album, The Black Waltz....
   (Kalmah
  Kalmah
  
  Kalmah is a melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland that formed in 1998. In less than a year after its formation, Kalmah was signed by Spinefarm Records, a Finland record label....
  )
• Chad Kroeger
  Chad Kroeger
  
  Chad Robert Kroeger is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Nickelback....
   (Nickelback
  Nickelback
  
  Nickelback is a Canadian Rock music band formed in Hanna, Alberta by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger ....
  )
• Alexander Kuoppala
  Alexander Kuoppala
  
  Alexander Kuoppala was the rhythm guitarist from the band Children of Bodom from 1995 to 2003....
   (Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  
  Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
  )
• Dave Kushner
  Dave Kushner
  
  Dave Kushner is an American rock guitarist currently with the American rock group Velvet Revolver, who are on hiatus after the loss of their lead singer....
   (Velvet Revolver
  Velvet Revolver
  
  Velvet Revolver is a Grammy Award-winning hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash , Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk rock band Wasted Youth....
  )

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• Morgan Lander
  Morgan Lander
  
  Morgan Lee Lander is the lead singer and guitarist for the Canadian alternative metal group Kittie. Her sister, Mercedes Lander, also plays for Kittie....
   (Kittie
  Kittie
  
  Kittie is a Canada All female band alternative metal band from London, Ontario. The band rose to success in 1999 when the track "Brackish " from their debut album Spit became a hit single....
  )
• Paul Landers
  Paul Landers
  
  Paul H. Landers is a Germany musician, notable as the Rhythm guitar for the Neue Deutsche H?rte band Rammstein....
   (Rammstein
  Rammstein
  
  Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche H?rte band, founded in Berlin in 1994, and consisting of Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul Landers , Oliver Riedel , Christoph Schneider and Christian Lorenz ....
  )
• Paul Langlois
  Paul Langlois
  
  Paul Langlois is a Canada guitarist, best known as the rhythm guitarist for the rock band The Tragically Hip. He also sings backing vocals with the band....
   (The Tragically Hip
  The Tragically Hip
  
  The Tragically Hip is a Canada Rock music Musical ensemble from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay ....
  )
• Tito Larriva
  Tito Larriva
  
  Humberto "Tito" Larriva is a Mexican/American singer, musician and actor....
   (Cruzados
  Los Cruzados
  
  The Cruzados were an 1980's rock band from Los Angeles, California. The Cruzados was formed by the former members of Punk rock band The Plugz; Tito Larriva, Tony Marsico, and Charlie Quintana....
  , Tito & Tarantula
  Tito & Tarantula
  
  Tito & Tarantula are a rock music band formed in 1992, a few years after Tito Larriva's previous band, the Cruzados, disbanded. The band is best known for its songs, "After Dark", "Back to the House That Love Built", "Strange Face of Love", and "Angry Cockroaches", as well as for its role in Robert Rodriguez's film From Dusk Till Dawn as...
  )
• Martin Larsson
  Martin Larsson
  
  These are named for two people from Sweden of the same name.*Martin Larsson , specializing in heavy metal.*Martin Larsson , specializing in cross country....
   (At the Gates
  At the Gates
  
  At the Gates are a Sweden melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, progenitor of the Melodic_death_metal#Gothenburg_sound of Death_metal. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007....
  )
• Roope Latvala
  Roope Latvala
  
  Roope Latvala is a Finland guitarist who currently plays with the bands Children of Bodom and Sinergy. He is noted not only for his guitar skills but for the fact that he is older than any other band member of Children Of Bodom by almost ten years.He was one of the founding members of Stone , one of the most notable bands in the history of F...
   (Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  
  Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
  )
• Blackie Lawless
  Blackie Lawless
  
  Blackie Lawless , is an USA singer, songwriter and musician best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal music band W.A.S.P....
   (W.A.S.P.)
• John LeCompt
  John LeCompt
  
  John Charles LeCompt is an United States musician who has been part of the Little Rock heavy metal music scene since the mid-1990s. He has been associated with a great number of bands, ranging from the unknown and unsigned to multi-platinum sellers, most notably the alternative metal band Evanescence....
   (Evanescence
  Evanescence
  
  Evanescence is an American rock music band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody.After recording two private Extended play and a demo CD named Origin , with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen , on Wind-up Records in 2003...
  )
• Sébastien Lefebvre
  Sébastien Lefebvre
  
  S?bastien Lefebvre , is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for pop punk band Simple Plan....
   (Simple Plan
  Simple Plan
  
  Simple Plan is a French Canadian pop punk band based in Montreal, Quebec. 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 ....
  )
• John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   (The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  )
• Jared Leto
  Jared Leto
  
  Jared Joseph Leto is an United States actor and musician. His first major acting performance was as Jordan Catalano in the television series My So-Called Life....
   (30 Seconds to Mars
  30 Seconds to Mars
  
  30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock music band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band features actor Jared Leto as vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter....
  )
• Aaron Lewis
  Aaron Lewis
  
  Aaron Lewis, , is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative metal group Staind as well as a Grammys nominated songwriter....
   (Staind
  Staind
  
  Staind is an United States rock music band from Springfield, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, including lead singer/guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist/vocalist Johnny April and drummer Jon Wysocki....
  )
• Mike Lewis (Lostprophets
  Lostprophets
  
  Lostprophets is a Wales Rock music band formed in Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom in 1997 by guitarist Mike Lewis and vocalist Ian Watkins ....
  )
• Herman Li
  Herman Li
  
  Herman Li is the lead and rhythm guitarist, backing Singing and record producer in the power metal band DragonForce....
   (Dragonforce
  DragonForce
  
  DragonForce is an English Grammy-nominated power metal band formed in 1999 in London. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound....
  )
• Hal Lindes
  Hal Lindes
  
  Hal Lindes is an England-United States guitarist and composer. In 1979, he played guitar with the group Darling . They published the album Put It Down To Experience the same year....
   (Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
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• Colin MacDonald
  Colin MacDonald (musician)
  
  Colin MacDonald External links* official website...
   (The Trews
  The Trews
  
  The Trews are a Canada alternative rock band from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, consisting of vocalist Colin MacDonald , guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek, and drummer Sean Dalton....
  )
• Bryan MacLean
  Bryan MacLean
  
  Bryan MacLean was an United States singer, guitarist and songwriter, most known for his work with the influential rock band Love . Some of his famous compositions for Love include "Alone Again Or " and "Old Man"....
   (Love
  Love (band)
  
  Love was an United States rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean....
  )
• Joel Madden
  Joel Madden
  
  Joel Ryan Reuben Madden is an American singer and the lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte....
   (Good Charlotte
  Good Charlotte
  
  Good Charlotte is an American 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....
  )
• Billy Martin (Good Charlotte
  Good Charlotte
  
  Good Charlotte is an American 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....
  )
• Chris Martin
  Chris Martin
  
  Christopher Anthony John Martin is an England singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known for his work as lead vocalist of the band Coldplay....
   (Coldplay
  Coldplay
  
  Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  )
• Brian May (Queen
  Queen (band)
  
  Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  )
• Tim McIlrath
  Tim McIlrath
  
  Tim McIlrath is the lead vocals, rhythm guitar and lyricist for the American punk rock band Rise Against. McIlrath is known to support animal rights and actively promotes PETA with his band.He follows the straight edge lifestyle, along with Rise Against bassist Joe Principe....
   (Rise Against
  Rise Against
  
  Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. Their current line-up consists of four members: Tim McIlrath , Joe Principe , Brandon Barnes , and Zach Blair ....
  )
• Al McKay
  Al McKay
  
  Al McKay is a guitarist, songwriter, producer and former member of the United States of America funk band Earth, Wind & Fire. Al used to lead his own group Al McKay's L.A....
   (Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire
  
  Earth, Wind & Fire is an United States R&B band led by Maurice White. Formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969, they are known for a number of hit singles, including "Shining Star " and "September ", for their fusion of Latin music, Funk, Soul Music, Jazz, Pop Music, rock music and other genres into one unique sound and the dynamic sound of their...
  )
• Eric Melvin
  Eric Melvin
  
  Eric Scott Melvin, sometimes called Melvin for short, is the rhythm guitarist in the California punk rock band NOFX. He has been in the band from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day....
   (NOFX
  NOFX
  
  NOFX is an United States punk rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California , in 1983.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin....
  )
• Travis Miguel (Atreyu
  Atreyu (band)
  
  Atreyu is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 1998. The band consists of Lead vocalist/lyricist Alex Varkatzas, Guitarist Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel, bassist Marc McKnight and Drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller....
  )
• Sterling Morrison
  Sterling Morrison
  
  Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr. was one of the founding members of the rock group The Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing Backing vocalist....
   (Velvet Underground)
• Cameron Muncey
  Cameron Muncey
  
  Cam Muncey is the lead guitarist and one of the main songwriters of Melbourne based rock band Jet . Muncey co-wrote many of Jet's hits with Nic and Chris Cester, including "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?", "Radio Song", "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" and "Cold Hard Bitch"....
   (Jet
  Jet (band)
  
  Jet is a Rock music band from Melbourne, Australia, whose debut album Get Born, released in 2003, has so far sold over three and a half million copies throughout the world....
  )

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• Simon Nicol
  Simon Nicol
  
  Simon Nicol is a noted guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founder member of what is usually considered the most important British folk rock, or electric folk group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band....
   (Fairport Convention
  Fairport Convention
  
  Fairport Convention are an England folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement....
  )
• Jimmy Nolen
  Jimmy Nolen
  
  Jimmy Nolen was an United States Electric guitar known for his distinctive "chicken scratch" lead guitar playing in James Brown's bands....
   (The J.B.'s
  The J.B.'s
  
  The J.B.s were James Brown's band during the first half of the 1970s. On record the J.B.s were sometimes billed under various alternate names such as The James Brown Soul Train, Maceo and the Macks and The Last Word....
  )
• Fredrik Nordström
  Fredrik Nordström
  
  Fredrik Nordstr?m, born on 5 January 1967, is a renowned Sweden record producer and guitar player for the Heavy metal music band Dream Evil. Fredrik is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy , Nightrage, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, S...
   (Dream Evil
  Dream Evil
  
  Dream Evil is a power metal band from Sweden, assembled and integrated by renowned musical producer Fredrik Nordstr?m in 1999....
  )

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• Ed O'Brien
  Ed O'Brien
  
  Edward John O'Brien is a member of Radiohead. He plays guitar and is responsible for harmony vocals during live concerts and on many tracks from the band's albums....
   (Radiohead
  Radiohead
  
  Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
  )
• John Oates
  John Oates
  
  John William Oates is an United States musician and record producer best known as the mustachioed half of the successful Rock music and Soul music duo Hall & Oates....
   (Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates
  
  Hall & Oates are a pop music duet made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates.The act achieved its greatest celebrity in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s....
  )
• Ric Ocasek
  Ric Ocasek
  
  Ric Ocasek is an US musician and music producer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland. He is the former vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Cars....
   (The Cars
  The Cars
  
  The Cars were an American Rock music band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. Members of the band were singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson ....
  )
• Kele Okereke
  Kele Okereke
  
  Kele Okereke is the Singing and rhythm guitarist for English indie rock rock band Bloc Party....
   (Bloc Party
  Bloc Party
  
  Bloc Party are a UK indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong . Their brand of indie rock has been compared to bands such as The Cure, Gang of Four and The Strokes....
  )
• Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
   (Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  )
• Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  

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• Dave Padden
  Dave Padden
  
  David James Padden , is the vocalist for Canada thrash metal band Annihilator . He currently also plays rhythm guitar for the band - all studio guitars had previously been played by the band leader Jeff Waters for some years, but after Padden performed in a dual role on tour he eventually became the rhythm player on a full time basis....
   (Annihilator
  Annihilator (band)
  
  Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984. They debuted with the critically-acclaimed album, Alice in Hell in 1989....
  )
• Rick Parfitt
  Rick Parfitt
  
  Rick Parfitt is best known for being a singer and the rhythm guitarist in the England rock band Status Quo....
   (Status Quo
  Status Quo
  
  Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  )
• Pata (X Japan
  X Japan
  
  is a Japan band founded in 1982 by Toshi and Yoshiki . Originally named X , the group achieved its breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood ....
  )
• Kirk Pengilly
  Kirk Pengilly
  
  Kirk Pengilly is an Australian musician best known as a member of the rock group INXS....
   (INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
  )
• Peter Perrett
  Peter Perrett
  
  Peter Perrett is an England singer-songwriter. He fronts the recently re-formed 1970s England band , The Only Ones. Perrett lives in Forest Hill, South East London....
   (The Only Ones
  The Only Ones
  
  The Only Ones are an England rock and roll band. They were initially active in the late 1970s and were associated with punk rock, yet straddled the musical territory in between punk rock, power pop and hard rock, with noticeable influences from psychedelia....
  )
• Eric Peterson
  Eric Peterson (musician)
  
  Eric Peterson is an United States guitarist. He is best known as one of the founding members of the US thrash metal band Testament . Eric has also formed a side-project black metal band called Dragonlord , in which he plays guitar and also sings....
   (Testament
  Testament (band)
  
  Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
  )
• Tom Petty
  Tom Petty
  
  Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
   (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
• Luke Pritchard
  Luke Pritchard
  
  Luke Pritchard is an England musician. He is currently the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the United Kingdom indie rock band The Kooks....
   (The Kooks
  The Kooks
  
  The Kooks are an United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in Brighton in 2004. The band currently consists of four members; Luke Pritchard, Hugh Harris, Paul Garred and Peter Denton....
  )
• Kyle Patrick (The Click Five
  The Click Five
  
  The Click Five is a rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States....
  )

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• Josh Rand
  Josh Rand
  
  Josh Rand is the guitarist in the hard rock band Stone Sour. Although he mostly takes on the role of rhythm guitarist, he sometimes trades places with lead guitarist Jim Root, most notably on the single Get Inside and Hell & Consequences....
   (Stone Sour
  Stone Sour
  
  Stone Sour is a three time Grammy Award-nominated American Hard rock band from Des Moines, Iowa. The band was founded by Corey Taylor, vocalist of Slipknot , and former drummer Joel Ekman....
  )
• Mike Ransom
  Mike Ransom
  
  Michael Arthur Ransom , is an United States musician and the former guitarist for the five-piece metal band Adema from Bakersfield, California, which was led by Mark Chavez....
   (Adema
  Adema
  
  Adema is a 5-member nu metal band from Bakersfield, California....
  )
• Jaret Reddick
  Jaret Reddick
  
  Jaret Reddick is the lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist for rock band Bowling for Soup. He plays a trademark guitar that has a flag of Texas design on it....
   (Bowling for Soup
  Bowling for Soup
  
  Bowling for Soup is an United States rock band who originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas, Texas in 1994. Now based in Denton, Texas, the band is best known for their single "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" "Almost ", "High School Never Ends", and "1985 "....
  )
• Tim Reynolds
  Tim Reynolds
  
  Tim Reynolds is a multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist. Founding member of the band TR3, he has frequently performed with the Dave Matthews Band and has played several tours with Dave Matthews as an acoustic duo, and also as a member of Dave Matthews & Friends....
  
• Ed Robertson
  Ed Robertson
  
  Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson , better known as Ed Robertson, is the lead singer, as well as a guitarist and songwriter in the band , Barenaked Ladies....
   (Barenaked Ladies
  Barenaked Ladies
  
  Barenaked Ladies is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Canada alternative rock band. The band is composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan and Steven Page....
  )
• Nile Rodgers
  Nile Rodgers
  
  Nile Gregory Rodgers is an United States musician, composer, arranger, and guitarist, and is considered one of the most influential record producers in the history of popular music....
   (Chic
  Chic (band)
  
  Chic is an United States disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bass guitar Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love " , "Good Times " , and "My Forbidden Lover" ....
  )
• Dean Roland
  Dean Roland
  
  Dean Roland is the rhythm guitarist of the band Collective Soul. He is the younger brother of the band front man Ed Roland. Dean was the third out of four children....
   (Collective Soul
  Collective Soul
  
  Collective Soul is an United States rock music band from Stockbridge, Georgia. They have enjoyed popularity on alternative rock, mainstream rock and pop music radio throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium, recording seven #1 Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks hits....
  )
• Jim Root
  Jim Root
  
  James D. Root , also known as Jim Root or by his number #4, is an American musician known for being one of the guitarists for Slipknot , and the lead guitarist for Stone Sour....
   (Slipknot
  Slipknot (band)
  
  Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
  ,Stone Sour
  Stone Sour
  
  Stone Sour is a three time Grammy Award-nominated American Hard rock band from Des Moines, Iowa. The band was founded by Corey Taylor, vocalist of Slipknot , and former drummer Joel Ekman....
  )
• Richard Rossi
  Richard Rossi
  
  Richard Rossi is an American Film director,actor, Film producer, musician, church planter,convict, and healing evangelist. His 1995 trial for the attempted murder of his wife, who recanted her original identification of Rossi as her attacker and espoused his innocence, ended in a mistrial and was front-page news in Pittsburgh and widely...
  
• Darius Rucker
  Darius Rucker
  
  Darius Rucker is an American muscian. He is known mainly for his role as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock music band Hootie & the Blowfish, of which he has been a member since the band's inception in 1986....
   (Hootie & the Blowfish
  Hootie & the Blowfish
  
  Hootie & the Blowfish is an American Rock music band that enjoyed widespread popularity in the second half of the 1990s. It was originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan....
  )
• David Roads Airbourne
  Airbourne
  
  Airbourne can refer to:* Airbourne , an air show in Eastbourne, United Kingdom* Airbourne , an Australian hard rock band* "Air" Bourne, nickname of professional wrestler Matt Sydal...
  

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• Dirk Sauer
  Dirk Sauer
  
  Dirk Sauer, born September 1, 1977, is the rhythm guitarist for the power metal band Edguy. He has been with the band since its initial days in 1992....
   (Edguy
  Edguy
  
  Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992....
  )
• Jon Schaffer
  Jon Schaffer
  
  Jon Ryan Schaffer is a heavy metal music guitarist and songwriter. He is the founder and only remaining original member of the heavy metal band Iced Earth....
   (Iced Earth
  Iced Earth
  
  Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
  )
• Rudolf Schenker
  Rudolf Schenker
  
  Rudolf Schenker is a Germany guitarist and founding member of Heavy metal music band Scorpions , being the rhythm/lead guitarist and one of the main song-writers of the band....
   (Scorpions
  Scorpions (band)
  
  Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  )
• Patti Scialfa
  Patti Scialfa
  
  Vivienne Patricia "Patti" Scialfa is an United States singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for being a bandmate and wife of Bruce Springsteen....
   (E Street Band
  E Street Band
  
  The E Street Band is a musical group that has periodically toured and recorded with rock musician Bruce Springsteen since 1972.The band has also recorded , with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Sting , Ian Hunter , Ringo Starr, Ronnie Spector, G...
  )
• Phil Sgrosso
  Phil Sgrosso
  
  Personal Life Phil Sgrosso, born September 16, 1985, is the former guitarist for extreme metal outfit Tomra and current guitarist for the metalcore Rock band As I Lay Dying ....
   (As I Lay Dying
  As I Lay Dying (band)
  
  As I Lay Dying is an American Grammy Award-nominated metalcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2000. Their band name derives from the novel by William Faulkner with As I Lay Dying ....
  )
• James "Munky" Shaffer (Korn
  Korn
  
  'Korn' is an American rock music band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album, Greatest Hits, Vol....
  )
• Shagrath
  Shagrath
  
  Shagrath is a Norway musician, most well-known as the vocalist of Dimmu Borgir....
   (Chrome Division
  Chrome Division
  
  Chrome Division is a Heavy metal music band from Norway formed in 2004 by Shagrath, the lead vocalist of symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir, and Lex Icon, founder of The Kovenant....
  )
• Mike Shinoda
  Mike Shinoda
  
  Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. His father is a Japanese American, while his mother is of European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas descent....
   (Linkin Park
  Linkin Park
  
  Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
  )
• Marcus Siepen
  Marcus Siepen
  
  Marcus Siepen is one of two guitarists in the Power metal band Blind Guardian. For the biggest percentage of Blind Guardian's songs, particularly in more recent years, he has almost strictly played rhythm guitar, with most lead and solo work being performed by Andr? Olbrich....
   (Blind Guardian
  Blind Guardian
  
  Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
  )
• Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5
  MC5
  
  The MC5 was an United States rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan in 1964 and active until 1972. They played hard rock music that also included blues-rock, psychedelic rock, rock & roll and garage rock....
  )
• Tom Smith
  Tom Smith (musician)
  
  Tom Smith is an English musician. He is lead singer, lyricist, musical keyboard and rhythm guitarist for Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors....
   (Editors
  Editors
  
  Editors are a British indie rock band based in Birmingham, who formed in 2002. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band consists of Tom Smith , Chris Urbanowicz , Russell Leetch and Ed Lay ....
  )
• Silenoz
  Silenoz
  
  Silenoz, , is a Norway guitarist who is a founding member, along with Shagrath and Tjodalv, of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir....
   (Dimmu Borgir
  Dimmu Borgir
  
  Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
  )
• Skip Spence
  Skip Spence
  
  Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence was a musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and as a solo artist....
   (Moby Grape
  Moby Grape
  
  Moby Grape is an United States rock music group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country music, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music....
  )
• Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
   (E Street Band
  E Street Band
  
  The E Street Band is a musical group that has periodically toured and recorded with rock musician Bruce Springsteen since 1972.The band has also recorded , with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Sting , Ian Hunter , Ringo Starr, Ronnie Spector, G...
  )
• Paul Stanley
  Paul Stanley
  
  Stanley Harvey Eisen known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist for the rock music band Kiss ....
   (Kiss
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble 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, smoking guitars, and...
  )
• Wayne Static
  Wayne Static
  
  Wayne Static is an United States musician, and the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and music sequencer for the industrial metal band Static-X....
   (Static-X
  Static-X
  
  Static-X is an industrial metal band. Formed in 1994, they are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released five albums, their most recent being Cannibal , which was released on April 3, 2007....
  )
• Cat Stevens
  Cat Stevens
  
  Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a Great Britain musician of Greek Cypriot and Sweden ancestry. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent Religious conversion to Islam....
   (Yusuf Islam)
• Izzy Stradlin
  Izzy Stradlin
  
  Jeffery Dean Isbell , more widely known by his stage name Izzy Stradlin, is an United States musician, best known as one of the lead songwriters and rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1991....
   (Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  
  Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  )
• Jesper Strömblad
  Jesper Strömblad
  
  Jesper Str?mblad is the Rhythm guitarist, Ex-Drummer, Founder, eldest Member of the Sweden melodic death metal band In Flames.Background...
   (In Flames
  In Flames
  
  In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
  )
• Joe Strummer
  Joe Strummer
  
  John Graham Mellor , better known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash....
   (The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  )
• Patrick Stump
  Patrick Stump
  
  Patrick Martin Stumph was born on April 27, 1984, in Glenview, Illinois. He is an American musician, composer, record producer and music critic....
   (Fall Out Boy
  Fall Out Boy
  
  Fall Out Boy is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of Patrick Stump , Joe Trohman , Pete Wentz , and Andy Hurley ....
  )
• Sylvain Sylvain
  Sylvain Sylvain
  
  Sylvain Sylvain is a rock music guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls.He was born in, Cairo, Egypt to a Egyptian Jews family with one brother and one sister, Leon and Brigitte, but raised in New York City, where his family had moved after living on Lafayette Avenue in Buffalo, New York while he was still a child....
   (New York Dolls
  New York Dolls
  
  The New York Dolls are an American rock music 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 released a new album in 2006....
  )
• Patryk Dominik Sztyber
  Patryk Dominik Sztyber
  
  Patryk Dominik Sztyber , stage name Seth, is a Poland Heavy metal music musician. He is the rhythm guitar, lead guitar and Steel-string guitar guitarist, and also backing vocalist in Behemoth ....
   (Behemoth
  Behemoth (band)
  
  Behemoth is a Poland blackened death metal band. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader , Decapitated, Vesania and Hate ....
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• Ray Tabano
  Ray Tabano
  
  Raymond Tabano is a musician and former guitarist of Aerosmith. He grew up as the childhood best friend of Steven Tyler. Other friends include Lou Merola and Marc Stella who also played in bands with Crazy Ray....
   (Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  )
• Takuro
  Takuro (musician)
  
  Takuro is one of the guitarists and leader of the popular Japanese rock band GLAY. He is the main composer and lyricist of GLAY's songs.As a composer and a musician, Takuro has worked with different artists....
   (Glay
  Glay (band)
  
  is a rock/pop band from Hakodate, Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan formed by guitarist Takuro and vocalist Teru during high school in 1988. Glay primarily composes songs in the rock and pop genres, but they have also composed songs using elements of different styles such as reggae and gospel music....
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• Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian
  
  Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning rock music band System of a Down....
   (System of a Down
  System of a Down
  
  System of a Down is an American rock music band, from Glendale, California, formed in 1994 . System of a Down consisted of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian , and John Dolmayan , the band has released five albums since 1998....
  )
• Evan Taubenfeld
  Evan Taubenfeld
  
  Evan David Taubenfeld is an United States singer/songwriter, best known for being Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist.Taubenfeld was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Mark and Ami Taubenfeld, who ran a kosher catering business....
  
• Bobby Tench
  Bobby Tench
  
  Robert Tench is a respected and accomplished British people vocalist and guitarist. He has been occasionally known to have played keyboards and bass guitar as well....
  
• Roger Taylor
  Roger Meddows-Taylor
  
  Roger Taylor is an English musician best known as the percussionist and backing, sometimes lead Singing of the rock band Queen . As a drummer he is known for his "big" unique sound and is considered one of the most influential rock music drummers of the 1970s and 1980s....
   (The Cross
  The Cross
  
  The Cross were a side project of Queen 's Roger Meddows-Taylor that existed from 1987 to 1993 and released three albums. Although the drummer in Queen, Taylor fronted The Cross as rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist....
  )
• Tom Thacker
  Tom Thacker
  
  For the musician, see Tom Thacker Thomas Porter Thacker is a retired United States basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association for the Sacramento Kings and the Boston Celtics from 1963 to 1968, and from 1968 to 1971, for the American Basketball Association 's Indiana Pacers....
   (Gob
  Gob
  
  Gob may refer to:* Mouth* Whoopie pie, a type of dessert food* Gob , a punk band from Vancouver, BC, Canada* Gob, the king of the gnomes in folklore...
  )
• Scott Thurston
  Scott Thurston
  
  Scott Thurston is an American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and session musician.Raised in Medford, Oregon, Oregon, Thurston started out as a session musician....
   (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  
  This article is about the Rock band. For information on the eponymous debut album see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is an United States Rock music band, formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench and known for hit singles such as "American Girl ", "Breakdown " and "Mary Jane's Last Da...
  )
• Paul Tobias
  Paul Tobias
  
  Paul Tobias , also known as Paul Huge, was a rhythm guitarist with the United States hard rock band Guns N' Roses and is currently the lead guitarist of Mank Rage....
   (Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  
  Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  )
• Simon Tong
  Simon Tong
  
  Simon Tong is a guitarist and keyboardist who was a member of The Verve between 1996 and 1999 and is currently a member of Transmission . He has also has played as part of Blur, Gorillaz and the unnamed supergroup responsible for The Good, the Bad & the Queen....
   (The Verve
  The Verve
  
  The Verve are a British people Rock music band formed in Wigan, Greater Manchester in 1989 at Winstanley College, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones , and drummer Peter Salisbury....
  , The Shining
  The Shining (band)
  
  The Shining were an England rock band formed in 2000. The band comprised Duncan Baxter , Dan MacBean , Mark Heaney , Simon Jones and Simon Tong , the latter two both ex-members of The Verve....
  , The Good, the Bad & the Queen)
• Bård Torstensen
  Bård Torstensen
  
  B?rd Torstensen , is a Norway musician and co-founder/guitarist in rap-metal band Clawfinger.B?rd started out his musical career by playing guitar in the local band Theo ....
   (Clawfinger
  Clawfinger
  
  Clawfinger is a rap metal band from Sweden and was one of the earliest bands to adopt this sound. Clawfinger is known for aggressive but melodic music and tackling Politics and Anti-racism themes in their songs....
  )
• Matthew Tuck (Bullet for My Valentine
  Bullet for My Valentine
  
  Bullet for My Valentine are a Welsh fagcore band from Bridgend, Wales, formed in 1998.The band started their music career by covering songs by Metallica and Nirvana under the band name "Jeff Killed John"....
  )
• Jeff Tuttle
  Jeff Tuttle
  
  Jeff Tuttle is a guitar player for The Dillinger Escape Plan. It was announced that he was the new rhythm guitar player in Summer 2007, following James Love who was with the band immediately after the departure of previous guitarist Brian Benoit, who can no longer play due to a degenerative nerve condition in his left hand ....
   (Dillinger Escape Plan)
• Tom Fletcher
  Tom Fletcher
  
  Thomas "Tom" Michael Fletcher , is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists in the United Kingdom pop rock/pop punk band McFly , along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd....
   (McFLY
  McFly
  
  McFly are a pop-punk/pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band was founded by Tom Fletcher and also consists of Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd ....
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• Nick Valensi
  Nick Valensi
  
  Nick Valensi is a guitarist for the American alternative rock band The Strokes....
   (The Strokes
  The Strokes
  
  The Strokes are an United States rock music band formed in 1998 in New York City who rose to fame in the early 2000s as a leading group in the Garage rock#Revival....
  )
• Kathy Valentine
  Kathy Valentine
  
  Kathy Valentine is the bass guitarist for the all-girl Punk rock/pop music band , The Go-Go's.She began playing at age 16 in her hometown of Austin, and joined a fledgling Girlschool in London, England in 1975....
   (The Go-Go's
  The Go-Go's
  
  The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
  )
• Steve Van Zandt (E Street Band
  E Street Band
  
  The E Street Band is a musical group that has periodically toured and recorded with rock musician Bruce Springsteen since 1972.The band has also recorded , with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Sting , Ian Hunter , Ringo Starr, Ronnie Spector, G...
  )
• Eddie Vedder
  Eddie Vedder
  
  Eddie Vedder is an American Singing, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. He is the lead singer and one of three guitarists for the American Rock music band Pearl Jam....
   (Pearl Jam
  Pearl Jam
  
  Pearl Jam is an American rock music 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 ....
  )
• Zacky Vengeance
  Zacky Vengeance
  
  Zachary James Baker, is better known by his stage name Zacky Vengeance, is the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist for the American Hard Rock band Avenged Sevenfold....
   (Avenged Sevenfold
  Avenged Sevenfold
  
  Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock music band from Orange County, 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 followed with their Avenged Sevenfold...
  )
• Andrew Volpe (Ludo)
  Ludo (band)
  
  Ludo is an alternative rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. In 2007, they signed a multi-album deal with Island Records....
  

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• Toki Wartooth (Dethklok
  Dethklok
  
  Dethklok is both a fictional death metal band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, as well as the virtual band created to perform the band's music in live shows....
  )
• Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead , together with other former members of the Grateful Dead....
   (The Grateful Dead)
• Brian "Head" Welch (Korn
  Korn
  
  'Korn' is an American rock music band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album, Greatest Hits, Vol....
  )
• Bruce Welch
  Bruce Welch
  
  Bruce Welch Order of the British Empire, is an England guitarist, songwriter, record producer and singer, best known as a member of The Shadows....
   (The Shadows
  The Shadows
  
  Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  )
• Deryck Whibley
  Deryck Whibley
  
  Deryck Jason Whibley is a Canada musician and record producer, best known for his work as the guitarist and lead singer, songwriter and producer of the multi Juno Award-winning pop punk band Sum 41....
   (Sum 41
  Sum 41
  
  Sum 41 is a Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble from Ajax, Ontario. The current members are Deryck Whibley , Cone McCaslin , and Steve Jocz ....
  )
• Jason White
  Jason White (musician)
  
  Jason White is a U.S. guitarist who has played in many punk rock bands. He is most notable for being a touring guitarist for Green Day and guitarist for Californian punk quartet Pinhead Gunpowder....
   (Green Day
  Green Day
  
  Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....
  )
• Brad Whitford
  Brad Whitford
  
  Brad Whitford is the rhythm and lead guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith....
   (Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  )
• Danny Whitten
  Danny Whitten
  
  Danny Ray Whitten was an United States musician and songwriter best known for his work with Neil Young and Crazy Horse , and for the song "I Don't Want To Talk About It", a hit for Rita Coolidge and Rod Stewart....
   (Crazy Horse
  Crazy Horse
  
  Crazy Horse was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota people way of life....
  )
• Jane Wiedlin
  Jane Wiedlin
  
  Jane Wiedlin is an American musician and actor. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female multi-platinum New Wave music band The Go-Go's in the 1980's....
   (The Go-Go's
  The Go-Go's
  
  The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
  )
• Don Wilson (The Ventures
  The Ventures
  
  The Ventures are an United States instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, 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 instrumental band of all time....
  )
• Nancy Wilson
  Nancy Wilson
  
  Nancy Wilson may refer to:* Nancy Wilson , American jazz singer and actress* Nancy Wilson , American singer and guitar player, co-founder of the band Heart...
   (Heart
  Heart
  
  The heart is a muscle organ in all vertebrates responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in annelids, mollusks, and arthropods....
  )
• Christian Olde Wolbers
  Christian Olde Wolbers
  
  Christian Olde Wolbers was the one of the many bass guitarists of the Industrial music band Fear Factory from December 1993 to 2002 when the group disbanded....
   (Fear Factory
  Fear Factory
  
  Fear Factory is an American heavy metal music band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes....
  )
• Ron Wood
  Ron Wood
  
  Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an England Rock music guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Rolling Stones and Faces ....
   (Faces
  Faces (band)
  
  Faces were a rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie . The remaining Small Faces - Ronnie Lane , Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones - were joined by Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart , both from The Jeff Beck Group, and the new line-up was renamed the Faces....
  , The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  )
• Dave Williams (Son Of Dork) (Son of Dork
  Son of Dork
  
  Son of Dork were a United Kingdom Pop music 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....
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• Taylor York (Paramore
  Paramore
  
  Paramore is an American Rock music band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee in 2004 consisting of Hayley Williams , Josh Farro , Taylor York , Jeremy Davis , and Zac Farro ....
  )
• Thom Yorke
  Thom Yorke
  
  Thomas Edward Yorke is an English people musician who is the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock group Radiohead. As a singer, Yorke is recognisable by his distinctive tenor voice, vibrato, frequent use of falsetto and ability to reach, and sustain, notes over a wide vocal range....
   (Radiohead
  Radiohead
  
  Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
  )
• Malcolm Young
  Malcolm Young
  
  Malcolm Mitchell Young is a Scotland-born Australian guitarist, best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and co-songwriter for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC....
   (AC/DC
  AC/DC
  
  AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  )

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