Tony Rombola is the lead guitarist of American heavy metal post grunge band Godsmack. Tony Rombola was born in 1964 in Norwood Massachusetts and started teaching himself the guitar when he was 11 years old. He grew up listening to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin as inspiration and learned a lot about playing … Read more
Tony Iommi, born Francis Antony Iommi, was born in 1948 in Aston Birmingham, the son of Italian parents. He is best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi a lefty, started learning the guitar as a teenager, inspired by artists such as The Shadows. He became a sheet metal … Read more
Tomo Miličević is the lead guitarist in American hard / progressive rock band 30 Seconds to Mars. Tomo Miličević, full name Tomislav Miličević was born in 1979 in Sarajevo Bosnia Herzegovina, formerly the socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His parents emigrated to the USA when Tomo Miličević was a young child, in search of a … Read more
Thomas Baptiste Morello or Tom Morello, as he is more commonly known, is an American guitarist who has been part of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman, an acoustic solo act, and Street Sweeper Social Club, his current band. He has also co-founded the non-profit political group Axis of Justice with Serj Tankian of … Read more
Thomas Edward Yorke was born in Wellingborough Northamptonshire in 1968. He was born with a paralysed left eye and had eye operations at an early age, which left his left eyelid permanently drooped. Because of this, he was a target for early school bullying, made worse because he attended a number of different schools as … Read more
David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, was born in Barking Essex in 1961. His parents were both Welsh and the family moved to Dublin when he was just one year old. He learned to play the guitar and piano at a young age, often playing with his elder brother Dik Evans. While attending … Read more
Taylor Swift was born December 13th 1989 and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is a Country Pop singer/songwriter, Musician, and Actress. At the age of 10 Swift was shown how to play three chords by a computer repair man; which inspired her to learn guitar. At the age of 11 she wrote her first song … Read more
Synster Gates is the lead guitarist of hardcore metal band Avenged Sevenfold. Real name Brian Elwin Haner Jr., he was born in July 1981 in Huntington Beach California. He taught himself to play the guitar and his father, Brian Elwin Haner a songwriter and guitarist himself, probably had some input in Synster Gate’s early musical … Read more
Sully Erna is best known as the founder member, front man and creative force behind American hard rock band Godsmack and he has also produced solo work. Sully Erna, full name Salvatore Paul “Sully” Erna was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1968. He is of Italian ancestry and his family were musical. His grandfather was … Read more
Stone Gossard is the rhythm guitarist and a founder member of iconic grunge band Pearl Jam. He was born in Seattle in 1966. Stone is his real name and he also has two sisters named Shelley and Star (Stone, Shelley and Star – you couldn’t make it up!!). He learned guitar while he was still … Read more