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A List of Famous Lead Guitarists with photos! These are musicians who are masters of their craft. While it is often the singers who claim all the fame, these musicians are famous in their own right. As time has past and music evolved, the list of musical instruments available has grown, especially with the advent of the digital age. While the vocalist may have his lyrics, it is the musicians behind him, who truly make the sound. After all, instrumentals are as popular as ever, but acappellas are few and far between. Best of all, with our modern recording technology, we will be able to enjoy these artists for centuries if not millennia!

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Nationality
  1. 1
    Alternative rock, Rock music, Punk rock, Pop punk, Ska, Ska punk, Third-wave of ska More
    United States of America
    Band Name: Reel Big Fish
  2. 2
    Alternative metal, Post-grunge
    United States of America
    Band Name: Breaking Benjamin
  3. 3
    Hard rock, Heavy metal, Glam rock, Glam metal
    The Bronx
    Ace Frehley, Trouble Walkin', Frehley's Comet, Second Sighting, Anomaly, Greatest Hits Live, Greatest Hits Live, Live+1, 12 Picks, Loaded Deck More
    United States of America
    Band Name: Kiss
  4. 4
    Alternative rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal, Alternative metal, Progressive metal More
    United States of America
    Band Name: Tool
  5. 5
    Rock music, Progressive rock, Industrial rock
    Side One, Belewprints, Side Two, Inner Revolution, Salad Days, Op Zop Too Wah, Lone Rhino, Raven Songs 101, Twang Bar King, Young Lions, Mr. Music Head, Live Overseas, Side Four, Here, Side Three, e, Acoustic Adrian Belew, Coming Attractions, Belew Prints: The Acoustic Adrian Belew, Vol. 2, Pretty Pink Rose, Guitar as Orchestra, Desire Caught By the Tail, Lone Rhino / Twang Bar King, Guitar as Orchestra, Desire of the Rhino King, E, Young Lions / Pretty Pink Rose More
    United States of America
  6. 6
    Hard rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal
    Silver and Gold
    England
    Band Name: Iron Maiden
  7. 7
    Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Blues-rock, Glam metal
    Enschede
    Band Name: Vandenberg, Whitesnake, Manic Eden
  8. 8
    Rock music, Heavy metal
    Osaka
    Gene Shaft Ost Extended Score, Gene Shaft Original Sound Track, Tusk of Jaguar, Nenriki More
    Band Name: Loudness
  9. 9

    Al Anderson

    Rock music, Country
    Windsor
    Al Anderson, Party Favors, After Hours, Pawn Shop Guitars, Pay Before You Pump More
    Band Name: Bob Marley and The Wailers
  10. 10
    Rock music, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Rhythm and blues, Jazz, Funk, World music, Instrumental rock, Chicano rock, Latin jazz, Gypsy jazz More
    Land of the Midnight Sun, Winter Nights, The Essence of Al DiMeola, Passion, Grace & Fire, Flesh on Flesh, Orange and Blue, The Infinite Desire, Di Meola Plays Piazzolla, Ritmo de la Noche, The Rite of Strings (feat. Al Di Meola & Jean-Luc Ponty), Tirami Su, Kiss My Axe, Cielo e Terra, The Guitarist , Acoustic Anthology, Soaring Through a Dream, World Sinfonia, Electric Anthology, Splendido Hotel, Christmas: Winter Nights, Scenario, The Guitar Trío, Fugata, Casino, La Melodia: World Sinfonia Live In Milano, Elegant Gypsy, Friday Night in San Francisco, Consequence of Chaos, Revisited, Heart Of The Immigrants, The Collection, Live at Belmont Raceway, Orange And Blue, Tour De Force - "Live", World Sinfonia - La Melodia, Diabolic Inventions and Seduction for Solo Guitar, Volume I, Music of Astor Piazzolla, Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody, Anthology, Greatest Hits, Cosmopolitan Life, Vocal Rendezvous, This Is Jazz 31, World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion, Electric Rendezvous, Al Di Meola Plays Piazzolla, The Infinite Desire, The Best of Al Di Meola: The Manhattan Years, Al Di Meola Revisited More
    United States of America
    Band Name: Go
  11. 11
    Blues-rock, Blues
    Frostbite, Deluxe Edition, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Texas Blues, Alive and Cool, Showdown!, Ice pickin', Love Can Be Found Anywhere (Even In A Guitar) Trash Talkin', Frosty / Tremble, Love Can Be Found Anywhere (Even in a Guitar), Cold Snap, Live at Montreux 1992, Don't Lose Your Cool, The Ice Axe Cometh: The Collection 1978-86, Frozen Alive!, Live, Live at the Fillmore West, The Compleat Albert Collins, Collins Mix: The Best Of, There's Gotta Be a Change, Trash Talkin', Iceman, The Complete Imperial Recordings, Sno-Cone More
    United States of America
  12. 12

    Albert Hammond, Jr.

    Band Name: The Strokes
  13. 13
    Rhythm and blues, Blues, Soul blues, Electric blues
    The Blues Don't Change, Blues at Sunrise, The Great King Albert, Red House, The Masters, Wednesday Night in San Francisco, Years Gone By, Thursday Night in San Francisco, Montreux Festival, Cold Feet / You Sure Drive a Hard Bargain, Guitar Man, Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 18: Live, The Best of Albert King, King of the Blues Guitar, Blues at Sunset (Live at Wattstax and Montreux), 60 Essential Blues Classics, Albert King - Stax Profiles, The Big Blues, Born Under a Bad Sign, Can't You See What You're Doing to Me, I'll Play the Blues for You, Let's Have a Natural Ball, Lovejoy, I Wanna Get Funky, The Blues Collection 26: Blues Power, Rainin' in California, Crosscut Saw, Blues for Elvis: King Does the King's Things, Blues At Sunrise, Truckload of Lovin': Best of Albert King, The Very Thought of You, The Complete King & Bobbin Recordings, The Very Best of, Hard Bargain, New Orleans Heat, Live, Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session, Live Wire / Blues Power, More Big Blues, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blues at Sunrise, The Tomato Years, Albert King - The Blues Collection, Born Under a Bad Sign and Other Hits, The Best of Albert King, Live on Memory Lane, The Lost Session, Albert, Funky London, The Very Best of Albert King, The Ultimate Collection, Mean Mean Blues More
    United States of America
  14. 14
    Alternative rock, Indie rock, Indie pop, Post-punk revival, Art rock
    United Kingdom, England, Scotland
    Band Name: Franz Ferdinand
  15. 15
    Hard rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal
    Victor
    Canada
    Band Name: Rush
  16. 16
    Jazz fusion, Heavy metal, Jazz, Thrash metal
    United States of America
    Band Name: Testament, Trans Siberian Orchestra
  17. 17
    Band Name: Arctic Monkeys
  18. 18
    Metalcore, Post-hardcore
    Northamptonshire
    England
    Band Name: Fightstar
  19. 19
    Heavy metal, Punk rock, Thrash metal, Black metal, Speed metal, Power metal, Progressive metal, Industrial metal, Avant garde metal, Melodic death metal, Groove metal, Neo-classical metal More
    Espoo
    Finland
    Band Name: Children of Bodom
  20. 20
    Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Jazz, Instrumental rock, Free jazz
    Bradford
    Metal Fatigue, Hard Hat Area, The Things You See, I.O.U., I.O.U. Live, Atavachron, Then!, Best Works Collection, Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie, Velvet Darkness, The Sixteen Men of Tain, Sunbird, The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock, With a Heart in My Song, Road Games, I.O.U Live, All Night Wrong, Wardenclyffe Tower +3, Wardenclyffe Tower, Sand, Secrets, Heavy Machinery, None Too Soon More
  21. 21
    Southern rock
    Jacksonville
    United States of America
    Band Name: Lynyrd Skynyrd
  22. 22
    Rock music
    North Hollywood
    United States of America
    Band Name: The Donnas
  23. 23
    Rock music, Blues-rock, Rockabilly, Swing, British blues
    Nottingham
    Live in Vienna, Alvin Lee in Tennessee, On the Road to Freedom, In Flight, Let It Rock, Keep On Rockin (disc 1), The Anthology, The Anthology, Zoom, Rocket Fuel, Detroit Diesel, Pump Iron, Saguitar, RX5 More
    United Kingdom, England
    Band Name: Ten Years After
  24. 24
    Thrash metal, Death metal, Melodic death metal, Groove metal
    Band Name: At the Gates, The Haunted
  25. 25
    Heavy metal, Black metal, Death metal, Alternative metal, Gothic rock, Doom metal, Avant garde metal More
    Sweden
    Band Name: Katatonia, Bloodbath

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  1. jagem409
    Famous Lead Guitarists at 11/29/2011 7:47 AM
    Sweet list dude Found all my favorite guitarists here
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