* 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1972 – Jimmy Pop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Bloodhound Gang )

* 1927 – Jimmy Martin, American blugrass vocalist and guitarist ( d. 2005 )

* 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons ) ( d. 2005 )

Gigwise. com, an online music magazine, also ranks Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist ever, followed by Jimmy Page, B. B.

* 1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1997 )

* 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter ( Aerosmith )

* 1955 – Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1953 – Jimmy Bruno, American guitarist

Formed as the New Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist / keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

According to Robert Walser, " Led Zeppelin's sound was marked by speed and power, unusual rhythmic patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, singer Robert Plant's wailing vocals, and guitarist Jimmy Page's heavily distorted crunch ".

* 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer

* 1972 – Jimmy Wayne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American comedian, actor, singer, and guitarist

Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page would incorporate a loose, improvised section based on " Mars " during live improvised versions of Dazed and Confused from its first incorporation in the song in October 1969 to the song's last performance in May 1975.

The trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, the guitarist Herb Ellis, and the pianists Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Lou Levy, Paul Smith, Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkins all worked with Ella mostly in live, small group settings.

Massot was already known to Grant as he and his wife had moved into a house in Berkshire in 1970, where they made friends with their neighbours, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and his girlfriend Charlotte Martin.

Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page explained that part of the reasoning for the album's release related to the popularity of unofficial Led Zeppelin recordings which continued to be circulated by fans:

For this 1990 reissue, Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page himself supervised the mastering process, which was based on Led Zeppelin's archive of master tapes.

During his time as a session player, Jones often crossed paths with guitarist Jimmy Page, a fellow session veteran.

Thompson left the band once more during 1993 to play with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and Bamonte took over as lead guitarist.

In 1965 Nico met Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones and recorded her first single, " I'm Not Sayin '" with the b-side " The Last Mile ", produced by Jimmy Page for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.

Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry " Sweets " Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams.

" Comprising the rest of the group were Phil Madeira, the former keyboardist of the 1977 Phil Keaggy Band, bassist Rick Cua, and guitarist Jimmy Abegg.

In 1968, the guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after being turned down by his first choice, Terry Reid, who referred him to a show at a teacher training college in Birmingham — where Plant was singing in a band named Hobbstweedle.

* 1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Barenaked Ladies )

In 1966, Moon worked with Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck, session man Nicky Hopkins, and future Led Zeppelin members Page and John Paul Jones to record an instrumental, " Beck's Bolero ", released as a single-double later that year.

Scottish folk guitarist Bert Jansch helped inspire Page, and from him he adapted open tunings and aggressive strokes into his playing.

The following winter, during the sessions for Donovan's The Hurdy Gurdy Man, Jones expressed to Page a desire to be part of any projects the guitarist might be planning.

Jones, at the suggestion of his wife, asked Page about the vacant position, and the guitarist eagerly invited Jones to collaborate.

Plant ( left ) with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page performing live

The story behind the rumour being that Page was available, if needed, but Redcaps guitarist Roy Brown handled the lead parts himself.

* September 7 – Led Zeppelin performs for the first time, billed as The New Yardbirds ( the Yardbirds had disbanded two months earlier, and guitarist Jimmy Page subsequently formed this new group ).

In October 1999, the band was joined by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page for two pairs of shows in New York and Los Angeles, yielding a live release, Live at the Greek on TVT Records.

After the break-up of The Yardbirds, guitarist Jimmy Page was forming a new band when he recruited Robert Plant, who in turn suggested Bonham.

Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page explained:

* Phil Lesh and Friends ( commonly referred to as Phil Lesh and Phriends ) in 1999 featured Phish's Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell, Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Donna Jean Godchaux, guitarist Steve Kimock, and drummer John Molo performing three nights of Dead and Phish material at The Warfield in San Francisco.

Led Zeppelin, formed by former Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page, on their first two albums, both released in 1969, fused heavy blues and amplified rock to create what has been seen as a watershed in the development of hard rock and nascent heavy metal.

McLaughlin later formed the Mahavisnhu Orchestra, an historically important fusion band that played to sold out venues in the early 70s and as a result, produced an endless progeny of fusion guitarist.

The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil.

Damian O ' Neill, the Undertones ' lead guitarist, later admitted: " We ( had ) definitely lost a bit of the spark.

Bruce began a varied and successful solo career with the 1969 release of Songs for a Tailor, while Baker formed a jazz-fusion ensemble out of the ashes of Blind Faith called Ginger Baker's Air Force, which featured Winwood, Blind Faith bassist Rick Grech, Graham Bond on sax, and guitarist Denny Laine of the Moody Blues and ( later ) Wings.

The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex " Dirk Lance " Katunich, and Gavin " DJ Lyfe " Koppell ; both of whom were eventually replaced by bassist Ben Kenney and DJ Kilmore respectively.

Their second guitarist Matt Odmark joined some time later.

Maria D ' Amato then joined The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, later marrying guitarist Geoff Muldaur.

In 1948 Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt left Monroe's band and formed the Foggy Mountain Boys, also later known simply as Flatt and Scruggs.

One track on Trout Mask Replica, " The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )", features Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton talking on the telephone to Zappa superimposed onto an unrelated live recording of the Mothers of Invention ( the backing track was later released in 1992 as " Charles Ives " on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.

American singer P. J. Proby, drummer Steve Smith ( later of Journey ) and guitarist Eef Albers joined Philip Catherine and the rest of Focus to record Focus con Proby ( 1978 ).

Six years later, Van Leer attempted to reform Focus with original drummer Hans Cleuver, bassist Bert Ruiter, and new guitarist Menno Gootjes.

The band was formed shortly afterwards by Littler as guitarist, alongside his friends, bassist Peter Griffiths and lead vocalist Michael Rigby, and Steve Platt a drummer, A short time later, while preparing for the gig, the band changed their name to The Spitfire Boys as a suggestion of Wayne County.

He later recruited vocalist Annie ( the Hat ) Williams, flautist Rick ( Ernest ) Mansfield and guitarist Elliott Delman from the U. S. Mormos lived in Paris from 1971 – 1973, performing throughout France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Romania, and England.

The band included guitarist Kurt Wolf ( of Pussy Galore ), bassist Jens Jürgensen ( of Boss Hog ) and later bassist Charles Hanson ( of The Normals and Chrome Cranks ).

Walsh would later establish himself as guitarist for the James Gang before embarking on a solo career and work with the Eagles.

Years later, Amboy Dukes guitarist Ted Nugent was quoted as saying " I don't know what happened to that Phil Keaggy.

Walsh would later establish himself as guitarist for the James Gang before embarking on a solo career and work with the Eagles.

One can loosely divide the group's history into two periods: the more horn-oriented earlier ensembles ( typically with some combination of Watts, saxophonist Evan Parker and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler ), and the later string-based ensembles with guitarist Roger Smith ( who became as central to the second edition of SME as Watts was to the first ) and violinist Nigel Coombes.

He was a electric blues guitarist and songwriter, who later owned his own recording studio and record label in Detroit.

Lemarchand and Satyr both joined the band shortly after the formation, but after the recording of the first demo the two founders left the band – Exhurtum would later go on to become drummer in Ulver and guitarist in several other bands, while Wargod left the music business.

Satyricon has — with two exceptions — been a two-man band ever since: from 1993 – 1996, Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen ( famous as ' Samoth ' from Emperor ) was the bassist and guitarist of Satyricon, and participated in the recording of their second album, The Shadowthrone ; and later in 1996, vocalist of Darkthrone Nocturno Culto ( Ted Skjellum, known as " Kveldulv " during Satyricon's period ) became guitarist on the third full-length Satyricon album, Nemesis Divina.

Bass guitarist Aljoša was later on substituted with Hanson in 1998.