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Guitar People (1997), by Willie G. Moseley, includes 65 profiles and interviews with guitar players and builders, discussing equipment, bands, and performances. Bill Carson: My Life and Time with Fender Musical Instruments (1998), by Bill Carson with Willie G. Moseley, is the inspiring, quintessential American success story of Bill Carson and ...
This list of guitarists includes notable musicians, known principally for their guitar playing, for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Those who are known mainly as bass guitarists are listed separately at List of bass guitarists .
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.
He has frequently been listed as one of the world's top-two "finger-style" and "finger-picking" guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine readers' polls, and due to his complex and virtuosic playing, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. [1] [2]
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In August 2009, Time magazine included Malmsteen on its list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all time. Malmsteen's listing, however, appeared to be sardonic, as the article concluded that: "The Swede's superfast 'neoclassical" style' – he credits Bach and Paganini as influences – is a blur of scales and technical precision.
She was included in Guitar Player Magazine 's '50 Sensational Female Guitarists' [1] and Guitar Player Magazine 's '50 Years of Extraordinary Players.' [2] In 2017 she was one of 11 female guitarists selected to contribute a track onto She Rocks, Vol. 1, a compilation released on Steve Vai’s label: 'Favored Nations'. [3]
Jerry Garcia's Rosebud guitar. Red Special – an electric guitar owned by Queen guitarist Brian May and custom-built by him and his father Harold over a two-year period beginning in 1963. [55] The Red Special is also sometimes named in reviews as the Fireplace or the Old Lady, both nicknames used by May when referring to the guitar. [56] [57]