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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....
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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....
    )


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  • 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

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    )
  • 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....
    )
  • 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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Robin Zander
Robin Zander

Robin Zander is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick....
 (Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
)