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Paul Gilbert-Paul Brandon Gilbert (November 6, 1966) is a guitarist best known for his work with Racer X and Mr.Big that successfully sold his album over 3million just in U.S...Following his departure from Mr. Big in 1996, Gilbert pursued a solo career...Talking about his influences, Paul mentions many different artists, including Judas Priest, Yngwie Malmsteen, KISS, Van Halen, The Ramones and Green Day....He is also a great fan of The Beach Boys and The Beatles...He claims that George Harrison is one of his favorite guitar players...Came 4th in Guitar One Magazine's "10 All-Time Fastest Shredder"...He can speak Japanese...Owned over 100 guitars during his career.
Eric Johnson-Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954)...Johnson's stylistic diversity and technical proficiency have drawn praise from Carlos Santana, Prince, B.B. King, Joe Satriani and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan...his influences: Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, and Django Reinhardt, among others...
Jimmy Hendrix-James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)...His has bitter childhood lives...His famous song "Vodoo Child(Slight Return)" and "Purple Haze" appeared to be 1 of the best riffs in the world...The memorial gravesite of Jimi Hendrix is in Renton, Washington....He is the most inspiring guitarist in the world...His death inspired hundreds of world famous guitarist now including Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani...Ranked 1st in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Guitarist".
Steve Vai-Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960 in Carle Place, New York)...a Grammy Award winning guitarist,composer and record producer...The Berklee College students who likes to skip his classes and spend time at the school library just to transcribing Frank Zappa work by ears...His guitar style of playing influenced by Jeff Beck and Allan Holdsworth...Vai received a Grammy Award in 1991...He has never miss a G3 events since he first joined that event..
Yngwie Malmsteen-Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerb?ck, June 30, 1963)...Widely recognised for his guitar skills, Malmsteen achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and his pioneering of the neo-classical metal genre...He came 3rd in Guitar One Magazine's "10 All-Time Fastest Shredder" & came as the "Greatest Shredder" in Radical Bright's "10 Greatest Shredder" poll...At age seven, he saw a TV special on the death of Jimi Hendrix that made him obsessed with the guitar...To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born"...
Kirk Hammet-Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist in the heavy metal band Metallica...Hammett is one of the best-known students of guitar virtuoso/instructor Joe Satriani...Metalicca's song,"Enter Sandman",was the first track and first single on Metallica's self-titled "Black Album" and was ranked 399th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time...
Jimmy Page-James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born January 9, 1944)...Best known as a lead guitarist of English band,Led Zeppelin...He was voted London's greatest guitarist in Total Guitar magazine's poll of the greatest 12 British guitarists[July 2001]...In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him number nine on their list of the "100 greatest guitarists of all time"...Page's solo in Stairway To Heaven was voted the greatest guitar solo of all time by Guitar World magazine.
Eddie Van Halen-Edward (Eddie) Lodewijk Van Halen, (born January 26, 1955) is a Dutch guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen...In an April 1996 interview with Guitar World, when asked about how he went from playing his first open G chord to playing "Eruption", Eddie replied:"Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7 P.M. to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3 A.M., I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years — I still do that."...
His main influence was Eric Clapton. He has also acknowledged the influence of Queen guitarist Brian May and fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth, of whom he has said: "He's the best in my book."
Slash-Slash (born Saul Hudson on July 23, 1965 in England) is a guitarist for the hard rock band Velvet Revolver, and former lead guitarist for Guns N' Roses...Slash's early influences include Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, Queen, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Jeff Beck...Slash owns over 100 guitars...The first song he learned to play was "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple...He is the 2nd member of Guns N' Roses who was not born in the United States (original bassist Ole Beich was born in Denmark)...Slash gave up on school, dropping out in the 11th grade because he cannot concentrate at school and also because his obsession to guitar....
Tom Morello-Thomas Baptist Morello or Tom Morello (born May 30, 1964)...He is acclaimed for his unique guitar style and is noted for his outspoken Marxist politics...Morello was ranked #26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"...Morello is famed for his guitar style, which consists of punk/funk hybrid riffs and hip hop-inspired sounds...He is also the lead guitarist for a band,Rage Aaginst The Machine and Audioslave...Rage Against The Machine song,"D-Generation X" is a theme song for the WWE wrestling team,DX.
John Petrucci-John Petrucci (born July 12, 1967) is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater...He was a largely self-taught guitarist who developed his skills through attempts to match the skill of his idols, who included Steve Morse, Steve Howe, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Al Di Meola, Alex Lifeson and Allan Holdsworth...John attended Berklee College of Music in Boston with childhood friend John Myung (bass), where they met future bandmate Mike Portnoy (drums). These three in addition to another childhood friend of Petrucci and Myung, Kevin Moore (Keyboards), formed the band Majesty, which would later become Dream Theater...In 2001 he was invited by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai to tour with them on the popular G3 guitar tour, which exposed him to a massive number of new fans and inspired him to record a solo album...He also appeared on the 2005 G3 tour.
John Frusciante-John Anthony Frusciante (IPA pronunciation: [fru??nte? ]) (born March 5, 1970) is the guitarist of the Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers...He also maintains an active solo career, having released eight albums as well as collaborations with friends Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally of Fugazi...Frusciante is known for his complex, difficult rhythms, which form a considerable part of the Red Hot Chili Peppers's sound...As a highly influential modern guitarist, John Frusciante ranks 18th in Rolling Stone's "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"...Some of the artists he listened to at this time, such as Jimi Hendrix, the Ramones, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, would influence his later musical career...John is the youngest member of the Chili Peppers, joining when he was 18.
Joe Satriani-Joe "Satch" Satriani (born on July 15, 1956, in Westbury, New York, USA) is an American guitarist and teacher...Joe Satriani was inspired to play guitar at age 14 after hearing that Jimi Hendrix had died. Satriani reportedly heard the news during a football training session where he immediately confronted his coach and announced that he was quitting to become a guitarist...Satriani also began teaching guitar, with his most notable student, at this time, being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai...He also teaches: Kirk Hammett (Metallica), David Bryson (Counting Crows), Kevin Cadogan (Third Eye Blind), Larry LaLonde (Primus), Alex Skolnick (Testament), Phil Kettner (Laaz Rockit) and Charlie Hunter...Satriani is widely recognized as a highly technically proficient rock guitarist...
Eric Clapton-Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born March 30, 1945), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the rock era, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...He influenced by the blues from an early age, at 13 Clapton received an acoustic guitar for his birthday, but he found learning the instrument so difficult he nearly gave up...Clapton was ranked 4th in Rolling Stone’s list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time... Clapton is the only person inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio three times (The Yardbirds, Cream, and solo)...Clapton was good friends with fellow 1960's guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Both musicians went to the same concert the night Hendrix died; Clapton had bought a left-handed Stratocaster to give to his friend after the performance, but he never got the chance.
