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New Article:Carlos Santana
Sensible Jones has once again wrote a cool article on a very influential guitar player, this time it's Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born 20 July, 1947) is a Mexican-born American Grammy Award-winning rock musician and guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a blend of rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin percussion such as timbales and congas. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. More...
New Article: Tommy Emmanuel
I'm proud to present to you, the one and only Tommy Emmanuel, now in our wiki! Sensible Jones has made a great effort and brought you this article. Tommy was born in the Upper Hunter in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia. He received his guitar in 1959 at the age of 4 - being taught by his mother to accompany her playing lap steel guitar. At the age of 7 he heard Chet Atkins on the radio. He vividly remembers this moment and says it greatly inspired him. By the age of 9, in 1964, he was a working professional musician. Recognizing the musical talents of Tommy and his brother Phil, their father created a family band, sold the family home and took... More...
New Article: Slash
It's finally there! Sensible Jones has finished a once started article on Slash, the God of Rock! From now on everyone can read about the life of the guitarist who has influenced many players with his style. Saul Hudson, or as most people call him, the legendary Slash, was born July 23, 1965, in West Hampstead, London, England. He was born to Tony and Ola Hudson, and has a younger brother, Albion Hudson. Most people know him as the former lead guitarist of the famous band Guns N' Roses, and is now currently shredding with Velvet Revolver. He is heralded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
New Article: Alex Lifeson
NoSkill made, again, a new article on Canadian guitarist! RUSH's guitarist Alex Lifeson is now in the wiki!
Alex Lifeson,(born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since.
For Rush, Lifeson plays electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments such as mandola ...More.
New Article: Rik Emmett
NoSkill keeps prolonging his Canadian serial, this time guitarist Rik Emmett, most well-known from the trio Triumph. Richard Gordon (Rik) Emmett (born July 10, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is a vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Rik Emmett is unquestionably one of Canada's greatest musical gifts. Taking his first guitar lessons at age 12, his diverse playing styles of today could have been predicted in his childhood, with a wide array of influences, including The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as blues, jazz, flamenco and classical. More...
New Article: Randy Bachman
NoSkill has, once again, written a cool article on a cool guitarist! Randy Bachman (BTO) is featured in the Wiki from now on! Randolph Charles Bachman, (born September 27, 1943) was lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s-70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of the band Brave Belt with Chad Allan and a band called Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums. More...
New Article: Guthrie Govan
This man has been in our Guitarist Top 5 for the past months, but didn't have his own article until now. Sensible Jones wrote this article on request, and he did great! Guthrie Govan (born December 27, 1971 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is a guitarist known for his work with the bands Asia (2001-2006), GPS, The Young Punx and The Fellowship as well as Erotic Cakes (a vehicle for his own music). He is a noted guitar teacher through his work with the UK magazine Guitar Techniques, Guildford’s Academy of Contemporary Music and currently the Brighton Institute of Modern Music. He is also a former winner of Guitarist magazine's "Guitarist of the Year" competition. More...
New Article: Ry Cooder
Once again, we have a famous name covered in our Wiki, this time Sensible Jones let his fingers hit the keyboard and made a cool article on Ry Cooder! During the 1960s, Cooder briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Cooder first attracted attention in the 1960s, playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal in the Rising Sons. He also played with Randy Newman at this time, including on 12 Songs and possibly Newman's first album, Randy Newman. Van Dyke Parks worked with Newman and then with Cooder during the 60s. Parks arranged Cooder's "One Meatball" according to Parks' 1984 interview by Bob Claster. More...
New Article: Ali Farka Toure
Sensible Jones has, again, wrote a cool wiki article on a guitarist! This time it's Ali Farka Toure. Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré (October 31, 1939 – March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues. The belief that the latter is historically derived from the former is reflected in Martin Scorsese’s often quoted characterization of Touré’s tradition as constituting "the DNA of the blues". Touré was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. More...
New Article: Kurt Cobain
Fran has been busy again, and made a new wiki article for us! Kurt Cobain will be featured from now on! Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, near Seattle but his family soon moved to Aberdeen, Washington. His parent's divorce at the early age of seven had a severe influence over his life, making him feel angry and anti-social, which later reflected in some of his best songs.
New Article: Frank Marino
Whitesnake's first ever wiki article is a nice one! Here is, Frank Marino, Mahogany Rush guitarist. Frank Marino is the guitarist of Mahogany Rush. He was born Francesco Antonio Marino on November 20, 1954 in Montreal, Canada. Half Italian and half Arab, Frank is one of five children.He grew up in the time of peace and hippie movement,therefore he only spent seven years in school. It was during those days that his experimentation with LSD would lead him to what was later to become the definition of his life. More...
New Article: Trevor Rabin
NoSkill wrote a new article, this time South African guitarist and vocalist Trevor Rabin. Rabin was born Trevor Charles Rabin and comes from a family of classical musicians in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his father Godfrey was lead violinist for the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Educated at a public school in Johannesburg, he took formal piano training before discovering the guitar at age 12. His parents encouraged his talents toward rock music, although Rabin would maintain his interest in Classical music throughout his career. Rabin also briefly More...
New Article: Steve Hackett
NoSkill has written the last article in his Genesis serial, this time Steve Hackett! new article, this time Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970. Hackett remained with the band for eight albums before leaving in 1977 to pursue a solo career. In 1986, Hackett co-founded the supergroup GTR with another progressive guitarist, Steve Howe of Yes and Asia. The group More...
New Article: Daryl Stuermer
NoSkill continues his Geneses serial with this time Genesis guitarist Daryl Stuermer. Stuermer was born on November 27, 1952 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Discovered playing with his Milwaukee band Sweetbottom, Stuermer auditioned for and won a spot backing up jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty in 1975, with whom Stuermer recorded four albums. In late 1977, Stuermer on insistence of friend Alphonso Johnson was recommended as a replacement for Steve Hackett when Hackett left Genesis. He joined up with Genesis as touring guitarist and bass player at first and retained that More...
New Article: Mike Rutherford
No Skill starts a series of three Genesis guitarist, part one: Mike Rutherford. Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English musician. He was a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist, 12-string guitarist, and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of guitarist. He also fronted Mike + The Mechanics. More...
New Article: Billy Gibbons
Sensible Jones wrote, once again, a new article, this time about Bily Gibbons from ZZ top! Billy F. Gibbons (born December 16, 1949), nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is best known as the guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead vocalist and composer for many of the band's classic songs. A Houston native, Gibbons is known for playing a 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar he calls Miss Pearly Gates. He is known to play his guitar using a quarter or a peso as a pick, lending a distinctive sound to his playing, and for his extensive use of harmonics. More...
New Article: Ace Frehley
NoSkill, GMC member, wrote a new article for the Guitarist Project! The subject, Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley! Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley, born April 27, 1951,is an American guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of 'Spaceman' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics. Frehley played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982. After leaving Kiss, Frehley embarked More...
New Article: Tony Iommi by Fran
The man himself, Fran, wrote a new article for our wiki! The subject, this time, is Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. Tony Iommi was born on February 19th in Birmingham, England. He started playing guitar as a teenager, going through several rock/blues bands before he decided to start his own band "Earth" along three guys he knew from school: bassist Terry "Geezer" Butler, drummer Bill Ward, and singer John Ozzy Osbourne.
One sad event was to take place early on Tony's life though, one that almost deprived the world from one of the best known guitarists: working in a metal factory, a machine sliced off the tips of his right hand, and being Tony left More...
New Article: Django Reinhardt by SJ
Jean "Django" Reinhardt was born in Belgium on 23 January 1910 and died in France on 16 May 1953.
One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he cofounded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, More...
New Article: Peter Green by Sensible Jones (SJ) once again!
Peter Allen Greenbaum (aka Peter Green) born:- 29th October 1946 in Bethnal Green, London, UK.
Founder member of Fleetwood Mac and a prominent figure in the British Blues Movement of the 60's.
BB King once said of Peter:- "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."
This is SJ's first article with his new Wiki Badge!More...
New Article: Shawn Lane by Sensible Jones... Again!
Shawn Lane was born in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of eight he accompanied his sisters on the piano, but did not play guitar seriously until he was ten. Lane progressed very rapidly on the guitar, and he found it to be his natural instrument. At thirteen, he began to practice heavily, developing his technical abilities. Word began to spread around Memphis about a talented young guitar player More...
New Article: Vernon Reid by Sensible Jones
Vernon Reid born August 22, 1958.
Vernon is an English guitarist, songwriter, composer and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour. Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.More...
New Article, again from Sensible Jones, this time: Female guitarist Jennifer Batte
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The 80’s was the time of the male dominated ‘Shred’ genre of Guitar Playing, but with one notable exception………The fleet-fingered and digitally dexterous Jennifer!!!
Jennifer was born in Upstate New York. She got her first Guitar at age 8, having been inspired by her sister who already owned one. Other big influences from around that time were The Beatles and The Monkees More...
