Born Paul Daniel Frehley. Ace grew up in the Bronx and got his 1st guitar as a Christmas gift at the age of 13. Both of his parents played piano and both....More
Billy founded his first band, the Moving Sidewalks, in the mid 1960’s, before forming ZZ Top in late 1969 with bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and...More
Angus is best known for his hard-edge blues style lead guitar, incredible energy, wild stage antics and his schoolboy outfit. Angus started...More
Nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who became one of the most respected and...More
Malmsteen was born into a musical family. On September 18, 1970, at age seven, he saw a broadcast reporting the death of Jimi Hendrix. That drove...More
Frank Zappa’s talents covered just about everything in the music industry. He was a distinctive composer who worked in just about every...More
Eddie and Alex Van Halen came to the United States in 1962. Eddie began playing drums, which he paid for by delivering papers, and Alex began...More
With the astonishing way he played his guitar, Stevie Ray Vaughan helped jump start the blues guitar revival of the 1980’s. SRV drew equally...More
Steven Vai is a Grammy Award winning guitarist, composer and record producer. Steve showed up at Joe Satriani’s door as a teenage with a guitar and...More
Stephen James Howe credits his parents' record collection as the origins of his influences, including Les Paul, Barney Kessel and Chet Atkins. Howe received his first guitar...More
Joe was inspired to play guitar at age fourteen after hearing that Jimi Hendrix had died. Satriani is one of the world’s most renowned...More
He started playing violin at the age of five. Carlos made the crossing from his native Mexico to San Francisco and began helping his family by...More
Blackmore began his musical career at age eleven when he received his first guitar and began to take classical music lessons. As his...More
Randy started playing guitar at age six on his grandfather’s Gibson acoustic. Eight years later, Randy formed a band named...More
With his mother as his teacher, Glen started out on piano; he didn’t make the switch to guitar until age twenty-one. Tipton’s first semi-successful...More
Pete is the guitarist, songwriter for The Who, and is widely considered to be among the greatest and most influential rock bands of all time. As the...More
After spending his youth in Detroit, Ted relocated to Chicago. In 1965 at the age of seventeen, he joined the original Amboy Dukes. Ted was...More
James Hetfield is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and a founding member of Metallica. Hetfield was nine when he...More
Les Paul was born Lester William Polfuss. Les started playing music on harmonica at the age of eight. By the time he was thirteen, he was...More
As a guitarist for The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards was largely responsible for bringing the rock n' roll of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry into the...More
In Joe's early musical years, he formed a band with Tom Hamilton called The Jam Band. After meeting with Steven Tyler, drummer Joey Kramer, and...More
James Marshall Hendrix’s, father and gave him his first guitar at age three. Being left-handed, he turned it upside down and....More
Dimebag Darrell Abbott, was born Darrell Lance Abbott on August 20, 1966, in Arlington, Texas. Dime was the lead guitarist for...More
At thirteen, David was given a Spanish guitar by a neighbor and so the journey began. The band, Pink Floyd was named to honor of...More
Chuck Berry is one of the pioneers of rock and roll; in fact, John Lennon once said "If you tried to give rock and roll another name...More
Alex Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968. Musically, Rush has altered its sound dramatically over the years. Beginning in...More