John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres.
Fin Fang Foom, an indie rock group, were formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1996. The band consists of Michael Triplett on guitar, Michael Glass on drums, and Edwin Sanchez on bass. In 1997, after suffering the shattering setback with the loss of drummer and comrade, Peter Enriquez, and replacing him with Michael Glass, the band found a new style, finished the first single, and concentrated on touring around the East Coast to present their music.
Led Zeppelin were a hard rock band formed in London in 1968. The group comprised vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With a heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are cited as one of the progenitors of hard rock and heavy metal, although their style drew from a variety of influences, including blues and folk music. Led Zeppelin have been credited as significantly impacting the nature of the music industry
Expensive Shit are a wrecked wrecking crew from Austin that specialize in braindead riff carnage of the rawest order. By their own interweb admission they consider their influences "sludge meditation" and "winging it" and their band policy is "no practice, we play anywhere."