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If you bought a pop Record between 1977 and today, chances are, that you are familiar with Michael Thompson luxurious and sought after guitar work.

Considered by all means, one of the top 5 studio guitarist in the world, this Long Island-New York native (but Californian by adoption) has been playing on all the “records that counts” since the late 70’s.

First choice guitarist for super producer David Foster, that introduced him to the Los Angeles recording community in the late 70’s, Michael has been collaborating with the who’s who of the recording industry!

Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Tony Braxton, Shania Twain, Alejandro Sanz, Laura Pausini, Adriano Celentano,Cher, Gloria Estefan,Tom Scott, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Olivia Newton John, Peter Cetera, Dianne Reeves, Stanley Clarke, Babyface, Michael McDonald, Thalia, Michael Buble’, Lee Ann Rymes, Jenneifer Lopez, these are only some of his famed collaborations.
His trade tones and tasty use of efx, combined with a remarkable melody sense, still takes no prisoners, among record artistall over the world.

Few guys in the music world has such a versatile background as Tommy Denander.
A selftaught guitarist and keyboard player since the age of 5 he has played almost every style you can think of, both live and on more than 900 albums, 150 singles, 5000 sessions and several movie soundtracks including Gorillas In The Mist (Sigourney Weaver) and Code Baltic Storm (Donald Sutherland)

A short list of artists he has recorded on albums with:
TOTO, MICHAEL MCDONALD, BB KING, FEE WAYBILL, RICHARD MARX, DAVID FOSTER, BILL CHAMPLIN, BOBBY KIMBALL, FERGIE FREDERIKSEN, JEFF BECK, JIMMY PAGE , VINNIE COLAIUTA, STEVE VAI, CARLOS SANTANA, DANN HUFF, TONY FRANKLIN, MICHAEL LANDAU, JASON SCHEFF, RICHARD PAGE, MICHAEL THOMPSON, BRUCE GAITSCH, STEVE STEVENS, PAT THRALL, GLENN HUGHES, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, BILL CANTOS, DAN REED, JOEY TEMPEST, STEVE MORSE, REB BEACH, CHRISTOPHER CROSS, JEFF WATSON, BRUCE KULICK, MICK RONSON, TOMMY NILSSON, JIM JIDHED, STEFAN ANDERSSON, LIONS SHARE, TALISMAN, TALK OF THE TOWN, PRISONER, RAINMAKER and SAYIT... and much more!

Tim Pierce is a Los Angeles-based session guitarist who has appeared on hundreds of music albums and motion picture soundtracks. Pierce is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His credits include work with Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Toy Matinee, Meat Loaf, Phil Collins, Goo Goo Dolls, Christina Aguilera, Faith Hill, Tracy Chapman, Aly & AJ, Thomas Anders and many other artists. He also released one solo album, Guitarland, in 1995.

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Touted as one of the best guitar players in the world, a voice on par with some of the greatest rock/soul singers and creative songwriting, Richie Kotzen has had an incredible journey in the world of music. In 2006 as a solo artist, Kotzen was the opening act for the legendary Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang Tour in Japan.
It all started at the age of seven when Richie learned to play the electric guitar in his hometown of Reading, PA. He formed his first band at the age of twelve and played live gigs around PA, Delaware and New Jersey. When he turned eighteen he headed West to San Francisco and recorded his first album for Shrapnel Records. That year, Kotzen was featured on several magazine covers including Guitar World and was voted one of the Top 3 Best New Guitarist’s of The Year by it’s readers.

After recording three albums for Shrapnel Records, Kotzen moved to Los Angeles and just out of his teens he joined the multi platinum glam metal band POISON and started living the dream! He recorded the cd Native Tongue with the band and ventured on a world tour in support of the album. His song Stand, reached #4 on MTV’s Most Wanted and was in the Top 20 in BILLBOARD MAGAZINE. That record soon reached platinum status.

After Poison, Kotzen continued recording albums on various labels including Geffen, Shrapnel and JVC until 1999 when he was invited by jazz legend Stanley Clarke to form the band VERTU. They recorded a self titled album for SONY and spent the summer in Europe playing the Montreux Jazz and other festivals. “It was an honor and a great experience to be in a band with Clarke and the other members.” States Richie.

Later that year Kotzen joined the immensely popular rock band Mr. Big, who are known for their #1 hit song To Be With You. In 1999, they played the Osaka Dome in Japan with AEROSMITH for the coveted Millennium Count Down. Kotzen wrote 2 studio records with Mr. Big and had his first #1 single in Japan with a song called Shine.

Richie continues to make killer solo records and tours around the world with superstar status in several countries, playing stadiums, festivals, and clubs. He has played with other well known musicians like Gene Simmons from KISS, and Keanu Reeves band Dogstar where he has made cameo performances on stage, including Television performances with the band on Jay Leno and Regis and Kelly. Richie is always included in books, magazines, and websites as one of the top guitarist’s in the world!

Stevie Salas is considered as one of the Top 50 Guitarists of all Time.

Stevie Salas is a guitarist. He was hand-picked by George Clinton as the guitarist for Clinton’s albums. He’s skipped cities in a private jet with Rod Stewart, playing sold-out stadiums. He signed the largest deal Island Records had ever forked over for a new artist[citation needed]. His second solo album ousted the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith for "Best Album" in Japan[citation needed]. Mick Jagger tapped him to be his guitarist for the Goddess in the Doorway solo album in 2000. He has also played with Koshi Inaba of B'z both in his album and live. He was in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, providing the fingerwork for Rufus's stunning guitar solo.[1]

In 2007 UK indie label Invisible Hands Music are releasing his first-ever career retrospective, The Sun And The Earth.

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Maurizio learns completely self-taught to play guitar and takes very soon his way to the music he loves the most, Rock. His long collaboration with Vasco Rossi, with whom he wrote some very famous tracks, is foundamental in his carreer: he is now considered one of the best italian guitarists ever.

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Pat Travers was born in Toronto, Canada on April 12, 1954. Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12 Pat saw the legend Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa. This obvious inspirational concert must have sparked the young Pat to go after the dream of becoming a star like so many of his early influences. Inspired by such guitarists as Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, Pat began playing in bands early in his teens. His first bands were "Red Hot" and "Merge" who played in Quebec area clubs. While the early years were hard, they would eventually pay off in the form of improved musicianship, style, and exposure.

Andrea Liveri is born 1 January 1977 and begins to study at the age of 9 piano privately and continues the studies until the age of 13 years when he then begins to take lessons of classic guitar. To 14 years for some years passes to the study of the electric guitar, and in the ' 97 the course of guitar Rock/Heavy Metal is enrolled to the Lizard Academy of Padova attending with Lelio Padovani, graduating itself in 2001 with praise.

In the years he has followed several seminaries of great international artists like Steve Vai, Marty Friedman, Scott Handerson, Carl Verheyen, Andy Timmons, John Petrucci, Greg Howe, and many others.
Currently he is found engaged in the realization of a method for electric guitar Rock/Heavy Metal and in the realization of the first CD of his rock band, Head Solution.

Joey Sykes plays Guitar, bass, and sings at an extremely high level. He also has a gifted knack of writing songs, and they are very radio friendly. Finally, as a producer, Joey is very musical, and can always make another artist shine and feel comfortable.

-co-writng with artists such as TM Stevens (legendary Bass player with the Pretenders, Joe Cocker, and many, many others), Gordon Brown (songwriter for RCA recording artists Highway 9, and fellow BMG writer), Jill Gioia, Andrew Fromm (writer for a bunch of Backstreet Boys songs, just to name one of many others), Jack D Ellipt (pop producer), David Anthony (dance, pop producer for such artists as Janet Jackson, among others), Lisa Drew ( succesful country songwriter, Jamie O'Neal's “There Is No Arizona”, among many others)

Luca Colombo is one of the best italian guitar player. His collaboration to the Festival di Sanremo, Rai and Mediaset television and the most important italian songer (Adriano Celentano, Loredana Bertè, Anna Oxa, Gianluca Grignani, Umberto Tozzi and more) make of Luca a famous guitar sessionman.

Toshi Yanagi was condemned to live a life with music. Having a tenor singer father and a pianist mother, Toshi started to play the piano at the age of four, and the violin at five. When he reached eleven, he joined the Tokyo Junior Philharmonic Orchestra, showing his parents a promising future as a classical musician they always wished him to be. However, just one year later, an eight-year old Toshi saw a new dawn(*2). It was through FEN (Far East Network) radio, that he became aware of this extraordinarily distinct and organic style of music he had never been exposed to --- the rock music --- and dived right into the music by the heroes of rock, such as Deep Purple, YES, Led Zeppelin, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather and Jeff Beck. Awaken by their overwhelming revelation he left his violin and piano, and instead picked up an electric guitar, to celebrate the beginning of a new chapter in his musical life.

Currently, Toshi is the in-house band member of the ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live", also playing one of the characters in the show. In order to fully enjoy his exquisite guitar play, check out the monthly performance of Shogun Warrior at The Baked Potato. With Jeff Babko on keyboards and Toss Panos on drums, there is no better place to feel Toshi's standout guitar to its fullest!