Guitarist
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GuitaristA Guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. He or she may also be a Musical Artist or a Musical Group Member.Property Guitars Played: expects Guitar; the specific models of guitar played by the musician.
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| Alex Lifeson |
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Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović on August 27, 1953 in Fernie, British Columbia), is a Canadian musician, best known for his role as guitarist for the rock band Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral...
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| Django Reinhardt | Musical Artist |
Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Sinto Gypsy jazz guitarist.
One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and...
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| Eric Clapton |
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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock...
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| George Harrison |
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George Harrison, MBE (February 25 1943 – November 29 2001) was an English rock guitar, singer-songwriter, author, film producer and sitar best known as the lead guitarist for The Beatles. Following the band's breakup, Harrison had a successful...
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| George Benson |
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George Benson (b. March 22 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop and R&B; singer, famous for...
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| Geddy Lee |
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Geddy Lee OC (born Gary Lee Weinrib on July 29, 1953 in Willowdale, Toronto) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined Rush in September 1968 at the request of his...
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| Joe Pass |
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Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, January 13, 1929, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S., died May 23, 1994, Los Angeles, California) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, and use...
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| Kirk Hammett |
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Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitar and a songwriter in the band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003 Hammett was ranked 11th in...
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| Robert Fripp |
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Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson. His work,...
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| Robert Johnson | Film writer |
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) is among the most famous of Delta blues musicians. His landmark recordings from 1936–1937 display a remarkable combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced...
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| Son House |
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Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21 1902 – October 19 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often...
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| Yngwie J. Malmsteen |
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Musical Artist | Fender Stratocaster |
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen ( in English) (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on June 30, 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical...
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| Lindsey Buckingham |
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Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949, is an American guitarist and singer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released four solo albums and a...
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| Brian May |
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Brian Harold May, CBE (born July 19, 1947, in Hampton) is an English musician and astrophysicist, most widely known as the lead guitarist and backing, sometimes lead, vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar,"Red...
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| Stanley Jordan |
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Stanley Jordan (July 31, 1959) is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist, best known for his development of the touch technique for playing guitar. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton...
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| Richard Lloyd | Musical Artist |
Richard Lloyd (born 25 October 1951, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, probably best-known as a former member of the rock band, Television.
In addition to a more recent solo career, as a guitarist and...
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| Lester Flatt | Musical Artist |
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979) was one of the pioneers of bluegrass music.
Flatt was born in Overton County, Tennessee to Nannie Mae Haney and Isaac Columbus Flatt. A singer and guitarist, he first came to prominence as a...
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| Dave Mustaine |
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Dave Mustaine (born September 13, 1961 in La Mesa, California USA) is the lead/rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and singer for the thrash metal band Megadeth. Mustaine grew up in various Southern California suburbs. He currently resides in Fallbrook,...
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| Tom Petty |
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are an American rock band, formed in 1975 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench and known for their album-oriented rock n' roll. They have recorded numerous hit singles, such as "American Girl", "Breakdown"...
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| Joe Satriani |
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Joseph "Satch" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York, U.S.) is an American guitarist and former guitar instructor. He is heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Since 1990, Satriani has used his own signature...
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| Jerry Garcia |
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Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was a musician, songwriter, artist, and lead guitar and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the...
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| Brian Jones |
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Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was a co-founding member, guitar and multi-instrumentalist in the English rock group The Rolling Stones.
Jones was known for his skills on multiple instruments, fashionable mod image, drug...
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| Phil Keaggy |
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Philip Tyler Keaggy (born March 23, 1951 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American acoustic and electric guitar and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and...
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| Brian Setzer |
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Brian Setzer (born April 10 1959, Massapequa, New York) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Beginning in January 1980, Setzer fronted the popular rockabilly band, Stray Cats. After performing from New York to Philadelphia, Setzer, Lee...
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| Jeff Beck |
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Film music contributor | Fender Stratocaster |
Geoffrey Arnold ("Jeff") Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, England) is an English rock guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page to have recorded with the band The...
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| Greg Flesch | Person |
Greg Flesch (born 1960) is a guitarist and musician, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Gene Pool).
Flesch joined D.A. in 1984, just in time for the Vox Humana tour.
Besides his work with...
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| Fuzzy Haskins | Person |
Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins (born June 8, 1941) is a former singer with 1950s and 1960s doo-wop group, The Parliaments. He is a founding member of the groundbreaking and influential 1970s funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, also known as...
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| Richie Sambora |
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Richard "Richie" Steven Sambora (born on July 11th, 1959), is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, singer and songwriter who is the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi. Along with frontman Jon Bon Jovi, he forms the primary...
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| Ace Frehley |
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Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (born April 27, 1951) is an American guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss founded by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted...
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| Stephen Carpenter |
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Stephen Carpenter, (born |1970|8|3}} in Sacramento, California is an American musician, the lead guitarist and occasional multi-instrumentalist in Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings and...
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