February 7, 2024
Biography
Designed and aimed by British-born, Los Angeles-based blues-rock guitar virtuoso Stuart Smith, Heaven & Earth focus on melodic, classic hard rock and roll in the vein of Deep Crimson, Rainbow, and Bad Firm. Called after Smith’s 1999 single outing from the same moniker, the music group offers undergone lineup adjustments …
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November 16, 2023
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Australian slide guitarist Dave Gap is observed for his lively, high-volume rock & roll/blues music and uncommon playing style. Though left-handed, Gap plays electric guitar right-handed and created a technique to pay to get a finger injury where he areas his fingers outrageous of the throat. He also runs on …
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October 19, 2023
Biography
Pat Benatar’s guitarist (and hubby), Neil Giraldo, became among the finest yet underrated guitarists from the early-’80s arena rock and roll/MTV generation. Blessed on Dec 29, 1955, and elevated in Cleveland, Ohio, Giraldo found your guitar at age seven (on the insistence of his dad). Influenced in early stages by …
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October 14, 2023
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Acoustic guitar virtuoso Richie Kotzen burst onto the rock scene as an adolescent having a lightning-fast acoustic guitar technique. After documenting three albums for the Shrapnel label — including his 1989 self-titled debut, the next year’s Fever Desire, and 1991’s Electric powered Pleasure — he was recruited in to the …
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September 20, 2023
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Don Airey is a keyboardist who has already established a quite varied profession since learning to be a professional musician in 1971. He started with his personal group, then authorized to the group Hammer with Cozy Powell in 1974. His following music group move also discovered him using Powell, this …
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September 14, 2023
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He might have appeared on just a set of albums with Ozzy Osbourne, but guitarist Jake E. Lee helped Osbourne rating two of the very most commercially successful produces of his lengthy and illustrious profession. Given birth to Jake Lou Williams on Feb 15, 1957, to American and Japanese parents, …
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September 10, 2023
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Several years following the dissolution of Colosseum, Jon Hiseman recruited Gary Moore and Don Airey to create Colosseum II. The mandate this time around, however, had not been the jazz- and blues-inflected rock and roll of the initial music group, but a full-tilt trip into hyperkinetic jazz fusion that extended …
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August 29, 2023
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British-born blues/rock guitarist Snowy White 1st became thinking about music at age 11, when he noticed metropolitan blues performers like B.B. Ruler, Otis Hurry, and Buddy Man, and was influenced to generate his personal clean, hard-edged design of English blues. After shifting to London in the first ’70s, White colored …
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August 23, 2023
Biography
Just like alternative rock was signaling the death knell for most of your guitar shredders from the later ’80s, several instrumentalists could actually sneak within the radar, such as for example Gary Hoey — who attracted some interest via his 1993 debut, Pet Instinct. Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts Hoey was …
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July 21, 2023
Biography
Although it’s widely agreed that three people of Rush are incredibly talented at their particular instruments, guitarist Alex Lifeson is commonly probably the most underrated from the bunch. Delivered Alex Zivojinovich on August 27, 1953 in Fernie, Canada (his parents had been Yugoslavian immigrants), Lifeson was raised in Toronto, and …
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