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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. more
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Alex Lifeson Alex Lifeson in concert with Rush. Milan, Italy (September 21, 2004) Person Fender Stratocaster
Alex Lifeson, OC (born August 27, 1953), is a Canadian musician, known as the guitarist for the rock group Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since. For Rush, Lifeson plays...
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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. He was one of the first prominent jazz musicians to be born in Europe, and one of the most renowned jazz guitarists of all time. His most...
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Eric Clapton Eric Clapton, photo Film music contributor Fender Stratocaster
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a 18 time Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, garnering an...
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George Harrison Film actor Fender Stratocaster
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an award-winning English rock guitar, singer-songwriter, author and sitar best known as the lead guitar for The Beatles. Following the band's breakup, Harrison had a successful career as...
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George Benson Photo credit: Don Ver Ploeg for the Rochester International Jazz Festival, 2003 Film actor  
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 Musical Artist  
Geddy Lee OC 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 childhood friend, Alex Lifeson in order to replace frontman Jeff...
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Joe Pass Joe pass2 Musical Artist  
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 Kirk Hammett performing with Metallica in Vienna in 2007. Film music contributor  
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. Respected among his peers for his guitar style, in 2003 he was ranked 11th in Rolling Stones list -...
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Robert Fripp Musical Artist  
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 Son House was a major Delta blues artist Musical Artist  
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 Yngwie1 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 Film music contributor  
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist and singer with the musical group Fleetwood Mac. During his career he has also done some independent recording since he first became a member of that group. He is married to...
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Brian May Brian May (with Red Special guitar) from a 2005 performance in Frankfurt, Germany. Film music contributor  
Brian Harold May CBE (born July 19, 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist, most widely known as the lead guitarist in the rock band Queen. He was ranked as the 39th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine. He was recently...
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Stanley Jordan Musical Artist  
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. He received a B.A. in music from Princeton University in 1981. ...
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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 Musical Artist  
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. As the central figure of Megadeth...
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Tom Petty Film music contributor Rickenbacker
Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a member of the Traveling Wilburys. His hit singles have included "Don't Do Me Like That", "Refugee", "Runnin' Down a Dream", "The Waiting", "Don't Come...
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Joe Satriani Musical Artist  
Joseph "Satch" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York, U.S.) is an American guitarist and former guitar instructor. His self-released debut album, Not of This Earth in 1986, opened the way to a world of instrumental rock music in what...
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Jerry Garcia Jerryg.jpg Musical Artist  
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 Brian linda Person  
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was a 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, and his...
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Phil Keaggy Musical Artist  
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 Musical Artist  
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 Film music contributor Fender Stratocaster
Geoffrey Arnold ("Jeff") Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London) 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...
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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, later known just as...
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Richie Sambora Musical Artist  
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 Ace live Musical Artist  
Paul Daniel Frehley (born April 27, 1951), better known as Ace Frehley, 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...
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Stephen Carpenter Stephen Carpenter Film writer  
Stephen Carpenter, (born August 3, 1970) is an American musician, the lead guitarist and occasional multi-instrumentalist in Deftones. Stephen is know for his technique. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant...
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