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Amy Knoles has headlined on major festivals throughout the world. Her music has been described as being of "frightening beauty, fascinating, complex" -N.P.R. A "Los Angeles' new music Luminary, infinitely variable, infinitely fascinating" -- Los Angeles Times.

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Andy Johns, younger brother of famous Olympic Studios engineer Glyn Johns, father of HURT drummer Evan Johns and uncle of Kings of Leon and Ryan Adams producer Ethan Johns (son of Glyn Johns) is a prolific engineer and producer. Before his nineteenth birthday, Andy Johns was working as Eddie Kramer's second engineer on classic recordings by Jimi Hendrix and many others. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he's engineered or produced records by artists ranging from Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones to Van Halen and Rod Stewart, whose sales total in excess of 160 millions copies.

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Anton Fig (born August 8, 1952 in Cape Town, South Africa), known as "The Thunder from Down Under" is a session drummer, noted for his work in David Letterman's house band, the CBS Orchestra.

http://www.antonfig.com/

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Perowsky was born in New York City, where he played with his father Frank Perowsky, who is a saxophonist. Ben played with Roy Ayers, James Moody, and Rickie Lee Jones as a sideman, and was a member of the Lounge Lizards, Lost Tribe, Elysian Fields, and Liminal. He formed his own trio in 1997 with Chris Speed on saxophone and Scott Colley on bass, and began recording as a leader in 1999.

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William 'Billy' Sheehan (born on 1953 March 19 in Buffalo, NY) is an Irish American bassist known for his work with Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr Big, and Niacin.

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Brett Tuggle is a keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist who has performed with David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Rick Springfield, Chris Isaak, Steppenwolf, Coverdale-Page and Fleetwood Mac. He most recently toured with Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Coverdale Page is an album by Jimmy Page and Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, released by Geffen Records on March 27, 1993. ...

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Charlie Hunter (born May 23, 1967) is an American guitarist, composer and bandleader.
First coming to prominence in the early '90s Hunter has since become one of the leading names in jazz, recording 17 albums. Hunter is noted for playing custom-made seven and eight-string guitars, on which he simultaneously plays basslines, rhythm guitar, and solos. Critic Sean Westergaard describes Hunter's innovative guitar technique as "mind-boggling ... he's an agile improviser with an ear for great tone, and always has excellent players alongside him in order to make great music, not to show off."

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Dave LaRue is a bassist who has performed with the Dixie Dregs since 1988 and with the Steve Morse Band since 1989. He also has worked with Dream Theater's John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and Jordan Rudess. He has a large collection of vintage basses for studio work but mainly plays Music Man bass guitars, among them the "Sterling" and "StingRay 5 five-string" but has mainly switched to their "Bongo" line (which he was instrumental in helping develop) including four- and five-string fretted and fretless models.

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Gregg Bissonette is arguably the best session drummer around today. Gregg's most notable collaboration with Joe would be 1992's 'The Extremist' that Gregg played drums on, with his brother Matt on Bass guitar. Gregg also toured with Joe and Matt on the Extremist tour.

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Ian Paice (born 29 June 1948 in Nottingham, England) made his name as the drummer with seminal heavy rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band still performing with the group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Paice_2005.jpg

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Jeffrey Lee Hirshfield (b. New York City, August 22, 1955) is an American jazz drummer.

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Storming onto the music scene nearly a decade ago, Joe Satriani has been widely recognized as the archetypal post-modern hero.

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John Cuniberti's career began as a musician in various rock bands in the 1970's. To supplement his income John joined a touring sound reinforcement company in 1976. He worked his way up to the position of mixing on stage monitors for Stevie Wonder. In the early 80's John was managing Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco by day and recording the Dead Kennedys and many other alternative bands by night. In the 90's, John received both platinum and gold records for producing and engineering six Joe Satriani records.

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Santo and Johnny Farina were born in Brooklyn, New York; Santo on October 24, 1937 and Johnny on April 30, 1941. Their father was drafted into the Army while they were children and was stationed for some time in Oklahoma. After hearing a steel guitar on the radio, he wrote to his wife, "I'd like the boys to learn to play this instrument".
Upon returning from World War II, the boys' father found a music teacher who gave the boys steel guitar lessons. When Santo was a teenager, he was able to get a local music store to modify an acoustic guitar, allowing him to play it like a steel guitar.

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Jonathan Mover should be familiar to many Satriani fans. He has been a very regular touring drummer with Joe, especially throughout the eighties and early to mid 1990's. I saw him drum with Joe, Jeff and Stu on their 1995 Joe Satriani tour of Australia.

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Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9, 1915) is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible."[1] His many recording innovations include overdubbing, delay effects such as "sound on sound" and tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul

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Born Malcolm Earl Waldron on August 16, 1926 (some sources say 1925), in New York, NY; died on December 2, 2002, in Brussels, Belgium. Education: Bachelor of arts degree in composition, Queens College, City University of New York, late 1940s.

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Matt Bissonette first worked with Joe, and his brother Gregg on Joe's 1992 album The Extremist. He then toured with Joe on The Extremist Tour and has more recently recorded with Joe on his 'Strange Beautiful Music' and also 'Is There Love In Space?' and has toured with Joe on those tours and the 2004 US/European G3 tour.

http://www.mattbissonette.com/bio.htm

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Michael Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American acoustic guitarist born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Enid, Oklahoma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges

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Joe's awesome guitar tech.

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Neil Percival Young[1] OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and film director.

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Pat Martino is a very successful jazz guitarist who has been applying his trade for decades. Having a great sense of jazz timing and improvisation, Pat invited another jazz-trained guitarist (Joe) to perform on two tracks on his 1997 album 'All Sides Now'. The tracks are called 'Ellipsis' and 'Both Sides Now'.

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Pat Thrall is an American rock guitarist. Thrall is a native of the San Francisco area, and began his recording career in 1976.
Thrall has worked with former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes on the Hughes/Thrall project, and was a member of the Pat Travers Band during the peak of their success. He co-wrote one of Pat Travers' biggest hits, a hard-driving tune entitled Snortin' Whiskey, which became one of the most requested songs on American radio in 1980.

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Paulinho da Costa (born Paulo Roberto da Costa on May 31, 1948) is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio and television commercials.

He has done crossover work in a variety of music genres including: Brazilian, blues, Christian, country, disco, gospel, hip hop, jazz, Latin, pop, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, and world music.

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Pia Maiocco (born February 25, 1962) is an American former bass guitarist and backing vocals for the heavy metal band Vixen.

She is married to the famous rock guitarist Steve Vai, whom she met while they both attended the Berklee College of Music.

They have two children, Fire and Julian Angel.

(taken from a snapshot of wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Blackmore )

Early life

Santo and Johnny Farina were born in Brooklyn, New York; Santo on October 24, 1937 and Johnny on April 30, 1941. Their father was drafted into the Army while they were children and was stationed for some time in Oklahoma. After hearing a steel guitar on the radio, he wrote to his wife, "I'd like the boys to learn to play this instrument".
Upon returning from World War II, the boys' father found a music teacher who gave the boys steel guitar lessons. When Santo was a teenager, he was able to get a local music store to modify an acoustic guitar, allowing him to play it like a steel guitar.

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Steve Wright (born c.1950) was the bassist with The Greg Kihn Band. They had a #2 US hit with 'Jeopardy'. He suffered a stroke in 2003 and, unfortunately, can no longer play bass. He briefly worked with David Johansen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wright_(bassist)

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Stuart "Stu" Hamm (born February 8, 1960) is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his virtuosic playing style and solo recordings.

Beginning career

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Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the U.S. Air Force Band.

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Tuck Andress is a world-class guitarist, but he's also imbued with the rare gift of good taste. His musical partner and wife, Patti Cathcart, is an uncommonly soulful and inventive jazz stylist and among the best scat singers since Ella Fitzgerald. Together they create magic, a kind of jazzy chamber music that's deceptively simple on the surface but reveals layers of subtle complexity with each additional listening.

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ngwie Johan Malmsteen (pronounced /ˈɪŋveɪ ˈmɑːlmstiːn/ in English) (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions. Four of his albums, from 1984 to 1988, Rising Force, Marching Out, Trilogy, and Odyssey, ranked in the top 100 for sales.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngwie_Malmsteen
http://www.yngwiemalmsteen.com/