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Graham Bonnet got his start as a member of the duo The Marbles who worked with the Gibb brothers. He went on to establish himself as a legendary metal frontman with bands such as Rainbow and MSG, as well as Alcatrazz which he was a founding member. He has also had a very successful solo career and tours the world with the Graham Bonnet Band.

Robin is a founding member and the guitarist for UB40. UB40 is one of the most successful and influential British groups of all time, with more than 100 million albums sold, and more than 50 charting singles in the UK, including their trademark global #1 hits “Red Red Wine” and “(I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You”; and U.S. Top 10s “Here I Am (Come and Take Me)” and “The Way You Do The Things You Do.” They have recorded over 20 studio albums and play to packed houses around the world.

Xander makes his third appearance on CooperTalk. He started off playing minor roles in 1981, with appearances in Remington Steele, Miami Vice, Moonlighting and countless other series. Much later, he also appeared on The X-Files, CSI, ER and Law & Order. As for the big screen, he counts Sid & Nancy, North Country, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Gattaca, The Rock, Air Force One, Spawn, Amistad, and Timecode as some of his credentials. In 2001, he bagged a recurring spot as George Mason, head of the Counter Terrorist Unit on the hit series 24. His character was killed off in season 2. In 2009, he was cast on the NBC sci-fi series Day One, which follows apartment residents who survive an unknown worldwide catastrophe. From 2010 to 2012, he starred on The CW's Nikita as the villain Percy. In the following years, he was seen on Being Human, Longmire, Louder than Words, Salem, The Mentalist, Justified, 12 Monkeys, Aquarius and numerous other shows. Most recently he played Gregory in The Walking Dead, co-starred in LAbrynth with Johnny Depp and Forrest Whitaker, and stars in No Address. 

Raphael acted in his first Broadway play at the young age of sixteen, opposite Faye Dunaway and has since been in five total, including the revival of Ah, Wilderness opposite Jason Robards, and Coleen Dewhurst. At 18, just days after graduating high school, he flew to Chicago to co-star in Risky Business with Tom Cruise. He has gone on to appear in dozens of films, including Independence Day, Message in a Bottle, Vision Quest, Pearl Harbor and The Exorcist Believer. In the coming months, he will be seen in Friendship with Paul Rudd, and The History of Sound with Paul Mezcal.  His resume includes more than 100 guest appearances and series regular roles on network television shows, among them Dr. Hopper and Jiminy Cricket on Once Upon a Time, David Molk on Murder in the First, and The Guardian with Simon Baker and Dabney Coleman. He has recurred on series including Star Trek; Voyager, Dexter, Longmire, 24, and Prison Break. He's also an award-winning director, whose documentary Only in Theaters, was a hit on the Festival Circuit.  

Stan Lynch is widely known as one of rock's most tasteful timekeepers, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer, singer-songwriter and producer has written songs for Don Henley, Ringo, Toto, The Byrds, Rita Coolidge, Meredith Brooks, Tim McGraw, Eagles, Sister Hazel, Eddie Money, The Mavericks, and The Knack. He's also played on and produced some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful records in the industry.

Martyn Ware was one of the founding members of The Human League and left to form Heaven 17 who were known for many hits including Let Me Go, Temptation, (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing, and Penthouse Pavement. He contributed to Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas and has produced various artist's albums including Tina Turner, Billy Preston, Erasure, and Terence Trent D'arby. He is also a college professor, a keynote speaker, podcaster, and partner in an immersive 3-D soundscape and design company called the Illustrious Company.

Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he began his solo success in the 1980s. His hit singles include "Love of the Common People, 'Wherever I Lay My Hat," "Come Back and Stay," "Every Time You Go Away," and 'Everything Must Change, all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Released in 1983, his debut album, No Parlez was the first of three UK number one albums. His smooth yet soulful voice belongs to a genre known as "blue-eyed soul." He won a Brit Award for Best British Male in 1985, and his hit "Every Time You Go Away" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards. He performed on the 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas," which included singing the opening lines, and played Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium in London in July 1985. Since the mid-1990s, Young has performed with the band Los Pacaminos.

Over the past three decades, A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and vocal stylist who pulls from a host of musical traditions and anti-heroes — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. From his 10 studio albums, it's clear that he holds an abiding love for all types of musical genres: Blues, Soul, Pop, Jazz, and Rock n' Roll. A virtuosic piano player, Croce toured with B.B. King and Ray Charles before reaching the age of 21, and over his career, he has performed with a wide range of musicians, from Willie Nelson to the Neville Brothers, to Béla Fleck and Ry Cooder. A.J. has also co-written songs with such formidable tunesmiths as Leon Russell, Dan Penn, Robert Earl Keen, and multi-Grammy winner Gary Nicholson. His albums have all charted on an impressive array of charts: Top 40, Blues, Americana, Jazz, College, and Radio 1. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter has landed 22 singles on a variety of Top 20 charts.  His songwriting and style has evolved from Jazz & Blues on his debut and sophomore albums, to the roots-rock of the more recent collaborative recordings like Cantos with Ben Harper, Twelve Tales with Allen Toussaint, and Just Like Medicine with Vince Gill. He recently toured with his show "Croce Plays Croce" where he paid tribute to his father, singer/songwriter Jim Croce.   

Gino is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter who had several hit songs in the 1970s and 1980s. His best-known singles include "People Gotta Move", "I Just Wanna Stop", "Living Inside Myself" and "Wild Horses". Throughout his career he was the first white artist to appear on "Soul Train," toured with Stevie Wonder, performed for Pope John Paul II, and has earned a handful of Grammy nominations, and numerous Juno Awards in his native Canada. He has recorded seventeen studio albums and still tours around the world.

Gary is best known as one of the founding members and main songwriter of Spandau Ballet. They recorded seven studio albums and scored major hits with songs such as True, Gold, Lifeline, Only When You Leave, and Communication to name a few. Gary currently is the lead guitarist from Pink Floyd's Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, as well as the co-host of the popular podcast, Rockonteurs. He recently released a solo album, This Destination. 

Steve is the bassist for The Vapors. They are a new wave and power pop band that initially existed between 1978 and 1981. They are known for their hit, Turning Japanese, which hit number 3 on the UK Singles chart in 1980 and number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100.  They reformed in 2016 and are releasing their fourth album, Wasp In A Jar.

Matt is best known for his roles as Agent Harris in The Sopranos, Representative Donatello in Brotherhood, Sheriff Lotus in Banshee, and Satan in Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell. He has also appeared in countless TV series and movies such as Billions, Barry, Bull, NCIS: New Orleans, Homeland, The Blacklist, Elementary and many others.

Not only is Rob an accomplished actor (credits include shows such as Seinfeld, NCIS, Bones, Easy to Assemble, Without a Trace, CSI: NY, Becker, and Judging Amy) but along with Keanu Reeves and Bret Domrose they comprise of the band Dogstar. They have released three albums and just recently finished a US and world tour.

After vaulting to stardom as a charismatic presence and chief collaborator in Kid Rock's Twisted Brown Trucker Band, Uncle Kracker, kicked off a stunning solo career of his own. His 2000 major label debut, Double Wide, fittingly went double-platinum and yielded #1 smash “Follow Me”. Its 2002 follow-up No Stranger to Shame reached gold status and spawned cross-format hits such as “In A Little While” and the powerful cover of Dobie Gray's “Drift Away” which set a Billboard record for most weeks at #1 on any chart, topping their #1 run on the Adult Contemporary radio charts for a staggering 28 weeks. Before Uncle Kracker flew up the charts for 5 weeks at #1 with “When the Sun Goes Down”, a duet with good friend Kenny Chesney, country music might've seemed an odd place to find the Detroit-based good-time Kid Rock alumni. But after a few summer tours with Chesney, Uncle Kracker reached country's Top 10 with his double-platinum crossover hit “Smile”. Then, 2012 saw him fully embrace his countryside with his critically acclaimed fifth outing, Midnight Special produced by Keith Stegall which leaves no doubt this feel-good rocker is exactly where he should be. Uncle Kracker has played sold out shows across the country and appeared everywhere from the American Country Music Awards to Late Night with Conan O'Brien.”

Debbi Calton has been on the radio her whole life. Or at least it seems that way. From her beginnings in Charlotte, NC to Tampa to Orlando to Denver to Chicago, she has been a Philadelphia rock/classic rock radio mainstay for the last 37 years. She recently stepped down from her decades spanning midday shift at WMGK to see “what's next.” Not being able to stay away from the music for long, “next” is OutsideFM.com with the freedom to truly play whatever she wants. It's a full circle back to her early days in freeform radio.

Alan Zweibel is an original Saturday Night Live writer, has won five Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work in television, which includes It's Garry Shandling's Show (co-creator and producer) and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Among his eclectic body of work, Zweibel collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning production of 700 Sundays, and most recently co-wrote and produced the feature film, Here Today with Crystal. He has written 11 books—his latest, a cultural memoir Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier was published by Abrams Books in 2020. Other books include The Other Shulman: A Novel, which won the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor and Lunatics with Dave Barry.

One of the film world's most beloved performer, he has worked with groundbreaking directors including Martin Scorsese, Tony Scott, Antoine Fuqua, Steven Zaillian, and Clint Eastwood. Paul's recent work includes The Irishman opposite Al Pacino, Plane with Gerard Butler, and Emancipation opposite Will Smith. His other feature credits include starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson in The Banker, with Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell in Get Hard, Robert DeNiro and Sylvester Stallone in Grudge Match, along with classics like Tombstone and True Romance further showcase his timeless appeal. In television, Paul Ben-Victor has played a number of roles that have left a lasting cultural impact in many highly acclaimed series, including his portrayal of studio head Alan Gray in HBO's Entourage and appearing opposite Matthew McConaughey in the award-winning True Detective. Most recently, he was in Pam & Tommy with Lily James and Sebastian Stan and can next be seen in significant roles in the new Kristen Bell show for Netflix, the Lincoln Lawyer for Netflix, Raising Kanan for Starz, Bookie for HBO Max and the international hit The Chosen for Lionsgate. His other television credits include Vinyl, In Plain Sight, John from Cincinnati, NYPD Blue, Will & Grace, The Mick, Everybody Hates Chris, Preacher, and Goliath among many others.

Jim is best known for playing Jerry Gergich on the NBC sitcom, Parks and Recreation. He has also been in countless films and TV shows such as Friends, Boston Legal, Malcolm in the Middle, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, ER, Parenthood, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Santa Stories, Better Call Saul, and many more.

Glen is one of the hardest workers in the music industry. From his early days starring as Paul McCartney on Broadway in Beatlemania, to being a solo artist, to having two stints with the band Styx, to playing in various bands such as The Weeklings and The Orchestra to producing and starring in the hugely successful Summer of Love Concert Series, he has had a wonderful career.

Danny is best known for his roles as Detective Scotty Valens in Cold Case, Armadillo Quintero in The Shield, Detective Nick Amaro in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Miguel Galindo in Mayans M.C. and most recently Roman Compte in Hotel Cocaine.

Corin Nemec has had a professional acting career since he was a child. He is best known for his roles in "Place of Bones," "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," "I Know My First Name Is Steven," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Webster," "The Stand," "Stargate SG-1," and countless other movies and TV shows. He is also an accomplished screenwriter and graffiti artist.  

Kyle Secor is best known for his role of Tim Bayliss on all seven seasons of the critically acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Street. He has also been in various TV shows and movies such as St. Elsewhere, City Slickers, 9-1-1 Lone Star, The Rookie, Drop Zone, Sleeping with the Enemy, Veronica Mars, Philly, The Flash, Grey's Anatomy, The Purge: Election Year, Resurrection, Scandal, Party of Five, Castle and many more.

Geoffrey Blake is an Emmy nominated, two-time SAG Award winning actor best known for his role as 'Wesley' (the abusive radical boyfriend) opposite Robin Wright's 'Jennie' in the iconic Academy Award Best Picture Forrest Gump. In addition to that film, he has appeared alongside Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks in multiple films. Those performances are part of his frequent collaborations with such Academy Award winning filmmakers as Robert Zemeckis and Ron Howard (Forrest Gump, Contact, Cast Away, Appollo 13, EDtv,  and Frost/Nixon.) His most critically acclaimed performance was that of the preppy pipe-smoking astrophysicist 'Fisher', the right-hand man, in the Sci-Fi classic Contact opposite Academy Award winner Jodie Foster. Blake has well over 100 credits to his name in both television and film. In the 1980's and early 1990's, he frequently collaborated with friend and colleague, Emilio Estevez. The two met on the generation defining film Young Guns where he portrayed 'McCloskey', the Young Gun snitch, opposite Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Dermot Mulroney. He would go on to make four more films with Estevez as both an actor and director (Men at Work, Rated X, The War at Home, Nightbreaker). He also worked with other luminary filmmakers such as Ridley & Tony Scott (The Man in the High Castle, Enemy of the State), Paul Mazursky (The Pickle), Frank Darabont (Mob City), Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog), Roland Joffe (Texas Rising) and numerous others. In addition, he has appeared in a multitude of Emmy Award winning series, mini-series, and movies for television with prolific content providers such as Steven Bochco, David Milch, Jerry Bruckheimer, Shonda Rhimes, David Shore, Paul Attanosio, Don Bellisario, and Dick Wolf, repeatedly reaching out to Blake to be on their shows.

Penelope got her big break when she co-starred in Biloxi Blues on Broadway. (And later the movie.) She has co-starred in movies such as The Freshman, Carlito's Way, Adventures in Babysitting, Kindergarten Cop, Big Top Pee-wee, Awakenings, The Shadow and Other People's Money and has worked with actors such as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, and Danny DeVito. Recently she played Jeffrey Dahmer's mother in the hit Netflix series and can be soon starring opposite Dennis Quaid in Reagan. www.reagan.movie

Chris Mars was one of the co-founders of the legendary band The Replacements. He played drums with them from 1979-1990 and on all seven of their studio albums. As a solo act he has recorded six records and is a very accomplished painter. His artwork has been seen all over the world and his new book 7:42 P.M.: The Art of Chris Mars will be released in the near future.

Graham is an English singer, musician and songwriter, best known as the co-lead singer and bassist of the art rock band 10cc. He has been the band's only constant member since its formation. In 1972, along with Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, he formed 10cc and enjoyed a string of Top 10 hits, including three No 1s - Rubber Bullets, I'm Not In Love and Dreadlock Holiday – along with Donna (No 2), Art For Art's Sake and Good Morning Judge (both reaching No 5), The Things We Do For Love and I'm Mandy Fly Me, and The Wall Street Shuffle.

Todd is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Toad the Wet Sprocket.  They formed in 1986 and broke up in 1998 and then got back together for good in 2010. They've released seven studio albums and are known for their hits All I Want, Walk on the Ocean and Fall Down. As a solo artist, Glen has recorded ten studio albums.

Gedde is best known for his characters Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles, Oishi Kazihiro in Gung Ho and Nurse Yosh Takata on ER. He has been seen in various TV shows and movies such as Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Becker, Mad About You, UHF, Call Me Kat and Magnum P.I. He has also done many voice acting jobs on projects including The Simpsons, Family Guy, Kung Fu Panda 4, Ultraman: Rising, American Dad! Kim Possible, and Rugrats.   

Catherine Mary Stewart is an actor/director/writer who is best known for her roles in Night of the Comet, The Last Starfighter, Weekend at Bernie's, Mischief and Scenes from the Goldmine. She was also the first Kayla Brady on Days of Our Lives.

Thomas Dolby came to prominence in the 1980s, releasing hit singles including “She Blinded Me with Science” (1982) and “Hyperactive!” (1984). He has also worked as a producer and as a session musician. He is associated with the new wave movement of the early 1980s, a form of pop music incorporating electronic instruments, but Dolby's work covers a wide range of musical styles and moods distinct from the high-energy pop sound of his few, better-known commercial successes. In the 1990s, he founded Beatnik, a Silicon Valley software company which developed the polyphonic ringtone software and created the Nokia tune. Its technology was used in more than half a billion cell phones. He was also the music director for TED Conferences. On the faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University since 2014, he leads Peabody's Music for New Media program, which enrolled its first students in the fall of 2018. He has received four Grammy nominations, two each in 1984 and 1988 and recently published his first novel, "Prevailing Wind."

Keith recently released a Netflix special called Different Strokes. Though his career he has performed or been on Comedy Central, Expecting Amy, Gotham Comedy Live, Chelsea Lately, WTF with Marc Maron, The Wanda Sykes Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Showtime at the Apollo, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and many more. He has also been seen in various movies including Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island.

Ivan is the lead vocalist and founding member of Men Without Hats, best known for the hit songs The Safety Dance and Pop Goes the World. The band broke up in 1993 but reformed in 2002-2003 and then reunited for good in 2010. They have released nine studio albums and still tour the world.

Johnny has had a long career as a professional drummer. He got his first break with the British rock band Waysted and he hasn't looked back. After that he played with Britny Fox during the height of their popularity and has played with Doro since 1993. He also just joined the band Tyketto.

Greg s best known as a founding member of the rock band Smash Mouth and served as a guitarist and songwriter across several stints. He wrote their hits All Star, Walkin' on the Sun, Then the Morning Comes and many others. he is currently in the supergroup The Defiant.

Ian started his career fronting the band Mott the Hoople who were best known for their hit, All the Young Dudes. After he left them to pursue a solo career, he has gone on to record over twenty studio albums. His most notable was You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic which included the hits, Cleveland Rocks, Ships and Just Another Night.

Ross is the one of the founding members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band, Journey. He played bass with them from 1973 - 1985 and again from 1995 - 2020. He has played on all of Journey's albums except for 1986's Raised on Radio and 2022's Freedom. He recently released his debut solo record, All of the Above.

Jack Hues is best known for being the lead singer and guitarist for the band Wang Chung. Between 1983 and 1987 Wang Chung had five Top 40 hits including Dance Hall Days, Everybody Have Fun Tonight and Let's Go. The band recorded the soundtrack for the film To Live and Die in L.A. and had a song in John Hughes' movie the Breakfast Club. They have broken up and gotten back together over the years and a few years released Orchesography which is a greatest hits compilation recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. He also plays with the jazz influenced Jack Hues Quartet and has recorded two solo albums, Primitif and Electro: Acoustic Works 20:20.

Scott is a recognizable face from is work on TV, movies and Broadway. He has been seen in such projects as Gilmore Girls, The Fix, Jacob's Ladder, The Girls on the Bus, East New York, The Resident, Billions, The Americans, Allegiance, The Carrie Diaries, Necessary Roughness, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and many more.

Buck is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Blue Oyster Cult who recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. He has written and done the vocals on their biggest hits which are Don't Fear the Reaper, Godzilla, and Burning for You. Blue Oyster Cult still tours to sold out crowds and has recorded sixteen studio albums.

Hendrie started out as a disc jockey at WBJW 1440 AM in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando. After 15 years working as a disc jockey at stations across the country, he realized he hated what he was doing. Moving to Los Angeles, Hendrie debuted in talk radio as a weekend host at KFI-AM 640. In 1990 at KVEN-AM in Ventura, Calif., Hendrie introduced his first fictional character on air — an Iraqi, Raj Fahneen. The Gulf War was happening and Fahneen vociferously defended Saddam Hussein. Thinking he was a real person, listeners went ballistic and the phones lit up. An entire cast of characters would evolve from that moment on, marking Hendrie's place in radio history. Hendrie's popularity resulted in the radio show going national in 1999. By 2006, he was ready to explore the next chapter of his career — acting in front of the camera. He departed from radio and quickly added to his resume which already included Trey Parker's and Matt Stone's motion picture, Team America: World Police, as well as television roles on Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Richard Appel's A.U.S.A., and Judd Apatow's North Hollywood. He also starred in Steve Levitan's Phil Hendrie and wrote, executive produced and starred in Phil at the Gate. For the last 10 years, Hendrie has regularly played characters on FOX's popular animated series King of the Hill and Futurama. Other recent television work includes roles on Giants of Radio, The Replacements, Three Strikes, Mike Birbiglia's Secret Public Journal, David Mamet's The Unit, and NBC's Teachers. He also played Nets Coach in the motion picture, Semi-pro. Hendrie continues to act today and is currently working on the motion picture, Last Call.

Reed got his first big break in the movie Memphis Belle. Since then, he has made an impact in both films and TV. He has co-starred in many shows including Law & Order: Organized Crime, Better Call Saul, 13 Reasons Why, Homicide: Life on the Street, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Designated Survivor, Judging Amy, The Purge, Good Girls Revolt, Franklin & Bash, Wayward Pines, The Shield, Journeyman, Dollhouse, 24, Bones and The Mentalist and has been a guest star on the series Elementary, How to Get Away with Murder, Billions, Feud: Bette and Joan, Cold Case, The West Wing, Medium, Law & Order, CSI, Castle, Monk, White Collar, Revolution, The Glades and Criminal Minds and many others. He has also been in numerous movies such as Moneyball, Good Night, and Good Luck and Much Ado About Nothing.

Rich Redmond is the drummer for Jason Aldean. He has drummed on over 25 number one hits, performed on countless TV shows and has toured the world playing in front of sold-out crowds. He is also a highly sought after keynote speaker who has been hired by various corporations and universities. He recently published his third book, Making it in Country Music: An Insider's Look at the Industry.

Mick Mars is the lead guitarist and one of the co-founders of Motley Crue. Over the course of their career, they have toured the world, packed stadiums and sold over 25 million albums in the US and 100 million around the globe. Mick retired from the band two years ago and recently released his first solo album, The Other Side of Mars, to rave reviews. 

Tom Bailey is one of the founding members of Thompson Twins. They were an iconic 80s band who played Live Aid and were known for their hits Lies, Love on Your Side, We Are Detective, Watching, Hold Me Now, Doctor! Doctor!, You Take Me Up, Sisters of Mercy, The Gap, Lay Your Hands on Me, King for a Day, Revolution, and Nothing in Common. 

Terry Serpico is best known for his roles as Chief Tommy McGrath in Law & Order: SVU, Captain Turner in Cobra Kai, Bill Briscoe in The Flight Attendant, Patrick Lloyd in Designated Survivor and Frank Sherwood in Army Wives. She has also recurred, been a guest star in series such as Person of Interest, The Carrie Diaries, Criminal Minds, Sneaky Pete, The Good Fight, Yellowstone, The Equalizer, The Mosquito Coast, Hightown and many more.

Guthrie Govan is an English guitarist and guitar teacher, known for his work with the bands The Aristocrats, Asia, GPS, The Young Punx, and the Fellowship, as well as his solo project Erotic Cakes. More recently, he has collaborated with Steven Wilson and Hans Zimmer. He is a noted guitar teacher, working with the UK magazine Guitar Techniques, Guildford's Academy of Contemporary Music, Lick Library, and formerly the Brighton Institute of Modern Music.  He was named "Guitarist of the Year" by Guitarist magazine in 1993.  

Dunstan is a British musician and filmmaker who is perhaps best known for his work with Leeds based anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba of which he was a founding member.  At the beginning of 1982, he joined Chumbawamba and was the lead singer of the band's biggest hit single, Tubthumping. (It peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100.) He left the band at the end of 2004. He is the lead singer of Interrobang?!, an agitprop post-punk band he formed in 2012 with ex-Chumbawamba drummer Harry Hamer and ex-Regular Fries guitarist Stephen Griffin. They released a critically acclaimed eponymous album in 2018. He also has been directing documentaries, his latest was about his former band and titled, "I Get Knocked Down."

Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King. Since 2000, Bonamassa has released fifteen solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which eleven have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Blues chart. He has played alongside many notable blues and rock artists and has earned three Grammy Awards nominations. Among guitarists, he is known for his extensive collection of vintage guitars and amplifiers.

Artimus Pyle played drums with the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to 1977 and from 1987 to 1991. He was on the records Nuthin' Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, Street Survivors and Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991. He and his bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. He now heads up the Artimus Pyle Band who just released the album Anthems: Honoring the Music of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Al Sapienza is best known for playing Mikey Palmice in The Sopranos, Philly Falzone in Prison Break, Frank Panzarella in Brotherhood, Marty Spinella in House of Cards, Detective Raymond Terney in Person of Interest, and Marsh in Reacher. He has appeared in countless TV shows and movies such as NCIS, Big Geroge Foreman, Minx, Gravesend, Dopesick, The Good Fight, Queen of the South, S.W.A.T., 24, Suits, The Blacklist, Supernatural, Bates Motel, Elementary, Law & Order, and many more.    

Malcolm Goodwin is best known for his roles of Oscar Finley in Reacher, Young Dupin in The Fall of the House of Usher, Clive Babineaux in iZombie and Shea Daniels in Breakout Kings. He has also been seen in various TV shows and movies such as American Gangster, Leatherheads, The Longshots, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Bones, House of Cards, and FBI.