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Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s. His 1958 instrumental single "Rumble", reached the top 20 in the United States; and was one of the earliest songs in rock music to utilize distortion and tremolo.
Redd Volkaert (born 1958) is a Canadian guitarist and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in the modern era and is "among the country’s top Telecaster guitar slingers” [1] particularly in the genres of western swing and honky tonk.
Daron Malakian (Armenian: Դարոն Մալաքյան; born July 18, 1975) is an Armenian-American musician. He is the guitarist, songwriter, and second vocalist of the metal band System of a Down, and the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter of Scars on Broadway.
Buckethead was credited by Guitar World as "ushering in [a] new era of virtuosity" while ranking the release of his 1992 debut album Bucketheadland the 45th greatest moment in electric guitar history. [9] The magazine has also listed him among the "25 all-time weirdest guitarists" [10] and the "50 fastest guitarists of all time". [11]
Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965) [1] is an American musician, songwriter, animator, and visual artist, best known as the guitarist of Tool.Jones has been rated the 75th-greatest guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone [2] and placed ninth in Guitar World ' s Top 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. [3]
In 2008, he was ranked No. 21 on Gigwise's list of "The 50 Greatest Guitarists Ever", [138] and in 2009, he was named runner-up on "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" list in Time, which praised him as "a remarkably precise player". [4] In 2011, Rolling Stone placed Slash at No. 65 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". [6]
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The lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, said McGeoch was the guitarist that had most influenced him. [23] The Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien also cited him as a "big influence", and one of the "great guitarists [who] weren't lead guitarists". [24] He said that McGeoch was "responsible for some of the greatest riffs ever ...