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San Diego, California contributed its rock and roll best, Stone Temple Pilots, or as fans sometimes say, “STP.” The band’s original lineup consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Dean (guitar) and Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals), and Eric Kretz (drums). Since the band’s formation in 1986, its line-up remained unchanged until the firing of […]

A certain New Jersey fan of the Beatles received his first guitar from his mother and had a feeling his bus driver dad worked really hard to provide for him and his two sisters as well. Welcome to the Springsteen family. Bruce Springsteen is probably best known for his album Born in the U.S.A. (1984), […]

Santana formed in 1967 in San Francisco and was originally known as the Carlos Santana Blues Band. The first members were Carlos Santana (lead guitar), Tom Fraser (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Mike Carabello (percussion), Rod Harper (drums), David Brown (bass guitar) and Gregg Rolie (organ). Its breakthrough began two years later, playing in the […]

Inspired by Little Richard, Bob Seger started as a locally successful Detroit-area artist working in four different bands before his commercial breakthrough. In these early days he was performing and recording as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the ‘System’ from […]

A latter-day type of image-oriented performer, St. Vincent has received consistent praise for her distinct musical style, which blends soft rock, experimental rock, electropop and jazz influences. Born in 1982, Anne Erin “Annie” Clark has become better known by her stage name St. Vincent. She’s an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Clark began playing guitar […]

William Royce “Boz” Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He began his career as guitarist and lead singer with the Steve Miller Band in the late 60’s and early 70’s before gaining fame with several top twenty singles and the critically acclaimed “Silk Degrees.” Scaggs earthy baritone ranges wide across virtually any material […]

Soundgarden was a Seattle, Washington rock band formed in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.  They were joined by Matt Cameron who became their full-time drummer in 1986.  With Chris Cornell’s 2017 passing guitarist Thayil became the last remaining original member. As seminal pioneers and […]

Stevie Ray Vaughan was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, and one of the most influential guitarists in the blues revival of the 1980s.  The Dallas, Texas born Vaughan began playing guitar at age seven inspired by his older brother Jimmie.  After dropping out of high school Vaughan moved to Austin, Texas gigging […]

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois.  Formed in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals), D’arcy Wretzky (bass guitar), James Iha (guitar), and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums).  The current lineup features Corgan, Chamberlin, Iha and guitarist Jeff Schroeder. The Pumpkins showcase a diverse, densely layered guitar-heavy sound containing elements of […]

Slash with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators is a hard rock group consisting of English-American  rock musician Slash (guitar), Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass) and Frank Sidoris (guitar, vocals). Slash, the iconic Grammy winning rock guitarist, songwriter and film producer has amassed more than 100 million album sales best known for […]