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Steven Siro Vai is an american guitarist, songwriter and producer responsible for some of the most innovative and technical electric guitar music of the late twentieth century. Steve Vai has appeared onscreen in a number of feature films.  He is best known for his work in the movie Crossroads, playing the devil’s guitarist Jack Butler.  [...]

David Albert Wyndorf is the guitarist, vocalist, frontman and songwriter for New Jersey hard rock band Monster Magnet. Dave Wyndorf was a late starter on the guitar.  He did not start learning to play guitar until the age of 28.  Before he learned to play guitar, he used to write guitar parts by singing them [...]

Mick Mars is an american guitarist and a founding member of the Glam Metal band Mötley Crüe. Mick Mars was born Robert Alan Deal, but took the stage name Mick Mars and dyed his hair jet black due to his frustration with the LA music scene. Mick came up with the name Mötley Crüe while [...]

Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley is a New York guitarist best known as one of the original members of hard rock band KISS. Ace started to learn guitar at the age of 13, and never received any formal guitar instruction, stating that “I never went to music school; I never took a guitar lesson, but everybody [...]

John James Sykes is an English guitarist born in 1959, who has played in a number of famous rock bands. John was briefly in the Tygers of Pan Tang, a band that formed part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the late 1970s.  He joined as a second guitarist and played [...]

Ross “The Boss” Friedman is a New York guitarist known for founding both punk rock pioneers The Dictators, and the loudest band in the world, Manowar. Ross became known as Ross The Boss at a young age.  The other kids gave him the name because he was good at baseball. Ross The Boss founded Manowar [...]

Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry is an american singer/guitarist and songwriter.  He is one of the originators of Rock and Roll. Chuck has a degree in cosmetology. Check Berry started to learn guitar while in high school, but he did not start performing until he was 26.  He was 29 when he first started recording [...]

Yngwie Malmsteen is a swedish guitar player credited with inventing neoclassical shred guitar. Yngwie once recorded a cover of “Gimme Gimme Gimme”, a song originally by swedish pop band Abba.  In the chorus the lyrics were changed from “Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight” to “Gimme gimme gimme your love after midnight”, presumably in [...]

David Jon Gilmour is the guitarist of the english psychedelic/progressive rock band Pink Floyd. David Gilmour was good friends with science fiction and humour author Douglas Adams, until the author’s death in 2001. He used to work as a model before joining Pink Floyd. David Gilmour owns a 1954 Fender Stratocaster marked with the serial [...]

Slash, the lead guitarist for 1980s hard rockers Guns ‘N Roses, was born as Saul Hudson, in London, England.  The son of an english father and american mother, he moved to Los Angeles with his mother when he was 11.  He is a naturalized citizen of the USA. The nickname “Slash” is self-bestowed – he [...]